Contents: Re-Elect Keylor (40-D) to Executive Board • Local 10 Shows the Way • WE COULD HAVE DEFEATED THE INJUNCTION • PEOPLE'S WORLD NO-WIN STRATEGY • JIMMY HERMAN STABS LOCAL 10 IN THE BACK - AGAIN! • DIVESTMENT AND PROTECTIONISM • STAN GOW CALLS LONGSHOREMEN "SCABS" • SLANDERS AND LIES • STOPWORK ACTION TO OFFEND THE HIRING HALL AND OLDER/DISABLED MEN! CANCEL THE CONTRACT! • MILITANT LONGSHOREMAN PROGRAM • The newsletter says the 11-day boycott of South African cargo bas done Local 10 proud, by pointing the way to effective international labor solidarity through reviving the "hot cargo" tactic. Unions used this tactic throughout the organizing drives of the 1930s and...
Contents: Re-Elect Keylor (40-D) to Executive Board • Local 10 Shows the Way • WE COULD HAVE DEFEATED THE INJUNCTION • PEOPLE'S WORLD NO-WIN STRATEGY • JIMMY HERMAN STABS LOCAL 10 IN THE BACK - AGAIN! • DIVESTMENT AND PROTECTIONISM • STAN GOW CALLS LONGSHOREMEN "SCABS" • SLANDERS AND LIES • STOPWORK ACTION TO OFFEND THE HIRING HALL AND OLDER/DISABLED MEN! CANCEL THE CONTRACT! • MILITANT LONGSHOREMAN PROGRAM • The newsletter says the 11-day boycott of South African cargo bas done Local 10 proud, by pointing the way to effective international labor solidarity through reviving the "hot cargo" tactic. Unions used this tactic throughout the organizing drives of the 1930s and the bitter battles in 1946-48 to isolate struck employers. By refusing to transport or handle cargo from an anti-union employer, workers even thousands of miles away and at widely dispersed locations could exert pressure to help other unions or oppressed workers. This is why the Taft-Hartley law passed in 1947 made "secondary boycotts" illegal. Our action brought hundreds down to the docks in our support; when the labor movement acts against apartheid, the black community and trade unionists will rally to its support. We sparked a wave of anti-apartheid protests in the Bay Area which are still continuing, and we proved that concrete labor solidarity can have greater impact than picketing embassies. The newsletter also discusses shortcomings in the boycott. The South African cargo was finally unloaded, the Local lost PGP, ILWU-IBU member Jack Heyman was suspended by Crowley Maritime for approximately two weeks because of his participation in the embargo, and Local 10 is under a preliminary injunction which will be used against us when we act again. The newsletter discusses Reagan, PATCO (Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization), ILWU (International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union), PMA (Pacific Maritime Association), Stockton, Nedlloyd Kimberley and Nedlloyd Kyoto, Local 54, fines/damages, black unions, Leo Robinson, Dave Steward, big banks, black labor in South Africa, white supremacist rulers, Peter Woolston, Militant Caucus supporters in Local 6, the Spartacist League, steel, pig iron, and jobs.
