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...been occasional strikes of workers before the war, but none had been very effective. Compared with conditions in many a U.S. mining town, living conditions were good; the benevolently paternal Big' Five provided free housing and free medical service, the climate was salubrious. Then came Harry Bridges, the crow-beaked, fellow-traveling boss of the West Coast longshoremen, bearing another kind of gospel to Hawaii...
...Schizoid Mouse. Vishinsky was still talking. ". . . Mr. Dulles . . . reminded me of the fox who . . . sang encomiums and paeans of praise to the crow which was holding some cheese in her mouth. Well, the fox was only waiting for the crow to start singing...
...threatened to burn the minister's home if he did not turn the Jim Crow violators over to them, and the Negroes escaped lynching only through the strong action of the minister, whose family was ultimately forced to leave the town for several weeks...
Sixteen Negroes and Whites put their lives in jeopardy this summer to take a trip through the Southland testing the effectiveness of the Supreme Court's ban on Jim Crow interstate travel. Their story of arrests and consistent fear of the lynch mob will be told to the College tonight at 8 o'clock by Nathan Wright, a Negro member of the tour, in Reed Hall of the Episcopal Seminary on Brattle Street...
Splitting up into racially-mixed pairs or groups of four, the travelers would board busses and sent themselves well towards the front of the ear. The driver's attempt to put the Negroes in the Jim Crow rear seats was always met with a polite, "I'd rather sit here...