Word: seamens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Supreme Commander was annoyed because strikes were tying up vital communications and public utilities. He suspected that Communist-tinged unions especially those affiliated with the clangorous Congress of International Unions (Japan's C.I.O.), were using their privileges to sabotage the occupation. When a seamen's walkout at Sasebo halted the sailing of five merchant ships which were to bring repatriates from the Ryukyu Islands and Manchuria, MacArthur decided it was time for plain speaking. He directed the Japanese Government to man and operate the ships and take necessary steps to prevent further walkouts. The Government was to carry...
Promptly the Sasebo strikers scrambled back aboard their ships. The All-Japan Seamen's Union assured the Supreme Commander that there would be no further interference with repatriation shipping. To date, 4,500,000 Japanese have been repatriated from the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere...
...benefits of the new wage scale [TIME, June 17] Grateful as I am, I am sorry. It spells the doom of our Merchant Marine. Our Government will not support by subsidy a class of aristocratic bums touring the world. There are a few honest, sincere, loyal seamen, [but] most of them are a disgrace to our country...
Some 8,000 Great Lakes seamen are still unorganized. It was to them that the vocal and energetic N.M.U. was trying to beat the S.I.U. last week. But no matter who won the race, U.S. production, which has yet to finish in the money in any intra-union or labor-management sweepstakes so far, would lose again...
...Nova Scotian seamen this was serious business. The Quero Bank is the mainstay of their fresh fish industry. It is close enough to shore (just over 200 miles) for them to chug out, ice down a load of cod, haddock and halibut, and get back in five to six days. If foreign trawlers continued to shove them off Quero, Canadians would have to go twice as far, to the Grand Bank off Newfoundland, for less profitable salt...