Word: fishermen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...auctioneers went through their babble ("Haddock on the Maine . . . I'm offered seven . . . seventy-five . . . seven-eighty . . .all done? . . . all done"), haddock finally reached a top bid of 8½?. But it was still half a cent below the minimum price unofficially set by the A.F.L. Atlantic Fishermen's Union, whose men man the boats. And until the price for haddock and other fish was met, the unionized "lumpers" who unload the boats would not work...
Lower Prices. The fishermen's case was simple. They wanted to keep fish prices up at a time when wholesale fish prices had been falling. Having dined on pompano during the war, they did not want to go back to carp. Some fishermen had earned $10,000 or more a year on the "highliners," the few crack boats whose fish-wise captains could fill their boats to the gunwales. But most made under $5,000 a year...
...this week opened, the Lenten season demand for fresh fish forced the price of haddock above the union's minimum, brought about a temporary truce between the fishermen and boat-owners. But much of last week's unsold catch was condemned by the state health inspector, sold for fish meal and fertilizer. Price...
Something for Fishermen. To get it, most of them had joined the fingerling Fishermen's and Fish Handlers' Union. Three months ago the union demanded that the "lay" (split) of each voyage's net profit (i.e. net after deductions for various operating costs) be changed from the traditional 50-50 lay to 60% for crewmen, 40 for owners. Also demanded: a redivision of operating costs...
...boss of the Fishermen's Union, big, flabby, 265-lb. Harry C. Meade, is a Communist. A Canadian, "Bert" Meade ran away to sea at 16, turned up in the U.S. in 1937 as an organizer for the Red-hued National Maritime Union. He went back to Canada in 1944, soon became Atlantic vice president of the Canadian Seamen's Union. He also became executive board member in Nova Scotia of the Labor Progressive Party, Canada's Communist Party, of which his wife is provincial secretary. In due time, Bert Meade turned to organizing the fishermen...