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Infection from San Francisco's general strike spread far and fast. It leaped up the Pacific Coast to Portland where a general walkout was tentatively called for Wednesday. Portlanders got a foretaste of San Francisco's plight when its waterfront strike dammed fuel oil and gasoline supplies to a trickle. Buildings began stocking cordwood in their basements. Seattle kept an anxious eye on San Francisco. Fuel oil supplies were so low that in hotels and apartment houses hot water was curtailed. Many a filling station hung out the NO GAS sign. One ferry was converted to burn wood. But nonunion...
...next in order for rehiring can, by playing favorites, virtually force upon the waterfront 1) closed shop, 2) non-union labor...
...break the strike, employers fortnight ago "opened the waterfront" by moving freight under guard. The strikers heaved bricks, police used gas and guns, and 48 hours later National Guardsmen marched in. Thenceforward the struggle ceased to be between strikers and employers but became a struggle between strikers and the State. The marine workers appealed to their fellow unions for a general strike, and San Francisco's militant unions jumped to take sides. Some groups, reluctant to join, were intimidated. Aggressive strike leaders had, however, a potent cause, an issue to arouse emotion: should Labor impose its will or should...
...waterfront barkeep in Texas City, Tex., Jimmy Wedell got no further in school than the ninth grade. A boyhood motorcycle accident blinded his right eye. Mechanically inclined, he ran a small garage, saved enough money to buy a second-hand plane which he learned to fly in one hour. Barnstorming around the Southwest took him to Patterson where he met Harry Palmerston Williams, Louisiana lumber tycoon, husband of one-time Cinemactress Marguerite Clark...
...shortage of supplies. Clevelanders knew there was a newsboys' strike in progress when they failed to receive their copies of the News, the Press, and the Plain Dealer. Citizens of New Orleans knew that a squabble about "company unions" among dockworkers was making rough & tumble news along the waterfront. Citizens of Hartford, of Buffalo, of St. Louis, of Houston, of Baltimore, of Indianapolis, of Pekin, Ill. all knew about strikes in their home cities. But the only strikes of last week which made front page news in every city in the land occurred in Toledo and Minneapolis. They...