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...diplomatic furor which blazed up with the flyers' death last month raged on. A ban by A.F.L. longshoremen on ships loading UNRRA supplies for Yugoslavia swelled from an impromptu wildcat walkout to an official statement of union policy. Cried the longshoremen's Joe Ryan: "None of those ships will be loaded until proper action is taken against those who are responsible for shooting down our planes." Veterans' posts, Congressmen, many a fierce U.S. citizen chimed...
Throughout the country there was a notable increase in strikes unauthorized by union leadership. One wildcat strike completely tied up milk deliveries in London. Looming on the Socialist horizon was the inescapable problem: when the unions' employer is their "own" Government, do union leaders owe first loyalty to the Government or to their membership...
...Unions, like management, would be legally responsible for violation of contracts. Heretofore, some unions have violated labor contracts with little fear of penalties. Individuals who went on "wildcat" strikes (outlawed by union leaders) could be fired...
With a few words, a knowing nod and a confidential elbow-push in the stomach, he convinced many a jittery second-rater that he was really a wildcat. His persuasiveness worked the other way, too. Johnston once whispered to mighty Jess Willard: "Jess, you killed a man in your last fight. . . . I just thought I'd warn you, my boy has a bad heart...
...staking area, has become a throbbing, roistering place of 3.000 people, quick riches, hard living, crudity and fun. Said one amazed visitor: "Just like a movie set, only more so." The restaurants have a frontier ring to their names: Lil's Place, the Wildcat Café, Ruth's Roving Hornet. The one movie house shows three-year-old films. The traditions of the "mushers" of the dog sleds are carried on by the "cat skinners" who drive the caterpillar trains (tractors and sleds) which bring supplies across the snow from Edmonton. Passenger service to & from Yellowknife, as well...