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1953 Press Photo Operation Spread-Out Longshoremen Park

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CAPTION: "Operation Spread-Oout", in which striking longshoremen park their cars in a spotty pattern and scatter over a pier instead of setting up a hard and fast picket line, got under way here early today on a Philadelphia pier as ports along the East coast were affected by a dock workers' walkout. More than 7500 dock workers in the Greater Philadelphia area were on strike, International Longshoremen's Association spokesmen claimed..

Photo is dated 10/2/1953 and measures 8 x 10 inches.

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