Word: longshoremen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...promised that 50% of the wheat would move in U.S. bottoms. What's more, Gleason said, the new ruling threatened potential jobs for thousands of U.S. seamen. The Mari time Administration insisted that not enough U.S. ships were available to move the wheat to Russia. But the longshoremen charged that this was nothing but a dodge to let the grain companies take advantage of lower foreign rates...
...course of the boycott, the union claimed some public credit for taking a stand against dealing with Communism. But this was not actually the issue at all. Said an Administration official of the longshoremen: "They just don't like Communists-unless they get 50% of the action...
...bars and back tables in the 20 or so good jazz clubs in the country, talented, frustrated musicians?many of them historic figures in jazz?hang around in the hope of hearing their names called, like longshoremen at a midnight shape-up. Junkies who were good players a year ago swoop through the clubs in search of a touch, faces faintly dusty, feet itching, nodding, scratching. The simple jazz fans in the audience sit shivering in the cold fog of hostility the players blow down from the stand. A dig-we-must panic inhibits them from displaying any enthusiasm? which...
Under the agreement, Bridges gave up most of his union's featherbedding "work rules"-although not precisely in any spirit of generosity. His longshoremen now get a basic $3.19 an hour for a guaranteed 35 hours a week. The agreement's kitty permits a 25-year man to retire at 62, draw a $220 monthly pension for three years, $115 after that (when Social Security begins). If an I.L.W.U. man works until 65, he gets an additional lump sum of $7,920. If a machine knocks a man out of work, he continues to draw 35 hours...
...that does the damage. "This," said Manhattan's Dr. Henry H. Jordan, "is more crippling than either polio or arthritis. But it's incredible what rehabilitation can do. Many patients can discard a brace, for example, after five or even ten years." Today, some hemophiliacs work as longshoremen and loggers...