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...Puerto Rico and Hawaii with a diet of bananas and pineapples, the President's "fact-finding" board, which he appointed to determine whether the strike menaced the nation's health and safety, spent most of its time trying to revive negotiations between the shipowners and the seamen...
...National Maritime Union, bossed by tough Joe Curran, 55, who looks like a foghorn sounds. Curran's N.M.U. is strongest among seamen on East Coast general cargo and passenger ships...
...mediators awash in a sea of conflicting charges and demands. Ranged on one side of the dispute were the owners of 850 of the nation's 941 merchant ships, negotiating in three separate groups-East Coast, Gulf Coast and West Coast. On the other stood 50,000 working seamen and 30,000 unemployed seamen, represented by two big unions and three smaller ones...
...voluntarily" resume work for 60 days while a three-man presidential fact-finding panel sieves the issues and submits nonbinding recommendations. Plainly this was an attempt by former Union Lawyer Goldberg to avoid taking an alternative route that he dislikes-a Taft-Hartley law injunction that would oblige the seamen to return to work for 80 days...
Walter's latest success came last week. With only two members objecting (Reps. Lindsay and Ryan, both of Manhattan), the House passed a bill of dubious constitutionality and unsavory implications. The bill, written by Walter, would require the dismissal of all longshoremen and seamen who refuse to answer questions before the House Un-American Activities Committee...