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Nakatsuka is a labor expert for his paper and is studying economics here. In 1949 he covered the Hawaiian longshoremen's strike, called by Harry Bridges, which practically cut off the island's supply line for nearly six months...
...dockers' unions in New Zealand and Australia maintain close contact with Communist Harry Bridges' International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union on the U.S. West Coast, in Vancouver and Hawaii, with them exercise effective control over Pacific shipping...
...millionaire's mansion which has been converted into a Waikiki nightclub, 372 aloha-shirted delegates of the International Longshoremen's & Warehousemen's Union gathered last week to sing the praises of their leader, Harry Bridges, and chant approval of the line he wanted them to follow. Still out on bail after his perjury conviction last year (for denying Communist Party membership), Harry Bridges strode cockily onstage, laid out a 117-page report for his boys to pass. The boys passed it, by standing vote. The report denounced...
...Voyage with Sabotage. At Le Havre, the Empire Marshal's heavy derricks were damaged by unknown hands. At St. Nazaire, union workers and longshoremen refused to touch the ship; it was repaired and loaded by French troops. At Marseilles, the Empire Marshal had generator trouble; crewmen noticed that another British ship in the harbor, also bound for Indo-China, had mysterious generator trouble, too. The voyage to Indo-China was trouble-free, but at the mouth of the Mekong River, four hours from Saigon, French soldiers boarded the ship, cleared the decks and set up machine guns. They explained...
Communist Harry Bridges (whose International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union controls dock work in San Francisco, Hawaii, the U.S. Northwest and Vancouver) is still undeported after 16 years of U.S. efforts to send him back to Australia. Last week New Zealand's and Australia's efforts to deal with their Communists were in the news...