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...this incompatibility she had suffered mental cruelty. Her doctor confirmed the state of her health and her mental suffering. Eugene D. Flaherty, a family friend, told about her husband's long absences away from the McAdoo yellow stucco house, overlooking the Pacific at Santa Barbara. A private property settlement supposedly giving her real estate and $6,000 a year was approved by the court. By 4:30 p. m. the McAdoo marriage had been legally and finally dissolved and Mrs. McAdoo again became Eleanor Randolph Wilson...
...into the fray with demands of their own for pay, hours, union recognition. Hot-headed strike leaders welcomed alliance with open arms, for it gave them an opportunity to shake a bigger stick. When Joseph P. Ryan, national president of the International Longshoremen's Association, tried to negotiate a settlement on the basis of non-partisan control of the hiring halls, Leader Bridges and his embattled followers turned down the agreement because it did not provide for their allies. Their determination to win unconditional victory upon all fronts blocked all subsequent attempts at settlement. It led President Ryan to join...
...longshoremen was which of them should control the "hiring halls" where stevedores are given jobs. But some 15,000 other shipping workers ? stewards, sailors, cooks, pilots?had struck in sympathy. When joint control of the hiring halls had been proposed the longshoremen rejected it because it provided no settlement for the allied strikers...
Joseph P. Ryan. I. L. A. national president, was powerless as the Board to make a settlement. Said...
...There are three elements which are preventing the settlement of the strike. One is that the Communist Party, led by Harry Bridges, is in control of the San Francisco situation. Secondly, our longshoremen . . . have had foisted on their shoulders a group of other marine craft, who did not have nerve enough to go on strike wIth the longshoremen. The third reason is that the employers have delegated their case to a small committee . . . dominated by the Industrial Association of San Francisco...