Word: los
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Because without the longshoremen no general strike comparable to San Francisco's War of 1934 can break out, this was good news at the Golden Gate, Seattle, Portland, Los Angeles, many a lesser Pacific port. Despite stiffened employer resistance and a labor position weakened by inter-union feuds, longshoremen were not quite willing to grant the outright guarantee against outlaw "quickies" which President Almon Roth of the Pacific Coast Waterfront Employers Association originally demanded. Instead the Bridges union agreed to punish contract violators by suspension or expulsion, to put disputed cases up to five permanent arbitrators, in no event...
...Committee on UnAmerican Activities, whose chairman claims that Bridges is a Communist. Secretary Perkins says she is awaiting a Supreme Court ruling on whether Communism provides ground for deportation.* With impatient Chairman Dies even threatening to impeach her unless she acts, Secretary Perkins still refuses to be hurried. Meantime, Los Angeles' Superior Court last week found harried Harry Bridges guilty of another offense-trying to influence it in a labor dispute by releasing a telegram to Secretary Perkins threatening a strike if his union lost the case-fined him $125 for contempt of court...
...white-haired "Nick" Bogomoletz, now 67, eking out a living as a cobbler on Los Angeles' Hollywood Boulevard, this chronicle last year seemed very remote. But someone called the attention of the Bureau of Immigration to the fact that Nicholas Bogomoletz did not divorce his Russian wife until 1929, year that he and Anna were given their U. S. citizenship. The bureau started proceedings (aided by affidavits of long-memoried U. S. Army officers who were still bitter over the incident at Posolskaya). Result: Bogomoletz' and Anna's citizenship was revoked, and he was arrested for deportation...
...American Legion Convention in Los Angeles proceeded the "Little Flower," veteran of a War-time bombing squadron, retired as a Major. Superpatriots protested against his attending because he has a confessed Communist in his administration (Simon Gerson) and is a member of the American Labor Party...
Southern California v. Alabama (Sat. 7 p.m., NBC-Red). Season's first big Southern intersectional match, from Memorial Coliseum, Los Angeles...