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Hiring Bosses. The stevedore companies also paid to get on good terms with the hiring bosses on the piers. The hiring boss runs a dockside institution known as the "shape-up," a ragged morning muster of all the local union longshoremen who want to work. Since there are usually more men than jobs, the boss's power is absolute: he can demand kickbacks, hire & fire at will, dispense I.L.A. union cards at cut-rate initiation fees, and threaten any stevedoring company with a quick strike. Under the union contract, the hiring boss is a foreman appointed by the companies...
From the rostrum spoke the dry, spare, 76-year-old Chancellor, Konrad Adenauer. Ordinarily icy and unemotional, Adenauer summoned up all the passion and eloquence he could muster. "It is the fateful hour of Germany!" he cried. "We are at the crossroads of slavery and freedom . . . A vote of 'no' on these treaties means 'yes' to Stalin . . . Germany's position is more exposed than ever before in her history. Germany is divided and torn, disarmed and defenseless She is overshadowed by a colossus that is trying to enslave and swallow...
...rest of the production passes muster easily. The set (by Holland Olivus) is excellent, simple and yet by no means bare; the minor parts are well enough handled, though there are a few rough spots; the direction (by Harold Stone) was good, as near as I can judge. The program also calls attention to some directed by Karl Kanter. They were great...
...tribes, both settled and nomadic, constitute about ten percent of the population, he explained. "They are highly organized and disciplined, and together could muster 100,000 fighting men armed with modern machine guns and artillery." He said that some chiefs have large houses in Teheran and buy on the international market...
...Third Force. The first two parties have been mainstays of the PU since its inception in 1936, but the Third Force is a recent addition to the lineup, having been formed by a coalition of the disbanned Liberal party and right-wing Taft Conservatives. Any group which can muster 15 percent or more of the total membership of the Union--at present over 300--is entitled to full party standing...