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...special funds had been appropriated for the A.F. of L.'s push for 1,000,000 new recruits. No new organizers would be hired. The cadre of A.F. of L.'s new legions would be built around platoons now in the field: building-trades locals, truckers, printers, longshoremen, tobacco workers...
...International Longshoremen's & Ware housemen's Union, the American Communications Association, the Inland Boatmen's Union, the Na tional Marine Engineers' Beneficial Association, the National Maritime Union and the National Union of Marine Cooks & Stewards (all C.I.O.), and the Pacific Coast Marine Firemen, Oilers, Water-tenders and Wipers (independent...
Rough, jimber-jawed Joseph Curran, boss of the C.I.O. National Maritime Union, and slim Harry Bridges, boss of the West Coast's C.I.O. longshoremen and warehousemen, speak in the same Communist accents, out of different corners of the mouth. Both, for years, have sought one big union of maritime and dockside workers, 200,000 strong on both coasts and the Great Lakes...
...C.I.O.'s American Communications Association, Inland Boatmen's Union, International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union, Marine Cooks and Stewards Association, National Marine Engineers' Beneficial Association and National Maritime Union, the Independent Marine Firemen, Oilers, Watertenders and Wipers...
Some of the clouds cleared away. The striking coal miners went back to work (see below). New York Harbor's rebellious longshoremen decided that their strike could not possibly break the iron rule of Union Boss Joseph P. Ryan; ships moved out again after 18 days of idleness...