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...West Coast shipping strike in 1936 I figured some of the dock workers would have to work almost 40 years to be where they were when they went out on strike...
...bustling San Diego, mile after mile of waterfront and countryside has been a-clatter with the building of a Marine base, a naval training station, a dock, barracks, other construction which the Navy needs posthaste. Last week the clatter was stilled. Some 3,500 members of A.F. of L. building-trades unions had walked off the job leaving more than $23,000,000 worth of contracts tied...
...with the bill's signing, the trained Navy gun crews, averaging some 15, will go aboard many a merchant ship, where the ready guns are quickly fixed on the already-prepared gun mounts. The ships will begin to move into the horizon, headed for England and Russia, will dock at Liverpool, London. Archangel-or perhaps with Davy Jones...
Another instance cited is that of a message sent from Brest in the summer of 1937 which read like this: "The erniser Colbert is in dock No. 6 Amnament 6425, forward guns carefully phoioed, agents incited workmen's strike on Monday 16th...
...assignment as one of the paper's best reporters). A six-footer, with a genial twang acquired through years of telephoning to city editors, his chief interest outside news and the Guild is his 120-acre farm near Detroit. He drilled its well himself, is now building a dock on a small lake where he catches pan fish and hunts ducks. More important, the election meant that henceforth the Guild would be run by the kind of man whom most newspapermen regard as typical of the hardworking best in their profession...