Word: shoremen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Dictatorship." Harry Bridges, president of the Pacific Coast District of the International Longshoremen's Association and biggest figure in maritime labor on the Pacific Coast, leads the drive of C.I.O. in the West. In Tacoma, Wash, the Long shoremen's union not only refused to join C.I.O. but wrote to all I.L.A. locals on the Coast...
While Governor Ritchie lay ill and disappointed in his fine old brick mansion in Annapolis, Eastern Shoremen proclaimed that they would like to ''trade Governors" with California. They loudly crowed that Governor Ritchie, who has aspirations of succeeding himself for the fourth time or running for the U. S. Senate next year, was politically dead. There was also some loud talk of secession from Maryland, to form a 49th State of the Eastern Shore and parts of Virginia and Delaware...