Word: steamship
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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...
...which will provide 80% of international air travelers, will receive far less than that share of the transport business, and 2) CAB, which has kept U.S. shipping interests out of airlines, would have to give U.S. landing rights to foreign airlines owned or controlled by competing steamship lines. The Committee skipped over what the U.S. had gained, the commercial use of leased British bases, many of which were built with U.S. funds, such as Bermuda's Kindley Field...
Many graduates have received promotions. One former Fellow has left the organizing field to become Chief Clerk to Grand President Harrison of the Brotherhood of Railway and Steamship Clerks; another former Fellow, once a field representative, has been appointed the Georgia State Director for the Textile Workers' Union of America; another, formerly a member of the negotiation committee of hs local, has been made a full-time organizer; still another has been promoted from shop chairman to full time business agent...
...They started their fortune in a penny-ante cigar factory in Vera Cruz, fattened it to $60 million by dabbling in banks, ranches, real estate, steamship lines. They also became Mexican agents for General Motors, customs brokers for the Mexican Government...
...last week Lieut. Redin seemed like a stranger all over again. He had been arrested on a Portland, Ore. pier, dressed in a sweatshirt and grey slacks, just as he was getting aboard the Soviet Steamship Alma Ata. The FBI had arrested him as a spy. He had been under "intensive observation" for months, said the FBI, which charged that he had "induced another to obtain plans, documents and writings relating to the Yellowstone, a U.S. destroyer tender." The information, it added, "was to be used to the advantage of a foreign nation, to wit: the U.S.S.R...