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Wartime bonuses had been taken off. Seamen got no unemployment insurance or protection under the Wage & Hour law. Deckhands worked 56 hours a week at sea, stewards 63. Because there was not enough work to go around, three months of every year they were "on the beach"-vacations for which they...
...weeks ago. To Joe's porkchop demands his Communist associates had added some ideological parsley. It was high time "to halt the drive of shipowners . . . towards a new and more devastating world war." So Joe said blithely: "Hit the bricks June 15," knowing that 73,000 East Coast seamen would obey...
Friend the Ferret. The shipowners and Labor Department people in Washington had listened over & over again to what Joe had to say about his seamen...
...Seattle, a maritime convention of the International Labor Office was meeting in an effort to set a minimum worldwide seamen's wage. But the minimum would not be anything like U.S. wages.* Chile shipowners pay their crews only $18 a month. Canadians pay $90. The rest of the world ranges in between. Scandinavian countries pay $80. Britain, which would give the U.S. the hottest competition, pays...
Curran will be re-elected president hands down. The Marxist politicians who would like to control the predominantly non-Communistic but tough, restive and cynical U.S. seamen are making their drive for other key jobs. If they win what they are trying for, Curran will be brought to heel more thoroughly than he ever was before-and that was something...