Word: longshoremens
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...merchant marine, the slow erosion of union membership was at best a point of academic interest last week. A four-week-old strike by the International Longshoremen's Association had laid off 62,000 dockworkers from Maine to Texas, left 600 ships lying useless at anchor in Atlantic and Gulf Coast ports, and backed up some 14,000 freight cars under a pier embargo...
...special three-man mediation board headed by Oregon's Senator Wayne Morse, who served as an arbitrator in West Coast dock strikes before World War II. The mission assigned to Morse by the President was to settle as quickly as possible the last remaining issue between the longshoremen and the shippers-a union demand for a wages-and-benefits package totaling 61? an hour over the next two years. Flying to New York, tough-talking Wayne Morse called both sides into almost round-the-clock negotiations, with Monday, Jan. 21, as the deadline for meaningful results. There were broad...
...When the ship arrived in Beirut harbor with 2,400 tons of wheat for the Palestinian Arab refugees, powerful voices throughout the Arab world demanded that it be sent away untouched. But Lebanon's Public Works Minister Pierre Gemayel was too realistic for that, went ahead and ordered longshoremen to unload the ship. Then, to the shock of Arab zealots, he demanded a "complete revision'' of boycott regulations, which, he said, were rooted in "chaos and fantasy." L'Orient, a major Lebanese daily, was bolder still, flatly urged the "defunct Arab League" to end its "ridiculous...
...19th century, the Big Five long turned fat profits with their sugar and pineapple plantations, dominated the economic growth of the islands through intermarriages and interlocking directorates. But with World War II, the 20th century overtook the Big Five with some chilling effects. The unshakable grip that the International Longshoremen's Union won over the islands' agricultural workers forced wages in the pineapple fields up to an average of $1.78 an hour at the very time when low-wage countries, such as Formosa and Malaya, were invading the pineapple market. As a result, Hawaii's share...
...photography usually fails to show anything significant in the photographer's selection of scene and lighting. I can't find much that is exciting or worth-while about a picture of a steamer (out of focus) tied up at a dock; but I do find a great deal in longshoremen struggling with their tasks...