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Writing feverishly, in crisp words, Richard Boyer rises above the tweedy objectivity of New Yorker profiles to tell the searing story of American seamen and the union they have built. The seamen are workers at sea, not comic opera swashbucklers, and the union they have put together is the N.M.U., certainly no joke. It is a story of men who are reweaving the country's social fabric, men who think about democracy a good part of the time and who act on their thought. The book is called "The Dark Ship," because that is the kind of title that sells...
What had caused the blast? The Coast Guard would say nothing, except that seamen, who had not been warned of the danger of nitrate cargoes (see SCIENCE), had been smoking on board the Grandcamp...
...Sullivan was tattling at this late date because he had finally come to "realize what a wonderful country" Canada is. Communists began to join the Canadian Seamen's Union, he said, soon after it was born. Some of them, he said, came from the U.S., and were not seamen at all. Before long, "it became the policy to make sure that any [new union employee] was either a party man or at least sympathetic. ... In the national office, the Communist Party, of course, has taken full control." When Sullivan at first protested, he was told that "Communist Party discipline...
Hope & Hiding. Now, said Sullivan, "Things have gone from bad to worse . . . every month new people are being placed on the [union] payroll without consulting anyone." Communists ostensibly on union work are really on party work. Organizers are running all over Canada, and the seamen are "footing the bills...
...Communist activity confined to the Seamen's Union alone, Sullivan charged. "The same [applies to] quite a large number of unions throughout the country. . . . One does not know whom to trust. The Communist Party has many secret agents in different places, including the Government service...