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When John Allan Sullivan, 53, president of the Red-led Canadian Seamen's Union, was bedded by a heart attack a few months ago, he had some time to think about his politics and his job. What he thought made him so mad that last week "Pat" Sullivan walked right out of the C.S.U. and slammed the door. The slam was heard all over Canada...
...decided to take his case to the seamen. Under a full head of steam he sailed off to Mobile, New Orleans, Houston...
Galveston. He hit the East Coast ports. Everywhere he went he talked, dishing it out to oilers, firemen, wipers, seamen. What he said ran like this...
...best extracurricular job any college professor ever had. Eventually promoted to captain, Morison could go & come as he pleased throughout the world-flung U.S. Navy. By V-J day he and his staff had witnessed all the major U.S. naval operations, discussed them with admirals, petty officers and seamen, consulted reams of action reports and war diaries. If North African Waters is a fair sample, the completed history will be one of the basic records of World...
...Harry C. Meade, is a Communist. A Canadian, "Bert" Meade ran away to sea at 16, turned up in the U.S. in 1937 as an organizer for the Red-hued National Maritime Union. He went back to Canada in 1944, soon became Atlantic vice president of the Canadian Seamen's Union. He also became executive board member in Nova Scotia of the Labor Progressive Party, Canada's Communist Party, of which his wife is provincial secretary. In due time, Bert Meade turned to organizing the fishermen, did a bang...