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...Dickery by Dock...
...bonus of jam on Sunday for reading to his new boss out of Hansard's parliamentary reports. In 1908 he made his formal entry into the field of labor relations by setting up a pitch in front of Bristol Cathedral and badgering the wealthy for contributions for unemployed dock workers...
...career was thrown off pace by World War I and the Bolshevik revolution. His first tour of England fell apart before it got started when his English manager dropped dead. Once, while his piano was taken off to Rio de Janeiro, he was left standing on the dock for lack of a visa. Two years after his sensational U.S. debut, a New Yorker critic wrote: "It wouldn't be hard to make a catalogue of Mr. Barere's accomplishments, but he doesn't need a catalogue. He needs an audience...
...Decision on Principle. Last week, her Navy contract ended, the Empire Marshal lay at a Yokohama dock, her rusty, barnacle-encrusted hull high out of the water. Skipper William Lamont returned from the agent's office with the news that the Empire Marshal had been ordered to Dairen to load soybeans for England. A crew member yelled, "That's Red China!" Unanimously, the 58 crewmen-four Poles, three expatriate Chinese, one German, 50 Scots and Englishmen-applied the lesson they had learned from the Communists on the way to Indo-China. They voted not to take the ship...
Communist Harry Bridges (whose International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union controls dock work in San Francisco, Hawaii, the U.S. Northwest and Vancouver) is still undeported after 16 years of U.S. efforts to send him back to Australia. Last week New Zealand's and Australia's efforts to deal with their Communists were in the news...