National Affairs: Northwest Front

Tilting back in a big leather chair in his comfortable Seattle offices one day last week, Boss Dave Beck of A. F. of L.'s West Coast teamsters, reminded the country that he was still very much at war with Longshoreman Harry Bridges. But the Beck-Bridges war is by no means confined to the waterfront. It is a battle between A. F. of L.'s most aggressive leader and C.I.O.'s West Coast Director, between the most powerful laborman west of the Mississippi and the most militant laborman in the U. S. And it is, as Mr. Beck...

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