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Ever since its depredations were exposed by the New York State Crime Commission last spring, the gangster-ridden International Longshoremen's Association has had to endure one stunning haymaker after another. The A.F.L. ordered it to clean up the New York waterfront-which was something like asking a tattooed man to wash that sailing ship off his chest-and took its charter away when it failed (TIME, Oct. 5). The Federation set up a competing longshoremen's union, sent gangs of tough A.F.L. men along the piers to add vigor to its organizing efforts, and began wooing dock...
...dyed Mine, Mill & Smelter Workers Union has a strong hold on U.S. production of defense metals, from copper to uranium. Party-liners are in control of the American Communications Association, bargaining agent for 5,000 Western Union employees in New York, and Communist Harry Bridges' 75,000 International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union could tie up West Coast and Hawaiian ports...
...ship Aleutian, berthed at Pier 39, were 103 trapped crewmen, members of the A.F.L. maritime unions. Huddled against the pier were 20 pickets from the rival National Union of Marine Cooks and Stewards, abetted by 500 fellow members and allied union men from Harry Bridges' Communist-dominated International Longshoremen's Union. The Bridges gang, riled by the refusal of the Aleutian's owners to sign on members of their union (in defiance of local custom), were ready for a major dockside clash. Armed with clubs, pipes, knives and hammers, Bridges' men waited in tense silence, broken...
...Ryan's gangster-ridden International Longshoremen's Association has long been notorious for dock scandals: graft, extortion, kickbacks, loan-sharking, gambling, strong-arming, pilferage, gang warfare, wildcat strikes. Mild A.F.L. President William Green never did anything about it, but soon after George Meany succeeded Green last December, the A.F.L. Executive Council began to think of taking some action. Last week, after giving Ryan a chance to speak his piece, Meany announced that the council was not satisfied: it recommended that the upcoming A.F.L. convention suspend the I.L.A. from the federation...
...shut it down tight for three months. In 1937 a second Guild strike against the now-defunct Seattle Star also got rough when the Guild became tangled up with jurisdictional street battles between Beck's Teamsters (no longer Guild allies) and the pro-Guild C.I.O. longshoremen...