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...Tampa, the convening American Federation of Labor solemnly branded as "outlaw" the strike on the Atlantic and Gulf coasts, opposed from the start by conservative heads of Longshoremen's and Seamen's unions. Dismayed were Federationists when more than 1,000 ship's officers, members of the National Organization of Masters, Mates & Pilots and Marine Engineers Beneficial Association, joined the 20,000 "outlaws" in a perfectly legitimate strike of their...
Died. Michael J. ("Mike") Galvin, boss of Chicago's Truckdrivers, Chauffeurs & Helpers Union, oldtime labor lieutenant of the Teamsters' Boss Cornelius ("Con") Shea; of wounds inflicted by 29 slugs fired from shotguns by passing gunmen; in Chicago. In a 30-year feud between the Galvin "outlaw" union and the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, affiliated with the American Federation of Labor, assassins have shot down Bosses George ("Red") Barker, William ("Three-Fingered Jack") White and Paddy Berrell...
Longshoreman Ryan is a lethargic conservative who considers Harry Bridges a Red, resents losing to him the leadership of Pacific Longshoremen. Last week President Ryan bluntly refused to call out his Atlantic longshoremen in a sympathy strike. Last spring Seaman Curran was the leader of the "outlaw" seamen's strike in New York Harbor which failed to win higher wages but caused serious harbor hubbub for three months (TIME, May 25 et seq.). Last week 1,000 members of his insurgent Seamen's Defense Committee voted a strike in Manhattan, delayed several ships from sailing. Night later...
...professorial prose. But the great story of Mate Fletcher Christian's attack on his captain, the subsequent travels of Bligh, the mutineers, the vessels searching for the Bounty, appears all the more astonishing when supported by charts of the voyages, detailed records of the fate of each outlaw, and accounts of the state of contemporary knowledge of the geography of the South Seas...
Chiang's master stroke had been to keep bargaining with the Southerners until after his Nationalist Central Executive Committee had met in Nanking. There last fortnight, with an appearance of democratic, parliamentary unanimity, they were forced by Chiang to outlaw the South's front man, General Chen Chi-tang, popular, slow-witted Big Boss of Canton. Meanwhile Chiang had found the weak link in Chen's army of 500,000 men-a subsidiary war lord in immediate command of Chen's shock troops of the First Kwangtung Army. This traitorous officer was coaxed to Nanking, appointed...