American Dock Strike AKA Strike Ties Up Major Us Ports (1962)

Location: New York, United States of America / USA Story about the 1962 dock workers’ strike in New York LS. Pan of idle warehouses on the New York waterfront. LS. Looking across New York harbour. VS. Large cargo boats laying idle at dockside. VS. Empty docks. MS. Pickets patrolling. MS. Oil drums piled up. GV. Freight lorries laying idle. Good L.S. right to left pan of New York harbour showing the Manhattan skyline in background during pan. (Comb. FG.) Note: The strike was in connection with the size of work gangs and spread down the Atlantic and Gulf coasts Note: Very badly edited and poor sound (sentences cut in half etc.) FILM ID: A VIDEO FROM BRITISH PATHÉ. EXPLORE OUR ONLINE CHANNEL, BRITISH PATHÉ TV. IT’S FULL OF GREAT DOCUMENTARIES, FASCINATING INTERVIEWS, AND CLASSIC MOVIES. FOR LICENSING ENQUIRIES VISIT British Pathé also represents the Reuters historical collection, which includes more than 136,000 items from the news a