501 বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্রঃ ত্রয়োদশ খন্ড শিরোনাম সূত্র তারিখ পাকিস্তানী সমরাস্ত্রবাহী জাহাজের প্রতি বিক্ষোভ ১৬ জুলাই, ১৯৭১ প্রদর্শন ও শ্রমিকদের অসহযোগের সংবাদ "ARMS SHIP" PROTESTS SET IN BALTIMORE Baltimore (AP)-Demonstrations were to continue today to try to stop the docking in Baltimore of the Padma, a Pakistani freighter alleged to be carrying arms and other cargo to its war-torn homeland. Police arrested six persons last night as they attempted to block the arrival of the ship using three canoes and a kayak. All were charged with obstructing the free navigation of a vessel, an officer said. He added that "they were arrested more for their own safety." Meanwhile, the debate continued on whether cargo scheduled to be loaded on the Padma here would be placed aboard. The International Longshoremen's Association reportedly ordered its Baltimore local not to load the freighter, which protesters claim is carrying U.S. military equipment to Pakistan despite a bean on such shipments. An official of the ship's U.S. agents, East-West Shipping denied that any military cargo was to go aboard. [WASHINGTON STAR, Friday, July 16, 1971) DOCK UNION REFUSES TO LOAD ARMS-LADEN PAKISTANT SHIP By Antero Pietila The Pakistani freighter Padma is expected to leave Baltimore for Mobile, Ala., today after longshoremen here refused to load the ship, which is carrying an arms shipment to its homeland. Members of Local 829 of the International Longshoremen's Association were instructed not to work on the ship at Port Covington by Thomas G. Gleason, the union president, who said the union wants to stay "neutral" on the Pakistani civil war. That war, according to the State Department estimates, has caused the deaths of at least 200,000 East Pakistanis, while six million refugees have fled to India. In Washington, the East-West Shipping Agency, the United States agents for the National Shipping Company of Karachi, Pakistan, sent a telegram to the Federal Maritime Commission, charging that the longshoremen's action constituted "direct interference with the commerce of the United States." The telegram asked Mrs. Halen Delich Bcntely, the commission's chairman to intervene in the dispute.
