পাতা:বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্র (চতুর্দশ খণ্ড).pdf/১৮৪

বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্রঃ চতুর্দশ খন্ড THE BALTIMORE SUN, FRIDAY, JULY 16, 1971 DOCK UNION REFUSES TO LOAD ARMS-LADEN PAKISTANI SHIP By Am era 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 long shore men's action constituted 'direct interference with the commerce of the United States." The telegram asked Mrs. Helen Delich Bentely, the commission's chairman, to intervene in the dispute. A spokesman said, however that the commission would not take any action immediately but would study the situation. In its communication to the regulatory agency, the shipping agency said the Padma's cargo includes the following shipments by the Agency for International Development: pharmaceutical supplies, pesticides, firefighting equipment, and electric generators. The State Department, however, confirmed that the cargo included an arms shipment for which an export license was issued before the March 25. ban on such shipments for Pakistan became effective. The following is an enumeration and valuation of the military shipments in the Padma's cargo as given by the State Department; aircraft spare parts $924, 329; spare parts for military vehicles, $184, 187; electronic spare parts. $25,417; spare parts for vessels, $45,117 and artillery spare parts, $2,830. All the military material, which included 2,200 rounds of 22-caliber ammunition as part of the artillery supplies, was loaded on the Padma in New York late last month, the State Department said. The ship then sailed for Montreal, where it was to receive 46 crates of spare parts for the United States-supplied Sabre jets. The loading of the crates was prevented by the Canadian government.