Multi-racial unity slams scabs in 1967 strike shutting the world’s largest shipbuilder in Newport News, Virginia. Ignited by a wildcat walkout led by over 200 Black workers in the key transportation department, it was joined by 14,000 Black and white workers who defied the bosses’ “national interest” by refusing to service U.S. Navy aircraft carriers during the Vietnam War. Said one police official, “They attacked us like they were brothers.” The working class needs the same multiracial solidarity today.
