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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...retiring, Christy could continue as leader of Tammany Hall and go on dreaming his beautiful dream of a Tammany returned to power in Manhattan. But not if he were beaten in the Democratic primary by Louis Capozzoli. Like generals in a war, Tammany leaders don't remain long in power after they have been beaten...
...loggers come out of the woods. The rainswept camps in the hills close down; over the Jogging railroads that curve through the logged-off land, over the pitted roads, the fallers, buckers, choker setters, whistle punks hurry to the cities or for a visit home. This is the period, long or short, depending on business and weather, of the Christmas shutdown. In many a mill town the rising whine of the headsaw biting into a log dies away; the absence of the pulsing rhythm of a sawmill-compounded of the piercing wing-wing of the trimmer, of the throb...
Last week the Christmas shutdown, was on in earnest, but with a new twist. Spreading through the Northwest was a joint A. F. of L.C. I. O. strike that at week's end had closed 38 mills and five logging camps. Although there was some talk that its long extension might injure national defense, the strike-ridden Northwest has had more than its share of strikes, and this one aroused little public outcry. But it was like no other Northwest lumber strike on record. It promised to set a new-pattern in Northwest labor relations. It threatened to isolate...
...unions have long fought for dominance of the Northwest lumber industry. A. F. of L.'s is the Lumber and Sawmill Workers' Union, powerful, expanding (after a sorry period of scandals in its early organizing days) and affiliated with Bill Hutcheson's rich Carpenters and Joiners. C. I. O.'s is the International Woodworkers of America, organized in 1937 by Harold Pritchett, a Canadian, aggressive left-winger and Northwest ally of Harry Bridges. So fierce were the jurisdictional fights between these two unions that in one three-month period 900 men went to the hospitals...
...Associated Farmers supplied the aggressive action. During the Salinas agricultural strike in 1936 and the Stockton strike in 1937, they acted with tear gas and shotguns. The stench of blood and powder hung long over California's Imperial Valley. Strikes were broken, but so was the secretive silence that had surrounded these private affairs in the Valley. For direct action the Associated Farmers turned to quieter campaigns in the State Legislature...