POLICE IN ACTION WITH 5-FOOT BILLYCLUBS; THE PHOTOGRAPHER (FAR RIGHT) IS ABOUT TO BE STRUCK Striking oil union leader G. T. Jacobs after being beaten ov cops way their lives are run. come in of major actions at fifteen of its power universities, including Montreal forty of them West Indians, and eight refused bail.
San Francisco State College students have linked up with oil workers on strike in nearby Richmond. They joined picket lines and were people getting HUBCURIC attacked by the police. leader G.T. Jacobs was himself badly beated up (see photo) when he went to inquire about by arrested pickets. Later Jacobs commented on the worker/student alliance with words..... "There was a time when we in the labour movement were widely respected as the champions of the That was a All over America in the last few weeks In many cases the strikes and sit-ins have students have confronted the authorities been led by black students. Authority with demands for more control over the has acted in the way it nearly always Reports have does when asked to give up even a little - with violence. Behind the in benign liberal face of the college Canada where ninety have been arrested, principle stands the police and behind them the army. Capitalism is painfully digging its own grave with nightsticks.
WOrKeTs. We earned the support of the community by our actions in solidarity with a dirty deal trom the big corporations and the establishment. But this moral authority has been seriously undermined the smug complacency and blind narrowmindedness of the bulk of the labour these movement. We are going to try and revive the old spirit of solidarity and identification with progressive social causes that characterised the profound source of power of the organised justice and equality, of organised workers for historic movement