Date: Tue, 12 May 1998 07:17:14 +1000
From: pmargin-AT-xchange.anarki.net (Profit Margin)
Subject: AUT: LL:Scab Cargo Alert!!! (fwd)


>Date: Mon, 11 May 1998 16:07:34 +1000
>From: "margaret" <margaret-AT-rie.net.au>
>To: leftlink-AT-vicnet.net.au
>Subject:  LL:Scab Cargo Alert!!! (fwd)
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: Steve O <intexile-AT-bari.iww.org
>To: Steve O <intexile-AT-bari.iww.org
>Date: Saturday, 9 May 1998 17:21
>Subject: Scab Cargo Alert!!! (fwd)
>
>* URGENT! * URGENT! * URGENT! * URGENT! * URGENT! *
>
>Fellow Workers, Comrades, Friends, Fellow Travelers, and assorted
>Individuals:
>
>This message is very urgent.  I'll give you background at the end of
>the post.  I realize that some of you may receive multiple copies.
>Note to folks in Eureka, Coos Bay, Portland, Seattle, and Vancouver:
> If it doesn't dock in Oakland, the scab ship may head towards you
>next. Be on alert.  Please forward this to everyone appropriate you
>know.
>
>FWD From <liam-AT-iww.org
>
>ALERT!  ALERT!  ALERT!
>
>The scab cargo ship Columbus Canada is currently being picketed by
>1500 people in the Port of LA. The ship will probably head to the
>Port of Oakland next. For updated info call 510-845-0540 after 5pm
>Saturday(today).
>
>It ain't over yet!
>
>LIAM FLYNN
>SOLIDARITY COMMITTEE FOR THE AUSTRALIAN WHARFIES
>
>*** BE READY TO MOVE AT A MOMENT'S NOTICE! ***
>
>We do not know when that ship will arrive.  It could be as early as
>tonight or it may never come to Oakland.  Besides calling (510)
>845-0540 with updates, you can also:
>
>Tune into Free Radio Berkeley 104.1 FM in Berkeley, Albany,
>Emeryville, and north Oakland.  If you have updates you'd like
>announced on the air, you can call the studio at (510) 594-8082 (but
>note that not all programmers will take you seriously--there's
>nothing that can be done about that--just work weith the situation).
>
>If you live in San Francisco west of Twin Peaks, you can tune in San
>Francisco Liberation Radio at 93.7 FM.  I do not know the studio line
>there.
>
>If you want to be called or e-mailed on a moment's notice about this,
>either e-mail me your phone number or leave it on our machine.  We'll
>do everything we can
>
>You can help by calling your friends and asking them to call theirs
>and so forth.
>
> *** More info from Deke ***
>
>More information can be found on the WWW at:
>
>http://www.iww.org/iu510/alert1.html
>and http://www.iww.org/
>
>FTW, --Deke
>
>*** Background ***
>
>Some of you may have been following the recent Wharfies
>strike/lockout situation in Austalia.  For those of you who didn't
>essentially 2000 Australian longshoremen (like the dockers in
>Liverpool) were sacked by the Patrick's Stevedoring company with
>help from the right-wing Australian government.  The MUA (Maratime
>Union of Australia) fought back with militant rank & file solidarity
>and gained support from the labor movement and common people in
>Australia.
>
>Because of these efforts, the company has been ordered to rehire the
>sacked union workers, but the company is stalling and trying to use
>loopholes in the law used to order the rehiring to sneak out of htis
>defeat they suffered.  Some ships loaded by scab labor are on their
>way to the US.  One has tried to dock in LA, but has met resistencve
>in the form of a mass picket of 1500 or so community & labor
>activists.
>
>If the ship is turned away from LA, it will most likely come to
>Oakland next.  WE CAN'T LET THAT HAPPEN!
>
>The global shipping companies are trying to bust waterfront unions
>who, due to their history as militant rank & file controlled
>unionists and their strategic position in the so-called "global
>economy", are one of the major obsticals standing in the way of the
>proposed MAI agreement.  The global elite would love bust the
>waterfront unions everywhere, and so far they've been quite
>successful in Latin America and England.  The Liverpool Dockers
>suffered at the hands of this onslaught and the Australian Wharfies
>were the next target.
>
>Thanks to the tenacity of the Liverpool Dockers,  and the publicity
>generated by their brave struggle, the Austrailian Wharfies were
>inspired to fight back and prepared for the bosses attacks.  No
>doubt the Neptune Jade pickets that took place last October in
>Oakland also fired up the Australian Wharfies and the folks in Los
>Angeles.
>
>If we are prepared, we can turn this ship away too.  The labor
>movement will almost assuredly suffer a major defeat if the bosses
>are successful in busting the Australian unions.  If the Wharfies
>union is busted, they'll come after the US Longshoremen (ILWU & ILA)
>next.
>
>Global Solidarity is needed now more than ever.
>
>Thanks for your support.
>
>-FW Steve x344543
>Berkeley IWW / Branch Secretary Droid
>
>Forest Workers Unite!  http://www.iww.org/iu120/local/
>
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>http://www.smh.com.au/daily/content/980509/pageone/pageone5.html
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