Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hiring Bosses. The stevedore companies also paid to get on good terms with the hiring bosses on the piers. The hiring boss runs a dockside institution known as the "shape-up," a ragged morning muster of all the local union longshoremen who want to work. Since there are usually more men than jobs, the boss's power is absolute: he can demand kickbacks, hire & fire at will, dispense I.L.A. union cards at cut-rate initiation fees, and threaten any stevedoring company with a quick strike. Under the union contract, the hiring boss is a foreman appointed by the companies...
...first week of public hearings, the Crime Commission got a good look at four live I.L.A. operators. Big Frank Russo, a pier boss, admitted that he had received $1,400-plus an unspecified amount of "vacation money." Sullen, hulking Fred Marino testified that he was elected shop steward of local 327, denied earlier testimony that he had demanded that the Luckenbach Lines bar all cops and FBI agents from his pier. Anthony Delmar, Brooklyn pier boss, was sworn in while holding up his left hand, contributed little that was either sinister or helpful. Jerry Anastasio, one of the notorious brothers...
Then Quincy's Acting Police Chief William Ferrazzi got into the act. One night as he was lying in bed he decided that Lady Wonder had just gotten her words a little garbled in transmission. She had really meant Field & Wilde's water pit, an abandoned local quarry. It all came to him, said Ferrazzi later "just like a boot in the rear end." He hurried to tell Dewing. So last week the quarry was drained and the boy's body was found...
Though the local British were unwilling to face it, the fact was that old-style colonialism in Asia was dead: its wake was in progress, even if its will was not yet read...
...good roads. Their industry had put them in control of the country's economic life, but the majority were without citizenship. Believing this to be a basic cause of the unrest, the British Colonial Office pressed for Chinese citizenship, against the opposition of the Malays and some local British. The "emergency" had brought top-level Malays and Chinese together, but had left their communities coldly self-segregated. Templer threw his whole weight into the drive for common citizenship...