BRITISH SHIP BLACK

Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30348, 25 January 1964, Page 10

BRITISH SHIP BLACK

N.Y. Dockers’ Ruling (N.Z.P.A .-Reuter—Coppripht) NEW YORK, January 21. A union leader said here last night his dockers have been ordered not to handle a British ship, the Tulse Hill (7120 tons) due to load grain for Britain in Baltimore today, because she engaged in trade with Cuba. Mr Thomas Gleason, president of the International Longshoremen’s Union, said LL.A. members would not be picketing the vessel, but that dockers "just would not report for work.” The I.L.A. and other maritime unions object to a Stat* Department amendment to the Cuba black-list rules. The department ruled that a ship chartered for trade with Cuba since January 1 last year can be removed from the black list if the owner promises to cease Cuban trade. Mr Gleeson said maritime unions were standing firm on their refusal to load foreign-flag ships that once traded with Cuba in spite of an appeal by a State Department official, Mr G. Philip Delaney, at a meeting in New York yesterday, that they be "more accommodating.”