Word: longshoremens
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...evening last week in San Francisco's musty old Labor Temple. They had met before 8 p. m. They did not adjourn until 5:25 next morning. Their business was indeed important: Harry Bridges, the lean little Australian-born leader of San Francisco's 4,000 International Longshoremen-the John L. Lewis of the West-was trying to snitch the San Francisco Labor Council clean away from the A. F. of L. Under William Green's orders the Central Labor Councils of Seattle and Portland had expelled the International Longshoremen. A similar order was expected by wire...
...Under President Joseph P. Ryan of the International Longshoremen, A. F. of L. set up a new Maritime Transportation Department to fight the insurgent new National Maritime Union allied with C. I. O. Meantime the Labor Relations Board held hearings on a petition by Leader James Curran of the N. M. U. for an election on the I. M. M., Luckenbach and Black Diamond lines to determine whether he or Joe Ryan should rule the waves. First action took place in New York Harbor. Curran's seamen sat down on the Munson Liner Munargo until three...
...petty king of U. S. labor were going to have the best of puissant George VI, for the Coronation-bound passengers were aboard ship but their Coronation costumes were dock-bound by a strike of some 300 baggage wallopers called out by President Joseph P. Ryan of the International Longshoremen's Association...
...trouble between Mr. Ryan and British Royalty was over the question of longshoremen in Canada. I.L.A. has had unions at Halifax and St. John's, but not since 1903 has it had any organization at Montreal. The National Independent Longshoremen's Union handled Cunard White Star Line's loadings in Montreal...
With the cream of its Coronation passenger crop aboard the Queen Mary, Cunard White Star acted quickly. A telephone call to Montreal, and Independent Union longshoremen were shooed off the Alaunia and the Andania loading there. Mr. Ryan called off his strike and within a few minutes 1,800 happy travelers were bound for the Coronation. Within two hours Independent Union men were back at work on the Alaunia and Andania, and I.L.A. was again out on strike in Manhattan. A serious strike was threatened with Cunard White Star (and also Furness-Withy Lines) caught between the millstones of warring...