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This 4th of July, which side are you on?
June 30, 2006Florence Reece, wife of a rank-and-file organizer for the old National Miners Union in Harlan County, Kentucky, was at home one day in 1931 when High Sheriff J. H. Blair and his gun-toting “deputies” invaded her...
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LETTERS
June 30, 2006U.S. wants Sudan’s oil By printing the article by Fathi M. El Fadl (“Sudan and Darfur: Crisis and solutions,” PWW 6/10-16), why do you get on the bandwagon of damning the Sudan government when you know...
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Chicago torture probe draws worldwide attention
June 30, 2006CHICAGO — As many as 200 people, mostly African American men, were allegedly tortured while in the custody of the Chicago Police Department during the 1970s and ’80s. The goal, victims charge, was to force them...
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Bakers rise up: Working at Fiesta Mart in Houston is no party
June 30, 2006HOUSTON — Bakery commissary workers at the Fiesta Mart grocery store on Wirt Road in Houston will vote June 30 on whether to join the Bakery, Confectionary, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers (BCTGM) Local 130. Concurrently,...
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WORKERS’ CORRESPONDENCE
June 30, 2006UAW Convention reportA worker correspondent who attended the recent UAW convention as a delegate sent in this report: Delegates at the UAW Constitutional Convention held in Las Vegas spent their time discussing issues important to their...
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