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...leader, that she would quit films Dec. 10, 1938, to lay plans to have a child, Paramount suggested that she compromise, adopt one. She declined. Ivan F. Cox, deposed secretary-treasurer of Harry Bridges' San Francisco longshoremen's union, filed suit against 5,000 Jane & John Does, Longshoreman Bridges and other union officials, Cinemactors Fredric March, Franchot Tone, Mary Astor, James Cagney, Lionel Stander, Jean Muir, and Director William Dieterle. Charge: Led by Cinemactor March, the group had conspired to propagate Communism on the Pacific Coast, causing Mr. Cox to lose his job. Damages asked...
Tilting back in a big leather chair in his comfortable Seattle offices one day last week, Boss Dave Beck of A. F. of L.'s West Coast teamsters, reminded the country that he was still very much at war with Longshoreman Harry Bridges. But the Beck-Bridges war is by no means confined to the waterfront. It is a battle between A. F. of L.'s most aggressive leader and C.I.O.'s West Coast Director, between the most powerful laborman west of the Mississippi and the most militant laborman...
...real stake in this war of Labor against Labor was jurisdictional possession of the West Coast warehousemen, who were ignored by Teamster Beck until Longshoreman Bridges in his "inland march" started to organize them. Today he has 11,000 in the C. I. O. camp. Meantime Dave Beck got the A. F. of L. to award jurisdiction over warehousemen to the teamsters, a meaningless gesture to Harry Bridges, who is now West Coast director for C. I. O. Longshoreman Bridges offered last week to settle the dispute by a National Labor Relations Board election but Teamster Beck, having only...
...extraordinary display of the brand of labor solidarity preached in another part of the city by Longshoreman Harry Bridges, 3,200 employes of San Francisco's leading hotels walked out early last May because the managements refused to recognize the Hotel Employes' Union as collective bargaining agency for 150 clerks and clerical workers. Demands of chambermaids, elevator operators, bellhops and the five culinary unions had been granted. But the hotels balked at the clerks on the ground that they were "confidential employes." For nearly three months such famed hostelries as the Mark Hopkins and the Fairmont...
...West Coast teamsters, fought to keep .his men out of the maritime strike, fought the general strike, rising in one meeting to cry: "Don't do it, lads. I know what it means." In the end the venerable old teamster had to play ball with the dynamic young longshoreman, and while they represented the two extremes of U. S. Labor they grew to have mutual respect for each other...