Word: becks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Washington for a conference this week. While Harry Bridges was only one of many maritime labor leaders invited, it was reported that he was to be offered C.I.O. leadership in the West in recognition of his wresting power from A. F. of L.'s western chief, Dave Beck (TIME, June 14). Whether or not he is technically a communist (he is not a party member), the World-Telegram warned: "Harry Bridges to millions in this country is communism personified...
...last week-then Paris must think somewhat of conciliating Berlin, and it would have been suicidal to yield to Communist demands that Premier Blum bestir himself to help the Spanish Popular Front. Last week for the first time since the World War a high German Staff Officer, General Ludwig Beck, was welcomed in Paris, conferred with General Marie Gustave Gamelin of the French General Staff, reputedly shared with him the German Secret Service's dossier on what is actually happening in Russia. Cabled veteran Paris Correspondent John Elliott of the Herald Tribune: "Political circles here are convinced that...
After that set-back Harry Bridges shook the dust of San Francisco from his feet and hurried up to Portland to play for bigger stakes. Leader Bridges cared little about far-off William Green. His real opponent was right there in San Francisco, chubby, red-faced Dave Beck, boss of Seattle's labor, for some months leader of the Teamsters Union on the whole coast- the Bill Green of the West but an aggressive, two-fisted Bill Green. The Longshoremen and the Teamsters are the two strongest unions west of the Rockies, their leaders the two bitterest enemies...
...Leader Bridges could organize the warehousemen, he would drive a wedge inland and stand a good chance of becoming the biggest Labor figure in the West. If Leader Beck could organize the warehousemen he would pin Bridges to the waterfront. No holds have been barred in this battle for supremacy. And to fight Leader Beck who has the A. F. of L. behind him, Leader Bridges has turned to aid from...
...Portland this week meet two important conventions where C. I. 0. will be the issue. As Messrs. Beck and Bridges prepared to go there last week, the deputies of William Green and John L. Lewis were on their way. For Green came President William Hutcheson of the Carpenters Union. Subsidiary of the Carpenters in the Northwest is the Federation of Woodworkers, Lumberjacks and Sawmill Workers, 130,000 strong. Always radical, the Woodworkers have definite leanings to the C. I. 0. and Bill Hutcheson hoped to prevent their defection. For Lewis came his lieutenant John Brophy "to explain...