Word: longshoremens
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Deliverers. Most of this went to Harold Gross, a convicted labor
extortionist who runs a Teamster local in Miami, has been on Neo
Gravure's payroll (together with four of his relatives) since 1945,
after serving three years in the pen. But a share was slipped to a
Longshoremen's Union official, Cornelius Noonan, who helped Gross
engineer the shakedown.
Solvency & Syllables. With stability finally assured, Hawaii's vigorous culture sank new roots. In the New Deal days came the rise of unionism and of Red-lining Harry Bridges, who won control of Hawaii's longshoremen, pineapple and sugar workers. Though Hawaiian labor made needed gains, Bridges' ironhanded control of the island economy posed a new threat; it lasts, somewhat diluted, even today, in an uneasy peace between the unions and industry...
Married. Harry Bridges, 57, boss of the International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union; and Noriko Sawada, 35, Nisei secretary; after difficulty with a Nevada miscegenation law; in Reno (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...
...President Kerr, 47, spent his undergraduate years at Swarthmore, took his Ph.D. in economics at Berkeley, brought his Quaker's instincts for peacemaking to a series of stints as mediator in West Coast labor-management wars. His most notable effort: a long, painful arbitration during 1946-47 between longshoremen and shipowners. Says the dockers' boss, hard-mouthed Harry Bridges: "The assignment was not an easy one. He performed it with fairness and courage...
...Time, Joe." Jimmy announced the plan after meeting with two strongmen in the transport business: Joe Curran, 52, lantern-jawed, battle-scarred boss of the seamen's National Maritime Union (membership: 40,000), and Captain (tugboat) William Bradley, 55, paunchy president of the evil-smelling International Longshoremen's Association (membership: 52,000), which was thrown out of the A.F.L. five years ago. The three men kicked off the master plan by signing a "conference" pact for the purpose of "discussing and settling jurisdictional disputes, matters of mutual concern and matters affecting progress and stability in the transportation industry...