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...skilled ratings-an average hike of 30%; 2) a 40-hour week and an eight-hour day; 3) $1.25 to $1.75 an hour in overtime pay; 4) retroactivity to Oct. 1, 1945. When the operators winced, the left-of-left C.M.U. pointed out that its able and ordinary seamen were working some 60 hours a week and trying to support families on an average monthly wage of $138. Despite bunk and board while working, this was far below the average wage of most U.S. shore workers...
Union labor's drive for higher wages and lower hours boiled into violence last week. The Communist-tinged Canadian Seamen's Union called out 5,000 members manning the ships that ply the Great Lakes. The issue: an eight instead of a twelve-hour day. The union claimed that on about half the 153 lake ships, striking crews had walked out. Strike leaders tried to block the Welland and Cornwall Canals, vital links between Lakes Erie and Ontario, and Montreal. Strikers swarmed aboard the freighter Goderich in the Welland Canal, drove or dumped the crew ashore, lashed...
Apparently the owners were confident that they could break the strike. The union, counting on its own strength and anticipated sympathy strikes from longshoremen and ocean seamen, was equally sure of itself. But what worried plain citizens was that every available ship was needed to haul next winter's coal from the U.S. Each wasted day meant cold homes for next winter...
...there was no end to strikes. British Columbia's 37,000 still striking wood-workers were joined by 700 seamen of the Canada Steamship Lines. They struck when the City of Montreal sailed with a non-union crew. Slated for June 3 is a strike by some 4,000 other members of the A.F.L. Canadian Seamen's Union, who want an eight-hour day. (Present working day: 12 hours.) Ready to go out also were 6,000 A.F.L. textile workers in Quebec. Only the last-minute appointment of an inquiry commissioner averted a walkout by 10,000 C.I.O...
...original NROTC units, the University Naval establishment was first activated in 1942, when the trainees were enlisted as apprentice seamen in the V-1 program. The next year they were transferred to the V-12 and called up to active duty...