Word: longshoremens
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...women on the quaint cable cars, on the city's automobile-lined streets would seem incredibly fresh, well-dressed, well-fed. The great shipyards around San Francisco Bay would launch another small fleet before they departed. And along the Embarcadero they would see Harry Bridges' longshoremen loading ships with tanks, guns, food and clothing by the endless trainload...
...Harry Bridges, estranged wife of San Francisco's lanky longshoremen's boss (whose deportation as an alien Communist is awaiting U.S. Supreme Court review), demanded $450 a month temporary alimony, pending settlement of their divorce suit. Her plea to the court: she needed that much to support herself "in a style and manner fitting a wife of a prominent union official...
...ashes of San Francisco's famed 1934 general strike, labor got a new hero and West Coast business a new menace: lank, leftist Harry Bridges, leader of the longshoremen. From that time on, until the Nazi invasion of Russia changed his mind, no one in the U.S. carried a strike banner more lustily, or scowled more menacingly at U.S. employers than Harry Bridges...
...last week, 15,515 San Francisco workers (about 87% of the membership of the unions approached) had submitted to blood tests, and a startling 9% of the total proved to have syphilis or indications of it (national figures for recent draftees: 7.5%). The most cooperative group was the longshoremen ; in their own hiring hall on Clay Street, 97% of the union members took blood tests-and nearly 16% flunked...
...Francisco's longtime (1915-35) labor-arbitrating Archbishop; in Rome, where he had lived since his retirement. Smooth-faced, hook-nosed Archbishop Hanna's active 20-year leadership in West Coast labor reform climaxed in 1934 when he was the Roosevelt-appointed Chairman of the National Longshoremen's Board which raised dockworkers' wages, granted them a 30-hour week...