ILA President Harold Daggett Asks ILA Members To Pray For Former President Donald Trump and Victims at Saturday’s Pennsylvania Rally; Recalls Productive Meeting Last November With Trump

NORTH BERGEN, NJ – (July 15, 2024) International Longshoremen’s Association President Harold J. Daggett expressed relief that the assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump was unsuccessful and called on all ILA members to pray for the victims at the Saturday rally in Western Pennsylvania.

“It was sickening to watch a political rally suddenly turn into a bloody battlefield with our former President Trump the target of a deranged shooter,” said ILA President Daggett. “The ILA and its 85,000 members join all Americans in offering collective prayers to Donald Trump, his family and the victims at Saturday’s rally.”

ILA President Daggett enjoys a long relationship with Donald Trump going back decades in New York City. Both Trump and Daggett are the same age and were both from Queens, New York.

In late November 2023, former President Trump invited the ILA president to meet with him in Florida at Mar-a-Lago,

“We had a wonderful, productive 90-minute meeting where I expressed to President Trump the threat of automation to American workers,” said ILA President Harold Daggett. “President Trump promised to support the ILA in its opposition to automated terminals in the U.S. Mr. Trump also listened to my concerns about Federal “Right To Work” laws which undermines unions and their ability to represent and fight for its membership.”

The ILA leader said it is time for all Americans to tone down vitriolic rhetoric.

“We condemn political violence and call for all Americans to unify,” said President Daggett. “All Americans can fight for issues that are important to them and their families and freely support those candidates they believe can deliver.”