32:23-3 - Public loader system condemned - New Jersey Statutes

32:23-3.  Public loader system condemned
    The States of New Jersey and New York hereby find and declare that many of the evils above described result not only from the causes above described but from the practices of public loaders at piers and other waterfront terminals; that such public loaders serve no valid economic purpose and operate as parasites exacting a high and unwarranted toll on the flow of commerce in and through the Port of New York district, and have used force and engaged in discriminatory and coercive practices including extortion against persons not desiring to employ them;  and that the function of loading and unloading trucks  and other land vehicles at piers and other waterfront terminals can and should  be performed, as in every other major American port, without the evils and  abuses of the public loader system, and by the carriers of freight by water,  stevedores and operators of such piers and other waterfront terminals or the  operators of such trucks or other land vehicles.

     L.1953, c. 202, p. 1512, Part I, s. 1, Art. I, par. 2.