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Nome, Alaska, Friday, September 17, 1948
THE WEST COAST LONGSHORE STRIKE
(San Francisco Chronicle)
“The length of a strike? With these characters it will
take three months to get wound up.”
That was Harry Bridges, West Coast CIO longshore
president, prognosticating on the current waterfront
walkout. The remark raises a question. Why three
months? Is that how long Bridges figures the strike
should last? Or does Bridges figure he has so many
grievances it will take three months to iron them out?
What are his grievances? This waterfront case has
been jogging along all spring and summer. There was
dispute about wages, the readjustment to the rising cost
of living. The employers conceded and only the other j
day upped it to 10 cents, within 5 cents of the last union
demand. There was a dispute about hiring halls compli
cated by Taft-Hartley Act interpretation. The employ
ers came around to the longshore demand on that, neces-!
sarily subject to a Supreme Court test. There was a dis
pute about Sunday time off. The employers came
through, as far as the major points are concerned.
Meanwhile, with this strike in threat the government
moved in and tried to head it off under the Taft-Hartlfcy
Act. Under this act an injunction was issued. It expired
yesterday. While negotiations were on, Bridges and,
other maritime leaders implied it would be almost im-I
possible to head off a walkout. They were only waiting
for the injunction to expire. Fortuitously the injunction
expired a few days before the Labor Day holiday. “The
word” went around that it might be just a five-day shut- j
down. Whether “the word” is true or false, along came
- Bridges with his three-months cracks. Later he increas- j
ed it to six months and said it was a battle for survival1
between the waterfront unions and the waterfront em
ployers.
Nonsense! Both the unions and the employers are go
ing to survive and are going to continue ordinary Amer
ican labor negotiations over wages and working condi
tions, because this is America and this is what the Amer-;
ican people want and are going to insist upon. The em
ployers Bridges lumps as “characters” are ordinary
American citizens trying to do business and they do not
have to engage in any revolutionary war for survival,
merely because Harry Bridges likes to talk in these
terms. 1
For fourteen years the theory of “get tough” has been
the essence of Bridges' employers relations. In that the
ory the employer must be “the enmey—a beetle- j
browed, ham-fisted, composite character with the soul t
of a gate-post. But the American people and that part of:
the American people comprising West Coast business!
and labor together do not propose to see their affairs'
wrecked for six months or even three months in order to
prove out Mr. Bridges' theory of employer relations. It
is inconceivable that Bridges can persuade thousands of
maritime workers to pound the pavements for six
months or even three months to justify his personal
theory.
We predict that unless this strike is settled pretty:
quickly a new group will wade into this so-called strug- j
gle for survival—the people. They have to survive, too,
and what is more, they intend to. I
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THE MORAL RE ARMAMENT IDEOLOGY !
(New World News Service)
Speaking at LaGuardia Field before taking off in a
chartered Pan American Constellation for Europe, Sen
ator Harry P. Cain of Washington told reporters why he
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and forty government, industrial and labor officials
were flying to the World Assembly for Moral Re-Arma
ment at Caux, Switzerland from September 10 to 20.
“I have taken time from a busy campaign schedule,”
Senator Cain said, “to make this trip to Caux because
I believe every election issue relates directly or indi
rectly to the world ideological struggle. It is of very
great significance that policy-making representatives
from so many nations are meeting at the Moral Re-Arm
ament World Assembly to consider and take action on
the ideological security of the democracies.”
Among others aboard the special plane are Congress
man George Smathers of Florida; Mayor Horace Ed
wards of Richmond, Virginia; Robert Fawkes, vice pres
ident of Michigan CIO; and former Senator Rush D.
Holt of West Virginia.
Senator Cain continued his interview, “Too many of
us Americans are ideologically asleep. In our current
struggle against false ‘isms’ in Washington it is not
enough to focus the spotlight on what’s wrong, but it’s
imperative we unite on what’s right. In many key'na
tions of the world today this struggle is a life and death
matter. I believe the delegation of this special plane can
learn much from first hand contact with these leaders
who are in the thick of it. I believe we also can bring
encouragement by our assurance of America’s concern
for them and the conviction that in this world war of
ideas their fight is our fight.”
At a farewell dinner given by Juan Trippe, president
of Pan American Airways for the 40 delegates in the
Waldorf-Astoria, Congressman George Smathers of Flo
rida, said, “We have tried everything else along econo
mic and political lines but people are looking for moral
and spiritual leadership. This particular group and idea
has the one answer.”
Robert Fawkes, vice president, Michigan CIO stated,
“There are people who would like to use the labor move
ment to destroy America. That’s why we have to be
doubly careful to fight this battle of ideas to a finish,
employer and employee together. Through the teach
ings of Moral Re-Armament employers and emplovees
will sit down together and strikes will never be heard
of.”
One thousand delegates from 40 nations are expected
at this Caux conference which has been called by a
group of 58 national leaders from 13 European coun
tries. Many of these European leaders were among the
world statesmen present in Los Angeles last June to
launch a program of “ideological preparedness for the
democracies” at the invitation of 82 members of the U.
S. Senate and House of Representatives..
TIME BOMBS—It’s one world—or no world. . . . We
won’t get “one world” around the world till we get it
back home. . . . Wanted: live people in dead earnest. . . .
The trouble with wealth is not too much money but too
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Sunday—
Masses at 8 a.m. and 10 a.m.
At the Base Chapel at 4:30 p.m.
LAVINIA WALLACE YOUNG
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Sunday:
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Evening service .7:45 p.m.
Wednesday—
Bible Study.7:45 pm.
EVERYONE WELCOME
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Corner of Third and Division
Rev. Lewis I. Hudgins, Pastor
“Love comes unseen; we only
see it go.”—Austin Dobson.
10:00 a.m. Singspiration and Sun
day School Classes.
11:00 a.m. Morning message.
7:30 p.m. Singspiration and spe
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Prayer.
Come and bring your Bible.
You are ever welccme to attend
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of
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Rev. Vern Rimling, Pastor
1 Sunday:
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7:30 p.m. Gospel Service.
Tuesday:
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Thursday:
2:00 to 4:00 p.m. Bible Club for
Boys and Girls.
Friday:
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Seventh Day Adventist
Relief Helps Poles
KRAKOW, Poland, UP) —The f
Seventh Day Adventist Church of
United States is among the foreign
organizations with headquarters
here giving relief to needy Poles.
Its operations are under charge
of Michael Krietzky, 55, of Tako
ma Park, D. C.
Krietzky estimated the organi
zation has distributed 50 tons of
i clothing 10,000 bottles of cod-liver
| oil and 10,000 relief packages, and
, further distributions are planned.
The American Friends Service
i Committee (Quakers) also is doing
! relief work under the direction of
I Miss Emily Bradbury, of Philadel
phia.
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Some 500 ruins of ancient In
dian pueblos have been found on
1 the rims of Arizona’s Grand Can
yon. Cliff dwellings made by
i these Indians are found along the
lower walls of the canyon in many
places.