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...several months ago, said Thomas W. ("Teddy") Gleason, boss of the International Longshoremen's Association. He meant it as a boast, but by last week he probably wished he had swallowed it. The longshoremen, ignoring Gleason's pleas that they ratify what he called "the best contract in I.L.A. history," voted their reflexes, turned down the contract, then walked off the docks from Maine to Texas. Since other unions refused to cross I.L.A. picket lines, goods in shipment piled up on docks across the U.S., and 235 cargo and passenger ships stood idle. Cost to the economy: about...
...Operation Facts." Gleason's 60,000 longshoremen are so contrary that many of them would almost rather strike than work. The I.L.A. has struck seven times in 18 unruly years-not including numerous walkouts for the purpose of boycotting ships going to Russia, coming from Cuba or sailing under Communist flags. It holds the record among all unions for having the Taft-Hartley 80-day cooling-off injunction invoked against it six times. "Nobody understands this union," Gleason once said. Count...
...YORK, Jan. 11--More than 100 ships lay idle today in ports from Maine to Texas, marooned by a $20 million-a-day strike of 60,000 East and Gulf Coast longshoremen...
...rare display of unity, the AFLCIO International Longshoremen's Association joined with ship owners and the federal government in an effort to get the dockers back to work...
Unaccustomed Challenges. Recently the heads of the American Federation of Teachers, the International Longshoremen's Association and the State County and Municipal Employees Union have been ousted. The leaders of the Textile Workers Union of America, the Building Services Union and the Communications Workers of America have been forced to fight unaccustomed challenges, and the President of the United Rubber Workers was recently rebuffed by his rank and file when he attempted to raise dues. For the first time since he founded the International Union of Electrical Workers in 1949, moody, mercurial James Carey is being strongly challenged...