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...defendants, said Belli in his complaint, belong to "a small coterie of individuals devoted to perpetuating ancient and customary injustices and Dickensian practices in law against individuals, seamen, railroad workers, union members, pedestrians, motorists, and those belonging to minority groups and unpopular causes." Craig himself had acted "willfully and wantonly and maliciously and viciously and with ill will and in spite and in an attempt to obstruct justice and deter the orderly administration...
...shipping-company leaders turned to Harold Chamberlain Banks for help. A bluff, barrel-chested San Francisco union troubleshooter who once served a San Quentin term for passing bad checks (he was later pardoned), Banks moved to Montreal and in short order managed to run the Red-infiltrated Canadian Seamen's Union right out of business...
...Iowa-born Hal Banks proved as tough a customer as the Communists he was imported to rout. As boss of the Seafarers' International Union of Canada, he rigged union elections and bullied shippers; opponents of the S.I.U. and members of rival seamen's unions were endlessly threatened, beaten and shot at. Banks ran up extravagant expense accounts, got a new white Cadillac from the union yearly. In 1960 the Canadian Labor Congress expelled the 15,000-man S.I.U. as a "hoodlum empire," set up a competing maritime union. Shrugged Banks: "I've had to fight finks...
...needs them most. Wydra's plan to serve nonkosher as well as kosher food aboard the Shalom to broaden the ship's appeal brought on protests from Israel's vociferous orthodox party that forced him to back down. ZIM also faces a severe shortage of skilled seamen; it is so bad, in fact, that Wydra must allow ships' officers and some crew members to take their families to sea with them...
...Grain Co. to ship 62% of the wheat it had sold to Russia aboard foreign-flag ships. President Kennedy, claimed Gleason, had promised that 50% of the wheat would move in U.S. bottoms. What's more, Gleason said, the new ruling threatened potential jobs for thousands of U.S. seamen. The Mari time Administration insisted that not enough U.S. ships were available to move the wheat to Russia. But the longshoremen charged that this was nothing but a dodge to let the grain companies take advantage of lower foreign rates...