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...other side of the vortex, at Long Island's western end, the violence came from the north and northwest. From Huntington to Manhassett Bay on the north shore, the Long Island Sound waterfront was smashed in. On the south shore, buildings at Jones Beach were blown toward the sea instead of back into the bays. Torrential floods halted traffic and, like most of Suffolk County to the east, 95% of Nassau County (pop. 303,000) was in darkness. Brooklyn and New York City, catching the fringe of winds which registered 120 m. p. h. in some gusts, were flooded...
...good news at the Golden Gate, Seattle, Portland, Los Angeles, many a lesser Pacific port. Despite stiffened employer resistance and a labor position weakened by inter-union feuds, longshoremen were not quite willing to grant the outright guarantee against outlaw "quickies" which President Almon Roth of the Pacific Coast Waterfront Employers Association originally demanded. Instead the Bridges union agreed to punish contract violators by suspension or expulsion, to put disputed cases up to five permanent arbitrators, in no event to stop work while the new peace machinery functions. If, as Almon Roth publicly hopes, seagoing unions give similar assurance...
Taking heart, 27 department store operators got together to squelch union demands for a 35-hour week. Negotiations also stalled between unions and chain grocery store operators on the same issue. When the potent Waterfront Employers Association indicated it would adopt a strong line when its members' contracts with C.I.O. longshoremen expire September 30, gloomy San Franciscans (already faced with a shortage of drugs and liquor by the warehouse shutdown) began reminiscing about the 1934 General Strike...
...wait to see. It announced that Harry Lundeberg's Sailors' Union of the Pacific shortly will be chartered as the A. F. of L. union for seamen on all coasts, will join longshoremen, waterfront teamsters, licensed officers in a new Maritime Department. Eventual object is not only to run Sailor Curran off the eastern waterfronts, but to sink his western .friend and mentor, C. L O. Longshoreman Harry Bridges...
Harry Bridges also was in trouble with his own people last week. Having carried his "inland march" from his original waterfront stamping ground to the point where he bosses C. I. O. in California, he has encountered much antagonism among garment, auto, other unions. Last week the leaders of four Los Angeles locals (automobiles, rubber, garments, shoes) seceded from his California Industrial Union Council, charged that he was nesting with Communists. "We believe," said they, "that any one has a right to be a Communist or a Holy Roller or whatever they choose, but . . . they must give their first loyalty...