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Longshoreman Ryan is a lethargic conservative who considers Harry Bridges a Red, resents losing to him the leadership of Pacific Longshoremen. Last week President Ryan bluntly refused to call out his Atlantic longshoremen in a sympathy strike. Last spring Seaman Curran was the leader of the "outlaw" seamen's strike in New York Harbor which failed to win higher wages but caused serious harbor hubbub for three months (TIME, May 25 et seq.). Last week 1,000 members of his insurgent Seamen's Defense Committee voted a strike in Manhattan, delayed several ships from sailing. Night later...
...unity of the Maritime Federation of the Pacific. Chairman Plant demanded that control of hiring halls-the big issue in 1934-be put in neutral hands. Obscuring these prime issues were many other minor ones. When neither side would concede anything, the shipowners agreed to arbitrate. The longshoremen refused...
...strike in 1934 between the waterfront employers and the waterfront labor unions led by Australian Harry Bridges. For over a month both sides have been bickering about a new agreement. The unions demanded higher wages, maintenance of the six-hour day, refused to arbitrate. President Bridges of the International Longshoremen's Association set about doing his best to involve the Atlantic Coast in a nationwide dock-strike to scare shipowners into accepting his terms. To his chagrin, fortnight ago Atlantic longshoremen reached a tentative compromise agreement with their employers for a slight raise...
Last week the longshoremen offered to continue under the 1934 agreement until a new one was reached. The shipowners refused, announced that after Sept. 30 they would raise dock wages from 95? to $1 an hour, lengthen the working day from six to eight hours and temporarily abandon the use of hiring halls, the winning of whose management was the dockworkers' 1934 victory. If men would not work on those terms, the shipowners declared, they would shut down all operations.' Snarling that this would be "a lock-out," Leader Bridges declared: "Every port on the Pacific, the Gulf...
...this added up to a first-rate marine labor crisis on the West Coast which threatened to tighten rather than ease as Sept. 30 drew near. On that date expires the agreement reached after the 1934 general strike by the waterfront labor unions, notably Harry Bridges' International Longshoremen's Association, and the Waterfront Employers' Association. Negotiations on a contract to replace it found both sides in a thoroughly truculent mood last week. Debates were featured by such extreme proposals from both labor and management that the shipowners finally suggested arbitration. The longshoremen agreed to poll their members...