It was a day marked by the arrest of seven of the workers on bogus "trespassing" charges.
"The police ran over the foot of one of our pickets and then arrested us," said one of the workers detained and then released on $50 bail. Like all the ILWU members we spoke to on the picket line, he declined to give his name because he is not an authorized union spokesperson.
"I was one of the 700 who sat down on the railroad tracks July 14 blocking delivery of a trainload of grain," he said. "We never saw the train. They stopped it back at the switching yard because there were so many of us standing and sitting on the tracks."
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