Word: longshoremen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Taft-Hartley Act, last used in 1971 against the International Longshoremen's Association, requires the United Mine Workers to return to work by this Monday for an 80-day cooling-off period. To enforce the law, Carter has an array of weapons, ranging from White House oratory to U.S. marshals and federal troops. But though the President said that the miners were "patriotic citizens [who] will comply with the law," hardly a miner in the hills of Appalachia or the flatlands of the Midwest would admit a willingness to bow to Taft-Hartley, which the union has defied twice...
There have been federal investigations of corruption on the waterfront for almost as long as there have been an FBI and an International Longshoremen's Association. But the latest two-year probe into racketeering at East Coast and Gulf ports has a new wrinkle: some targets of the investigation have been keeping abreast of the agents' findings by reading their secret progress reports to the Justice Department...
...source of the leak is not known, but TIME has learned that the problem began more than a year ago when the FBI, with federal court approval, placed a bug in a New York City office used by Anthony M. Scotto, president of the Brooklyn longshoremen's local and one of the more unusual figures on the waterfront. A graduate of Brooklyn College, he was named by the Justice Department in 1969 as an alleged captain in the Gambino crime family. Nonetheless, he has remained respectable enough to lecture on labor at Harvard and attend a White House conference...
...pretty high. I don't think anybody is going to sit down and say: "We're going to take a 90-day strike in order to get presidential intervention." This is the first time Jimmy Carter has had to intervene. We stayed out of the longshoremen's strike and the iron-ore strike, and they were resolved. We've communicated that we'll do everything we can to facilitate the process, to conciliate, to supply information, but it's your problem...
Harry Bridges, retired president of the International Longshoremen's Union, talking about accepting help from Communist groups for the 1934 West Coast waterfront strike: "We wasn't fancy. We'd take support from anywhere we could...