Vol. 79/No. 16 May 4, 2015
May 4, 1990
NEW YORK — A massive outpouring here April 20 protested a federal AIDS policy banning blood donations from Haitians. Tens of thousands of Haitians began assembling in Brooklyn at 9:00 a.m. From there they marched across the Brooklyn Bridge to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) offices at Federal Plaza and at the nearby city Health and Hospitals Corporation headquarters.Traffic ground to a standstill as more than 50,000 protesters surged across the bridge for three hours. The chants rang out, some in Creole, but mainly in English: “The FDA is racist”; “No blood, no sweat”; “AIDS is not a Haitian Disease … Haitian disease is liberation.” In a sea of blue-and-red Haitian flags, hundreds carried signs that read, “FDA equals ‘Federal Discrimination Agency,’” and “We need a cure, not a stigma.”
May 3, 1965
The disclosure that an FBI undercover man was a member of the gang which murdered Mrs. Viola Liuzzo last month on Highway 80 in Alabama after the Selma-to-Montgomery civil-rights march, has been treated in the daily press as if the fact reflected great credit on the FBI.But the disclosure — which came to light April 20 when the undercover man, Gary Thomas Rowe, appeared before the Lowndes County Grand Jury to testify against the three other members of the KKK gang — raises a number of questions which cry out for answers. Chief among these is why the FBI — which had such sources of information — did not prevent the murder of Mrs. Liuzzo. Connected with this is why FBI undercover man Rowe, who was in the car from which the murder shots were fired, allowed the murder to take place.
May 4, 1940
SAN FRANCISCO — The Sailors Union of the Pacific won one of its greatest victories today when the Pacific-American Shipowners Association capitulated to the SUP wage demands for a flat $10 increase to all ratings and a 10 cents an hour increase on overtime pay.Yesterday stop-work meetings were held in every port on the Pacific, when the SUP members were called off the ships to consider the counter-proposals of the shipowners, who had offered a $7.50 increase. Attended by well over 2,800 members, the stop-work meetings voted practically unanimously to reject the offer of the shipowners. Confronted by the firm stand of the Sailors, it took the shipowners less than 24 hours to change their minds and concede the union’s demands.
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