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unusual facts about International Longshore and Warehouse Union


International Longshore and Warehouse Union

Harry Bridges was elected President of the new union, which quickly affiliated with the Congress of Industrial Organizations.


British Columbia Maritime Employers' Association

Nevertheless, workers managed to establish and sustain an independent union under Harry Bridges's new International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) that still exists today.

Lee Pressman

In his role as the CIO's general counsel, Pressman was influential in helping to stop the attempt to deport Communist Longshoreman's Union official Harry Bridges.

Ralph Mosca

Mosca's crew was involved in labor racketeering, specifically through the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America and the International Longshore and Warehouse Union, loan sharking and gambling, and was responsible for receiving tribute payments from Greek-American gangsters operating in Astoria.


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