Word: strike
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week wily, wiry Harry Bridges called a West Coast shipping strike and invited a showdown over the Taft-Hartley Act and the hiring hall. It was his seventh major tieup of the. Pacific waterfronts in a dozen years. Like most of the others it promised to be long, costly and bitterly fought...
...strike clamped down West Coast ports as tight as a submerged submarine's hatches. About 160 U.S. ships of the Pacific cargo and passenger fleets were caught in port; about 200 were at sea and would be tied up the minute they docked in West Coast ports. Hawaiians and Alaskans, who know what it is like to have Bridges paralyze their economies, battened down for another long storm. Bridges made no provision for loading cargoes for the occupation forces of the Pacific. He made one concession: "Only the dead will be worked." This meant that the bodies of World...
...Business." Then Bridges ordered his pickets to open soup kitchens and prepare for a four-to six-months' strike (the last one, in 1947, ran 94 days). "When this strike is finished," he cried, "we will be out of business or they [the shipowners] will be out of business." The shipowners replied that they would never sign a contract with a union whose officers have not signed the Taft-Hartley Act's non-Communist oath-which. Red-liner Bridges has refused...
...debt. The square mile of his parish had 60,000 people representing 42 nationalities, and the highest juvenile delinquency rate in the city. Oxnam renamed the parish The Church of All Nations, organized youth clubs, developed a clinic with 28 doctors, let labor groups on strike meet in the church. Eventually, he built it into one of the great parishes of U.S. Methodism...
Union shop stewards furiously protested; the company stood its ground in view of "the large amount of dishonesty and pilfering of rationed commodities." At that, 150 Keevil workers went on strike, refused to arbitrate until Bryant was reinstated, appealed for support to Transport and General Workers' Union headquarters. No Keevil provisions reached the shops, frustrated housewives bit their nails, and clever Jack Bryant sat at home with his six kids, snapping his lighter...