Vol. 75/No. 28      August 1, 2011

The 46 Salvadorans were arrested in raids at Austin Productions in Holbrook, Long Island, and American Tissue Corp. in Farmingdale, Long Island.

In the course of the raids, all exits to the factories were blocked, and only “foreign-looking” persons were questioned. Those detained were taken in handcuffs to the INS offices in Manhattan. They were informed of proceedings in English, were not allowed to make telephone calls, and were not fed.

The Center for Immigrant Rights, along with Central American refugee organizations and civil liberties groups, have launched an effort to defend these refugees.  
 
July 24 & 31, 1961
The antisegregation movement has scored notable victories in Atlanta, Ga., and Oklahoma City, Okla.

The national office of the NAACP announced July 21 that the Negro community of 60,000 in Atlanta has resumed shopping in the downtown stores of that city after a 15-month boycott in protest against segregation. The “no-buying” drive was launched after several Negro students were arrested for staging sit-ins at Jim Crow lunch counters. These counters have now been integrated.

The victory in Oklahoma City is particularly gratifying since it was the scene of the nation’s first lunch-counter sit-ins and did much to help spark the south-wide drive that followed.

Organized by the NAACP Youth Council, the first sit-ins were held there in August 1958. The youth council, which had but 14 members at the time, now has a reported 3,000.  
 
December 26, 1936
Although the blanks for registering 26,000,000 workers for old age pensions have been sent out by the Social Security Board, no move has as yet been made to eliminate those aspects of the new act which have aroused the vigilance of organized labor.

Aside from the fact that workers will still be required by law to contribute a portion of their hard-earned wages which they cannot afford, the Board has done nothing to assure workers that they will not be discriminated against by employers.

Workers, now young, who by the remote year of 1980 or 1985 will become eligible for old age pensions will receive no enviable amount although calculated on the basis of a lifetime of earnings. But workers who will be 65 or over by 1942, the earliest date for the first payment, will receive a mere pittance even if they have been lucky enough to have been steadily employed.  
 
 
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