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...free world's greatest strategic asset in its struggle against onrushing Communism in Asia is control of the Pacific Ocean. In war, this control would be challenged and limited by Russian submarines. In peace (and perhaps in war), it is challenged and limited by Communist control of longshoremen's unions on the U.S. and Canadian West Coast, in Hawaii, in New Zealand and in Australia. In all these areas, the Communists shelter behind the English-speaking peoples' guarantees of personal and political liberty...
...hour for Harry Bridges' longshoremen...
...long delayed their wage demands because their employers were running into bad times. But now that business was booming again, both intended to get an increase of 15%. The C.I.O. United Rubber Workers beat the drums for 31?, probably would settle for about 25?, while the East Coast longshoremen set out to get another 37? an hour for their 30,000 members. In addition, countless individual craft and trade unionists, e.g., the A.F.L.'s 900,000 construction workers, were quietly pushing up their demands...
...C.I.O., having set adrift eight Communist-line unions (totaling 700,000 members), last week put the last of its Red-led outfits over the side. Expulsion notices were served on the 5,000-member Marine Cooks and Stewards Union and the 75,000 West Coast longshoremen, fishermen and Hawaiian sugar and pineapple workers who are tied in with Harry Bridges' International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union...
Setting their faces like flint, the judges forthwith ordered Longshoremen Leader Harry Bridges freed from the San Francisco jail where he had been held since Aug. 5 as a threat to U.S. security. The "erosive subversion," the court held, had been caused by the Government when it persuaded District Judge George B. Harris to revoke Bridges' bail and clap him in jail during his appeal of a five-year prison sentence for perjury. The Government had argued that Bridges, as a Communist, imperiled the U.S. war effort in Korea...