Word: longshoremens
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...goon, reminiscing last week about the teamsters' battles to contain Harry Bridges' inland march into uptown Seattle warehouses: "We always used indoor bats with about four inches sawed off so we could hide them in the sleeves of our coats. We had to use bats because the longshoremen fought with their cargo hooks.* Sailors used a two-foot length of tracer chain, or wrapped window-sash chain around their fists...
...nation good-naturedly shook hands with itself after the election battle, the realities of the world came crowding back. The Berlin airlift was clapped under new Russian pressures. The U.S.-supported Sophoulis cabinet wobbled and fell in Greece. Along the nation's East Coast a wildcat strike of longshoremen exploded into a full-scale tie-up. Then last week came the news that the whole Nationalist government in China faced collapse, that Nationalist China was fighting for its life on the Suchow front...
...plain fact was that Harry's strike was never necessary. The shipowners had offered his longshoremen wage boosts, had agreed to let his union run the hiring halls until the Supreme Court should rule on their legality under the Taft-Hartley Act. East Coast, Gulf and Great Lakes maritime unions had accepted similar terms. But Bridges struck anyway...
...ship arrived from the West Coast last week, but has not been unloaded because she left that area in violation of a Longshoremen's strike there...
Harvard's Committee for Wallace will join with other Young Progressives and with the Longshoremen's Union this morning in picketing the "scab ship" S.S. Mount David, currently docked at Commonwealth Pier...