Word: australian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Employers agreed to arbitrate all grievances with longshoremen and marine strikers. The National Longshoremen's Board headed by Archbishop Hanna proposed that the striking longshoremen, not only of San Francisco but of the whole Pacific Coast, vote by secret ballot on whether to accept arbitration. Harry Bridges, radical Australian strike leader, opposed the vote but he was overruled and the strikers went to the polls to decide the issue...
...soldiers no longer controlled San Francisco, nor the police, nor Mayor Rossi, nor the citizens, nor the newspapers. The man who had a half-Nelson on San Francisco was an Australian Communist named Harry Bridges. Chairman of the joint committee of maritime workers and chairman of the strike committee, he had organized the bloody, nine-week-old longshoremen's strike which had finally detonated the general strike. Organizing his own body of strike police, Chairman Bridges declared against violence, prepared to set up a food distribution system from central markets whither householders might go afoot. "If the people...
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...
...Society has paid $100,000 for the rest of its 600 mammals, 1,500 birds, 500 reptiles. Sample prices: lion, $250; Maribou stork, $35; chimpanzee, $400; elephant, $4,000; giraffe, $3,500 (three for $7,500). All in one batch, for $11,000. the Society bought from an Australian zoo 1,200 birds, 300 reptiles, and 200 mammals, mostly kangaroos. From Minneapolis for $250 the zoo got Mrs. Grace Olive Wiley's famed collection of snakes, and for an unnamed sum Mrs. Wiley herself to take care of them and the rest of its reptiles. Only person ever...
...species in which multiple births have never been recorded: whale, porpoise, zebra, buffalo. African antelope, giraffe, camel, llama, sea lion, walrus, hippopotamus, sloth, anteater, and the major varieties of elephant, rhinoceros and kangaroo. Bears ordinarily produce 2-3 young, striped hyenas 3-4, ferrets 6-10, hedgehogs 3-6, Australian dingo dogs...