http://goingcoastal.wordpress.com/2007/12/11/authorities-investigate-a-watchdog-of-the-docks/ Connecting People to Coastal Resources Sun, 11 Sep 2011 15:23:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://goingcoastal.wordpress.com/2007/12/11/authorities-investigate-a-watchdog-of-the-docks/#comment-15644 Sun, 18 Jan 2009 16:35:55 +0000 http://goingcoastal.wordpress.com/2007/12/11/authorities-investigate-a-watchdog-of-the-docks/#comment-15644 I just happened to come across this article and am not surprised. I remember when the commission was founded. I was a longshoreman on the Chelsea piers. It was began as a “temporary” agency 55 years ago. It was supposed to root out the gangsters and purify the working place. Ten years later, about the time the containers took over, I remember that on every pier from 32 through 61 on the west side still had a regular Shylock, Numbers runner and bookmaker doing business.
The commission managed to keep a few guys with criminal records from working, but mainly they kept themselves working, and growing. Now I guess its the 3rd generation of the “temporary” agency. Once they became entrenched as a bureaucracy they became just another group sucking on the public teat.

]]> http://goingcoastal.wordpress.com/2007/12/11/authorities-investigate-a-watchdog-of-the-docks/#comment-15160 Mon, 06 Oct 2008 19:19:40 +0000 http://goingcoastal.wordpress.com/2007/12/11/authorities-investigate-a-watchdog-of-the-docks/#comment-15160 The story is contained in this link.

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