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...shipfitters, hook tenders, caulkers, riggers, shrinkers, flangers, "holder-ons." Some 70% of all shipyard workers in the West wear the union's button. But because payrolls change daily (men leave for the armed services, for better jobs), no one, not even union leaders, knows exactly how many members IBBMISBWHA has. Estimates are around 165,000 (Portland's local, largest, claims 50,000 members), and it is growing steadily...
Glamorous. White-haired, farsighted Thomas Ray, IBBMISBWHA's business agent in Portland, was a boilermaker during World War I's shipbuilding boom, saw union funds wasted then, decided to avoid similar squandering this time by building a marble-fronted palace for his union on Portland's Third Avenue. To querulous persons who wonder how this prevents waste, Tommy Ray explains: "This is no extravagance. When the boom is over, the money we'll make off our bowling alleys alone will keep the building going...
Bossed. Boss of all this size, wealth and glamor, as top man of West Coast boilermakers, is squarejawed, hotheaded Thomas John Crowe, 47, IBBMISBWHA's Pacific Coast international representative. He started as an apprentice at 13, earning 10? an hour heating rivets at Parsons, Kans., and has climbed the union ladder rung by rung. Belligerent, tough, willing to crack heads if necessary to get what he wants, Tom Crowe has the reputation of a square shooter. West Coast management knows him as a man who will keep his word, once given. When welders tried to break away from IBBMISBWHA...
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