Salt Lake Telegram | 1934-07-17 | Page 2 | Personalities in Big Strike

Personalities I In Big Strike MAYOR l ROSSI SAN FRANCISCO ff With Wilh With a red carnation In his coat cont lapel Japel Mayor Maor Angelo J. J Rossi delights In being inthe inthe in inthe the thick of action whether it be bemer mer merey y a community celebration or a astrIke astrike astrike strike crisis Rossi flossi became b mayor of ot San Francisco Fran Fran- cisco when th late James Rolph Jr Jt was Wa elected governor of ot the state EDWARD VANDELEUR SAN FRANCISCO ff Edward tP Edward Vandeleur of the general strike committee has long been a labor abor leader in San Francisco President President dent of the Municipal Street Carmen's Carmen's Car Car- mens men's union he was named as at chairman chair man mal malat of at the labor strategy committee committee commit- commit tee ee two weeks week ago when a 1 mass strike first threatened San Francisco GOVERNOR MERRIAM l SACRAMENTO Cal The iv-The The mill mill- tary ary fist as a promise of peace is held over the San Francisco metropolitan area by a former Iowa farm boy Governor Frank Merriam of Califor Califor- nia The crisis of ot the general strikes faced aced him after alter only six weeks as the tales states chief chiet executive Merriam became became became be be- came governor after the death of Governor James Rolph Jr HARRY nARRY BRIDGES SAN FRANCISCO UP UP-A UP A dynamic dynamic dy dye dy- dy alert lean tanned Australian with a prominent nose and sharp eyes has become a man of ot mystery and yet probably the most powerful factor In the San Francisco Franciseo harbor situation The man Is Harry Bridges leader of oC the longshoremen's union lie He probably is the most denounced man manin manin mann in n San Francisco at the present time And also he is not without followers follow follow- ers who cling to him as a workingman's workingman's working working- mans man's Messiah WILLIAM WILLIAl J. J LEWIS SAN FRANCISCO tf William j-William William J JLewis J. J Lewis Pacific coast president of the International Longshoremen's asso asso- elation the organization which precipitated precipitated pre pro the marine strike on May iMay 9 is more than six ix feet tall muscular In stature and slow and deliberate in speech Even in the numerous conferences with mediating bodies with ship owners own own- ers era and employers he says but little but under attack his steel gray ey eyes eye flash and his hu square jaw juts out I. I L. L A. A members respect Lewis a II- II though many man of oC them disagree wits wit his policies