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Died. Cecile White Stainback, 55, wife of Hawaii's Governor (since 1942) Ingram Macklin Stainback; after a brain operation; in St. Louis...
...Warehousemen's Union had thrown up around the islands. He got there just in time to learn how Hawaii's tiny legislature felt about it. By unanimous vote of the senate, and a 24-to-6 majority in the house, the legislators empowered Governor Ingram Stainback to seize the docks owned by the seven stevedoring companies, hire stevedores at pre-strike wage rates ($1.40 an hour) and get the ships moving, after listening to some side-of-the-mouth oratory from Party-Liner Bridges, the striking stevedores voted unanimously to refuse to work for the territorial government. Unless...
...seven struck stevedoring companies, largely controlled by Hawaii's Big Five, had refused adamantly to arbitrate the dispute, or to give ground to the longshoremen's demands for a 32?-an-hour boost in pay (to $1.72). Said Governor Stainback: "I'm inclined to say a plague on both your houses...
...legislators were assembled in special session. Governor Ingram Stainback wanted a law which would end the paralyzing strike of Harry Bridges' Communist-line International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union (TIME, July 4). Nobody was in the mood for comedy. Up before the legislature were 19 different proposals for emergency action. One soon passed in the house, but ran into delay in the senate. It would authorize the territory to set up its own stevedoring company, rent docks and equipment from the struck companies and operate them until the strike was settled...
...HAWAII, Governor Ingram Stainback set out to do what Harry Truman said he could not do for him: settle an ugly eleven-week-old strike of Harry Bridges' Communist-line longshoremen.* The governor said he would ask the territorial legislature for permission to take over the docks permanently. "Some people may consider this union-busting," said Stainback, "others may consider it free-enterprise-busting, but it certainly would be citizen-saving...