Striking dockers brought the Canary Island port of Las Palmas to a halt today but called off a stoppage in Spains main port of Barcelona after winning the reinstatement of a sacked worker port officials said. They said about 15 freighters were affected in Las Palmas as talks on dockers demands to reinstate five workers went on. A stoppage was also called off in Santa Cruz on Tenerife. Union sources said the strike would continue in Las Palmas tomorrow and would spread unless the demands were met with a strike threatened in all ports for two hours on Thursday four on Friday six on Saturday and every other hour from May 4-11.
DOCKERS' STRIKE HITS CANARY ISLAND PORT