Vol. 76/No. 29 August 6, 2012
August 7, 1987
SOUTH SIOUX CITY, Neb.—Meat-packers here ratified a new contract July 26 ending their long strike at IBP’s nearby Dakota City plant.The workers have a history of strikes going back to the organization of United Food and Commercial Workers Local 222 at the Dakota City plant in 1968.
There has not been a pay raise at the Dakota City plant since 1981. After the last strike in 1982, the workers had their wages cut $1.05 an hour.
IBP locked the meat-packers out December 14 after the unionists rejected a contract proposal. In March, the workers voted to go on strike after turning down a second contract offer.
The new contract retains the current pay scale through 1990. Wages will remain at $7.90 an hour in processing and $8.20 in slaughtering. After 33 months, wages will be raised 15 cents an hour.
August 13, 1962
Friends of the Cuban Revolution and defenders of civil liberties in New York City are indignantly protesting the open campaign of violence being carried on by Cuban counter-revolutionaries against pro-Castro Cubans and Cuban-Americans.This protest took physical form on July 28 when some 200 people picketed City Hall to protest the wrecking of Casa Cuba, the city’s second oldest Cuban social club, two days before and to demand police action.
Counter-revolutionaries had chosen July 26, the anniversary of Fidel Castro’s historic attack on the Batista regime’s Moncada Barracks, as the date for their attack on Casa Cuba. Late at night, when everybody had left the club, they broke in, accompanied by press photographers and TV cameramen, and made a shambles of the place.
August 14, 1937
As a further indispensable instrument in our fight, we are undertaking the immediate publication of the “SOCIALIST APPEAL.” The solemn decision under which the APPEAL suspended publication at the time of the [Socialist Party’s] Chicago Convention has been brazenly violated. The internal discussion organ has never appeared.The official press is a purely factional press from which we are systemically excluded. The Left wing is expected to stay muzzled and now, with mass expulsions, to remain silent about the crimes committed against it. We refuse to be muzzled! The APPEAL is our answer to the gag-laws and the split drive. Every revolutionary consideration demands its immediate appearance as the militant and uncompromising spokesman and banner-bearer of the Left wing.
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