Word: longshoremens
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...Orleans, one midnight last week, a crowd of 200 Negro longshoremen, disgruntled at a wage reduction of 15? an hour, swarmed out of a meeting hall to the waterfront to wait for strikebreakers on their way to work. Harbor police saw the sullen crowd approaching, sent in a riot call. Major clash occurred at the base of the Liberty Monument, which stands near the river in memory of the men of New Orleans who died for the overthrow of Carpet Bag rule.* As the dawn came up, police charged the blackamoors, some of whom withdrew, firing revolvers. Most...
Great object of the agreement is that not more than one ship of the combine shall sail from a given port on a given day. This will affect hordes of longshoremen, freight handlers, railwaymen, harbor workers...
Experienced cleanser and quieter of Texas towns is burly, bronzed General Wolters. After the War he took his rangy troopers to Galveston Island, there quelled a festering longshoremen's strike. Later he was sent to oil-booming Mexia (pronounced Mayhea) where bootleggers and guntoters had usurped municipal government. "Mopupus Jake" and his troopers drove the usurpers to the hills, followed them in airplanes, corralled them...
...banquet celebrated Mr. Weber's election as eighth vice president and executive councilman of the American Federation of Labor. Among the celebrants were printers, upholsterers, teamsters, longshoremen, actors, men who play the oboe, others who play the market. Mr. Weber had news to impart about the ousting of cinema theatre orchestras by the "talkies," which constitutes Organized Music's most pressing problem (TIME...
Since the new President of Argentina, Hipolito Irigoyen, is a fiery Laborite (TIME, Oct. 22), his inauguration was hailed by the potent longshoremen's unions of Buenos Aires as favorable to the success of their strike (TIME...