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11. The Third Disagreement
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In the confusion of the attack, the police charge swept over and
injured many bystanders. The newspapers were equally random in
their reports. The News called it a demonstration of "striking long-
shoremen;" it was not, as the New York Times reported. The News
counted one unidentified sixteen-year-old girl and twenty-four men
hospitalized with head injuries. The Chronicle said nineteen persons
had been treated; two youths "were reported to have been shot
and subsequently spirited away." Harry Bridges testified later that
a number of the young people, frightened, uncertain-"! would say,
young boys and girls about sixteen or seventeen"-had been hidden
from the police in the ILA hall. 2 Henry Schmidt also witnessed the
attack from a window in the ILA hall. "Isn't that a helluva way to
treat those kids," he commented to a longshoreman alongside him.
"Ah, hell," the guy said, "They're just a bunch of Commies." Some
time later, Schmidt again was watching police chase "several hun-
dred guys" with tear gas and shotguns, among them the man who
had watched the police attack the "Commies." Schmidt watched
him run into a second bunch of cops and start to jump the fence. At
that moment a cop fired-"That guy's ass was riddled with buck-
shot." Schmidt said he never got around to asking the guy how he
felt about the police after that.
this is exactly that poem 'first they came for the'
In the confusion of the attack, the police charge swept over and
injured many bystanders. The newspapers were equally random in
their reports. The News called it a demonstration of "striking long-
shoremen;" it was not, as the New York Times reported. The News
counted one unidentified sixteen-year-old girl and twenty-four men
hospitalized with head injuries. The Chronicle said nineteen persons
had been treated; two youths "were reported to have been shot
and subsequently spirited away." Harry Bridges testified later that
a number of the young people, frightened, uncertain-"! would say,
young boys and girls about sixteen or seventeen"-had been hidden
from the police in the ILA hall. 2 Henry Schmidt also witnessed the
attack from a window in the ILA hall. "Isn't that a helluva way to
treat those kids," he commented to a longshoreman alongside him.
"Ah, hell," the guy said, "They're just a bunch of Commies." Some
time later, Schmidt again was watching police chase "several hun-
dred guys" with tear gas and shotguns, among them the man who
had watched the police attack the "Commies." Schmidt watched
him run into a second bunch of cops and start to jump the fence. At
that moment a cop fired-"That guy's ass was riddled with buck-
shot." Schmidt said he never got around to asking the guy how he
felt about the police after that.
this is exactly that poem 'first they came for the'
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Their conclusions stood, at best, on a shaky foundation. Plant and Ryan and the City Hall group had acted on the belief that the agreement was binding, despite repeated assertions that Ryan had no authority to sign on behalf of the district and that the strike would not end without the members' ratification. Casey said the teamsters would return to work Monday, no matter what the longshoremen did. But it quickly became apparent that longshore lead- ers, local and coastwise, recognized no peace. Ryan told Plant the next day that Bridges had been waiting for him when he returned to his hotel. You may have thought you executed an agreement, Bridges told him, but Ryan would find out that he had no control over the situation and the thing would not stick. Ryan told Plant he had never been talked to in his life the way Bridges talked to him at that time. 22 To reporters, Bridges said the men would return to work if the agreement was approved by a two-thirds vote of the entire Pacific Coast membership. And, as expected, the seamen's unions vowed their strikes would continue.
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Their conclusions stood, at best, on a shaky foundation. Plant and Ryan and the City Hall group had acted on the belief that the agreement was binding, despite repeated assertions that Ryan had no authority to sign on behalf of the district and that the strike would not end without the members' ratification. Casey said the teamsters would return to work Monday, no matter what the longshoremen did. But it quickly became apparent that longshore lead- ers, local and coastwise, recognized no peace. Ryan told Plant the next day that Bridges had been waiting for him when he returned to his hotel. You may have thought you executed an agreement, Bridges told him, but Ryan would find out that he had no control over the situation and the thing would not stick. Ryan told Plant he had never been talked to in his life the way Bridges talked to him at that time. 22 To reporters, Bridges said the men would return to work if the agreement was approved by a two-thirds vote of the entire Pacific Coast membership. And, as expected, the seamen's unions vowed their strikes would continue.
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