U.S. WAR VETERANS FIGHTING COMMUNISM

Grey River Argus, 25 March 1948, Page 5

U.S. WAR VETERANS FIGHTING COMMUNISM

NEW YORK, March 22. Members of live New Jersey war veterans’ organisations to-day picketed the berth of the 10,000-ton Russian freighter Chukotka, which had been loading at t,he Claremont terminal, Jersey City, since Friday. One of the pickets, Mr Thomas Carlin, commander of the Hudson County chapter of the Catholic war veterans, said that it was the beginning of a nation-wide drive by veterans who' “distrusted the lack of action in America’s fi-;ht against Communism.” The picketing of Russian ships would be continued indefinitely. They would also ask organised labour to recognise the veterans’ picket lines and would petition the national Catholic War Veterans and other veterans’ organisations to boycott not only companies sending industrial equipment to Russia, but also railways and shipping companies handling it. No longshoremen were working on the Chukotka to-day, but a loading crane was swinging crates weighing 25 tons into a hold. Two other Russian freighters, the Volga and the Russia, are due to begin loading tomorrow, the Volga at the Claremont terminal and the Russia at Staten Island.

U.S. Catholic War Veterans Picket Shipments NEW YORK, March 22. The Catholic war veterans’ organisation to-day withdrew their pickets from the wharf at New Jersey, where machinery is being loaded on to the Russian freighter Chukotka, after declaring that they had achieved their objective by having sixty watersiders stage a ‘token walk-out . The picketing was intended as a protest against the shipment of American goods to Russia.