Word: becks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Poland? The itinerary of Yvon Delbos is Warsaw (four days), Bucharest (four days), Belgrade (three days), Prague (three days) and so back to Paris. Last week, the Polish Government greeted him in Warsaw with splendiferous display and a most ingenious demand thought up by Polish Foreign Minister Colonel Josef Beck. He pointed out that Poland is in part composed of former lands of the German Empire, argued that if any former Imperial colonies are restored to Hitler's Germany "it is obvious" that similar colonial territory must be "proportionately restored" to Poland! This brilliant piece of Polish logic gave...
...International Woodworkers of America and A. F. of L.'s United Brotherhood of Carpenters & Joiners. On the basis of signed petitions, the National Labor Relations Board last month certified a C.I.O. majority in seven of the biggest sawmills, but A. F. of L. pickets continued to march. Dave Beck's teamsters refuse to handle lumber from C.I.O. mills. Harry Bridges' longshoremen will not load products of plants still A. F. of L. Indeed, fortnight ago Mr. Bridges had to hasten to Portland to avert the closing of the entire port. One lumber company was being picketed...
Tilting back in a big leather chair in his comfortable Seattle offices one day last week, Boss Dave Beck of A. F. of L.'s West Coast teamsters, reminded the country that he was still very much at war with Longshoreman Harry Bridges. But the Beck-Bridges war is by no means confined to the waterfront. It is a battle between A. F. of L.'s most aggressive leader and C.I.O.'s West Coast Director, between the most powerful laborman west of the Mississippi and the most militant laborman...
...Portland's only sore spot. There was trouble in garages and warehouses. The surrounding area was worried by a California butchers' boycott on Oregon turkey.* A. F. of L. teamsters were still boycotting beer carrying the red union label of A. F. of L. Brewery Workers, Dave Beck having manned most Northwest breweries with beery teamsters whose product bears a white union label. Portland beer parlors serving ''red label" have had their windows smashed with monotonous regularity...
...labor problem is the current slump in the lumber industry. Only strong market is sawdust, used locally as fuel and now skyhigh at $12 a truckload. Another difficulty is the restless defiance which seems to pervade the whole Northwest. When a mob in Baker, Ore. recently ran a Beck organizer out of town with the help of local peace officers, Oregon's Governor Martin expressed public satisfaction. Few weeks ago in a Beck-Bridges dispute over some Seattle warehousemen, "the Tsar of Seattle Labor" threatened to close five warehouses if the Labor Board even held hearings. This week...