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Harry Bridges; the rise and fall of radical labor in the United States pdf epub mobi txt 電子書 下載 2024
Foreword<br >The idea of writing about Harry Bridges first occurred to me in the<br >mid-fifties. I was finishing a book about longshoring, and one day<br >I said excitedly to my wife, "You know, as soon as I get this done,<br >I m going to start in on one about Bridges." Happily, she knew me<br >better than I knew myself. "Wait at least five years," she cautioned.<br >"You re so impressed with the guy right now you couldn t do an<br >honest book about him."<br > For once, I took her advice. In fact, I did even better. I waited<br >six years, so it was 1961 when I wrote Bridges to tell him of my<br >intention and to ask if he would cooperate. He didn t answer, nor<br >did he answer a follow-up letter I sent him a few weeks later.<br > His staff at union headquarters (the union is the West Coast In-<br >ternational Longshoremen s and Warehousemen s Union), by con-<br >trast, could scarcely have been more encouraging. "Come on out,"<br >they urged me. (I was living in Michigan.) "You ll have access to<br >all the stuff in the records except Harry s personal files. And don t<br >be put off by his negative attitude. He won t interfere with what<br >you re doing and, anyway, he ll come around in time."<br > They were wrong. He didn t interfere, but he never came around.<br >In 1962, the staff let me use an empty office just off the rooms<br >where the records are kept, and I worked there for a year. Union<br >headquarters is in a small building, and I saw a fair amount of<br >~id-Huds.on<br >Libraries<br ><br >
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Harry Bridges; the rise and fall of radical labor in the United States pdf epub mobi txt 電子書 下載 2024