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...Honolulu, the governor's impartial fact-finding board hopefully suggested a cure for the two-month-old waterfront strike which was slowly paralyzing Hawaiian industry (TIME, July 4). The board proposed a 14?-an-hour pay raise for Harry Bridges' striking stevedores. Reluctantly, the islands' seven struck stevedoring companies agreed to pay. In Washington, President Truman said that the striking dockworkers should accept the offer; Interior Secretary Julius ("Cap") Krug telephoned Hawaii's Acting Governor Oren Long to say that the Administration was squarely behind the proposal...
...third time in six weeks, Premier Ho Ying-chin sent in his resignation. This time President Li Tsung-jen accepted it. Li submitted to a Legislative Yuan meeting at Canton the nomination of Elder Statesman Chu Cheng (age 73). Opposition included a woman legislator in slacks and a Hawaiian blouse, who yelled into a microphone: "He's too old for the job." Shocked oldsters came to Chu Cheng's defense. Said one: "Chu Cheng can still climb the hundreds of stone steps leading up to Chungking." The argument availed nothing. When Marshal Yen's name was submitted...
Indicted with Bridges were two of his . International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's lieutenants. They are Texas-born Vice President J. R. ("Bob") Robertson and German-born Henry ("The Dutchman") Schmidt, who is currently running Bridges' four-week-old tie-up of Hawaiian shipping...
Tongg, a crack skeet-shooter, had taken only a few potshots at established island businesses. But in 1946, he aimed deliberately at thriving, island-hopping Hawaiian Airlines (TIME, June 21). With four DC-35 he started unscheduled Trans-Pacific Airlines, which flew regularly enough to haul 10,000 inter-island passengers a month during the first year. By 1947, Ruddy managed to gross $103,000 and net $35,000 in one month. That was too much for Hawaiian Air. It got an injunction to keep Ruddy from flying on schedules; Ruddy's business dropped...
Ralston Crawford wrote that his abstraction of a Hawaiian fishing port, Kewalo, showing two or three slices of plane geometry and a porthole, simply reflected his "interest in finding and expressing ... a bit of order." He seemed to be on safe enough ground there...