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...John Dwyer, a brawny hiring boss on the brawling New York City dock? (and a prototype of Marlon Brando's movie role in On the Waterfront), quit his $10,000-a-year job last year to fight the racket-ridden International Longshoremen's Association. As vice president of the A.F.L.'s new rival dock union, he won thousands of dock-wallopers away from the I.L.A. But last month the I.L.A. won a Labor Relations Board election (by a scant 263 votes out of 18,551), and thereby held on to control of waterfront jobs...
...A.F.L. brasshats, retreating from their attempt to reform the docks, cut their organizing losses (about $1,000,000), ended their all-out campaign and fired John Dwyer. When Dwyer protested, they ignored his letters and hung up on phone calls. Last week Dwyer bitterly told his men to "forget about the A.F.L, and go back to the I.L.A." Brusquely, the I.L.A. snubbed Dwyer and said A.F.L. rank-and-filers could come back only if they paid up back dues. For a happy ending dockers could go to the movies...
...bearded junior, the only record-breaker of the cold, windy afternoon, stole most of the attention which was expected to be focused on Josy Barthel's special mile run. The 1500-Olympic victor, paced beautifully by Fred Dwyer for three quarters, won in a good but now disappointing time...
This would rule out the possibility of his meeting Barthel, Fred Wilt, Horace Ashenfelter, Fred Dwyer, and Alec Breckenridge, in the special Heptagonal mile, but Bushnell said in New York that he would be at the airport at 8:05 this morning to meet Bannister...
...freshman at Villanova, Breckenridge will join Fred Wilt, Horace Ashenfelter, and Fred Dwyer in an attempt to defeat the 1500-meter Olympic champion Joey Barthel. With Breckenridge added to the field, Barthel may get the competition he needs to break the Soldiers Field mark...