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In reply to the discussion: the confederate flag [View all]4bucksagallon
(975 posts)I can remember back in the 1980's BE&K union busters from the south. They rolled into IP paper mills and Boise Cascade later on to work while the strikes were going on, these scabs proudly displayed their confetti flag from their rusted pickup trucks. I have heard that Halliburton has acquired them, it would not surprise me to find that is true.
"Later that spring, the contract expired at Jay,ME, another long-time IP plant that made kraft papers. This plant also employed around 1200 people and had the facilities to manufacture pulp from logs, then paper from pulp it was a complete paper mill. Jay, ME had been one of the earliest locations of IP and had not had a strike since 1922. They enjoyed only one shutdown holiday per year, but the companys concessionary demands included giving up even that 1 shutdown day. In the future, it would be necessary to run the plant 365 days per year! IP moved in a southern contractor called BE&K who came with all of the skilled people necessary to maintain production in that complex mill. They set up approximately 100 mobile homes inside the fence, just far enough apart to allow the doors to open, and there they housed their skilled SCABS. At a Memorial Day Rally, UPIU President Wayne Glenn attended a rally, led a march to the mill gates and ended up getting arrested and charged with inciting to riot."