Word: shoremen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...prevent student conscription, and will therefore demoral-be the movement; it will, in addition, convince workers they were right all along about students. Instead, while fighting against campus divisions in the form of class rank and draft tests, students must ally themselves with truck drivers, factory workers, long-shoremen, department store clerks. On the one hand we should support their strikes with manpower and by raising funds on campus, support their fights to defeat anti-strike legislation, aid their attempts to organize unions, help them combat war-inflated food prices with boycotts, etc., and, on the other hand, leaflet their...
Into Atlantic and Gulf Coast ports rolled rail cars laden with thousands of tons of wheat bound for Russia. At pierside, nine ships waited to load. But for nine days the wheat moved no farther. Thomas W. ("Teddy") Gleason, 63, president of the International Long shoremen's Association, had ordered his stevedores to touch not one kernel of cargo. The great wheat deal, it seemed, was stymied...
...something. If they contributed money, as they must have, the results were easily imaginable: instead of one grubby meal a day, some longshoreman would have three squares and a decent place to sleep. If public pressures were strong enough, management would have to allow the long-shoremen to unionize: the machinations of a ship company are far less complex than those of the federal government, the ruthlessness of Big Business is an issue far less hazy than disarmament...