Word: longshoremens
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...public was still taking it-and not liking it. Long accustomed to labor's getting its own way, it waited for the Government to add up the bill and present the check. Not so the soldier. Angered before by strikes in wartime, he boiled over again at the longshoremen's strike, which was slowing down his return home. This week the New York Times printed soldiers' bitter letters on Page One. Typical excerpt...
...years the hard-muscled members of the East Coast's International Longshoremen's Association have grumbled at the highhanded, well-manicured leadership of bulky, redheaded Joseph Patrick Ryan. On Oct. 1, when 30,000 stevedores walked off the job in New York City, they revolted. Led by Eugene Sampson, business agent for Manhattan's largest local, 791, the rebels had balked at a Ryan-negotiated contract which gave them a 10?-an-hour pay increase and a week's paid vacation. Reason: it ignored their demands for smaller sling loads, larger working crews and a guarantee...
Finally, Sampson made his peace with Joe Ryan. The end of the strike was proclaimed. But it did not end. Next day only 2,000 longshoremen went back to work. The rest had a new leader. He was William E. Warren, a 32-year-old newcomer to the I.L.A., and by the excited account of the Ryan crowd, a man who thought the A.F. of L. longshoremen could get a lot more out of life by joining the C.I.O. and Australian-born Harry Bridges' West Coast stevedores...
Harry Bridges, battling for a divorce in a San Francisco court, let go with a creeping barrage at Wife Agnes. He said that she had thrown nearly everything in the kitchen at him-skillets, knives, chairs and irons. The longshoremen's boss added that she was "anti-Negro, anti-Mexican, and anti-Jewish...
Harry Bridges, wife, Agnes, filing a cross complaint to his divorce suit, charged that the longshoremen's labor boss, in 1943, had fathered an illegitimate child by a Manhattan nightclub dancer...