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...Union remained in conservative hands, wangled only a $57.50 pay scale with no overtime. The rank & file began demanding the west coast scale. When the Union failed to get it after the old wage agreement expired last winter, seamen on the 5. 5. California struck in protest in San Pedro, Calif. Harbor (TIME, March 16). Persuaded by Secretary of Labor Perkins to return to work, they took the ship back to Manhattan, where they were promptly fired, branded as "mutineers." Under one Joseph Curran, the dissatisfied element brewed a general east coast seamen's strike. The conservative Union heads...
South from San Pedro last week, bound for annual war games off Panama, foamed the great, grey majesty of the U. S. fleet...
...independent. But this traditional tenet of the Liberal Party which ruled Puerto Rico for years was largely an academic issue which failed to rouse the drowsy insular population to thought or action. The only violent advocates of independence have been the Nationalists, a small minority party led by Pedro Albizu Campos. Two Nationalists recently assassinated Colonel Elisha Francis Riggs, chief of the insular police and personal friend of Senator Tydings. Last week six Puerto Rican policemen and officers were indicted for the murder of the two Riggs murderers, who were mysteriously shot down in the police station when they tried...
Only Puerto Rican publicly to rejoice was Pedro Albizu Campos. He predicted that if the referendum on independence were put to the people, they would vote 90% for freedom...
...belief that a great Communist plot was on foot to destroy the U. S. merchant marine. The Roosevelt Cabinet found itself seriously divided in dealing with breaches of marine discipline. When striking seamen tied up the Panama Pacific Line's S. S. California for four days in San Pedro last month (TIME, March 16), Secretary of Commerce Roper talked boldly about having the ringleaders prosecuted for mutiny. That there were no prosecutions was generally attributed to the White House influence of Madam Secretary of Labor Perkins to whom the right to strike, on land or sea, is said...