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Write 2 page essay on the topic How the life and personal qualities of Harry Bridges can inspire us to achieve our goals today.After completing school, Bridges declined to enter his father’s real es
Write 2 page essay on the topic How the life and personal qualities of Harry Bridges can inspire us to achieve our goals today.
After completing school, Bridges declined to enter his father’s real estate business, choosing to be a merchant seaman at 16. In 1920, Bridges entered the USA, and became a longshoreman at San Francisco in 1922. Bridges protested against the stranglehold of the ship owners through the company-controlled Longshoremens Association of San Francisco and the Bay Region (the Blue Book Union).
Speedups, arbitrary dismissals, blacklisting of militant workers, low wages, long hours and dangerous working conditions were endemic on the docks. Bridges earned support among the longshoremen for the revival of the local of the International Longshoremen’s Association, advocating "Organization...rank and file control... unity of action... union democracy...
