Word: longshoremens
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...showed young Attaché von Papen how to destroy ships at sea by means of incendiaries made out of a short piece of two-inch lead pipe. These were manufactured aboard the S.S. Friedrich der Grosse (then lying off Hoboken), smuggled aboard freighters by German agents and longshoremen, and went off at sea. They sank some 40 ships in a few months. When he was finally driven out of the U.S., the British stopped Papen at Falmouth. He had a safe conduct for himself, but among the papers which the British confiscated was his checkbook. Thorough Prussian, Papen had written...
...Hero of the convention was Australian Harry Bridges, gaunt, hot-eyed boss of C.I.O.'s West Coast longshoremen, now being investigated for deportation on the grounds that he was once a member of the Communist Party. Bridges rambled into the hall three days late, grinned happily amidst his welcome: confetti, dancing, hammerings, five minutes' yelling. N.M.U. had already gone on record against his deportation. Host Curran: "... a very distinguished citizen who has caused a great deal of concern in the National Association of Manufacturers...
...again, he suspended his own assistant, Communistic oldtime Labor Leader Wyndham Mortimer, three international organizers and all officers of the brash young local. Strike leaders decided to defy the President, keep the plant strike-shut. They were backed by local and State C.I.O. groups, by Harry Bridges' longshoremen, by their own rank & file (who declared that all they wanted was a decent wage...
Surly, sandy-haired Mickey Orton, who has frequently been accused of Communist sympathies, had the support of few labor leaders last week. Best he could produce was a telegram from Harry Bridges, West Coast longshoremen's chief, who was in the midst of a deportation hearing on charges of being a Communist himself. Bridges wired "wholehearted support." The 0PM summoned ranting Mickey Orton to Washington. How much it would take to break the log jam in the Northwest was a matter of speculation, but there were indications that Mr. Roosevelt was ready to use whatever force it took...
...Industries Board, ex-chairman of RFC, "Butch" to his irreverent workers; and Roger Dearborn Lapharn, chairman of the board of American-Hawaiian Steamship Co., director of the U. S. Chamber of Commerce, organizer and vice president of the San Francisco Employers Council. From Harry Bridges, West Coast longshoremen's leader, Mr. Lapham won high praise during the 1936 maritime strike. Said Bridges: "If the employers as a group will exhibit the same sportsmanship and fairness that you did, the two sides can easily get together...