From: "exoteric" <exoteric-AT-email.msn.com>
Subject: Re: M-TH: US West Coast Waterfront Workers Alert!
Date: Fri, 1 May 1998 19:39:32 -0700



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From: Hugh Rodwell <m-14970-AT-mailbox.swipnet.se>
To: marxism-thaxis-AT-jefferson.village.Virginia.EDU
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Date: Friday, May 01, 1998 7:30 PM
Subject: M-TH: US West Coast Waterfront Workers Alert!


>Forwarded from LabourNet via Labor-List.
>
>Cheers,
>
>Hugh
>
>WEST COAST WATERFRONT WORKERS ALERT!!
>
>Just as ships with scab cargo are about to dock at West Coast
>ports......... rumors are spreading on the waterfront that the
>Australian dockworkers have won their struggle, that it's all over.
>Brothers and sisters, this scuttlebutt is, at best, premature
>celebration or, at worst,  a rumor initiated by the maritime employers
>and/or the right wing, anti-union Australian government to confuse and
>disarm wharfie supporters across the big pond.


     So remember what happened with the Neptune Jade?
Company jumped all over the protesters with courts and
lawyers.ILWU was cool enough to send a lawyer to the
hearing to help out the prosters.
    Still not clear to me what the ILWU thinks or plans to
do .

exoteric-AT-msn.com
"There's no better way to piss off a frat boy than to play half a Nirvana
song."





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