Vol. 77/No. 6 February 18, 2013
February 19, 1988
JAY, Maine—A 112,000-gallon leak of deadly chlorine dioxide gas from International Paper Co.’s Androscoggin mill here forced the evacuation of this small town of 4,000 and parts of neighboring Livermore Falls in the late morning of February 5.The Jay town government was informed of the danger by members of United Paperworkers International Union Local 14, who have been on strike against International Paper since last June, along with members of Firemen and Oilers Local 246.
The paperworkers immediately offered the efforts of 50 strikers to inform local residents of the leak, aid in their evacuation, and direct traffic.
The company’s response to the potential disaster was to downplay the hazard.
February 18, 1963
NEW YORK—In a superb display of solidarity, printers from coast to coast voted four to one to increase their dues an extra 3 percent of their wages so that their union can continue to pay adequate benefits to their striking and locked-out brothers in New York.The decision to hold the nationwide referendum of International Typographical Union members on Feb. 6 was made last December at the outset of the now 10-week-old strike. As the date grew nearer, the vote’s importance was apparent to all—to the workers and to the newspaper publishers.
The publishers must now fight not just New York’s 3,000 newspaper printers, but the 110,000-strong ITU membership.
February 19, 1938
Ethiopia. Spain. China. Already three million casualties, with the curtain not yet raised on the main act. Already three million dead, wounded, dying. Thousands upon thousands of the most heroic and militant of the workers, peasants, students, torn to pieces by the machine-gun spray, the twisted fragments of time-fuse bombs.All this is but the faint, mild foreshadowing, the first cracks in a world shell which is near the breaking point. The precarious balance, upheld by the Versailles Treaty imposed by the winning imperialist gangsters in 1919, holds no longer.
Roosevelt, the cunning leader of American imperialism, is moving rapidly toward first place among the war makers of the world.
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