Oakland witch-hunt

Last month LLB reported on how dockers in the USA, Canada and Japan were refusing to unload a ship called the Neptune Jade in solidarity with the Liverpool dockers. Now the bosses at Oakland docks have got lawyers to demand of employees answers to a chilling series of questions. These include:

• identify all persons, associations, and organizations known to you who participated in one or more of the demonstrations at Oakland.
• identify all labor organizations in which you are or have been a member.
• identify all political organizations in which you are or have been a member.

A leader of the Oakland longshoremen, Robert Irminger, now faces a contempt of court action as longshoremen broke a court injunction by boycotting the Neptune Jade.

Messages of support should be sent to ILWU Local 10, 400 North Point Street, San Francisco, USA.

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