Word: tugboatmen
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...with only 6? more an hour from McDonnell Aircraft. Some of the biggest boosts went to fortunate workers in the booming petroleum, building trades and cannery industries, where 230,000 employees got up to 10? more an hour in flat pay raises. New York's 3,500 A.F.L. tugboatmen got a 17? wage-welfare package, with 8? for straight hourly wage increases; and some 20,500 truck drivers in Philadelphia won themselves a whopping 30? more an hour, bringing their wages to $2.05 an hour...
...Next day the task of bringing in the big ships became vastly more complicated because longshoremen had decided not to cross the tugboatmen's picket lines. Steamship company office workers came to the rescue, many of them in natty business suits and overcoats as they lent a hand at the lines...
Hogan came into the waterfront picture when 300 tugboatmen came to him for advice, after they had been beaten up for trying to break away from the U.O.E.F. Assisted by Johnny Tan, 28-year-old law student, Hogan got the tugboatmen jobs and brought their case to court. It was lost. "We didn't have a chance against their political backers," explained Hogan later. "But it got us warmed up for a good long fight." Father Hogan then set about building the A.W.U. Johnny Tan took the low road: talking to workers, studying their problems; Father Hogan took...
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