Word: dockings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...length into her narrow slip at 52nd Street because the tugs' crews were on strike. What to do? In she goes, commanded Captain Geoffrey Thrippleton Marr, 57, and with infinite care, using hawsers and anchors and great good seamanship, he and his tars brought their gigantic vessel to dock all by themselves. So precise was his reckoning that the captain even noticed the tide was ebbing a few minutes early. "Rain upcountry, that sort of thing," he figured. It took almost 1½ hours, but not an inch of paint was scraped. "Well done, sir!" called a first-class...
...materiel must be funneled daily through the port of Saigon. The labor is usually done by Vietnamese stevedores; the men of the U.S. Army's 4th Transportation Command seldom lift anything heavier than a clipboard as they direct the flow of goods. But last week the Saigon Dock Workers Union went out on strike. To keep things moving off the ships, 800 U.S. soldiers stepped in to do the heaving and toting ordinarily done by three times that many Vietnamese. From cannon barrels to C rations, from barbed wire to frozen beef, each day's cargo was somehow...
...union, which supplied the men for the jobs, found this so attractive that it rotated the 288 jobs among some 2,000 of its members. And when the temporary, four-month contracts expired, the union decided that Newport was far too good a thing to let go. As the Dock Workers Union's Secretary-General Nguyen Hoang Tan put it: "The Saigon River ports belong to the Vietnamese dockers. It has always been so, under the French and also the Japanese. Why should the Americans be able to change...
...give his question added impact, all 5,000 Saigon stevedores went out on strike. The G.I.s undertook only to offload the necessary military supplies, leaving dozens of ships with civilian goods and USAID cargoes stacking up in the river. To bring pressure on the Army negotiators, the Dock Workers Union summoned all 50,000 union members in all of Saigon's industries to a one-day general sympathy strike. But few responded, and at week's end the pressure was coming from the other side: Premier Ky applied some pressure of his own, asserting that "strikes...
...Sixth Fleet's aircraft carrier Shangri-La and scores of other ships converged on the disaster area. King Constantine flew his DC-3 to the scene and circled overhead, sometimes relaying rescue instructions to the searchers. On the dock at Piraeus, thousands of friends and relatives waited for the ships carrying the survivors and the blanket-shrouded bodies. By week's end 47 had been rescued, but the death toll was put at 234, making it one of the worst sea tragedies in Greek history. The government ordered a three-day period of national mourning...