Henry Lieberg; The Guardian
Baltimore, Maryland, United States
Undated, about January 1974
1 page
Article reprinted from the December 26, 1973 issue of the Guardian, a New York City paper. The article says, for the first time, a shipment of nickel is crossing the Atlantic Ocean fom west to east on its way back to Rhodesia, after Baltimore longshoremen refused to unload it on Dec. 12. The Baltimore boycott was the second one that the Farrell Lines' vessel had bumped into in 12 days, following a boycott in Philadelphia for 24 hours by longshoremen who were protesting the breaking of United Nations sanctions against Rhodesia. The ship was far behind schedule to begin with, having run into delays before it left Africa and during the voyage as well. With many contractual commitments in...
Article reprinted from the December 26, 1973 issue of the Guardian, a New York City paper. The article says, for the first time, a shipment of nickel is crossing the Atlantic Ocean fom west to east on its way back to Rhodesia, after Baltimore longshoremen refused to unload it on Dec. 12. The Baltimore boycott was the second one that the Farrell Lines' vessel had bumped into in 12 days, following a boycott in Philadelphia for 24 hours by longshoremen who were protesting the breaking of United Nations sanctions against Rhodesia. The ship was far behind schedule to begin with, having run into delays before it left Africa and during the voyage as well. With many contractual commitments in jeopardy, Farrell Lines announced that it was returning the nickel to its "original consignee." An inter-city communications network has been set up by the American Committee on Africa (ACOA) in New York, linking dockworkers and support groups in port cities from Boston to Baton Rouge, La. More than 50 demonstrators came to the two entrances to the Locust Point Marine Terminal in Baltimore. They included the Militant Action Dockers (a newly formed group of Baltimore longshoremen), a longshoreman from Wilmington, workers from South Baltimore General Hospital who are currently struggling to organize their own union, the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC), United Farm Workers, October League, Revolutionary Union, the B-1 Bomber Collective, Black Revolutionary Workers Organization, African Liberation Support Committee (ALSC), Attica Brigade, Youth Against War and Fascism, Center for United Labor Action, Peace and Justice Center, Wildcat, On the Line, and Black Dispatch. The article discusses the International Longshoremen's Association (ILA). [The author, Henry Lieberg, worked for the ACOA when he wrote the article.]
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Used by permission of Henry Lieberg and of Thurman Wenzl, a former member of Militant Action Dockworkers.
Henry Lieberg collection, Michigan State University Library Special Collections
