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Labor holds SC rally decade after Charleston 5
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Labor holds SC rally decade after Charleston 5
The Associated Press

CHARLESTON, S.C. -- Labor leaders gather to begin an organizing effort to mark the 10th anniversary of an incident at a South Carolina port.
AFL-CIO Executive Vice President Arlene Holt Baker and other leaders hold a forum in Charleston on the economy on Thursday.
In the incident, 10 people were injured when a January 2000 protest on the Charleston docks over nonunion labor turned violent.
Five longshoremen, the Charleston 5, were charged with trespassing. Those charges were dismissed but then-Attorney General Charlie Condon went to a grand jury, which returned felony indictments.
The five were placed under house arrest but the following year pleaded no contest to misdemeanor counts of engaging in a riot where no weapon was used. Each was fined.