Word: piers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...A.F.L.'s insistence, Pier 32's operators, Moore-McCormack Lines, took McMahon back. Right away, the I.L.A. began picketing, and Billy was fired once more. Again, A.F.L. pickets showed up, and A.F.L. teamsters stopped truck deliveries to the pier. Finally, the I.L.A.began a boycott of trucks driven by members of the A.F.L. Teamsters' Union-and kept it up, despite a Federal Court injunction forbidding the boycott...
...Association, switched his membership last fall to the American Federation of Labor's new dock union. One of Billy's cousins who did the same was later found drowned in the Hudson River. Billy McMahon lost only his job as steward of New York's Pier 32. By last week, after six months of waterfront warfare between the A.F.L and the old I.L.A., Billy McMahon had his job back, and the A.F.L. looked like a winner all around...
...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...
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...