Word: longshoremens
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...Francisco longshoremen got a break last week. While waiting for jobs, they could loll around their homes, get their assignments from the radio. Hitherto they had had to keep telephoning hiring halls to find out what was up-their vital war work suffered from a lot of telephonic confusion...
...there are any private fights they must be put on the shelf until the big battle is over" was the way Harry Bridges, the allegedly "red" leader of the strategically crucial West Coast longshoremen, summed up his stand on the stormy conflict that has raged over his proposed deportation by Attorney General Biddle...
Proud of the pre-war anti-Axis record of his West Coast longshoremen's union, the labor leader expressed regret only that the union voted a proposal to anticipate the scrap metal embarge against Japan on their own initiative. If his union had tied up shipments to Tokio in the single week before the government embargo took effect, he explained remorsefully, as much essential metal as has been collected in all the nation's scrap drives would have remained on this side of the Pacific...
Harry Bridges, Australian-born leader of the West Coast longshoremen's union, alternately damned as an alien Communist and praised as a dynamic chief of wartime labor, will speak in Emerson D tomorrow night at 8 o'clock. Under the auspices of the Liberal Union and the Harvard Teachers Union, the talk will be on "Labor...
...case was reopened and the Board of Immigration Appeals cleared him this time. Bridges went ahead with his work and the job his longshoremen did in expediting Pacific shipping was praised by admirals, shipbuilders, and the O.W.I. Attorney-General Biddle's decree, which had been expected to confirm the Board's decision as precedent indicated, suddenly reversed the situation, and Bridges, as of today, is deportable...