[Historic auto workers contract. 1st Amendment protects mail. U.S.
army crosses ocean for the first time. Ford Company thugs assault
union organizers. The Freewheelin Bob Dylan released. Major union
victory in Rochester. Court throws out FBI frame-up ]
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THIS WEEK IN PEOPLE’S HISTORY, MAY 23 . . .  
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_ Historic auto workers contract. 1st Amendment protects mail. U.S.
army crosses ocean for the first time. Ford Company thugs assault
union organizers. The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan released. Major union
victory in Rochester. Court throws out FBI frame-up _

, Diego Rivera, Detroit Institute of Arts

 

_MAY 23, 1950._  The United Auto Workers and General Motors agree to
a historic 5-year contract that is known as the Treaty of Detroit. 
In the unprecedented agreement, the union gave up the right to bargain
over some issues in exchange for extensive health, unemployment, and
pension benefits; expanded vacation time; and cost-of-living
adjustments to wages.
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_MAY 24, 1965._  By an 8-0 vote, the U.S. Supreme Court finally
stands up for the First Amendment, when it strikes down a federal law
requiring the Postmaster to detain -- and deliver only upon the
addressee's written request -- unsealed foreign mailings of "communist
political propaganda."
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_MAY 25, 1898 (125 YEARS AGO).  _The first contingents of the United
State's Army's Philippines Expeditionary Force depart San Francisco by
ship. In July 1898 more than eleven thousand U.S. soldiers become the
first U.S. ground troops ever to make war outside of the western
hemisphere. The U.S. war in the Philippines continued for more than 14
years and resulted in battlefield deaths of some 20 thousand soldiers,
three-quarters of whom were Filipino, and between two hundred thousand
and a million Filipino civilians killed by starvation and disease.
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_MAY 26, 1937._  The bitter effort to win a first contract at Ford
Motor Company, during which company thugs regularly attack pro-union
workers, explodes on a pedestrian overpass leading to the Ford factory
in Dearborn, Michigan. Ford's thugs assault organizers handing out
union leaflets, breaking one organizer's back and driving the others
away. Detroit News photographer James Kilpatrick goes to extraordinary
lengths to prevent the thugs from destroying his film. Publication of
the photos is a public-relations nightmare for Ford. Even so, it was
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_MAY 27, 1963 (60 YEARS AGO). _ The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan. Dylan's
second studio album, is released by Columbia Records. It opens with
"Blowin' in the Wind," and features "Girl from the North Country,"
"Masters of War," "A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall" and "Don't Think Twice,
It's All Right" all of which became anthems of the 1960s.
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_MAY 28, 1946._  New York State's third largest city is paralyzed by
a massive and successful general strike, in what is known as the
Battle of Rochester. The strike, which was not a general strike at
first, began when the city suddenly fired 489 municipal workers who
had just formed a union and were preparing to ask for a contract. Over
the following two weeks, virtually all the unions in the city, with at
least 60 thousand members, demanded the workers' rehiring. Thousands
picketed essential municipal facilities, including water works, bus
depots, and sanitation garages, shutting them down. More than 250
pickets were arrested and charged with disorderly conduct. When the
city refused to reverse the firings, many unionized workers  --
including teamsters, printers, electrical workers, theater
projectionists, the staffs of the city's two daily newspapers, and
13,500 members of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers   -- struck
simultaneously and brought the city to a standstill. City government
almost immediately gave in, rehiring the workers and agreeing to
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_MAY 29, 1997. _ The murder conviction of Black Panther Party leader
Geronimo Pratt is overturned by a federal court. Pratt had been
falsely imprisoned for 27 years after he was framed by the FBI. The
court ruled that prosecutors should have disclosed that their main
witness was a 4-time felon and paid FBI informer.  According to a
later-disclosed FBI document, Pratt had been targeted by the FBI's
COINTELPRO operation, which aimed to "neutralize Pratt as an effective
BPP functionary." After the verdict was overturned, the prosecution
determined that a new trial was precluded by lack of evidence. Later,
Pratt sued the FBI and LAPD for false imprisonment and received a $4.5
million settlement.
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* union contracts
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* Auto Workers
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* Anti-Communism
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* First Amendment
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* Philippines
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* Spanish-American War
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* The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan
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* general strike
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* COINTELPRO
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* The Black Panther Party
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* FBI frameup
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