Party Line at Waikiki

In a millionaire's mansion which has been converted into a Waikiki nightclub, 372 aloha-shirted delegates of the International Longshoremen's & Warehousemen's Union gathered last week to sing the praises of their leader, Harry Bridges, and chant approval of the line he wanted them to follow. Still out on bail after his perjury conviction last year (for denying Communist Party membership), Harry Bridges strode cockily onstage, laid out a 117-page report for his boys to pass. The boys passed it, by standing vote. The report denounced:

P:U.S. aid to Indo-China, Malaya, Indonesia, the Philippines and Nationalist China, rearmament of Germany and Japan; P: The Korean war, which (said the report) has been an "Operation Killer" from the beginning;

P:The national emergency declared by President Truman, which is "a phony"; P:The defense program, wage & price stabilization, the Taft-Hartley Act, the Marshall Plan;

P:The Coast Guard anti-Communist screening program, which was "cooked up by sworn, enemies of this union ... to finger militant trade unionists and bar them from commercial jobs."

Having made their obeisances to Moscow, the delegates nominated Harry Bridges and his lieutenants to two-year terms, thus assured their members that control of the West Coast and Hawaiian union (75,000 members) still lies in the hands of the Communist Party.

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