Word: furuseth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Leaders & Old. In the midst of the seamen's strike, nobody concerned knew the whereabouts of Andrew Furuseth, president of the International Seamen's Union and for some 40 years the traditional leader of seagoing labor. The 82-year-oldster was said to have been in a sanatorium last May, but no one knew whether he was alive or dead and no one cared. His union was being run by his well-entrenched successors, old leaders who have no practical authority on the Pacific Coast and who flatly oppose the strike on the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts...
...between New Leaders Bridges & Curran and Old Leader Furuseth, so between old and new leaders in Labor's National organization was the issue drawn. But for the emergency in San Francisco, Mr. McGrady would have been flying 2,500 miles across country to Tampa, Fla. to act as peacemaker in Labor's biggest internal struggle of the generation. At Tampa this week the A. F. of L. holds its annual convention, and the old leaders, heirs of the late Samuel Gompers, headed by President William Green, were preparing finally to expel the insurgent new "industrial" unions headed...
...Archbishop Hanna and the board went octogenarian Andrew Furuseth who has lived on San Francisco's Embarcadero for more than 40 years, organized seamen, fought their battles and now heads the International Seamen's Union of America. He pleaded with strikers: "With confidence and justice we can settle this strike within 24 hours and without bloodshed. Men, let's get together while there is still time. The only thing in the way of peace now is distrust, one group of the other...