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...SHIPPING INDUSTRY, the Pacific Maritime Association of employers agreed to pay $25 million into union coffers over the next five years to set up a fund to help compensate some 17,500 longshoremen for any work lost through automation. If machines displace enough of them to cut the work week below 35 hours, the fund will make up the difference. The fund will also finance early retirement for longshoremen as the needed work force shrinks. In return, Harry Bridges' International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union gave the employers a free hand to eliminate featherbedding and increase...
Hawaii: Religion will swing some Catholics to Kennedy, but the powerful Teamsters and Longshoremen are doing nothing for him. Nixon...
...result of the issue in question, disarmament rallics are vastly different from comparable social protest meeting in the '30's and early '40's. When Bob Hope, in 1937, led a rally for unemployed longshoremen, spectators were immediately able to go out and do something. If they contributed money, as they must have, the results were easily imaginable: instead of one grubby meal a day, some longshoreman would have three squares and a decent place to sleep. If public pressures were strong enough, management would have to allow the long-shoremen to unionize: the machinations of a ship company...
...Teamster Boss James Riddle Hoffa, who hates the Kennedy brothers (Jack and Bob) for their congressional battles against labor racketeering, urged his 1,600,000 Teamsters to go all-out against Jack Kennedy-though this did not mean being "for" Nixon. In another quandary, West Coast Longshoremen's Boss Harry Bridges refused to endorse any candidate...
Security & Substance. The possibility of enthusiastic inhospitality to Khrushchev brought real problems. Longshoremen promised that they would not unload Baltika, threatened to hire boats to follow the Russian liner into port with heckles cracking the air. The U.N. security section fattened its number from 200 to 300, banned-all but official visitors from the premises during the General Assembly sessions. The U.S. military and State Department moved intelligence and security details into Manhattan...