Word: seamens
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...must be understood that the M. T. U. (Marine Transport Workers) are violently opposed to the I. S. U. (International Seamen's Union) and .the Federation of Labor (which they call the Fakeration). The same num-ber of The Marine Worker refers to the pie-cards (i. e. paid officials) of the I. S. U. as " these vermin/' speaks of their " slimy tactics," calls them grafters and pimps and other names. Ships' officers are termed " crimps" (i. e. men who sign seamen on ships), and " scissorbills " (conservatives, not members of the I. W. W.), and "finks" (scabs...
Together with Christopher Morley and other valiant seamen, McFee has taken share in the Tusitala, a rechristened ship which will soon be given over to transporting those who wish to travel according to old sailing vessel methods...
Foreign ships already in port were not required to throw their liquor overboard-instead it was securely sealed. This happened to the Cedric and the Carmania. In the port of New York crews of vessels belonging to countries which legally require liquor rations for their seamen, continued to receive their liquor. New York Prohibition Director Canfield announced that he had received a telegram from Commissioner Haynes that the United States Public Health Service would issue medicinal liquor permits to such ships on the assumption that since the liquor was legally required it was medicinal. Contradictory reports were issued in Washington...
Captain Robert Dollar of San Francisco, dean of American ship owners, appeared in New York, and made several speeches stamped with his incisive personality. A Scotsman by birth, the self-made magnate of American Pacific Shipping, the leader of the unsuccessful right against the La Follette Seamen's Bill, he is still, although nearly 80, the eager champion of an American privately owned merchant marine...
...difficult for the Shipping Board as a result of the high wages paid to its employees. This difficulty is increased by a decision last week to raise wages 15%-the result of the negotiations concluded by Vice President T. V. O'Connor with the representatives of the International Seamen's Union. This raise, coupled with the adoption of the three-watch system and the eight-hour day in port, will increase operating expenses...