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...sixth round, with no sign of Paddy tiring, Champion Carter got up on his toes and carried the fight to his challenger. He got a cut over his right eye for his trouble. Paddy was still fresh, cocky enough to move in and show his old Pier Six ability at roughhouse infighting. Once or twice, he admitted after the fight, he felt so good that he was tempted to charge in head down and "fight like a jerk." But he kept control. Only once did the referee have to warn him about butting...
Boat whistles shrieked, gongs clanged, and bunting fluttered from every sampan as the LSTs bearing 14.000 Chinese P.W.s from Korea nosed into the gaily decorated pier. Flag-waving thousands lined the 20-mile route to Taipei; firecrackers were so thick that the prisoners waving from their trucks were often hidden in haze. Premier Chen Cheng proclaimed "the advent of doomsday" for Communist China's rulers, and posters urged ACCELERATE PREPARATIONS FOR COUNTERATTACK...
What made Bridges' unionists tighten up was a crowd of a thousand angry A.F.L. men marching through the mist toward Pier 39. They were armed with two-by-fours, baseball bats wrapped in newspaper and lengths of chain. As they approached the pier, the shout went up: "Let's push those goddam Commies off the wharf! Let's get our men off the ship...
Then Chief Gaffey walked back to Pier 39 and confronted Bridges' armed pickets. "Put those clubs down and let me talk to your leader," he said quietly. Bill Chester, a hulking Negro, came forward. "Bill," said Big Mike, "I want those men to put down their sticks and leave this pier. Do you want to tell them, or shall I have...
Half an hour later, the police formed a loose line from the entrance of Pier 39 across the street to where a few of the A.F.L. men were waiting. "All right," boomed Mike Gaffey, "get the men off the ship." The beleaguered crew ran through the line to their comrades. Big Mike and his men had averted what might easily have been the worst waterfront brawl since the bloody...