Word: crews
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President's dictum was hardly in print before a group of Government employes struck-not in Washington, not in the U. S., but aboard ship on the River Plate off Montevideo, Uruguay. The crew of the S. S. Algic, a 5,496-ton freighter owned by Joseph Patrick Kennedy's National Maritime Commission, refused to help unload cargo onto a lighter in midstream. Uruguayan longshoremen were on strike against employment of non-union labor. Inspired to a quixotic display of labor solidarity by three rabid unionists, the Algic's seamen swore they would not work with scab...
...Instruct crew to proceed with your lawful orders. If they still refuse warn crew that all still refusing to perform duty will be placed in irons and prosecuted to full extent of law on return to United States. If they still refuse, place ringleaders in irons. If other crew members still refuse duty, have them removed from ship and replace them with American, if available, and if not, foreign seamen. In case you experience any difficulty, request assistance local authorities. Report developments...
...crew swiftly returned to duty. Meantime in Washington Chairman Kennedy, stealing a phrase from his boss, declared: "The Maritime Commission takes the position that the action of the crew is unlawful. It also takes the position that in this particular case such an act constitutes a strike against the Government. Neither situation can be tolerated...
...California Packing dispatched a fleet of trucks manned by members of the Teamsters Union, which on the West Coast is bossed by A. F. of L.'s beefy Dave Beck, "Tsar of Seattle Labor" and a sworn enemy of Harry Bridges. Promptly hustled to the warehouse was a crew of Bridges' unionists to picket not the warehouse but the Beck teamsters...
...Maritime Law: An act of the master or crew of a ship detrimental to the interests of the owner...