Word: longshoremens
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Rossi celebrated the opening of the Great Bay Bridge and the Golden Gate Bridge. But he also presided, without honor, at San Francisco's greatest labor fight, the 1934 general strike. Out of that trouble came the name of Harry Bridges, boss of the West Coast longshoremen...
...meant nothing to Harry Bridges. His men were West Coast dockside workers. The Government offered them $1.37 an hour, whereas 700 A.F.L. longshoremen on the same coast get $1.38. Bridges wanted that extra cent. He stayed balky until it was too late to prevent walkouts in all major U.S. ports, then gave in with bad grace. There was an untidy rash of local stoppages which lasted until the seven unions involved could get their scattered locals to ratify the deal. Last to act were Bridges' longshoremen. After all, the deal covers them only until September 30, when their contract...
With Joe was his friend, lean, long-nosed Harry Bridges, there to negotiate on behalf of his own West Coast longshoremen. Smart, articulate Mr. Bridges, who denounced "the capitalist war" until Russia was attacked in 1941, expected no trouble. The operators, he was sure, would give him $1.38 an hour, up from $1.15. So Harry helped Joe, pouncing like a ferret at the operators when he saw an opening...
Harry Bridges bossed the West Coast longshoremen. The pair of them, co-chairmen of C.M.U., could pull out 200,000 men. At home it would be almost as formidable a strike as the railways. Around the world it would be worse...
...National Maritime Union, International Longshoremen's & Warehousemen's Union, American Communications Association, Inlandboatmen's Union, Marine Engineers' Beneficial Association, National Union of Marine Cooks and Stewards, and Pacific Coast Marine Firemen, Oilers, Water-tenders & Wipers Association (independent...