But this time they found themselves side by side — collecting, packing, loading, shipping — not only with other activists but also with members of a pro-Kremlin youth movement and an entire bikers' club.
Or why, while the government supported America in the Vietnam War with troops, "wharfies" in Melbourne and Sydney occasionally refused to load ships bound for South Vietnam.
Some sailors who continued to load ships after the blast say it is they, not those convicted of mutiny, who should be receiving special attention.
It includes the definition of ship geometry, mass parameters, structure stiffness, and combines ship hydrostatics, hydrodynamics, wave load, ship motion and vibrations.
But some still have paperwork, like Felipe Nava, 78, who lives in the Chicago suburb of LaGrange and who came in 1943 to lay railroad ties in Syracuse, N.Y., load ships in Weehawken, N.J., and fix train engines in Bourbon, Ind.
Existing operators would have a year to apply for a licence, and could not load ships in reef waters unless "the activity cannot be accommodated within existing port limits".
After the blast, Rear Admiral Carlton H. Wright, commandant of the 12th Naval District, told the 258men who refused load ships that he considered their conduct mutinous and that it could result in the death penalty in time of war.
Most of the men in the brig had not been given a direct order they had simply been asked if they were going to load ships or not, and to step to one side if not.
We've shaved five days off the door-to-door transit time in less-than-container-load shipping.
From dry cleaners to heavy manufacturers, businesses that generate waste must report every load they ship.
