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...Rockefeller for Governor over Arthur Goldberg, a candidate whose impeccable credentials as a labor lawyer and Secretary of Labor under Kennedy would normally rate reflex support. Parades of hardhats backing Administration policy in Southeast Asia have reified the peace backlash and warmed the President personally. Nixon entertained construction and longshoremen union leaders in the Cabinet Room, accepting a souvenir "Commander-in-Chief" hardhat. Later, on his trip to the South, he proudly noted a New Orleans construction workers' helmet and said: "I have one of those...
Missing X. Awaiting the cargo was the Le Baron Russell Briggs, a Liberty ship that obviously had known grander days. Pitted and charred, her hoist no longer works, and big red letters spelling EXPLOSIVES have been painted on her sides. In the early morning hours two gangs of longshoremen reported for duty. They had been given two days of crash orientation on the care and handling of gas. Run through a boxcar filled with tear gas, they learned how to apply atropine (the antidote to nerve gas) and how to fit gas masks. The job was not a lark...
...loading took the better part of two days as the longshoremen, who boast they can load 100 tons an hour, secured one 64-ton crate every 20 minutes. This week, weather and the courts permitting, Le Baron will be towed to a point 238 miles off the Florida coast and scuttled in 16,000 feet of water...
...Hicks, 47, a nearly successful candidate for mayor of Boston, is now running as a Democrat for the House. She wants to end the war and divert that money and funds from the space program to cities. She has been endorsed by the Boston locals of the International Longshoremen's Association as "man enough for us," a phrase that would anger many a Women's Lib militant, but pleases the hard-nosed Mrs. Hicks...
...Longshoremen in Holland, Belgium, Norway and Sweden, meanwhile, refused to handle Britain-bound cargo, and other dockers seemed likely to follow their example. In Northern Ireland, dockers attacked fishermen who had been running supplies of Irish bacon and eggs into Britain, dumping the goods into harbors and scattering them on beaches. As supplies of bananas, oranges, grapes and vegetables dwindled all over the United Kingdom, prices rose; some meat cost as much as a shilling (12?) a pound more. Dutch and Belgian truck farmers and shippers complained of losing millions of dollars. The government could, of course, use troops...