Word: seamen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Stalwart allies of the shipowners, the officers of the orthodox East Coast maritime unions also joined in the cry of "Communism!" Led by Negro Vice President David E. Grange of the International Seamen's Union, they tried to provide crews for all ships vacated by Curran's "outlaws." Claiming that "the only 'outlaws' in the present seamen's strike are the I. S. U. officials," Curran charged that Grange had failed to make a proper accounting of $143,000 in union funds, had constantly accepted fees from shipowners. Evidence of this was so strong that...
...Manhattan the S. S. Oriente was held at her pier for ten hours by a strike of 40 seamen and stewards demanding overtime pay. . . . On the Great Lakes, the American Radio Telegraphists Association struck for better labor conditions on four freight lines. ... In San Francisco, crew troubles tied up the President Hoover, San Anselmo, Maui and Willhilo. ... In San Juan, Puerto Rico, a crew strike held the freighter West Mahwah in port...
...strike virus spread fast. Along the Gulf, at Port Arthur, Houston. Mobile and New Orleans, rank & file groups started minor strikes. On the Atlantic, at Boston, Poughkeepsie, Providence there were similar troubles. In Baltimore, 600 seamen walked out. In Philadelphia, 16 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...
...things worse, but Mediator McGrady was making real progress when the strike came. Last week there was a split in the shipowners' ranks, as 27 coastwise companies made separate overtures to the longshoremen, the chief Pacific union with which they were concerned since they hire almost all their seamen on the cheaper Atlantic. Deep-sea Pacific shippers still were obliged to consider all maritime unions. With this schism in sight, Harry Bridges would have preferred delaying strike action. But the Maritime Federation he had so carefully built up proved his Frankenstein. Standing to gain nothing by a compromise between...