Word: curran
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Labor was all in favor of ERP. C.I.O. President Phil Murray cried that it would be "well-nigh criminal" to reduce ERP's appropriation by a billion or more. But when it came to the points where ERP touched home, the C.I.O. sang a different tune. Joe Curran, boss of the National Maritime Union, charged that the proposed sale and charter of 500 U.S. Liberty ships to Europe would cost 500,000 American jobs. He urged not only that the ships be kept, but that at least 60% of ERP supplies be transported in U.S. bottoms...
Then the big C.I.O labor unions were heard from. The powerful Amalgamated Clothing Workers, which, under the late Sidney Hillman, was the bulwark of New York's American Labor Party (and still is), said it wanted no part of a third party. So did gravel-voiced Joe Curran, president of the National Maritime Union...
...three weeks tough, scow-prowed Joe Curran, president of the National Maritime Union and once a loyal follower of the Communist line, had been fighting the Commies at the N.M.U.'s convention in Manhattan. It had been hard going; the N.M.U. is one of the most Communist-riddled of all U.S. unions...
...Curran's battle stategy was to make no deals with the opposition, to get his help from the rank & file. He hammered hard at his Communist opponents, battled hour-long heckling and gallery demonstrations, threatened to quit if the Communists got their...
Last week the showdown came. Cocky, cigar-chewing Joe Stack, ousted by Curran as vice president last April, made his own appeal for reinstatement. Sure, said Stack, he was a Communist Party member, but that fact would never interfere with his conduct of N.M.U. business. Replied Joe Curran, who likes to talk about himself in the third person: ";Curran and Stack cannot work in the same office." When the vote was taken, it was a narrow squeak: the ouster was upheld 353 to 351. Grinned Joe Curran:"Communist control of the union is speedily slipping away...