Word: longshoremen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...need crawling room, good food and daily sprinkling," he said. The baskets were therefore opened, and the turtles, gray-green creatures ranging from three to eleven inches in length, were given the run-or crawl-of two vast warehouses. The veterinarian looked in on them twice a day, the longshoremen cooled them with sprinklers, and the Dunkirk Chamber of Commerce sent them several thousand heads of lettuce. "If they were looking for lettuce," boasted Michel Duquesne, one of the suppliers, "they came to the right place. The area around Dunkirk is full of lettuce...
...quickly would have been difficult in any case. But the problem has been intensified because maritime unions demanded that one-third of the ships carrying wheat to the Soviet Union be U.S.-flag vessels, and Washington got Moscow to agree. President Nixon's negotiators had little choice; U.S. longshoremen might have refused to load Russia-bound wheat aboard any ships and scuttled the whole deal...
...Marseille were regularly and efficiently dispatched-and for the French government in the postwar years. In 1948 Paris called upon the Union Corse to break a strike by Communist-controlled unions that threatened to close the port of Marseille. The Union Corse obliged by providing an army of strikebreaking longshoremen to unload the ships and a crew of assassins to gun down defiant union leaders. French government officials have not forgotten such favors...
Through repeated strikes, the International Longshoremen's Association has forced New York stevedoring companies into a contract guaranteeing longshoremen 2,080 hours of pay each year, whether or not there is work to be done. Says a New York-based ship operator: "The union contracts are negotiated between the dock workers and the stevedoring companies; but the companies that suffer the most are the shipping firms that have invested a lot in facilities in New York. Higher costs simply drive their business away...
Perhaps because of his stand on issues like the Viet Nam War, McGovern has only rarely been plagued by trouble with dissidents, and when it happens it causes more laughter than concern. Outside a longshoremen's headquarters where McGovern spoke, a brassy San Francisco redhead caused something of a stir when she paraded on the sidewalk with a sign urging