PLOCE PORT WORKERS' UNION LAUNCHES PETITION

( Vidi vijest: 4897 ) PLOCE, Oct 22 (Hina) - The Independent Union of Ploce Port Workers launched a petition on Wednesday in support of a demand by the Croatian Alliance of Trade Unions that an agreement on the use of Ploce port for the commercial purposes of the Bosnian Moslem-Croat Federation should not infringe on Croatian sovereignty. Union leaders announced that the port workers would be joined in their demands by residents of Ploce on Thursday. "Our position is that the port of Ploce should be used only in the mutual economic interest of Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina, and that the sovereignty of our state should in no way be infringed upon," union representative Bozo Glamuzina said. "If the Croatian government signs an agreement on the use of Ploce port which would in any way infringe upon Croatian sovereignty, we will consider it an act of high treason and we will organise and implement the blockade of all traffic in the ports of Ploce, Split, Sibenik, Zadar and Rijeka," Glamuzina said. (hina) vm jn 221614 MET oct 97