Word: longshoremens
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...bruised and battered by San Francisco's general strike, seamen, longshoremen and other maritime trades banded together loosely in a Maritime Federation of the Pacific. Their slogan: "An injury to one is an injury to all." Within a year they counted 8,000 members of the Sailors' Union of the Pacific, 17,000 members of the International Longshoremen & Warehousemen's Association, 17,000 members of nine smaller unions...
...thing which made M. F. P. possible was that Harry Bridges of the powerful Longshoremen's Union backed big, tough Harry Lundeberg of the Sailors' Union for first president of the federation. Independent as Robinson Crusoe, Lundeberg cared little when his union was booted out of A. F. of L. But when his sailors voted to join C. I. O. he promptly locked the votes up in a San Francisco bank. Joining C. I. O. would have meant the subordination of Harry Lundeberg to Joseph Curran, leader of C. I. O. seamen in the East (who outnumber West...
Fortnight ago, at the fourth annual convention of the Maritime Federation of the Pacific, Lundeberg's seamen accompanied by licensed officers and firemen walked out when the meeting refused to seat delegates of a Tacoma local of A. F. of L. longshoremen, Harry Bridges' bitter enemies. Also grieved because Harry Bridges has eagerly taken shoreside unions into the Maritime Federation, Lundeberg snorted: "We don't want any more cannery workers telling us what...
...Since fall, it has won 43 of the 50 maritime labor elections held by the National Labor Relations Board. Of some 20,000 votes cast, exactly 16,325 were cast for it in preference to A. F. of L.'s drowning International Seamen's Union and International Longshoremen's Association. Most convincing signs of the approach of the chair-warming stage in union development are the 21 long and involved collective agreements which the N. M. U. has concluded for nearly 10,000 of its members. The contracts are mainly with the coal carriers and tankers, including...
...chief quarry of Senator Copeland's hunt was one specific "Red": Harry Bridges, the Australian-born leader of Pacific Coast longshoremen. Harry Bridges' papers are in good order but like any alien he may be deported if he advocates overthrow of the Government by force. Therefore, Senator Copeland set out to prove he was a militant member of the Communist Party. Though most labor observers believe Bridges hews close to the Communist Party line, he denies being a party member. Dr. Copeland claims, however, that Mr. Bridges is in fact a member under the name...