Word: docked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sudden and unexpected was the end Of our esteemed and beloved friend; He gave to all his friends a shock By falling into Sunderland Dock...
...period of relief before the dock workers' strike flares up again, the public needs to reconsider its entire attitude toward this essential industry. For unless there is a basic change in this attitude, all the crime commissions, waterfront commissions, and all the reform attempts of the AF of L will be as temporary as the anti-strike injunction itself...
...upon the public mind. We only hope it sticks. The AF of L has the right alternative and the inter-state waterfront commissions have the right approach. But the dockers need the understanding of more than organized labor, and state commissions bog down without public support. Stability on the docks will only be realized when the public so acts to show its realization that dock workers are not merely undesirable men in an essential industry, but human beings with the same dignity and needs as everybody else...
...illustrate, he told of his own escape from Argentina. Shortly after La Prensa shut down, he started for Uruguay to visit his mother. At the dock, a police told him that he could not leave the country, and pulled him off the pier. "He said that he was sorry, but that those were his orders, and then whispered, 'There are a thousand ways to get across the border. Try somewhere else.'" Minutes later, Paz got away from his police escort and two men he had never seen before helped him into a sailboat bound for Uruguay and freedom...
...Ryan's gangster-ridden International Longshoremen's Association has long been notorious for dock scandals: graft, extortion, kickbacks, loan-sharking, gambling, strong-arming, pilferage, gang warfare, wildcat strikes. Mild A.F.L. President William Green never did anything about it, but soon after George Meany succeeded Green last December, the A.F.L. Executive Council began to think of taking some action. Last week, after giving Ryan a chance to speak his piece, Meany announced that the council was not satisfied: it recommended that the upcoming A.F.L. convention suspend the I.L.A. from the federation...