Word: sailors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...MAKING OF A SAILOR-Alan J. Villiers-Morrow...
...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...
...thing which made M. F. P. possible was that Harry Bridges of the powerful Longshoremen's Union backed big, tough Harry Lundeberg of the Sailors' Union for first president of the federation. Independent as Robinson Crusoe, Lundeberg cared little when his union was booted out of A. F. of L. But when his sailors voted to join C. I. O. he promptly locked the votes up in a San Francisco bank. Joining C. I. O. would have meant the subordination of Harry Lundeberg to Joseph Curran, leader of C. I. O. seamen in the East (who outnumber West...
...England in 1831. Another wave spread to Mecca, Egypt, England and, in 1832, to the U. S. Last of successive pandemics touched the U. S. as late as 1911, and the disease has been kept out of the country since only by close medical inspection of every sailor and traveler who enters a U. S. port...
Hendrik August Wilhelm Deterding, third son of a Dutch sailor, went into an Amsterdam bank at the age of 16 and fell in love with figures, quit after six years because banking was too slow a way up in the world. He went to the East Indies, worked for the Netherlands Trading Society in Deli, Medan and Penang, learned how to make money for the Society, and quit to make money for himself. His next job was with a man named J. B. A. Kessler, who was head of a small concern with a large name, which was: The Royal...