Word: curran
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There were rumblings of mutiny below decks, and up on the bridge the skipper heard them. Joe Curran, strapping (6 ft. 2) president of the salty, swashbuckling National Maritime Union, wanted to keelhaul a few of the hands who had first boosted him up from...
Rough, jimber-jawed Joseph Curran, boss of the C.I.O. National Maritime Union, and slim Harry Bridges, boss of the West Coast's C.I.O. longshoremen and warehousemen, speak in the same Communist accents, out of different corners of the mouth. Both, for years, have sought one big union of maritime and dockside workers, 200,000 strong on both coasts and the Great Lakes...
...Washington last week, after three days of wrangling with the Marine Engineers' Samuel J. Hogan and other leaders, Curran and Bridges happily announced their maritime amalgamation. Six C.I.O. unions and one independent* drew up a merger agreement, to be put into effect at a San Francisco convention next...
...tell C.I.O. Boss Phil Murray the good news-if shipowners got stubborn about a new contract, the maritime unions could raise hob with all shipping from Boston to Miami and from Seattle to San Diego. In fact, shipping could be halted for almost any reason Bridges and Curran chose...
Plain fact was that Curran and the union did not want to take cutbacks from wartime pay and what goes with it. They hoped that the Labor Board would somehow see it their way. Across the land employers, war-plant workers, fixed-income folk looked on, some holding their breaths. Whatever happened to N.M.U. might happen to a lot of other people one of these days...