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...Honolulu, the governor's impartial fact-finding board hopefully suggested a cure for the two-month-old waterfront strike which was slowly paralyzing Hawaiian industry (TIME, July 4). The board proposed a 14?-an-hour pay raise for Harry Bridges' striking stevedores. Reluctantly, the islands' seven struck stevedoring companies agreed to pay. In Washington, President Truman said that the striking dockworkers should accept the offer; Interior Secretary Julius ("Cap") Krug telephoned Hawaii's Acting Governor Oren Long to say that the Administration was squarely behind the proposal...
...almost nothing. Said the commission: these revenues over the years would have more than wiped out the $12 million in accounts payable which the Pennsy claims is now due from the Long Island. ¶About eleven miles of Long Island track form a vital freight route to the Brooklyn waterfront. Fees paid for use of this track by the N.Y. Connecting Railroad (jointly owned by Pennsylvania and the New Haven) totaled $300,000 last year, less than half of what the commission thought they should be. ¶The Long Island owns a freight yard near Manhattan, but leases...
...Crime on the New York waterfront...
...telephone call from Galloway Calhoun, imperial potentate of the Shrine, who was stranded in Hawaii by Harry Bridges' waterfront strike, and wanted Shriner Truman to do something. Secretary Matt Connelly told him there was nothing the President could...
Fifteen years have passed; little Cesariot is now old enough to become a soldier, and Panisse is on his death-bed. That is the way things are as Marcel Pagnol begins "Cesar," the last part of his celebrated French trilogy of the Marsailles waterfront folks. "Marius" and "Fanny," the other two films dealing with the people, were perhaps funnier, for "Cesar" is more concerned with plot and its happy ending...