Word: seamen
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Executive Council of the International Seaman's Union, whose word is final in all matters, were "stooges of the ship-owners"; that they made their decisions without submitting them to the members of the Union, and that they had entirely disregarded the results of a referendum submitted to the seamen...
Halloran retorted that "men working on American boats receive higher pay and work under better conditions than the seamen of any other nation...
...gulls' plight was certainly not the fault of Assistant Secretary of Labor Edward Francis McGrady. All week he labored to bring the striking seamen to terms with their employers. He got no results, but there was peace along the Pacific waterfronts because the strikers, anxious to prevent any excuse for armed intervention, had their own patrols keeping order and rounding up drunks. There was peace also because the Attorney General's office in Washington found legal reasons to excuse the U. S. Marshal in Los Angeles for ignoring a court order to unload some 4,000 stems...
...that this was sheer politeness. The Assistant Secretary had by turns persuaded and pounded tables, until local labor leaders called him Edward Ferocious McGrady. But on the main issue, whether the unions should continue to control the hiring halls (supplying any men they see fit to operators who need seamen or longshoremen), neither side gave any concession He did, however, win a promise that both sides would sit down together and begin negotiations this week...
...Leaders & Old. In the midst of the seamen's strike, nobody concerned knew the whereabouts of Andrew Furuseth, president of the International Seamen's Union and for some 40 years the traditional leader of seagoing labor. The 82-year-oldster was said to have been in a sanatorium last May, but no one knew whether he was alive or dead and no one cared. His union was being run by his well-entrenched successors, old leaders who have no practical authority on the Pacific Coast and who flatly oppose the strike on the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts...