Word: sullivans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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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...
...Sullivan, who is also secretary-treasurer of the Canadian Trades & Labor Congress, had nothing against unions. What angered Sullivan, Irish-born and onetime Roman Catholic, were the Communists in the unions. This was an eye-opener because Sullivan had long been a party-liner and, everybody felt pretty sure, a party member. In his roar of rage, Sullivan confirmed these suspicions. He said he had joined the Communist Party two years after he began organizing the C.S.U. in 1935. He led C.S.U. in its first successful strike in 1938, built up membership to about 5,000 in Great Lakes, river...
...Sullivan announced that he was quitting the union, the party and the Canadian Trades & Labor Congress. While he was abed he had reached the same conclusion shared by anti-Communist unionists, that "the interests of organized labor are being subverted by the agents of Communism to their own ends. ... I am now convinced that in the interests of Canada . . . their activities should be exposed...
...Sullivan was tattling at this late date because he had finally come to "realize what a wonderful country" Canada is. Communists began to join the Canadian Seamen's Union, he said, soon after it was born. Some of them, he said, came from the U.S., and were not seamen at all. Before long, "it became the policy to make sure that any [new union employee] was either a party man or at least sympathetic. ... In the national office, the Communist Party, of course, has taken full control." When Sullivan at first protested, he was told that "Communist Party discipline...
Birds in Their Little Nests. After the last of many temperamental disagreements with Sullivan, Gilbert retired to the country, where he became a somewhat eccentric justice of the peace. "Had you been a gentleman," he said to a chauffeur whom he had just fined ?5 for reckless driving, "I should have fined you ten." Gilbert himself bought an American Locomobile-in which he promptly ran over a bicycling curate and sent his own wife flying into a hedge. "She looked like a large and quite unaccountable bird's nest," he mused...