Word: longshoremens
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...large freighter The African Sun sat in its berth in East Boston's Pier No. 1. The sun was barely above the row of three-storied houses on the horizon, and the chants of over 100 picketers at the gate leading to the pier created clouds of misty breath. Longshoremen arriving at this early hour to unload the ship's cargo slowed down in their cars as they saw the demonstrators and sleepily took the leaflets handed them...
...Procurement Authorization Act, the U.S. can import Rhodesian goods designated as "strategic" in importance. The amendment originally allowed for importing chrome alone, but the strategic definition has since expanded to include beryllium, nickel, and asbestos. The African Sun allegedly carried Rhodesian asbestos, and the protestors asked the longshoremen to force the shipment back to Africa. Yet the workers drove through the gates to the loading platforn. Another day of work began...
Contracts covering about 5,000,000 union members (including steelworkers, mineworkers, communications and electrical workers, East and Gulf Coast longshoremen, aerospace workers and railroad employees) come up for negotiation or reopening this year. The most significant bargaining, between the nation's ten biggest steel companies and 375,000 members of the United Steelworkers union, is already in progress. Last year, in what was hailed as the start of a new era in labor-management relations, the union and the companies agreed to submit to binding arbitration any unresolved bargaining issues in order to avoid strikes or expensive stalemates. Already...
RECENT bickering between shipping managers and longshoremen (both within mainland-owned firms like Seatrain and Hawaiian companies with large mainland interests) has resulted in several labor strikes that have crippled Hawaii...
...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...