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...Mary [his wife] put the salt in the soup instead of punching me full of holes like a free ticket to a fight." ¶ Seattle's Al Hostak, 22-year-old pugilist: the middleweight championship of the world; by knocking out Champion Freddie Steele of Tacoma, in less than two minutes; before 35,000 astonished spectators; at Seattle. It was the 16th knockout in a row for young Hostak, who has lost only one of his 59 professional fights. ¶The minor-league Albany Senators: an exhibition game (at night) against the major-league Brooklyn Dodgers...
...long ago as 1908, western waterfront employers began to combat incipient labor organizations through local and coastwise associations. Now, in every western port save Tacoma, Wash., and three lesser ports on Puget Sound, four regional associations and the master Shipowners' Association of the Pacific Coast, represent all but a few small companies in continual bickers & dickers with Harry Bridges' International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union...
...wide unit with Mr. Bridges' union which won the support of 75% of West Coast longshoremen. Immediate effect was to strengthen Longshoreman Bridges, C. I. O. & Co. in their warming wrangle with Sailor Harry Lundeberg, A. F. of L. & Co. Furthermore, 900 A. F. of L. longshoremen in Tacoma and nearby Puget ports now must 1) go to court, 2) deal through Bridges, or 3) give up their jobs to Bridges...
...years the Olympian, of the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad, made the run from Chicago to Seattle and Tacoma without losing a passenger. Then, fortnight ago, it plunged through a flood-weakened trestle over raging Custer Creek in Montana, carrying 47 persons to death. Last week the jinx again perched on the westbound Olympian's cowcatcher. Steaming over the same high Montana plain, the train passed the scene of the Custer Creek tragedy, pulled up at Miles City for orders, then raced on for Harlowton. At the way station Ingobar, 110 miles by train west of Custer...
Fortnight ago, at the fourth annual convention of the Maritime Federation of the Pacific, Lundeberg's seamen accompanied by licensed officers and firemen walked out when the meeting refused to seat delegates of a Tacoma local of A. F. of L. longshoremen, Harry Bridges' bitter enemies. Also grieved because Harry Bridges has eagerly taken shoreside unions into the Maritime Federation, Lundeberg snorted: "We don't want any more cannery workers telling us what...