Word: longshoremen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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International cargo trade moving in and out of the ports is averaging only half as much as last year, and two-thirds less than the record 8.6 million tons moved in 1971. Patrick J. Sullivan, secretary-treasurer of the Great Lakes district of the International Longshoremen's Association, asserts that less than one-third of the 7,000 longshoremen working lake docks have been close to adequately employed this year. "Last year," says P. George Bechtold, a Chicago terminal company official, "we had 53 vessels dock at our facility at Lake Calumet. You know how many we have...
These manglings of Gaelic were once the common language of Brooklyn cabbies, policemen and longshoremen -not to mention baseball fans. One linguistically memorable day at Ebbets Field in the 1930s, when Dodger Pitcher Waite Hoyt was hit by a ball, a spectator jumped up on the bleachers and shouted out, "Hurt is hoyt!" Over the years, as they grew more prosperous, New York's Irish scattered into the affluent suburbs. Blacks and Puerto Ricans have all but taken over such areas as Williamsburg (formerly Williamsboig) and Greenpoint (Greenpernt) in northern Brooklyn, where Brooklynese was born. At the same time...
...plunged into controversy. But he also demonstrated that he could end fights as well as start them. He often mediated labor conflicts on the West Coast. Appointed the Pacific Coast arbitrator of maritime disputes in 1938, he became the tough man on the docks, forcing even the doughty longshoremen to back down...
...Hedonists will be hurt: the newsstand price of Playboy will go up 25%, to $ 1.25 a copy. The annual "membership fee" charged to holders of American Express credit cards will rise 33%, to $20. On the blue-collar front, 12,000 West Coast members of the International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union saluted the end of controls by walking off their jobs for one day. Two years ago, the COLC knocked 300 an hour off the wage increase that the union had negotiated. The dockers now are bargaining to get that 300 and more...
...America, 50 times the present 20 tax paid by major exporters. In the U.S., which is the world's top banana in imports of the yellow fruit, the tax boost could raise retail prices from the present 16%0 per Ib. to as much as 190. The International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union has threatened to boycott such Latin American imports as bananas, sugar and coffee if the tax is imposed...