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Contents: AN OPEN LETTER TO BROTHERS AND SISTERS OF LOCAL 333 • DEAR BROTHERS AND SISTERS OF THE ILA WAGE SCALE CONFERENCE • END FAVORITISM NOW! • The newsletter identifies three issues to confront at today's meeting: Racism, Favoritism and Poor Union Leadership. There will never be real peace, much less unity among longshore men and women in this port until discrimination against black stevedores is stopped. On February 15, the International Longshoremen's Association (ILA) Executive Council passed a resolution in response to the rank and file actions at the ports of Baltimore, Norfolk, Philadelphia and now New Orleans to repeatedly boycott Rhodesian goods (mostly Chrome, Nickel and Asbestos) for the last two years. Despite all this, both local and international officials of the ILA are doing nothing to effectively enforce the ILA resolutions on Rhodesian imports where is counts, on the docks. So, the shipping companies continue to bring Rhodesian goods into East and Gulf coast ILA ports. The long and confusing meeting on Sunday showed why longshoremen and women of 333 need new leadership which can unify the membership instead of dividing it the way our present officials have been doing. The newsletter mentions the American Committee on Africa (ACOA) and ILA President Gleason.

African Activist Archive

The Dockworker

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