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The longshoreman of the International Longshoremen’s and Warehousemen’s Union (ILWU) were picketing the Knife River barge discharge operation at the Ko-Kwel Wharf near the Mill Casino in North Bend, in
Harry Bridges flew to Hawaii last weekfor an admiring look at the 14-week-old blockade that his InternationalLongshoremen’s and Warehousemen’s Union had thrown up around theislands.…
King, who championed economic as well as racial justice, called labor unions “the first anti-poverty program,” a Western Illinois University professor writes.
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Sister machinist unions, San Francisco's Lodge 68 of the International Association of Machinists and Oakland's Local 1304 of the CIO's Steel Workers Organizing Committee (which left the IAM over a wildcat strike in 1936), had a national reputation for militancy; Lodge 68 had more strikes during World War II than all other Bay Area unions combined. Along with Local 1304, they accrued this strike record in open defiance of the National War Labor Board, who were backed by the FBI, the Office of Economic Stabilization in the White House, a Navy Vice-Admiral, the War Manpower Commiss...