Word: hod
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Load of Briclcs. Amid persistent objections from Vincent Hallinan, Harry Bridges' brassy chief defense lawyer, Hod-carrier Schomaker (known on the waterfront as "Shoes") then proceeded to drop a full load of bricks on the pencil-nosed leader of the I.L.W.U...
Born of a very poor family in 1874, Curley's first home was near the city hospital, in the mud-flats of South Boston. It was an environment of native Irishmen, hod-carriers and widow-scrubwomen; a savage place where you had to be tough to be honest and cunning to be dishonest. Curley, at the outset of his career, fell in the middle. He was a politician, and therefore cunning, almost from the beginning, but in contrast to the previous ward leaders he demanded that his constituents get something for their vote. Eventually, after numerous intermediate positions of ward...
...traditional way of A.F.L., to which Dubinsky's I.L.G.W.U. belongs. Like A.F.L. Founder Samuel Gompers, its old-line craft unionists cling to the dying faith that wages and hours are labor's only proper concern. If Hutcheson's carpenters or Moreschi's hod carriers got their pork chops, the rest of the world could go hang. Dubinsky insists that pork chops are not enough. He believes that what affects working men anywhere affects working men everywhere...
...heard almost a block away. There was a crash of glass, and some bodies hurtled out onto the tile roof. One man dropped to the lawn, then dashed back upstairs to rejoin the fighting. Congressmen Leonard Irving, who is also president and business agent of Kansas City's Hod Carriers' Building and Common Laborers' Union (A.F.L.), was talking things over with his rank & file...
...Cadillacs. Even before he became a $12,500-a-year Congressman, Leonard Irving had been living pretty well for a $125-a-week boss of Local 264 - each of whose 1,800 members had paid a $59 initiation fee for the right to dig a ditch or hoist a hod. His campaign for nomination (which President Truman did not support) had been expensive. In Washington, he rented an eleven-room house on fashionable Marlboro Pike, sported two Cadillacs, and dressed like a Texas banker...