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While he has been carrying the war to Bridges in Los Angeles and San Francisco, Bridges has been in Seattle, carrying the war to Beck. Around San Francisco Bay they joined battle for control of the Warehousemen's Union. By A.F. of L. orders Teamsters were told to ignore I.L.A. pickets at warehouses. The Oakland Teamsters Local refused to do so fortnight ago and its officers were ousted by orders from above...
...ally of the C.I.O. Thus the Stockton strike was an attempt of Radical Harry Bridges to extend his labor leadership back from San Francisco's waterfront. At Stockton his sphere of influence collided with that of the Coast's other big labor leader, David Beck, vice president of the A.F. of L.'s Teamsters Union and the kingpin of labor in Seattle, where he boasts of having organized "everything on wheels" including automobile salesmen...
Encouraged by some employers who welcome him as an antidote to Radical Harry Bridges, Dave Beck has invaded California, has organized teamsters even in the neighborhood of open-shop Los Angeles...
...Stockton, Harry Bridges and the I.L.A. deliberately took on Dave Beck, the A.F. of L. and California's businessmen, all of them resolved to stop the spread of Mr. Bridges' influence inland...
...Wolff, Harvard '29, magna cum laud in anthropology, set up his school in Beck Hall in 1930, but soon had to move to bigger quarters. Large and generally unshaven, he shouts his lectures, throws erassers at sleepy students tells stories about Peter his pet champanzee and despite official disapproval--gets most of Harvard's patronage...