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1946 Tugboat Strike - Pier 9b

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Aerial photo of idle tugboats in New York Docks Baltic Terminal during a 1946 strike. The Baltic Terminal was where the Port Authority's Pier 9b is today.

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1946

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Maritime
Mary A. Whalen
Labor

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courtesy of Paul Strubeck
Additional information from:

The Night the Lights went out in Brooklyn, Brooklynology, Brooklyn Public Library blog. http://brooklynology.brooklynpubliclibrary.org/post/2010/12/09/The-Night-the-Lights-Went-Out-in-Brooklyn.aspx
(accessed 2016)

Marton, Janos; Today in NYC History: The Tugboat Strike of 1946; Janos.nyc blog.
https://janos.nyc/2015/02/06/today-in-nyc-history-the-tugboat-strike-of-1946/ (accessed 2016)

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