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...Islands of the Kings (Guam) . . . we found a Gallegan whose name was Gonzalo of Vigo who said he had been left in those lands for seven years. . . . He stayed with the midnight watch and showed the pilot the course . . . was seen no more. Because of this some of the seamen grew afraid and said a ghost of one of Magellan's sailors had come aboard...
...husky, sharp-witted Vigo fisherman Gonzalo, as to most other Spaniards, Magellan's reputation was ugly. When the rumor got out that his secretive expedition would carry only Portuguese seamen, Magellan tried to stop the angry clamor with bullets, finally took long three Spanish captains. Chosen for their politics rather than their seamanship, they gave him much less opposition than the Basque ship's master, Sebastian del Cano (who with 34 survivors with the only officer to get back to Spain) and del Cano's young protege Gonzalo. If these two, says Author Ford, had been listened...
...Seamen may strike when a ship is docked in a home port. Once the ship has sailed, to strike-or otherwise disobey captain's "lawful orders"-is mutiny. Well within their rights then were the 18 members of the tumultuous crew of the U. S. Government-owned Algic* when they "sat down" in Baltimore on the eve of sailing, lumber-laden, to South America last July. Their supplies on the dock rotted as they lounged on deck awaiting reply to an ultimatum which read...
...crew of the S. S. Algic, belonging to the National Maritime Union 100%, realizing that as seamen we are all interested in forming a national maritime federation and knowing that the only way we can advance the interest of the maritime workers as a whole is by working with the licensed personnel [officers] that have shown a willingness to cooperate towards the ultimate consummation of the National Maritime Federation, it is hereby resolved that we will only sail with members of the M. E. B. A. [Maritime Engineers Beneficial Association] and the M. M. P. A. [Master, Mates and Pilots...
...orderly fashion that has made the N. M. U. the choice of the overwhelming proportion of the men who go down to the sea in ships." The N. M. U. also petitioned President Roosevelt to remove Chairman Kennedy, who last week established minimum wages and paid vacations for seamen, from the Maritime Commission...