Peace News of October 15th reported: x
On Thursday, October 10, New York longshoremen rofused to unload the "South African Pioneer" which docked in Port Authority Pier 6 in Brooklyn the preceding day. Members of the International Longshoreman's Association Local 1814, refused to cross the picket line of thirty membemof the jAmeric~ an Committee on Africa and of the Congress of Racial Iquality., A joint statement from the three organisations hoped that this action would be a precedent for other American maritime and transport leaders and that it might holp to trigger off 2. U.S. government embargo on trade with South Africa, The statoment urges U.S. support for boycotts and sanctions egainst South Africa through the United Nations this Autumn.