WATERSIDE STRIKE
90,000 Stop In U.S.
(N.Z. Press Assn. —Copvrtpht) NEW YORK, October 1
About 90,000 waterside workers from Maine to Texas went on strike early today In a “no contract, no work,” dispute with 145 steamship and stevedoring firms on the United States Atlantic and Gulf coasts.
The issue was a demand by the ship-owners that the International Longshoremen's Association (LLA.) reduce ‘‘work gangs" on the docks from 20 to groups of 8 to 16 each, United Press International reported. The previous contract expired at midnight The last major Atlantic and Gulf Coast strike took place in 1959, and President Eisenhower Invoked the TaftHartley Act to order the waterside workers back to work.
It was expected that President Kennedy will invoke the act to halt this strike, but there was no indication from the White House on when he would act, U.PI. said.
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Press, Volume CI, Issue 29942, 2 October 1962, Page 15
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