Word: longshoremen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From the headquarters of the International Longshoremen's Association in New York one midnight last week flashed the word to nearly 400 of the union's locals: strike. Shortly before, I.L.A. President William V. Bradley had waddled out of a negotiation session with the New York Shipping Association to give the reason: I.L.A. contracts had expired and "the employers have failed to grant [our] just demands." That morning 25,000 New York longshoremen responded to the strike call, and by week's end they had been joined by 35,000 other I.L.A. members from Portland...
...union reduced its demand to a contract covering all Port of New York shippers who also operate in other ports. One reason why the I.L.A. will fight hard for a coastwide deal: such a contract will make it more difficult for the rival, reform-minded A.F.L. International Brotherhood of Longshoremen-with its principal strength in New York-to establish locals elsewhere...
After Jack W. Hall, owlish Hawaii regional director for Harry Bridges' International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union, was convicted in 1953 of violating the Smith Act, 22,000 I.L.W.U. members on the piers and plantations suddenly began to relax quietly into the soft, balmy mood of the Islands. Though they had marched out on 116 postwar strikes or work stoppages before Hall was found guilty, they have seldom misbehaved since. The new look comes partly from a flat look in the union's pocketbook after paying for Hall's defense and Bridges' frequent...
...Bradley, admission was vital. The I.L.A. was in a jam. Now before the NLRB is an appeal from its archrival, the A.F.L.-C.I.O.-backed International Brotherhood of Longshoremen, for an election to determine collective bargaining jurisdiction in the Port of New York. Twice the I.L.A. had scraped through such elections by slim margins-the last time (in 1954) by 263 (out of 18,551) votes...
Having won a large bundle at the races, Australian-born Harry Bridges, boss of the leftist International Longshoremen's Union, celebrated with two lady friends at a San Francisco nightclub, was set upon by two seamen when he repaired to the men's room. Bridges suffered a black eye, puffed cheekbone, kicks in the head, stomach and groin. Said Nightclub Owner Sally Stanford, famed as the onetime owner of San Francisco's flossiest brothel, after having the attackers arrested: "I was shocked at the language used by these two characters." Said Bridges: "I'm used...