The World - News from May 1, 1988
Striking ferry workers in Dover, England, pelted busloads of tourists with rocks and bottles after mistaking them for strikebreakers, police said. No injuries were reported. One striker was detained briefly. Trouble flared when five buses carrying ferry passengers drove to the dock behind a police cruiser. Hundreds of pickets, mistaking the tourists for strikebreaking crews, surged through police lines to assault the buses, police said.
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