..LONGVIEW, Wash. (AP) — Hundreds of Longshoremen stormed the Port of Longview early Thursday, overpowered and held security guards, damaged railroad cars, and dumped grain that is the center of a labor dispute, said Longview Police Chief Jim Duscha.These are the sons of bitches we're at war with. We'll take 'em out like a Pizza; extra anchovies.
Six guards were held hostage for a couple of hours after 500 or more Longshoremen broke down gates about 4:30 a.m. and smashed windows in the guard shack, he said.
No one was hurt, and nobody has been arrested. Most of the protesters returned to their union hall after cutting brake lines and spilling grain from car at the EGT terminal, Duscha said.
The International Longshore and Warehouse Union believes it has the right to work at the facility, but the company has hired a contractor that's staffing a workforce of other union laborers.
Thursday's violence was first reported by Kelso radio station KLOG.
Police from several agencies in southwest Washington, the Washington State Patrol and Burlington Northern Santa Fe responded to the violence to secure the scene that followed a demonstration Wednesday.
"We're not surprised," Duscha said. "A lot of the protesters were telling us this in only the start."
One sergeant was threatened with baseball bats and retreated, Duscha said. "One officer with hundreds of Longshoremen? He used the better part of discretion."
The train was the first grain shipment to arrive at Longview. It arrived Wednesday night after police arrested 19 demonstrators who tried to block the tracks. They were led by ILWU International President Robert McEllrath, who said they would return.
The blockade appeared to defy a federal restraining order issued last week against the union after it was accused of assaults and death threats.
EGT chief executive Larry Clarke said it was unfortunate that law enforcement needed to make arrests.
That James Hoffa son of a bitch'll look good in a cement suit, don't ya think?
Check it out. We really are at war:
President spending your tax dollars wisely transporting anti-taxpayer union bosses to Detroit on Air Force One
(DougRoss).Reuters' Caren Bohan alerts us to another judicious use of taxpayer dollars: employing Air Force One to fly a bunch of overfed union bosses to a Labor Day rally in Detroit. These are the same lugs who feed at the troth of the taxpayer and then declare all-out-war on us "sons-of-bitches
"If I didn't know better, I'd think the unions were actually calling the shots at the White House.
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Would you want these guys working for you?
Is this a dispute between two American unions or a dispute between an Asian union and the Longshoremen?
The Blaze posted a thread which names "General Construction Workers" as the competition from Japan & China.
Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei = NAZI
The Schutzstaffel was a major paramilitary organization under Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party.
The DAP (Deutsche Arbeiterpartei or German Workers’ Party) was formed in Munich in January 1919 and Adolf Hitler joined it in September of that year. His talents for speaking, publicity and propaganda were quickly recognized.
and by early 1920 he had gained some authority in the party, which changed its name to the NSDAP (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei or National Socialist German Workers’ Party) in April 1920.
The SS was formed in 1925 under the then name “Saal-Schutz” (Assembly-Hall-Protection), intended for providing security for Nazi party meetings and as a personal protection squad for Adolf Hitler.
A permanent group of party members who would serve as the Saalschutz Abteilung (hall defense detachment) .
Party......or....Union?
Who was that masked blogger?
:)
Yeah, I added some stuff to MR's post.
Fuck Hoffa. Where is Tony Pro when you need him?
;-)
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