Word: unload
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...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...
...Importing Rhodesian Products supports a Racist Government," the leaflet pronounced in large letters. "Refuse to Unload Rhodesian Goods!" According to the American Friends Service Committee, the African Liberation Support Group, and the other organizations which had set up the demonstration, the Sun carried goods exported from Rhodesia. The picketers had come out so early this bright morning to urge the dockworkers to refuse to unload the ship and to support an international boycott against goods from Rhodesia...
...last several months, dockworkers in both Baltimore and Philadelphia have refused to unload Rhodesian goods, whose shipment directly violates a 1968 United Nations resolution ordering economic sanctions against that country and its white supremacist government. Rhodesia's population is 96 per cent black, but whitesby law control 50 of the 66 seats in Parliament, and 8 of those intended for blacks are appointed by the white government. The average wage of a black Rhodesian is one-tenth that of the white; the black African population is restricted mostly to menial jobs. In the countryside they toil as virtual slaves...
...that usually goes to Dutch refineries has been redirected to Le Havre in France, and non-Arab Iranian oil that normally was shipped to France has been shunted to Rotterdam. Recently Rotterdam was so jammed with tankers that some had to be sent to Antwerp in Belgium to unload. The oil companies, which are mostly headquartered in America, apparently have not been similarly diverting non-Arab oil to the U.S.; critics suspect that they actually have been routing some shipments away from...
Speaking for Exxon, I can say that we most certainly and emphatically have not done this. At any given time, the number of our tankers waiting to unload has not exceeded the number we would have expected from historical experience. While I cannot speak for other oil companies, the port captain of New York Harbor is on record as having said that the alleged tankers waiting offshore, about which we have heard so much, were in fact not tankers at all; they were container ships, and the pile-up was due to bad weather...