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...lake crews this year the Association this spring hiked wages back nearly to 1929 levels, beginning at $87 a month for common seamen. Holding out for still higher pay, however, Detroit sailors last week were stubborn enough to cause an appeal for Federal mediation. At Hamilton, Ont., 235 longshoremen struck for a new 50?-per-hour contract. Somewhat alarmed over these signs of the times on the lake front, miners and steelmen in Duluth began considering what had never been considered before-the possibility of shipping iron ore east by rail...
...numerous ward bosses, four women, such political war horses as one-time Ambassador James W. Gerard, one-time Editor Herbert Bayard Swope, one-time Police Commissioner Grover A. Whalen, Roosevelt Friend Frank C. Walker, such reigning Labor Union chiefs as Sidney Hillman (Amalgamated Clothing Workers), Joseph P. Ryan (International Longshoremen), Max Zaritsky (United Hatters, Cap & Millinery Workers), David Dubinsky (International Ladies' Garment Workers). Also present were Governor Lehman and the past President of the New York college, not this year a member, James Aloysius Farley...
...week's end Leader Bridges flew East to address a series of mass meetings in Atlantic ports, try to persuade longshoremen to defy their officers, join the striking seamen. Anticipating the return from South America of apparently the only one who could settle the strike, Oakland and Berkeley, Calif.'s City Councils addressed to President Roosevelt a plea for "prompt and vigorous action...
...Tampa, the convening American Federation of Labor solemnly branded as "outlaw" the strike on the Atlantic and Gulf coasts, opposed from the start by conservative heads of Longshoremen's and Seamen's unions. Dismayed were Federationists when more than 1,000 ship's officers, members of the National Organization of Masters, Mates & Pilots and Marine Engineers Beneficial Association, joined the 20,000 "outlaws" in a perfectly legitimate strike of their...
Last week a deal was made whereby the Government gave the striking unions substantially everything they were demanding from their employers-control of hiring halls, higher pay, cash for overtime. Suggesting that this be made precedent for settling the whole strike, International Longshoremen's Association crowed in San Francisco: "It is interesting to note that the U. S. Government recognizes the demands of the strikers as just and reasonble...