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...jobs, the gangsters, chiselers and thieves who infest the waterfront as work gang leaders and hiring bosses, forcing longshoremen to pay for the right to work. For years this situation has been tolerated by Union President Ryan, by the New York Shipping Association, which represents the management of 161 steamship lines and other port industries, and by the New York police. Now the strikers, with no definite aims in view, were expressing a deep-seated protest...
...wife from France to his side. Like a burst from a Tommy gun, he cut down and broke incompetent and sluggard officers, cleared the goldbrickers out of the saloons and brothels, conferred on the worst of them what his soldiers came to call "the order of the steamship ticket," i.e., packed them off to France...
Ellerman & Bucknall Steamship...
...Frederic C. Dumaine, 85, one of the sharpest of modern-day Yankee trader capitalists; of bronchial pneumonia; in Groton, Mass. At 14 he went to work for the giant Amoskeag cotton mills (for $4 a week); within a few years he was operating in the fishing business, shipbuilding, watchmaking, steamship lines, truckmaking, banking. His biggest coup came in 1948, when he quietly bought enough stock to control the $428 million New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad (which had kicked him off its board of directors in 1947), before its management knew what was happening. In taking over, Citizen Dumaine rode...
...Senator. Among Hogan's influential friends was British-born Francis ("Paco") Gispert, secretary-manager of the Associated Steamship Lines, which has a membership of 46 shipping firms and four stevedoring companies. Gispert helped Hogan by putting up a pay office in the pier area to pay checkers, who, with stevedores and watchmen, are still controlled by the U.O.E.F. When the U.O.E.F. blacklisted the pay office, Gispert took the case to court, won it early last month. In the meantime he had been threatened, his home had been broken into, he had been beaten up, and his personal bodyguard...