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...rank of a first-class maritime power." The key to that promise was the Administration-sponsored Merchant Marine Act of 1970, which commits the Government to construction of 300 new commercial vessels, including the nation's first 250,000-ton supertankers-to be constructed by Bethlehem Steel and Seatrain Shipbuilding-and other classes of ships that previously were ineligible for subsidies. Builders are paid the difference between construction costs in the U.S. and abroad, which means that companies collect between a quarter and a half of the cost of new ships from the Government. Further, U.S. shipowners are paid...
July 8- Miles Davis Buddy Miles, Big Band; Seatrain...
Since the Seatrain started operating in 1929 the dock workers had watched with anger and frustration as the great crane plucked loaded cars from its hold and set them on the railroad tracks bound for Cuba's warehouses. Their countermove was a demand on Seatrain Lines, Inc. to hire one-third more stevedores and let them load and unload each car at Havana ("for customs inspection"). Result: by last week the Seatrain had stopped running...
...Boss. There was not much doubt along the dockfront's rough-&-tumble Calle Desamparados about who called the play that shut down the Seatrain. Boss Arcelio Iglesias, Cuba's No. 4 Communist, had knit 9.000 dock wallopers into a powerful Maritime Federation that usually got what it wanted. With many more hands than jobs they contrived to shorten hours, specialize functions, make work. Their weapon: the slowdown...
...years, the dockers had run pay levels up 100% and employers charged their efficiency had dropped 70 to 80%. The workers took time off to parade past the presidential palace every time employers hesitated. Some Seatrain workers took home $29 a day. Although they averaged only a few days' work a month, they got more than customs inspectors...