RUSSIAN SHIP PICKETED
ACTION BY AMERICAN WAR VETERANS
CATHOUC ORGANISATION TAKING PART (N.Z. Press Association—Copyright) (Bw. 10 pun.) NEW YORK, Mar. 21. Members of five New Jersey war veterans’ organisations to-day picketed the berth of the 10,000-ton Russian freighter Chukotka, which had been loading at the Claremont terminal, Jersey City, since Friday. , One of the pickets, Mr Thomas Carhn, commander of the Hudson County chapter of the Catholic war veterans, said that* it was the beginning of a nation-wide drive by veterans who “distrusted the lack of action in America’s fight against Communism.” The picketing -of Russian ships would be continued indefinitely. They would also ask organised labour to recognise the veterans’ picket lines and would petition the national Catholic War Veterans and other veterans’ organisations to boycott not only companies sending industrial equipment to Russia, but also railways and shipping companies handling it. No longshoremen were working on the Chukotka to-day, but a loading crane was swinging crates weighing 25 tons into a hold. Two other Russian frighters, the Volga and the Russia, are due to begin loading to-mor-row, the Volga at the Claremont terminal, and the Russia at Staten Island.
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Press, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 25450, 23 March 1948, Page 5
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