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...Your seaman saint still marking, with...
...Dempster liners. To the rescue of "an unidentified British ship" while Europe waited breathless rushed the destroyers Echo, Escapade, Eclipse, and Encounter. Arriving first, Echo reported that the Mar Cantabrico's, crew had been taken off by the Canarias "so presumably the ship sank." Next day a Red seaman from the Mar Cantabrico popped up in France, said he was rescued by a fishing smack and that he saw the Canarias towing the crippled freighter and her rich cargo to a White port...
...broad and popular a student base as possible --such at least, was the original intent of the founders. To spread that base the organization must preserve a measure of dispassionate presentation of highly controversial subjects. A successful example of this type of discussion was the recent analysis of the seaman's strike by a labor organizer and a shipowner under Union auspices. It was, in a word, a public forum for free discussion...
...during a White air raid on Valencia that a Red anti-aircraft shell landed squarely on the quarterdeck of the British battleship Royal Oak, injuring four officers and a seaman. Not wishing to stir up pro-Valencian British Laborites, the British Admiralty made light of the whole affair. Declared an Admiralty official: "We might reproach the Loyalists for the awkward aiming of an anti-aircraft shell, but there is no question of malice. It was more or less...
...three months, an insurgent strike led by Seaman Joseph Curran tried ineffectually to tie up Atlantic and Gulf ports. Last week the strikers, weary of futile picketing and fighting, voted on peace. Only in four of 14 ports was a majority for carrying on. Chief gain that Seaman Curran could claim in surrender was that "East Coast shipowners have been kept so busy they have not tried to break up the West Coast strike...