Word: curran
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Judge Joseph Curran of the District Court refused the petitioners an immediate hearing last Friday. The Court has 20 days in which to rule on the case. Shafto said, which is more than enough to avoid making a decision before the rally...
...National Maritime Union, bossed by tough Joe Curran, 55, who looks like a foghorn sounds. Curran's N.M.U. is strongest among seamen on East Coast general cargo and passenger ships...
Wages Up, Jobs Down. For years, Curran and Hall have waged a Pier 6 brawl with each other for dominance of seagoing labor. Hoping to forge ahead of Hall, Joe Curran this year demanded a 30-hour work week, a 12% package wage increase over four years, and assorted fringes. Hall, not to be outdone, asked management for something much more controversial-the right to bargain for more than 20,000 foreign sailors who man U.S.-owned ships registered abroad. (Curran made the same demand, but passed word that he would drydock it for sweeter wages and hours...
Management promptly accepted the Goldberg proposal. But the unions surprisingly turned it down. Joe Curran said that a voluntary 60-day return to work would probably be followed by a Taft-Hartley injunction anyhow; that would confront the unions with the chilling prospect of hitting the bricks again around Christmas. At week's end President Kennedy ordered a study to determine whether the strike was doing enough economic damage to warrant a resort to Taft-Hartley. Whatever happened, everyone concerned knew that the issue of foreign flags and the rivalry between two tough union skippers would plague U.S. waterfronts...
...crowds in principal U.S. cities, lesser Muslim agents are at work in many a U.S. prison, spreading fanatical doctrines and recruiting new brethren among Negro prisoners. A California law officer estimates that Muslims do 50% of their recruiting in prisons. The Muslim movement behind prison walls, says James W. Curran, Maryland's superintendent of prisons, has become "steadily stronger and more troublesome. They are vicious fighters, quick to take offense and, in their self-sacrificial way, they don't care what happens to them...