Word: longshoreman
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Such scattered strikes as these in the past fortnight were the final sputters of a fuse which for two months has been burning slowly but inevitably toward a major charge of maritime dynamite. Last week the explosion finally came. Led by Longshoreman Harry Bridges, 37,000 men of seven unions affiliated with the powerful Maritime Federation of the Pacific started a general waterfront walkout on the Pacific Coast...
...Longshoreman Ryan is a lethargic conservative who considers Harry Bridges a Red, resents losing to him the leadership of Pacific Longshoremen. Last week President Ryan bluntly refused to call out his Atlantic longshoremen in a sympathy strike. Last spring Seaman Curran was the leader of the "outlaw" seamen's strike in New York Harbor which failed to win higher wages but caused serious harbor hubbub for three months (TIME, May 25 et seq.). Last week 1,000 members of his insurgent Seamen's Defense Committee voted a strike in Manhattan, delayed several ships from sailing. Night later...
...from both labor and management that the shipowners finally suggested arbitration. The longshoremen agreed to poll their members on the proposal, frankly adding that they would try to instigate another general strike rather than give in an inch to the shipowners. As the referendum started on the Pacific Coast, Longshoreman Bridges set about involving the rest of the U. S. by getting I. L. A.'s National President Joseph P. Ryan to call a conference of Pacific, Gulf, Great Lakes and Atlantic longshoremen to consider united action on all coasts...
...Manhattan, a magistrate found Francis McLeod, 27, unemployed barge captain, guilty of smashing his four-month-old daughter in the face after a longshoreman had beaten him in a brawl. In Ashland, Ky., Willard Slusher, 27, was indicted for murder for having quieted his three-month-old daughter with a fatal slap across the head...
...helped teach Mr. Devlet how to trade in bonds- shrewd, plump Mrs. Irma Eggleston, one-time manager of trading at C. F. Childs & Co. Most notable protege is Richard George Brennan, owner of his own bond house before Depression, whom Guardian Devlet rescued last year from a career as longshoreman and salesman of lumber jackets...