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...liner President Garfield was all set to sail from Genoa one day last week-gangplanks had been drawn up, lines were being cast off-when an American sailor gave voice to patriotic fervor. "Long live Roosevelt!" he shouted at the Italian longshoremen on the pier. No good Duce-lover could take that with his mouth closed. "Long live Mussolini!" replied the longshoremen. In a trice groups on ship and shore were bellowing at each other. "Long live Roosevelt. Down with Mussolini!" roared the sailors. "Long live Mussolini. Down with America!" chorused nearly a thousand Italians. Patriotic martyrs were two American...
...fender and toppled into the water. In leaped Seaman Wyly, grabbed the unconscious man, was reaching up to get a hold when the fender fell on both of them. Stunned, Wyly clung to his stevedore until rescuers hauled both men out, took the stevedore, his leg broken, to the longshoremen's union hospital...
Chairman William says labor was one of the main reasons the company fell so far and so fast. About two years ago truck drivers, charged with as many as 650 steamer baskets a day, began to report that longshoremen refused to handle the baskets because the drivers were nonunion. The drivers organized. Then they themselves objected to taking hot goods from non-union warehousemen. The warehousemen organized. So, in turn, did the grocery clerks, and the office force, until Charles & Co. was 100% union. All this, says Chairman William, cost the firm between $52,000 and $55,000 annually...
...Worker James Barren Carey: "The C. I. O. wants peace˜without pieces." High Politics. Fitted into the new C. I. O. jigsaw are such diverse unions as Mr. Lewis' essentially conservative United Mine Workers, Sidney Hillman's liberal Amalgamated Clothing Workers, Harry Bridges' radical International Longshoremen & Warehousemen, Joe Curran's turbulent National Maritime Union. Their common, immediate aim, to organize the mass production industries, holds them soundly together, but there are dissents within the whole. Last week one of these dissents popped to the surface when Vice Chairman Sidney Hillman called upon the delegates...
...Paul C. Smith announced imperatively that he was fed up with a dispute between San Francisco warehouse operators and C. I. O. warehousemen-the negotiators were bungling, and the C. I. O. members should return to work until the "hot" car that caused the dispute cooled off. The International Longshoremen's & Warehousemen's Union dared him to take a hand. He accepted...