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High Road & Low. The A.W.U. is a new waterfront organization sponsored by a burly Jesuit priest named Walter B. Hogan. Philadelphia-born Father Hogan was in the Philippines before the war as a teacher. In 1946 he was sent back to found the Ateneo de Manila's Institute of Social Order, to promote Catholic labor unionism. An outspoken opponent of Manila's big business bosses, whom he accuses of exploiting the workers, Hogan won labor's respect last year when he walked a picket line in the strike of ground personnel against Philippine Air Lines, owned...
...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...
...Kase broke an exclusive story: "Another basketball scandal [is] on the verge of being blown wide open." Kase added that eight to ten men were being questioned, at least four of them "players from two outstanding Greater New York City teams." A few hours later, District Attorney Frank Hogan confirmed Kase's beat: he announced the arrest of players of the College of the City of New York and, later, of Long Island University (see SPORT...
District Attorney Frank S. Hogan said yesterday that another of City College of New York's championship basketball stars, Floyd G. Layne, has admitted taking part in the 'fix scandal.' Layne confessed he received $2,500 in bribes and $500 in "bonuses." As a result, C.C.N.Y. quit basketball for the rest of the season...