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Canadian Labor Approves Picketing of Egyptian Ship at Montreal Docks

Canadian maritime workers who yesterday started the picketing of an Egyptian ship. Star of Assuan, when the vessel reached the Montreal docks, received full support today at the annual conference of the Canadian Labor Federation. The conference, representing organized labor in Canada, adopted a resolution demanding freedom of passage through the Suez. Canal of ships […]

April 29, 1960
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Canadian maritime workers who yesterday started the picketing of an Egyptian ship. Star of Assuan, when the vessel reached the Montreal docks, received full support today at the annual conference of the Canadian Labor Federation. The conference, representing organized labor in Canada, adopted a resolution demanding freedom of passage through the Suez. Canal of ships of all nations, including Israel.

The picketing against the Star of Assuan, a passenger-cargo ship, was started yesterday by the Maritime Trades Department of the AFL-CIO here. Members of the International Longshoremen’s Union refused to cross the picket lines to unload the Egyptian vessel which arrived here from Mediterranean ports. Banners carried by the pickets were critical of the United Arab Republic’s blacklisting of ships trading with Israel.

The Seafarers’ International Union, which has been picketing the Egyptian ship Cleopatra in New York harbor since April 13, announced here today that it was “in sympathy” with the Montreal boycott.

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