Word: strikingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...strike virus spread fast. Along the Gulf, at Port Arthur, Houston. Mobile and New Orleans, rank & file groups started minor strikes. On the Atlantic, at Boston, Poughkeepsie, Providence there were similar troubles. In Baltimore, 600 seamen walked out. In Philadelphia, 16 ships were tied up. Generally, however, Atlantic maritime workers looked to New York Harbor for guidance. There the man who is nominally head of all U. S. longshore men, President Joseph P. Ryan, jockeyed with the man who would like to be the Harry Bridges of the Atlantic, Seaman Joseph Curran...
Longshoreman Ryan is a lethargic conservative who considers Harry Bridges a Red, resents losing to him the leadership of Pacific Longshoremen. Last week President Ryan bluntly refused to call out his Atlantic longshoremen in a sympathy strike. Last spring Seaman Curran was the leader of the "outlaw" seamen's strike in New York Harbor which failed to win higher wages but caused serious harbor hubbub for three months (TIME, May 25 et seq.). Last week 1,000 members of his insurgent Seamen's Defense Committee voted a strike in Manhattan, delayed several ships from sailing. Night later...
...situation in San Francisco, where there was no split in Labor, but the possibility of one in Capital. For two months before last week's blowup, negotiations had been going on to replace the agreement made between maritime labor and the shipowners after the gory 1934 general strike. That agreement expired Sept. 30, was continued by truces. Spokesman for Labor was Longshoreman Bridges. Spokesman for the shipowners was Chairman Tom G. Plant of the Waterfront Employers' Association. Bridges demanded higher pay, a six-hour day, recognition of the unity of the Maritime Federation of the Pacific. Chairman Plant...
...scene meanwhile appeared suave Assistant Secretary of Labor Edward F. McGrady and domineering Rear Admiral Harry Hamlet of the new Maritime Commission. Tactless Admiral Hamlet only made things worse, but Mediator McGrady was making real progress when the strike came. Last week there was a split in the shipowners' ranks, as 27 coastwise companies made separate overtures to the longshoremen, the chief Pacific union with which they were concerned since they hire almost all their seamen on the cheaper Atlantic. Deep-sea Pacific shippers still were obliged to consider all maritime unions. With this schism in sight, Harry Bridges...
...eventual result remained anyone's guess. The almost identical situation in San Francisco two years ago was a tense calm for two months before the tornado of the general strike. Last week, many a Russian Hill housewife began stocking canned food in readiness for another general strike, but Trouble-Shooters McGrady and Hamlet loudly proclaimed that negotiations would yet succeed. President Roosevelt kept mum, but Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins left a train at Buffalo to telephone a trite request for more negotiation. The unions agreed. The shipowners refused...