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...these figures "exaggerated," but produced none of their own. Meanwhile, the three-cornered battle went on apace. Shipowners produced the old Red herring that the East Coast strikers were led by racketeering Communists. Using this as an excuse President John M. Franklin of International Mercantile Marine (which particularly hates Seaman Curran because he began his striking career on an I. M. M. ship last spring) requested New York City's special prosecutor of racketeering, Thomas E. Dewey, to intervene. Prosecutor Dewey refused...
...First death came in a San Francisco street brawl to picketing Seaman Einer Koppen...
...ships were tied up. Generally, however, Atlantic maritime workers looked to New York Harbor for guidance. There the man who is nominally head of all U. S. longshore men, President Joseph P. Ryan, jockeyed with the man who would like to be the Harry Bridges of the Atlantic, Seaman Joseph Curran...
Longshoreman Ryan is a lethargic conservative who considers Harry Bridges a Red, resents losing to him the leadership of Pacific Longshoremen. Last week President Ryan bluntly refused to call out his Atlantic longshoremen in a sympathy strike. Last spring Seaman Curran was the leader of the "outlaw" seamen's strike in New York Harbor which failed to win higher wages but caused serious harbor hubbub for three months (TIME, May 25 et seq.). Last week 1,000 members of his insurgent Seamen's Defense Committee voted a strike in Manhattan, delayed several ships from sailing. Night later...
...film yet to be taken in Spain's civil war. Weeks ago, off the Galician fishing town of El Ferrol, the Velasco encountered the Loyalist submarine B6. A few lucky shots and the submarine was flooded. She began to sink by the stern. On deck a Rebel seaman snapped away industriously with his camera while the Loyalist crew huddled abaft the conning tower, while an overloaded lifeboat was filled with survivors, while the submarine dived straight down leaving the waters dotted with men swimming for their lives...