Joe Ryan and His Kingdom.

This article profiles the life and career of Joseph Patrick Ryan, President of International Longshoremen's Association. Ryan looks considerably younger than his sixty-two years. He was born in Babylon, Long Island. He left school at the age of twelve and moved to the Chelsea district of Manhattan, New York. He got work papers at fourteen and became a stock boy, clerk, street-car conductor. He was a married man with a family when in 1912 he turned to work on the docks, six days a week for $18.