Militant Action Dockers
Location: Baltimore, Maryland, United States
Duration: 1973 - Unknown, existed in 1974
Newsletter(s):
The Dockworker
Militant Action Dockers was a group of Baltimore longshoremen active in the International Longshoreman's Association (ILA). Militant Action Dockers opposed the importation of goods including chrome, nickel and asbestos from Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) under the Byrd Amendment in violation of the mandatory United Nations sanctions against...
Militant Action Dockers was a group of Baltimore longshoremen active in the International Longshoreman's Association (ILA). Militant Action Dockers opposed the importation of goods including chrome, nickel and asbestos from Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) under the Byrd Amendment in violation of the mandatory United Nations sanctions against Rhodesia. On December 12, 1973 some 50 demonstrators from Militant Action Dockers and other organizations were at the two entrances of the Locust Point Marine Terminal and handed out leaflets against unloading the nickel from Rhodesia on the African Sun and Baltimore longshoreman refused to unload it. In August 1974 three members of Militant Action Dockers joined Tapson Mawere, Chief Representative of ZANU, and Henry Lieberg of the American Committee on Africa (ACOA) on a trip to Alabama in an effort to get longshoremen in Mobile to boycott upcoming shipments of South African coal. Militant Action Dockers also worked to improve safety conditions of longshore workers. (Source: Thurman Wenzl, a former member of Militant Action Dockers; Militant Action Dockers material on this website; Re: South African Coal by Henry Lieberg, American Committee on Africa, September 19, 1974, available on this website; and "Rhodesian ship turned away: Dockers boycott racism" by Henry Lieberg, The Guardian, December 26, 1973.)
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