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...ripped from their storm moorings, slammed ashore. The On Lee, a 1,026-ton coastal vessel, was smashed against the British cruiser Süffolk, bounced back like a ping-pong ball into the British destroyer Duchess, rammed through a wharf, piled up ashore at the foot of a waterfront street. At least 20 ships were reported sunk-four of them big ones-including Britain's Hunan, carrying 1,200 Chinese refugees from Shanghai...
...plague the press. Shanghai was a Richard Harding Davis dream, and newspapers pushed the good luck while it lasted. Combining enterprise with luck, the Associated Press obtained one of the most complete picture beats of the year. It got a fine shot of the bombing of the Shanghai waterfront (see p.19) and many pictures of the dead piled up in the streets. The photographs were rushed by plane to Hongkong, put on the Clipper for San Francisco and delivered to U. S. member papers ten days after the cameras clicked. Other picture agencies were beaten by a week because their...
...field today. But while Harry Bridges has a masterful hand with the rank & file he has never been able to work smoothly with his labor peers. This may prove to be the real weakness in the C. I. O. maritime drive, for John Lewis, who knows little about waterfront labor, will have to rely almost entirely on Harry Bridges...
Just as Dave Beck has his "everything on wheels" so Harry Bridges has his "march inland," the Bridges credo calling for unity not only among waterfront workers but all workers in the surrounding territory. So he went after the warehousemen, who stand economically between the longshoremen and the teamsters. There he clashed with Dave Beck in a violent struggle which is still far short of settlement. Meantime Bridges is being attacked on the flank by Harry Lundeberg, a tough, towering Norwegian from Oslo who arrived on the Pacific Coast a few years after Harry Bridges. Like Bridges...
...international potentate is about to arrive. Cantering up the steps soon came a slender young couple smiling gaily at the beaming President. Premier & Mme Paul van Zeeland of Belgium were honored and delighted to meet Franklin Roosevelt. A few minutes later they were all three motoring together to the waterfront to board the Potomac and cruise down to Mount Vernon...