Out of the ashes of San Francisco's famed 1934 general strike, labor got a new hero and West Coast business a new menace: lank, leftist Harry Bridges, leader of the longshoremen. From that time on, until the Nazi invasion of Russia changed his mind, no one in the U.S. carried a strike banner more lustily, or scowled more menacingly at U.S. employers than Harry Bridges.
Last week the West Coast saw a new and chastened Bridges. A Bridges local signed a contract with 200 San Francisco warehouses calling for no strikes or lockouts for three years, come peace or war, hell or...
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