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Soviet ships had been calling at U.S. ports ever since V-J Day, and nobody but customs officials and longshoremen had paid much attention to them. But last week, when the 10,000-ton Soviet steamship Chukotka tied up at a Jersey City pier and began loading $282,000 worth of industrial machinery (which had been licensed for export by the Department of Commerce), all hell broke loose...
...line of Catholic war veterans appeared at the Chukotka's pier, began picketing her on grounds that her cargo could be used against the U.S. in time of war. Longshoremen decided to join the protest, held a token strike for six hours. Within 24 hours the Chukotka case had made Page One of most newspapers, was being hotly discussed in Congress...
Born. To Harry Renton Bridges, 46, recently ousted northern California regional director of the C.I.O. (but still head of its International Longshoremen's & Warehousemen's Union), and second wife Nancy Fenton Berdecio Bridges, 35, onetime professional dancer: their second child, his, third, a son; in San Francisco. Name: Harry Renton Jr. Weight...
...hatchetman Allan Haywood delivered the bad news to Red-eyed Harry Bridges: he was fired as a C.I.O. regional director for refusing to go along with Murray's policy of opposing Henry Wallace's third party. Australia-born Harry Bridges' grip on about 75,000 longshoremen was not affected. But he was expecting more bad news -another attempt to deport...
This, as Phil Murray knew it would, set off one of the most savage debates the C.I.O. has ever known. Harry Bridges, Communist-line boss of 75,000 West Coast longshoremen, cried out: "I'm against this phony resolution! There's nothing for labor to do but back Wallace...