Dock Priest Asks Reforms
CU sign: Xavier Labor School Entrance. Library, priest to book shelf & opens Labor Conditions Affecting Waterfront Commerce... by Rev. John M. Corridan, S.J. Pub. 12Jan53 by NY State Crime Commission. At microphone.
07:28:43 CU Corridan (?) (SOF): “Since 1936, the Xavier Labor School has been studying conditions on the New York waterfront & we come to this final conclusion: the state crime commission should encourage members of the New York Shipping Association to allow members of the rank & file to replace the present company union w/ its gangster dominated leadership for a bona fide union devoted to the interests of the longshoremen. Not only to the longshoremen & the harbor workers, but also the people of this city & of this state wonder if we have such men...”
Labor Union Corruption; Gangsters; Mobsters; Jesuit Priest; 1950s; 1953;
NOTE: Was basis for On The Waterfront.
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Dock Priest Asks Reforms CU sign: Xavier Labor School Entrance. Library, priest to book shelf & opens Labor Conditions Affecting Waterfront Commerce... by Rev. John M. Corridan, S.J. Pub. 12Jan53 by NY State Crime Commission. At microphone. 07:28:43 CU Corridan (?) (SOF): “Since 1936, the Xavier Labor School has been studying conditions on the New York waterfront & we come to this final conclusion: the state crime commission should encourage members of the New York Shipping Association to allow members of the rank & file to replace the present company union w/ its gangster dominated leadership for a bona fide union devoted to the interests of the longshoremen. Not only to the longshoremen & the harbor workers, but also the people of this city & of this state wonder if we have such men...” Labor Union Corruption; Gangsters; Mobsters; Jesuit Priest; 1950s; 1953; NOTE: Was basis for On The Waterfront.