Word: longshoremen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...brisk 10 m.p.h. trade wind that blows away pollution. The Jones Act requires that all commodities shipped between U.S. ports be carried on U.S. vessels. The former rule adds $10 million to Guam's annual fuel bill; the latter has made the island's economy vulnerable to longshoremen's disputes that take place thousands of miles away. "We're always at the mercy of a small group of lobbyists," complains Joseph Ada, 33, speaker of Guam's unicameral legislature. "We have no leverage when we bargain with...
...erudite conclaves, giant, annual movable salons in which men and women could come and go, talking of interrobangs and Michelangelo. But last week, when 9,000 scholars gathered in Chicago for the 92nd convention of the Modern Language Association, the proceedings at times took on the character of a longshoremen's dock shape-up. With so few jobs now opening up in colleges and so many hungry young Ph.D.s in desperate need of positions, the job-market function of the M.L.A. threatened to upstage the intellectual encounter of linguists, English literature and foreign-language professors who make...
What dock strike? Now in its second month and with a good possibility of ending this week, the walkout by longshoremen at container ports from Maine to Texas has so far sent no more than a ripple through the U.S. economy. It has been a strike of a thousand pinpricks-an annoying shortage here, a raised price there. Unlike stoppages in major industries such as coal and steel, which threaten the nation's ability to produce, the dock strike has only slowed or stopped deliveries of hundreds of less-than-vital imported items-Danish hams, French wines, foreign cars...
...retailers are not much affected. Their sizable inventories of imported goods were ordered and delivered long before the strike began and probably are sufficient to meet demand through Christmas. Some importers shifted away from container ships to break-bulk carriers (conventional freighters), which are still being handled by longshoremen. One day last week, New York harbor was filled with 54 freighters-half break-bulk and being unloaded, half containerized and untouched by strikers' hands. Goods are also being shipped in containers through West Coast ports, which are not struck. The increased traffic has taxed facilities there, but sellers have...
...weekend, negotiations resumed between shippers and the International Longshoremen's Association amid signs of an early settlement. Employers made a new wage offer; but the major stumbling block remained container shipping's threat to job security. Teddy Gleason, the I.L.A.'s crusty boss, who turned 77 last week, summoned his 130-man wage-scale committee to the new talks, at New York's Downtown Athletic Club, and there were rumors that the shippers were feeling pressures to enable the walkout to end. Any deal, however, would have to be approved by the rank and file...