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...farmers to whom Ford was appealing have been growing increasingly restive over mounting opposition to the sale of 10 million tons of grain to the Soviet Union. AFL-CIO President George Meany spearheaded that opposition last week by announcing that the International Longshoremen's Association would not load the grain on ships until the White House provided assurances that the deal would not increase food prices for American consumers. Seeming to take the farmers' side at the Iowa State Fair in Des Moines, Ford declared that a "sound, fully productive agriculture is a key element in this nation...
...grain deals. Last week an ad hoc committee of the AFL-CIO maritime unions, which are threatening to boycott the Soviet shipment, met with Butz to protest the sales. "This sounds like the 1972 rip-off all over again, and we won't stand for it," said the Longshoremen's Thomas Gleason, referring to the Soviet purchase of 19 million tons of U.S. grain three summers ago. "Nobody is going to be ripped off," Butz assured the seamen. Said Don Woodward, president of the National Association of Wheat Growers: "It's the criticism of these sales...
...months. Monks in the devoutly Buddhist country have long resented the autocratic Premier Ne Win's efforts to reduce their power and influence. Students and workers, unhappy about economic stagnation and the government's repressive policies, are natural allies of the monks. Last June, rioting led by longshoremen and factory workers left at least 22 dead in Rangoon's streets. The latest disturbances were at least as serious. More ominous is the fact that tensions are bound to continue even after the battle for U Thant's body is over...
International cargo trade moving in and out of the ports is averaging only half as much as last year, and two-thirds less than the record 8.6 million tons moved in 1971. Patrick J. Sullivan, secretary-treasurer of the Great Lakes district of the International Longshoremen's Association, asserts that less than one-third of the 7,000 longshoremen working lake docks have been close to adequately employed this year. "Last year," says P. George Bechtold, a Chicago terminal company official, "we had 53 vessels dock at our facility at Lake Calumet. You know how many we have...
...longshoremen cannot be blamed for any of the worst problems, which are long-term and seem almost insoluble. The St. Lawrence Seaway has become virtually obsolete. Its locks are too small to let through the "super" ships (27-ft. draft or more) that move cargo most efficiently these days...