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Needle-nosed Harry Bridges hurried to Murray's hotel suite. There, while Murray and members of his staff listened, Bridges blandly argued that he had never followed the Communist line; he had only done what seemed best for his longshoremen. C.I.O. Secretary-Treasurer James Carey, 37, unable to contain himself, yelled: "You're a goddam liar, Bridges." A few minutes later, Harry put on his hat and left...
...support of State GOP leaders. In 1948, Oakes was connected with the Plan 10 Committee that attempted to change Boston's charter. O'Brien, a progressive, was a Wallaccite in 1948, and was beaten, then, by Congressman Christian Horter. O'Brien has campaigned among the unemployed especially the longshoremen...
That should have been a hint to the assembled newsmen, but it escaped them. Harry Bridges was on the way back to San Francisco, presumably because he had been unable to reach a settlement of the Hawaiian waterfront strike. The newsmen, the longshoremen and Bridges stood talking idly a few minutes more. Harry was expecting a phone call, he said. Finally the airport loudspeaker blared out that Bridges' plane was loading. "Well," said Harry, "there hasn't been any phone call so here it is." He cocked a foot up on a nearby bench and began talking slowly...
...they got together and grumpily confirmed what they considered to be Bridges' rudely premature revelation. The I.L.W.U. and the stevedoring firms had come to terms on the 159th day of a strike which had crippled the islands' economy. The terms: an immediate 14?-an-hour raise for longshoremen (to $1.54 an hour) and an additional 7? boost beginning March 1. The total was 11? less than the I.L.W.U. had first demanded. The 7? raise next March was again for the longshoremen, but the companies had offered the immediate 14? raise three months...
Fiddlesticks. In Brisbane, Australia, Minister for Transport J. E. Duggan announced the results of a survey: only 2% of Australian longshoremen swear, while 29.8% of Members of Parliament use cuss words...