Word: piers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cold, persistent rain blew in from the Golden Gate one afternoon last week, and fell impartially on three groups of armed men on San Francisco's battle-scarred Embarcadero. Aboard the passenger ship Aleutian, berthed at Pier 39, were 103 trapped crewmen, members of the A.F.L. maritime unions. Huddled against the pier were 20 pickets from the rival National Union of Marine Cooks and Stewards, abetted by 500 fellow members and allied union men from Harry Bridges' Communist-dominated International Longshoremen's Union. The Bridges gang, riled by the refusal of the Aleutian's owners...
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...
...Damaged Spirit. "When I was 16 I became increasingly depressed, until I wasn't able to concentrate in school. My mother beat me on my bare back with a leather belt. That night I attempted suicide by jumping from the pier at Long Beach. I was rescued. I turned to another form of antisocial behavior . . . a kind of amateur prostitution. I never received money for it [but] I understand now that I was taking payment in affection and a kind of revenge against my parents. The human need for affection . . . is an overpowering emotion...
...illustrate, he told of his own escape from Argentina. Shortly after La Prensa shut down, he started for Uruguay to visit his mother. At the dock, a police told him that he could not leave the country, and pulled him off the pier. "He said that he was sorry, but that those were his orders, and then whispered, 'There are a thousand ways to get across the border. Try somewhere else.'" Minutes later, Paz got away from his police escort and two men he had never seen before helped him into a sailboat bound for Uruguay and freedom...