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Leathery, cigar-chewing Billy McMahon, 47, a dock walloper who loathed the gangster-ridden leadership of his International Longshoremen's Association, switched his membership last fall to the American Federation of Labor's new dock union. One of Billy's cousins who did the same was later found drowned in the Hudson River. Billy McMahon lost only his job as steward of New York's Pier 32. By last week, after six months of waterfront warfare between the A.F.L and the old I.L.A., Billy McMahon had his job back, and the A.F.L. looked like a winner...
...Foodman Francis can expect little help from the stream of suggestions mailed to Washington by private individuals and organizations. The Red-tinted International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union suggested that members of Congress accept surplus food in lieu of pay raises, and a Nebraska woman thought that the free food should be given to pregnant women. The Agriculture Department solemnly rejected this last idea on the grounds that "it would be administratively impossible to establish adequate' tests of eligibility...
...I.L.A. ran low on money. Thousands of longshoremen, once held in complete subjection by gun-toting musclemen, began openly attending A.F.L. meetings. But even so, A.F.L. President George Meany expected that his new union would be completely snowed under last week when the NLRB held an election to name a bargaining agent for the New York and New Jersey piers...
Confident of victory, the I.L.A. transported thousands of longshoremen to the polls in special buses. Ex-Convict Anthony ("Tough Tony") Anastasia, I.L.A. boss of the Brooklyn piers, brought hundreds of his men to one voting place in a body, with a brass band at their head. In brawls over the election, some men were stabbed and others battered. The NLRB had hardly begun its count before it became obvious that many an I.L.A. longshoreman had voted for the A.F.L...
...ordering an investigation of the election by state agencies. "Reports have come to me," said the governor, "of the presence of gangsters and hoodlums in the vicinity of polling places." Whatever the Labor Board's decision, it was clear that a substantial number of New York's longshoremen had served notice that they were extremely tired of pistol rule...