Word: striking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dock accidents. As early as 1924 he tried to organize his fellow workers but someone embezzled the union's funds. Though always bucking company unions, he nevertheless managed to find work until 1932, when he had to go on local relief for a short time. During the 1934 strike when he was turning back his union salary, he was on Fed- eral relief for about six weeks...
...movement to affiliate the San Francisco company unions with A. F. of L.'s International Longshoremen, headed by Manhattan's Joseph P. Ryan. Having stopped this movement, the Bridges group founded their own local, got a charter from Ryan in 1933. At the start of the 1934 strike Mr. Bridges was on the Ryan payroll as an organizer. Not until he was made chairman of the Joint Marine Strike Committee did San Francisco wake up to the fact that there was a Harry Bridges. Old Michael J. Casey, Irish boss of the West Coast teamsters, fought to keep...
...short of settlement. Meantime Bridges is being attacked on the flank by Harry Lundeberg, a tough, towering Norwegian from Oslo who arrived on the Pacific Coast a few years after Harry Bridges. Like Bridges, he is a life-long unionist who was catapulted to power in the 1934 strike but in the Sailors' Union of the Pacific. After the strike Harry Bridges was rewarded with official leadership of the Pacific Coast longshoremen, and one of his first ideas was to create a united maritime front. For this purpose he sponsored the Maritime Federation of the Pacific with the longshoremen...
...vacations, the S. W. O. C. called off its pickets in Indiana Harbor, broke out 30 barrels of beer for a "victory" celebration as 7,000 workers prepared to return to the last closed plant of the independent steel companies. Stoutly the S. W. O. C. maintained that the strike was not yet lost. Though this certainly appeared to be whistling in the dark, it was equally certain that the four steel allies-Bethlehem. Republic, Inland and Youngstown Sheet & Tube-had not heard the last of S. W. O. C. From now on the strike will become a campaign...
...Other strike news of last week...