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Ships. Whereas Homer Martin would like to be a Strong Man and run U. A. W. according to his lights, National Maritime Union's Founder Joe Curran is a Strong Man who believes unions should run themselves. Last week hamfisted Sailor Curran was in trouble, trying to preserve his belief and his union at one & the same time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Rocking Chairs | 8/15/1938 | See Source »

...When the boy was missed, the women wailed, the men put a consecrated candle on a piece of wood, let it float to midstream. Where it stopped, Perez dived and brought up the body. They took it to the Garcias' little hut, dressed it in a shoddy blue sailor-suit, put a crown of gold paper on its head...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Central American Anecdote | 7/18/1938 | See Source »

...MAKING OF A SAILOR-Alan J. Villiers-Morrow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Training Ships | 7/11/1938 | See Source »

...might be expected, a sailing enthusiast as hearty as Author Villiers is all for it. In The Making Of a Sailor he expresses his enthusiasm in a few pages of miscellaneous facts about schools and 191 photographs of sailing vessels: These show cadets at work, studying navigation, shooting the sun, splicing, reefing (also glimpses apparently included only because they make nice pictures of the Joseph Conrad at Tahiti, Sydney, the Sargasso Sea). Typical schoolship facts: of 4,000 boys trained in the Danish schoolship Georg Stage, 2,000 are in the Danish merchant marine, most of them officers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Training Ships | 7/11/1938 | See Source »

...National Labor Relations Board as sufficient reason for requiring the associations to deal as a coast-wide unit with Mr. Bridges' union which won the support of 75% of West Coast longshoremen. Immediate effect was to strengthen Longshoreman Bridges, C. I. O. & Co. in their warming wrangle with Sailor Harry Lundeberg, A. F. of L. & Co. Furthermore, 900 A. F. of L. longshoremen in Tacoma and nearby Puget ports now must 1) go to court, 2) deal through Bridges, or 3) give up their jobs to Bridges...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Lesson in Geography | 7/4/1938 | See Source »

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