Word: longshoremen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Utterly Ridiculous." Bridges had no apologies to offer. In repeating his life story and describing the evolution of his longshoremen's union, he described himself as an old-fashioned radical who took the help of Communists or anyone else if it meant helping the union. But he denied that the comrades had ever controlled him. "I don't want to boast," he said, "but I've forgotten more about the waterfront than [they] ever knew. It's utterly ridiculous...
...after similar bills of particulars, threw out the Office and Professional Workers, the Food, Tobacco and Agricultural Workers, the Public Workers. With the big United Electrical Workers and the Farm Equipment Workers already purged (TIME, Nov. 14), Murray had only a few more corners to clean: Harry Bridges' Longshoremen's union, the Marine Cooks' & Stewards', the Fishermen, the Fur and Leather Workers, the Furniture Workers, and the little but strategic American Communications Association (telegraph and radiomen...
Casanova was having his troubles. The Communists have recently lost ground in French labor unions. Not a single important French union is now under firm Communist control. The one most nearly under the Red thumb is the longshoremen's union...