Oiler Robert Meloy, interviewed by the Log

Oiler Robert Meloy, interviewed by the Log

United Financial Employees

Recounting his time on the UFE picket, Brother Meloy said, "Somehow I found myself in the middle of the surging bunch and tripped over a falling picket. Lying face down, I looked up once and got rapped on the back of my head. No one said 'Get up' or anything. A cop started beating me on the head again, and he must have hit me 30 or 40 times. I had my arm around another fellow so the cop hit me on the elbow—it seems they like to hit on the bone. His blow took all the strength from my arm. Four cops tried to lift me to the wagon. Finally one grabbed me by the hair and neck and dragged me. The hospital told me the elbow nerves may be crushed."

Seafarers Log

Seafarers Log Photographic Collections

Seafarers International Union of North America

4/2/1948

Seafarers Log Vol X, No. 14

Black and white photograph

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