Word: longshoremen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Even before Hoffa sang his melody, the same theme was batted out by none other than Harry Bridges, Red-lining boss of the West Coast International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union, and a dedicated enemy of George Meany's A.F.L.-C.I.O. (the C.I.O. ousted Bridges and his union long ago). Crowed Bridges: "There's one thing I know. If the Teamsters and the two dock unions [i.e., his own and the East Coast's International Longshoremen's Association, also ousted] got together, they'd represent more economic power than the combined A.F.L...
...first of New York's 25,000 longshoremen swarmed back to the piers last week, signaling an end to the walkout that had tied up the Atlantic Coast from Maine to Virginia for ten days, a hiring official summed up their delight that it was all over: "They were hysterical...
...been the infighting that preceded the settlement. The strike was promptly called by the International Longshoremen's Association on the expiration...
Administration's 80-day Taft-Hartley injunction (TIME, Dec. 3). It was "formally" brought to an end a week before the longshoremen went back to work, by agreement on a contract between the I.L.A. brass and the New York Shipping Association, representing its own 170 members and sister associations up and down the coast. But portly Captain William V. Bradley, I.L.A. President, fell on his face when it came time to deliver...
...YORK, Feb. 17--The striking International Longshoremen's Association tonight reached a "meeting of minds" with shippers. The announcement signaled the end of a five-day walkout of 45,000 dockworkers from Maine to Virginia...