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...plea of the seamen is a worthy one. I have read in TIME of their desire for books and magazines. Now, I have plenty of both, that I would gladly send to them if I only had the proper address. You do mention the Merchant Marine Library Association; but where is it? Perhaps many of your other readers are wondering about the same thing, so let's have the address and let the sailors catch up on their reading...
...Almeria the British destroyer Hunter, on patrol duty, hit or was hit by something that pushed in her bow, killed eight British seamen, wounded 14. Was it a mine, or was it, as Almeria fishermen are said to have insisted, a torpedo from a German submarine whose periscope had been observed? International complications from this might be so grave that British admiralty officials "suggested," even before a committee of inquiry was constituted, that the Hunter had hit a mine. With great secrecy the Hunter, bow awash, was towed stern foremost into Gibraltar, locked in a closely-guarded drydock, where gold...
...Manhattan the rank & file insurgents of A. F. of L.'s International Seamen's Union who staged the "unauthorized" maritime strike in Atlantic and Gulf ports last autumn (TIME, Nov. 9 et seq.) finally made a clean break with their old leaders, set up a new National Maritime Union claiming 28,000 members. Announced were plans to join C. I. O., to demand National Labor Relations Board elections to decide whether the old union or the new should have exclusive bargaining rights...
Radcliffe, and a girls' club known as the "Wild Women from Sarah Lawrence" are joining with the newly organized combined Harvard chapter of the A. F. of L., C.I.O., the left wing of the Liberty League, and Wipers, Oilers, and Tenders Seamen's Union in sponsoring the model movement. The particular function of the women's auxiliary model Court has not been clearly defined as yet, but as Casper, in an exclusive interview at the Ritz Bar, said last night, "Our Plans are young yet; what we want is time to work out the broad general principles of this thing...
Potent guardian of these and 39 other lines, comprising the most important Lakes shippers, is the Lake Carriers Association of Cleveland, which trains seamen, presses harbor development, hires icebreakers and employs Newton D. Baker as general counsel. In the face of the new amendments to the Seaman's Act of 1915, requiring a three-watch system on all freighters, which will add about 20% to lake crews this year the Association this spring hiked wages back nearly to 1929 levels, beginning at $87 a month for common seamen. Holding out for still higher pay, however, Detroit sailors last week...