Word: greenness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...morning. Their business was indeed important: Harry Bridges, the lean little Australian-born leader of San Francisco's 4,000 International Longshoremen-the John L. Lewis of the West-was trying to snitch the San Francisco Labor Council clean away from the A. F. of L. Under William Green's orders the Central Labor Councils of Seattle and Portland had expelled the International Longshoremen. A similar order was expected by wire at this San Francisco Council meeting,* and Harry Bridges was out to vote defiance, to order a referendum on joining C. I. 0. He failed...
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...
...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...
...date the Big Green has won eight contests while losing but two. The Varsity has five victories and three defeats in league competition and needs a double win tomorrow and two triumphs over the Elis in order to take the championship...
Following the first seven inning encounter, Coach Jeff Tesreau plans to start Ben Lane on the mound for the Green, while Slim Curtiss will twirl for the Mitchellmen...