Word: seamen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Islands of the Kings (Guam) . . . we found a Gallegan whose name was Gonzalo of Vigo who said he had been left in those lands for seven years. . . . He stayed with the midnight watch and showed the pilot the course . . . was seen no more. Because of this some of the seamen grew afraid and said a ghost of one of Magellan's sailors had come aboard...
...husky, sharp-witted Vigo fisherman Gonzalo, as to most other Spaniards, Magellan's reputation was ugly. When the rumor got out that his secretive expedition would carry only Portuguese seamen, Magellan tried to stop the angry clamor with bullets, finally took long three Spanish captains. Chosen for their politics rather than their seamanship, they gave him much less opposition than the Basque ship's master, Sebastian del Cano (who with 34 survivors with the only officer to get back to Spain) and del Cano's young protege Gonzalo. If these two, says Author Ford, had been listened...
...voyage resolved itself into a game of mutinous cat-&-mouse, with starvation, disease and storms putting in their savage claws. When the big mutiny broke out at Bay St. Julien. Magellan made a real killing. He drew and quartered one Spanish captain, decapitated the second, marooned the third. Eight seamen were hung, 40 others imprisoned without food. For their edification Magellan offered the chained exhibit of a big friendly savage who. before he starved to death three weeks later, had almost chewed himself out of his shackles. When Magellan's cruelty threatened to alienate even his own bodyguard...
...crew of the S. S. Algic, belonging to the National Maritime Union 100%, realizing that as seamen we are all interested in forming a national maritime federation and knowing that the only way we can advance the interest of the maritime workers as a whole is by working with the licensed personnel [officers] that have shown a willingness to cooperate towards the ultimate consummation of the National Maritime Federation, it is hereby resolved that we will only sail with members of the M. E. B. A. [Maritime Engineers Beneficial Association] and the M. M. P. A. [Master, Mates and Pilots...
...orderly fashion that has made the N. M. U. the choice of the overwhelming proportion of the men who go down to the sea in ships." The N. M. U. also petitioned President Roosevelt to remove Chairman Kennedy, who last week established minimum wages and paid vacations for seamen, from the Maritime Commission...