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...Bridges, once an especially hot labor firebrand, has mellowed with the years. Such talk will probably not be heard much after this week when, as Bridges expects, his 15,000 West Coast longshoremen at 24 ports vote to accept a 34% raise and end the nation's longest dock strike...
Police toting submachine guns patrolled around Düsseldorfs courthouse last week, while a sharpshooter kept watch from a fourth-floor balcony and guards frisked everyone going inside the courtroom. The curtains were drawn to foil the aim of any potential sniper; in the dock, the defendant sat behind a bulletproof glass shield. Ordinarily, the charges would not have justified such stringent precautions, even though Karl-Heinz Ruhland, 33, had confessed to bank robbery, car theft, breaking into city halls and stealing passports. Authorities feared, however, that he might be rubbed out by his former associates before he could testify...
...find Ray Charles? He in America?" "Damn right," says Chris. After writing him out a traveler's check so that he can buy the Pinta, the Niña and the Santa Maria at the Army & Navy Store, a zonked-out Isabel announces to the crowd at the dock: "Chris goin' to America on that boat. Chris goin' to find Ray Charles...
...year history of the Taft-Hartley Act, the Federal Government has sought 80 day cooling-off periods in 28 major labor disputes, pleading that "national health and safety" required an end to the strikes. The Government was never refused. During the current dock strike, the Attorney General contended that the failure of 200 Chicago longshoremen to load $75 million worth of corn and soybeans for export imperiled the national economy. Federal Judge Abraham Lincoln Marovitz found the Government's case for an injunction "far less reasoned" than required. "Some harm or threat of injury is regrettably a natural, indispensable...
Back to Old-Fashioneds. Some manufacturers have had a hard time filling existing orders because of the disastrous 101-day West Coast dock strike. West Coast companies like Mattel and Eldon Industries were especially hurt. Shipments from Asia, which had been expected in July and August, remained bottled up in harbors until much of the merchandise was too late to be sent out for the Christmas trade...