Word: seamen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...When a tanker manned by strikebreaking seamen put in at the Pew family's big Sun Shipbuilding & Drydock Co. yards in Chester, Pa., Sun members of the Industrial Union of Marine & Shipbuilding Workers refused to service it, struck. Union officials improved the occasion by demanding more pay, a 36-hour week, a closed shop. On the fourth morning some 1,500 strikebreakers lined up, marched toward the yards. Picketers met them with fists, bricks, clubs, lead pipes. Police rushed in with tear gas, managed to separate the rioters for a few minutes. On the second clash, five fire engines...
...week's end Leader Bridges flew East to address a series of mass meetings in Atlantic ports, try to persuade longshoremen to defy their officers, join the striking seamen. Anticipating the return from South America of apparently the only one who could settle the strike, Oakland and Berkeley, Calif.'s City Councils addressed to President Roosevelt a plea for "prompt and vigorous action...
...have made him the delight of the Press, he waddled into the news last winter as boss "fink" in New York City's elevator strike, again last autumn as witness before the Senate's civil liberties committee, again last month when he was set upon by striking seamen (TIME, Nov. 16). Last week he was quickly entered on the Board's books as a "hostile witness." A strikebreaker for 20 years, he had worked for two months last summer at Remington Rand's Middletown, Conn, plant as a $9-per-day-&-expenses "night watchman...
...Tampa, the convening American Federation of Labor solemnly branded as "outlaw" the strike on the Atlantic and Gulf coasts, opposed from the start by conservative heads of Longshoremen's and Seamen's unions. Dismayed were Federationists when more than 1,000 ship's officers, members of the National Organization of Masters, Mates & Pilots and Marine Engineers Beneficial Association, joined the 20,000 "outlaws" in a perfectly legitimate strike of their...
After a vote on the subject, the John Reed Club took up a collection yesterday for the Boston division of the International Seamen's Union. Several Radcliffe members also contributed...