LABOR: Party Line at Waikiki

In a millionaire's mansion which has been converted into a Waikiki nightclub, 372 aloha-shirted delegates of the International Longshoremen's & Warehousemen's Union gathered last week to sing the praises of their leader, Harry Bridges, and chant approval of the line he wanted them to follow. Still out on bail after his perjury conviction last year (for denying Communist Party membership), Harry Bridges strode cockily onstage, laid out a 117-page report for his boys to pass. The boys passed it, by standing vote. The report denounced:

¶U.S. aid to Indo-China, Malaya, Indonesia, the Philippines and Nationalist China, rearmament of Germany and...

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