ROTTERDAM, March 19. — More than 3,500 Rotterdam dock staff demonstrated in opposition to Franco Spain immediately, however their banners merely proclaimed enigmatically: “Down with …”
Leaders defined that Rotterdam’s Mayor, Pieter Jacobus, had forbidden point out of the title Franco as a result of Spain’s Caudillo nonetheless was head of a state with which The Netherlands had pleasant relations.
Simultaneously on Rotterdam’s waterfront 120 college students of a technical faculty sweated on the job of unloading 16,000 circumstances of Spanish oranges from the steamship Orpheus, which has been boycotted by the Communist-affiliated Dockers’ Union. Police guarded the pier.
The dispute over Spanish cargoes in the meantime, grew to become a full-scale quarrel between dockers and shippers. Jan Bestman, union secretary, stated 3,000 dockers had been “locked out” by the delivery corporations which declare that Spanish cargoes are reaching Rotterdam below earlier agreements during which Holland already has given items or money. Work continued solely on these vessels which have been being unloaded when the dispute started three days in the past.
A convention between union leaders, municipal officers and representatives of the delivery corporations was organized for tomorrow.
— The International Herald Tribune, March 20, 1946.
