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...American seaman [I get] the benefits of the new wage scale [TIME, June 17] Grateful as I am, I am sorry. It spells the doom of our Merchant Marine. Our Government will not support by subsidy a class of aristocratic bums touring the world. There are a few honest, sincere, loyal seamen, [but] most of them are a disgrace to our country...
...days last week, for the first time since Nov. 21, there was no major strike in the U.S. But beyond the threat of the seaman's strike (see Labor) President Truman had a labor problem just the same. Before him, for his disposition, was the Case bill, which sought, in a small way, to redress the balance between labor & management...
During port layovers, which take up a quarter of a seaman's working time, they get no compensation at all. Nor are they eligible for unemployment insurance, or the benefits almost all U.S. workers get under the Wage & Hour...
Paul Keen Seaman...
Until he took N.M.U.'s helm nine years ago, tattooed Joe Curran was an ordinary seaman with a more-than-ordinarily militant resentment of slim pay, mealy food and crummy quarters aboard U.S. ships. When disgruntled East Coast sailors cast off from the corrupt and ineffective A. F. of L. International Seamen's Union and went C.I.O., they made big Joe Curran top seadog in their aggressive new union. N.M.U. rank & filers had long had a noticeable list to port: some belonged to dockside cells of the Communist Party. No one lifted an eyebrow when a bunch...