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If I leave my family, Hans says to Katharina, you have to promise you’ll always be with me.

If you want to be with me, then be with me. But it’s not a trade.

I don’t know what’ll happen.

You have to want it.

I can’t go into a void.

What void?

Even as these developments began to break out, on the morning of August 8, the National Longshoremen's Board, O. K. Cushing presiding, opened formal arbitration hearings on the disputed issues in the longshore strike. On October 12, after some two months of hearings in the four major ports, scores …

[...] Mayor Rossi, for his part, congratulated the "real leaders" of the union forces on their decision. San Francisco, he said (in a statement probably drafted by John Francis Neylan), had stamped out "the very real danger of revolt." But, Rossi added, "The crushing of this strike cannot be allowe…

ON THE FOURTH day (Thursday, July 20), the General Strike Committee voted to end the general walkout. Through more than seventy hours of the general strike, the unending, day-and-night, round-robin of talks had gone on. Repeatedly and emphatically the union leaders were told the general strike must…

Some of the raid victims -- members of the Marine Workers Industrial Union, many identified as communists, and many who asked for jury trials -- were held as "$1,000 vags." The vagrancy charge and inordinate bail, used by police for "tough" cases-drug peddlers and addicts, hardened professional cri…