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...brightly colored sarongs, Indian women in saris. They spend money freely, balking only occasionally at the steadily soaring prices. Inflation keeps pace with prosperity: already a can of Canadian salmon, a relatively expensive dish to begin with, is appreciably cheaper than fish caught along Singapore's own waterfront...
Manila's waterfront used to be run by a combination of the tough Union de Obre-ros Estivadores de Filipinas (U.O.E.F.) and certain employers and politicians who played ball with U.O.E.F. The union capataces (work-gang leaders) collected money from the shippers, paid off the workers themselves. In the days when there were as many as 25 ships in the harbor, the capataces' rake-off amounted to $25,000 a week...
High Road & Low. The A.W.U. is a new waterfront organization sponsored by a burly Jesuit priest named Walter B. Hogan. Philadelphia-born Father Hogan was in the Philippines before the war as a teacher. In 1946 he was sent back to found the Ateneo de Manila's Institute of Social Order, to promote Catholic labor unionism. An outspoken opponent of Manila's big business bosses, whom he accuses of exploiting the workers, Hogan won labor's respect last year when he walked a picket line in the strike of ground personnel against Philippine Air Lines, owned...
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...
...BRIGHT winter sun shone down on the sparkling blue waters of Hong Kong's incomparable harbor. Commuters on the tidy little ferries that link Victoria Island with the mainland saw spread before them on the waterfront most of the great commercial names of the Orient-Jardine, Matheson & Co., Butterfield & Swire, the East Asiatic Co. Dominating the closely packed warehouses and office buildings rose the massive square tower and the bronze lions of the Hong Kong & Shanghai Banking Corp...