Word: archbishop
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Reason for the sudden peace was that Harry Bridges, Australian chairman of the strike committee, had told his followers that they could not fight machine-guns and bayonets. The President's strike board, Archbishop Hanna, Lawyer Cushing and Assistant Secretary of Labor Mcgrady sat powerless. Nominally the only issue between the employers and longshoremen was which of them should control the "hiring halls" where stevedores are given jobs. But some 15,000 other shipping workers ? stewards, sailors, cooks, pilots?had struck in sympathy. When joint control of the hiring halls had been proposed the longshoremen rejected it because...
...assistant and a strong union man whom she had already sent to San Francisco. Another was 0. K. ("Okay") Cushing, San Francisco attorney with liberal labor views. The third, who gave the board its most distinctive flavor, was the Most Rev. Edward J. Hanna, 73-year-old Roman Catholic Archbishop of San Francisco and advocate of most liberal labor proposals...
...Archbishop Hanna and the board went octogenarian Andrew Furuseth who has lived on San Francisco's Embarcadero for more than 40 years, organized seamen, fought their battles and now heads the International Seamen's Union of America. He pleaded with strikers: "With confidence and justice we can settle this strike within 24 hours and without bloodshed. Men, let's get together while there is still time. The only thing in the way of peace now is distrust, one group of the other...
...Because the Baltimore Sun, in its foreign correspondence, found in Jesuit Loyola and Adolf Hitler "the same readiness and determination to exercise their power with ruthlessness and brutality in order to carry out" their missions, Baltimore's Archbishop Michael Joseph Curley last week flayed the Sun, commanded his flock to take "action...
Pleased by this latest change but not overestimating its value. Archbishop McNicholas and his committee were by no means disposed to cease their labors. They approved formation of the Legion of Decency's national council, turned campaign details over to a committee of priests. Said Archbishop McNicholas : "We are not fussy and narrow about entertainment. We have not objected to many things that have worried other people. But in this matter where we touch youth, we feel that we must act to save them...