Word: waterfronts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...scramble for space, Houston's ship channel to the Gulf has become almost as crowded as the Hoboken waterfront. There big new chemical plants are going up. Along its 50 miles of shore are concentrated $6 million worth of plants. Houston's population is up from 510,000 in 1940 to a jampacked 700,000; employment is greater than at war's peak...
...waterfront didn't know quite what to make of all this heavenly refurbishing. Brother True Knowledge refused to accept pay checks made out to Charley Ross. He signed True Knowledge on his union card, income-tax returns and his waterfront pass, but refused to have his name legally changed, on the ground that he had not existed before his rebirth. But since longshoremen were badly needed during the war years. True Knowledge went on working despite the cries of pay clerks, wharf guards and union officials...
...union rank & file. But only 20 of the 3,100 longshoremen who gathered to hear his case felt that he should be allowed to keep his card. Then the union went further. It set out to cancel his registration as a longshoreman, and thus boot him off the waterfront for good...
Last week, as a West Coast waterfront arbitrator considered his case, Brother True Knowledge still hoped to work on the waterfront, but he was learning how to be a carpenter-just in case. He was also deriving comfort from Loving Jeremiah, a four-year-old Negro boy he had adopted three years ago. Sang Loving Jeremiah: "I want to be rolled up, I want to be wrapped up, I want to be tied up in his will, and let the rest of the world roll...
...most of what they wanted. First and most important, there will be no U.S. installations in large cities, where the services have preempted the best buildings and irritated the Filipinos, who are jealous of their new independence. The Army & Navy will have no prior rights on the Manila waterfront, will take their chance of getting dock space on equal terms with private business...