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...Communist-line General Labor Federation, he bossed all union members. As a Communist deputy, he represented Livorno-and Joe Stalin-in the Chamber of Deputies at Rome. Under his potent trident, only card-carrying Commies and their friends could get jobs on the waterfront. His name: Vasco Jaccoponi...
...When Jaccoponi heard that the Yanks were coming, his union announced that it would not unload "warmongers' ships"; his Communist paper warned non-Communist workers to keep off the docks...
Face Saved. Next, Vissering went into direct competition with his rival, Jaccoponi. He set up his own stevedoring company. The nub was 25 resolute anti-Jaccoponi dockers, all of them fast men with a fist or a bale-hook. Under protection of Italian-not American-soldiers, they unloaded two ships. Restless rank & filers in the Red union, with nothing to do but 'watch, began nudging their leaders. Thereupon Jaccoponi, to save his face, put on his businessman's hat, made a deal with Vissering: Jaccoponi would set up a subsidiary to his monopoly to handle the U.S. Army...
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