Word: seamens
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hull above the surface. The Commander, Lieutenant Dobson, strolled across the bridge, thinking perhaps of nothing more weighty than a party a few nights before in New London. Through the speckled gleam of the tiny cluster of ship lights around the conning tower, sparks glowed along the deck, where seamen smoked their customary cigarette before going below...
During the flight training period the men will be enrolled as second class seamen, and are paid an average stimulation of $84 per month...
...buoys could be thrown overboard, the submarine had sunk. The searchlight of the steamer began to search the dark waters below-and then suddenly burned out-leaving the sea once again in undisturbed darkness. In six or seven minutes boats were lowered. Three men were found in the water, seamen from the S-51 caught from their bunks and vomitted up through the conning tower by the sea water pouring through the hole...
Last week more than 70 British ships were tied up by the seamen's strike (TIME, Aug. 31, Sept. 14), and delivery of more than 750,000 tons of goods was being delayed. The trans-Atlantic steamers barely managed to keep sailing by snapping up every union or non-union seaman whom they could tempt into service...
...world-wide onslaught on British shipping, the hand of Moscow was seen. Many of the leaders of the outlaw strike were known to be Reds. The owners offered to remit penalties if the sailors would return to work promptly. The officers of the National Seamen's and Firemen's Union denounced the strikers, but conditions grew worse rather than improved...