Word: longshoremens
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Sugar, pineapples and the islands' huge military institutions were still basic industries. But now there were many new small businesses, and organized labor had become a controversial force-Harry Bridges' International Longshoremen's Union controlled the waterfront, represented sugar and pineapple workers throughout the islands, claimed 35,000 members...
Showdown. Behind Luckenbach stood the formidable Waterfront Employers' Association of California; backing up the walking bosses was Harry Bridges' Redlined International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union (C.I.O.). Both wanted a showdown...
...Angeles employers decided to break the deadlock. Last week they closed down the Los Angeles and Long Beach harbors until the Luckenbach strike was called off. By week's end, as 15 ships lay idle and 3,000 longshoremen were out of work, the employers received some unexpected encouragement...
...Less Taft." The next day the "eat less" quote made headlines. Democrats, remembering G.O.P. protests against the deaths of small pigs during the New Deal, delightedly considered ways & means of exploiting it. Longshoremen chanted the phrase as they picketed one of Taft's appearances at Santa Cruz...
...signing any future contracts, thus skirting the Act's closed-shop ban (see PRESS). Across the country many minor strikes and disputes were settled close to the deadline; in some cases, clocks were stopped at 11:59 P-m., while negotiations went on. In New York City a longshoremen's contract got signed in time, but three locals refused to abide by it and started a wildcat strike. That touched off a sympathy move aboard the big liner America, queen of the U.S. merchant fleet, and off walked its National Maritime Union crew. Results: no America sailing...