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Even his own union local was against Harry Bridges. It took all the wiles he had learned in years of twisting and turning with the Communist Party line to put off the longshoremen's demand for a formal endorsement of the U.S. military action in Korea. Bridges' parliamentary tactics stalled a vote on the resolution at the first meeting of Local 10; some of Harry's muscle boys broke up a second meeting with a well-timed fist fight...
Last Friday night a slow, chilly drizzle was falling on South Amboy, but it was shopping night and many housewives were downtown. Over on the river front, a gang of longshoremen worked late. From twelve railroad cars they were unloading a deadly cargo: anti-tank and anti-personnel mines for Pakistan's army, 2,000 cases of dynamite for blasting in Afghanistan. It was a tough but familiar job to the dockers. From the cars they moved the cases across the dock to four lighters, stowed them in neat, harmless-looking piles. When the job was done, the cargo...
According to the Organizer of the Retail Pharmacists' Guild, A.F.L., Richard Stack, unless the company stops its "deliberately obstinate policy" toward his union, he will put paid pickets consisting of truckers and longshoremen on the store within the next week...
...week's end the French strike situation eased; longshoremen were going back to work. Still, the Communists repeated their boast that French dock workers would not handle military shipments from the U.S. when they arrived. Any obstruction at the ports, the government warned in a radio broadcast, will be met by "the patriotism of the French and the force...
...Heeding the Master France's Communist leaders were busy carrying out orders. The Kremlin had spoken and Messrs. Thorez & Co. were dutifully sowing disruption far & wide. Main target was the U.S. military assistance program. To halt American arms shipments at ports, strikes were set off last week among longshoremen and transport workers...