Word: seamens
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...brief, they were confronted by an unusually noxious kind of snipping strike. About a year ago the wages of seamen were increased one pound a month. During the summer, ship operators declared that in order to meet world competition in the shipping business, they would have to make a reduction in wages of the same amount. The owners got together with the officials of the National Seamen's and Firemen's Union and the reduction was agreed upon. It looked like a peaceful settlement...
...British ports. The Amalgamated Marine Workers' Union-of Communistic and I. W. W. tendencies-took the side of the strikers and began to steal the members of the regular union. Throughout the Commonwealth the strike spread rapidly. Australia was affected at once. There Tom Walsh led the insurgent seamen. Last week 33 ships were tied up at Melbourne. Twelve liners were unable to leave Durban (South Africa). Newcastle (New South Wales), Cape Town, Rangoon (Burma), Sydney, Auckland, Wellington, Dunedin, Christchurch (New Zealand) were all affected...
...reported active. The legend of the "Pirate Queen," a muscular, almond-eyed, trouser-wearing female came to life. She and part of her polyandrian crew boarded the S.S. Kwanchung, seized it before it left Canton. At a prearranged point, they clambered to the bridge, poured fatal shot into four seamen. Their confederates came alongside, and presently the whole bottom including the Chinese Captain, two Chinese Christian preachers, 50 passengers, steamed to an unknown piratical cove. The Queen demands $120,000 ransom...
Recently, British ship owners and seamen's unions agreed on a wage reduction of ?1 a month for British seamen. The seamen in a number of ports last week repudiated the action of their union officials. Ships were tied up in the Thames and at Southampton. But other seamen were found ready to take their places and in most cases there was only a day's delay in sailing...
...itself was the presence of a bolder, more ferocious spirit. Hitherto, U. S. vessels have sighted rum runners scurrying to shore, have urged them to stop, have even fired a wild shot. But the rum launches, faster than the average picket boat, have simply scurried on. The Coast Guard seamen have not been shooting with intent to kill...