Word: hogans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hogan came into the waterfront picture when 300 tugboatmen came to him for advice, after they had been beaten up for trying to break away from the U.O.E.F. Assisted by Johnny Tan, 28-year-old law student, Hogan got the tugboatmen jobs and brought their case to court. It was lost. "We didn't have a chance against their political backers," explained Hogan later. "But it got us warmed up for a good long fight." Father Hogan then set about building the A.W.U. Johnny Tan took the low road: talking to workers, studying their problems; Father Hogan took...
...Senator. Among Hogan's influential friends was British-born Francis ("Paco") Gispert, secretary-manager of the Associated Steamship Lines, which has a membership of 46 shipping firms and four stevedoring companies. Gispert helped Hogan by putting up a pay office in the pier area to pay checkers, who, with stevedores and watchmen, are still controlled by the U.O.E.F. When the U.O.E.F. blacklisted the pay office, Gispert took the case to court, won it early last month. In the meantime he had been threatened, his home had been broken into, he had been beaten up, and his personal bodyguard...
...Hogan was hard hit by the murder of his friend and ally. "But we'll keep plugging," he said. Knowing that Filipinos are hypersensitive to criticism by Americans, he made a tactful comparison: "We must not be discouraged, especially when we remember that the New York waterfront vies with our own for the honors in racketeering...
...Unless honest men with courage fight this thing, nobody's life will be worth 10? on the waterfront. If the government, shippers and stevedoring companies work together, three months could see a marvelous birth of freedom and justice on the waterfront." Many young Filipino laborers lined up with Hogan. Said one: "The U.O.E.F. may have big government men behind them, but we have God's own senator on our side...
...fresh muck came to the surface when District Attorney Frank Hogan gathered in two more Long Island University stars, Nathan Miller and Lou Lipman. During the 1948-49 season, said Hogan, these two, plus the ubiquitous Ed Gard (TIME, Feb. 26) and two other L.I.U. players identified as "X" and "Y," made a deal to rig the L.I.U.-Duquesne game. The players decided to ask for $5,000-$1 ,000 apiece. But after the game, four of them held a little powwow without "X." "The boys," said Hogan, "were working out a cute one on 'X' ": Gard, Miller...