A Locust Point Memory: ‘Stay Out of Their Alley!’
I was ten years old in 1947, and one of my fondest memories was how the business agent for the International Longshoremen’s Association, (ILA), Local 829, Pete Rossbach, would bark through a loudspeaker the work orders for the stevedores just […]
A Locust Point Memory: ‘Stay Out of Their Alley!’
By Bill Hughes
I was ten years old in 1947, and one of my fondest memories was how the business agent for the International Longshoremen’s Association, (ILA), Local 829, Pete Rossbach, would bark through a loudspeaker the work orders for the stevedores just […]
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