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Died. Frank F. Merriam, 89, onetime (1934-39) Republican governor of California; of a heart attack; at Long Beach, Calif. Succeeding James Rolph Jr. in 1934, Merriam used the National Guard to squelch a San Francisco longshoremen's strike, that fall trounced Socialist-turned-Democrat Upton Sinclair in a bitterly fought gubernatorial campaign...
...Correct. The gravest defect in the revitalized A.F.L. that Meany took over was the weakness of the central leadership in comparison with some of the individual union heads. The public knew about the A.F.L.'s failure to stamp out racketeering in some of its unions-e.g., the longshoremen and teamsters. Almost as serious were the unceasing membership raids between A.F.L. unions. Meany started by negotiating a no-raiding agreement within the A.F.L. Meanwhile the unity committee mulled over some sobering statistics showing how labor was wasting its strength in internal warfare. The figures...
Life is not easy for the Seattle Symphony. At a salary of $11 a rehearsal or concert, musicians earn their livings at other jobs: two violinists are longshoremen., one cellist a bus driver, most others teach music or play in dance bands. But energetic Conductor Katims, 45, made the orchestra sound better than it has in years and proved himself a man to watch among the younger U.S. conductors...
Eric Hoffer is a pink-faced, hornyhanded San Francisco dock worker who pays his dues to Harry Bridges' longshoremen's union and preaches self-reliance more stalwartly than Emerson. He gets up at 4:45 in the morning and spends his days working on the piers of San Francisco's Embarcadero. Evenings he spends in his room in a shabby McAllister Street lodging-house, bent over a plank desk, writing...
Judge Edmund L. Palmieri chose to hand down a relatively mild sentence-six months in prison, $2,500 in fines-because Ryan was already suffering from another kind of retribution. At 70, the ex-boss is physically broken and rapidly becoming senile. His longshoremen's union, uncleansed, continues to dominate the New York waterfront...