Vol. 77/No. 8 March 4, 2013
March 4, 1988
SHERIDAN, Wyo.—After five months on the picket line in strikes against Decker Coal and Big Horn Coal, miners are still refusing to buckle.Negotiations between the United Mine Workers union and the two coal companies owned by Peter Kiewit & Sons remain stalemated. The Decker mine is north of here across the Montana border. Big Horn is in Wyoming.
Mine workers union representatives presented four separate proposals to Kiewit. Modeled after the recently approved national contract the union signed with the Bituminous Coal Operators Association, the proposals call for miners laid off at Decker or Big Horn to get three out of five new jobs at Kiewit’s four mining operations or at any operations the company may open in the future. Both negotiating sessions lasted 15 minutes, with the company rejecting the union’s proposals.
March 4, 1963
The prosecutor in Bloomington, Ind., has stepped up his witch-hunt of the Young Socialist Alliance at Indiana University. Monroe County Prosecutor Thomas Hoadley said on Feb. 22 that he will request a Grand Jury hearing on the local YSA. He said that he will seek indictments under the Indiana Communism Act.The Bloomington witch-hunt stems from a demonstration last October opposing the U.S. blockade of Cuba. At that time twenty-two student demonstrators were met by a hostile mob of 2,000, who assaulted the demonstrators, kicked and punched them, and tore up their signs. Police arrested two of the right-wing hooligans.
On Jan. 15 Hoadley dropped charges against the two to “clear the way” for a Grand Jury investigation into the “part played by the YSA” in “inciting to riot” during the October demonstration.
March 5, 1938
The Roosevelt Administration plans to use relief agencies as a channel for recruiting for the next war. This came out into the open February 25 when the New York Times reported that the U.S. army recruiting service had asked the up-state W.P.A. for lists of unmarried men on home or work relief, in order to get them to enlist for military service.According to the report, the W.P.A. [Works Progress Administration] therefore sent out letters “to all local public welfare commissioners outside of New York City” asking them to cooperate with the army in its recruiting as “a means of reducing your relief rolls and costs.”
The fact that the recruiting notices sent out by the army and navy proved completely ineffective, since not one person on relief joined the military service, shows that the army will have to compel them to join.
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