Word: unloads
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Perhaps even louder were the reactions from the would-be strikers. At week's end, Bridges and Curran-who follow the Communist line more often than not-fired a telegram to the World Federation of Trade Unions in Paris, asking that longshoremen in all world ports refuse to unload U.S. Government-operated ships-except troop and relief ships cleared by the C.M.U. In New York, N.M.U. Port Agent Joe Stack sounded the battle cry: "President Truman will break the strike over our dead bodies...
Instead, the Russians agreed to a Central Government landing at Yingkow, a minor Manchurian port. But when U.S. trans ports made ready to unload, the Russians suddenly pulled out, leaving Chinese Communists in control. In the face of threatened Communist opposition, U.S. Vice Admiral Daniel E. Barbey withdrew his transports...
...traded. Even these tricks would unload only a fraction of the supplies on hand. In Belgium, France and Germany the U.S. Army had $92.5 million of surplus locomotives alone. Nor would bartering solve the problem of what to do with goods deteriorating in out-of-the-way spots all over the world. Some of it would cost too much to move to possible markets...
...Chamber, the Attlee Government with its huge Labor majority had little to fear. The greater problems lay outside, and the debates would reflect them. Even as the session got under way, the Government had to rush troops home from the Continent to help unload food cargoes when 40,000 striking stevedores refused to work. Cried Fuel Minister Emanuel Shinwell, until lately an expert in parliamentary disorder: "I am a socialist, not an anarchist, and I want order and reason in our industrial relations...
...newspapers last week, big bold advertisements for mammoth summer clearance sales fought for space with the chichi ads of the new fall fashion collections. Big & little stores everywhere were trying desperately to unload their wartime inventories. They were also trying to prove to their somewhat skeptical customers that current fashions according to the L85 fabric-conservation order are really haute couture...