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...valley began to swarm with "foreigners" two years ago. Neither Okies nor retired Iowa farmers, they were youngsters who had come to work in California's war-booming aircraft industry. So McKinnon founded the Aircraft Times. Its success led him to follow it last December with the Shipyard Times...
...weeklies (distributed free at the plant gates) merely extend McKinnon's parochial publishing formula: they print almost nothing except news about the personal doings of shipyard and aircraft workers. Though they devote a page to intramural sports, they did not mention the World Series. Worker-correspondents contribute items and cartoons at 5? an inch. Some 25 mechanics, jib builders, lathe operators and the like have become columnists, complete with bylines and photographs...
...When the shipyards sprang up, everybody expected Harry Bridges' C.I.O. longshoremen's union to move in. But the A.F. of L.'s boilermakers got there first. Boilermakers are no longer boilermakers; the union includes welders, shipfitters, hook tenders, caulkers, riggers, shrinkers, flangers, "holder-ons." Some 70% of all shipyard workers in the West wear the union's button. But because payrolls change daily (men leave for the armed services, for better jobs), no one, not even union leaders, knows exactly how many members IBBMISBWHA has. Estimates are around 165,000 (Portland's local, largest, claims...
When burns slowly developed on the men's fingers in the next few weeks, a shipyard doctor told the men they had "fungus growths." When they began to lose fingers and suffer dreadful pain, the leprosy rumor started...
Meanwhile the shipyard's chief doctor has had a nervous breakdown, another doctor has been fired. The 19 maimed workmen will probably collect at least $165,000 in disability compensation. Their X-ray burns, though they may seem to be cured, may break out again any time as long as the men live...