Word: longshoremen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...problems have frustrated the Reagan Administration more than its inability to rally support for its Central American policies. As the President lamented to a convention of longshoremen meeting in Hollywood, Fla., last week: "Many of our citizens don't fully understand the seriousness of the situation." Indeed, Congress and the public have generally remained either uninterested in or downright skeptical about American support for the government in El Salvador, which is struggling against left-wing rebels, and U.S. opposition to the Sandinista regime in Nicaragua, which is struggling against CIA-backed insurgents. So in addition to speaking loudly last...
...unions has perhaps never been lower. Organized labor is blamed for making the U.S. less competitive in world trade, for contributing to inflation and for hampering increases in productivity by demands for high wages, seniority protection and restrictive work rules. Several unions, like the Teamsters and the International Longshoremen's Association, are believed to be dominated still by organized crime...
When Soviet troops moved into Afghanistan 2½ years ago, U.S. longshoremen took characteristically direct action. Calling the Soviets "international bully boys," they refused to unload ships bearing Russian cargo. Allied International, a Boston-based importer of Russian wood products, lost money as a result, and the company sued the International Longshoremen's Association. Last week a unanimous Supreme Court agreed with Allied that the I.L.A. had engaged in a boycott that was illegal under federal labor laws designed "to protect neutral parties, the helpless victims of quarrels that do not concern them at all." Allied had been hurt...
...Bostonians who still cared gathered on Beacon Hill. There had been many more the night Bobby Sands died--more than 100 at one point, walking in a circle that stretched well down the street. That night there had been some hope; people talked about longshoremen refusing to unload British ships, and remembered how 200,000 Bostonians had marched when Terence McSwiney. Lord Mayor of Cork, starved in the 1920's. It's only a matter of time, they were saying. But they knew better, or should have...
Sands' death also managed to cast a shadow abroad. The state legislatures of New Jersey and Massachusetts passed resolutions deploring Sands' death. The 110,000-member International Longshoremen's Association, which mans the docks along the U.S. East and Gulf coasts, announced a one-day boycott of ships flying the Union Jack (only three vessels were believed to be affected). Of more serious consequence was the high probability that Republican sympathizers in the U.S. were once again passing the hat for the I.R.A., renewing the flow of arms-buying money estimated as high as $3 million annually...