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...When, in November of '64, the Massachusetts Port Authority launched a campaign for Port of Boston Export Month they discovered that some 700,000 tons of general export cargo originating in Boston's immediate marketing area were being shipped via New York. (The campaign, incidentally, was wrecked by a Longshoremen's strike...
...Authority's impact is perhaps the single most sig- nificant factor for the future of the port. There were, of course, unavoidable external elements which greatly hampered the port's prosperity during this period. Completion of the St. Lawrence Seaway provided new competition. A long about with the International Longshoremen's Association was at last somewhat abated, if not resolved, with a new contract. Railroad problems in the '60's caused the Authority to become embroiled in the now-famous rail rate parity case, which had previously enabled Philadelphia, Norfolk, and Baltimore to receive more advantageous rates to and from...
...strikebreakers a vivid definition by Jack London: "A scab is a two-legged animal with a corkscrew soul, a waterlogged brain, a combination backbone of jelly and glue." Strike leaders estimate that a third of the grape harvest will rot on the vines, and Harry Bridges' strike-sympathizing longshoremen have caused tons of grapes to rot on the docks by refusing to have anything to do with them. Inevitably, the strike has attracted some Berkeley students-coeds in college sweaters and wool stockings, boys in Zapata-style mustaches. "Do you find this a meaningful experience?" they ask one another...
...years ago, San Francisco's Longshoreman Leader Harry Bridges signed a contract permitting shippers to automate to their heart's desire-while guaranteeing Bridges' boys an annual wage, no matter how many hours they actually worked. The agreement has turned out well for both management and longshoremen...
...Bananas. Some 2,000 fewer longshoremen than usual are being hired each day on the New York waterfront, and seamen have already suffered a $5.5 million wage loss. More than 15,000 travelers have had to change their plans because of canceled sailings. At least $200 million in cargo has been delayed, some of it fatally: $400,000 worth of Ecuadorian bananas have rotted in holds. A leather importer from Philadelphia faces bankruptcy because he has been unable to meet his commitments to local shoe manufacturers, and some Manhattan antique stores fear that the delicate finish of such antiques...