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Billy was national head of three trade unions: the wharf laborers, the transport workers and the seamen. He talked like a radical, but by 1910 he was already demanding that Australia should have its own army & navy, and making speeches about the menace of Japan. That year, the Labor Party formed its first majority government, a cabinet consisting of two miners, a wharf lumper, a building worker, a hatter, a compositor, an engine driver and, of course, Billy Hughes. The cabinet split over World War I, and Hughes formed a national coalition government, pledged to aid Britain "to the last...
...membership or nonmembership in a union should be a matter of free choice with the individual." Phil Murray scoffed. He wanted to know how the companies could say they were standing on principle when they have union-shop agreements with other groups of employees, such as their coal miners, seamen and railroad workers...
...mate named Bernard Webber lashed himself to the wheel of a 36-ft. open power lifeboat and went out to the Pendleton. Eight men had been on the Pendleton's bow; all were lost. But in the light of flares, Webber and his lifeboat snatched 32 seamen on her stern from certain death. A 33rd was drowned...
Both ships were World War II T-2-type tankers, whose welded hulls tend to crack in two when subjected to low temperatures and hammering seas. Of 523 T-2s built between 1943 and 1945, eight had split before the Pendleton and Fort Mercer. Seamen could only guess how many more might break in years to come...
...other positions include Director of the Eagle Tribune Publishing Company of Lawrence, Trustee and member of the Investment Committee of the Suffolk Savings Bank for Seamen and Others, and President and Director of the Newport Gas Light Company...