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Last week the President returned to the U.S. mainland, landing at the teeming Bremerton Navy Yard, across Puget Sound from Seattle. The President reported to the nation over the radio, speaking from the bow of a destroyer, against a backdrop of 8,000 Bremerton workers and sailors. He gave them a rambling, folksy account of his voyage. He told them that Japan "cannot be trusted," but in the speech's 3,500 words there was but an incidental reference to the European...
Travels of a Marine. The Smiths have been travelers, like all Marines: they lived in Bremerton, Seattle, Manila, Cavite, Shanghai, Puerta Plata, Norfolk, Newport, Port-au-Prince, Quantico, Philadelphia, New Orleans, Long Beach, San Francisco, Washington, San Diego. In one two-year stretch they moved 14 times...
Drastic as it sounded, employers were skeptical about how much good WMC's order would do. It did not tell workers where they should go, if & when the shipyards release them. And it did not apply to the Bremerton Navy Yard or to Henry Kaiser's prize operation at Vancouver, Wash. (now busy turning out aircraft carriers), which is outside the Puget Sound area. Since WMC cannot change the hard fact that WLB has allowed shipyard wages to be stabilized at a higher level than most other war wages (including aircraft), the best bet was that most...
...Seattle, four women drive garbage trucks, and a whole female railroad-track gang was working in the Bremerton Navy Yard across Puget Sound...
Mahlum's Scoop. In Seattle, he went through the bustling Boeing aircraft plant, spent the night at the home of his daughter Anna and her husband, Publisher John Boettiger of the Post-Intelligencer. Across the Sound, he visited Bremerton's great Navy yard. For the first time news of his trip got into print. An A.F. of L. newspaper which goes to 40,000 Boeing employes scare-headed his appearance, added a sound trade-union angle: "The main thing that was on the lips of most of the members . . . was will he do anything about our wage situation...