Word: longshoremens
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...anti-Nazi publication. A smattering of troublesome pamphlets is still smuggled in the bottom of wheat barges ascending the Rhine from Holland, and such journals as the inflammatory bi-monthly Die Schiffart (Shipping) are printed in New York, hidden in the cargoes of German ships by U. S. longshoremen and sneaked into Germany under German longshoremen's jackets...
...from shapely, 23-year-old Cinemactress Dorothy Lamour, wife of an orchestra leader, that she would quit films Dec. 10, 1938, to lay plans to have a child, Paramount suggested that she compromise, adopt one. She declined. Ivan F. Cox, deposed secretary-treasurer of Harry Bridges' San Francisco longshoremen's union, filed suit against 5,000 Jane & John Does, Longshoreman Bridges and other union officials, Cinemactors Fredric March, Franchot Tone, Mary Astor, James Cagney, Lionel Stander, Jean Muir, and Director William Dieterle. Charge: Led by Cinemactor March, the group had conspired to propagate Communism on the Pacific Coast...
...Carpenters & Joiners. On the basis of signed petitions, the National Labor Relations Board last month certified a C.I.O. majority in seven of the biggest sawmills, but A. F. of L. pickets continued to march. Dave Beck's teamsters refuse to handle lumber from C.I.O. mills. Harry Bridges' longshoremen will not load products of plants still A. F. of L. Indeed, fortnight ago Mr. Bridges had to hasten to Portland to avert the closing of the entire port. One lumber company was being picketed by both sides at once, by C.I.O. because of alleged violation of seniority rights...
Even more depressing to Mr. Kennedy than outlook for new ships was the "deplorable" state of maritime labor. "The shipping industry is now paying for its shortsightedness in repressing labor for so many years." He urged a special labor law for all maritime labor, including longshoremen, on the lines of the Railway Labor Act with a mediation board. He also recommends a Government training school for seamen to be run by the Coast Guard. James A. Farrell, onetime president of U. S. Steel Corp., has offered his Tusitala, a full-rigged ship, as a training ship...
...mile voyage to Montevideo, Uruguay, worn Captain Gainard came down with influenza. He was ill in his bunk in that port when informed that another sit-down strike had taken place. In sympathy with a local longshoremen's strike, the Algic's crew refused to turn the winches. Too weak to handle the situation himself, Captain Gainard put through a 5,000-mile telephone call to Joseph Patrick Kennedy, Chairman of the U. S. Maritime Commission in Washington. Boss Kennedy instantly sent off a message authorizing the captain to put the ringleaders in irons...