Word: transport
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Secretary of the Marine Transport Workers (I. W. W.) wired to the Port Arthur post of the American Legion that in their efforts to establish law and order, the Legion and the I. W. W. were...
Continuing up the Panhandle, the transport Henderson with the President aboard, stopped next at Juneau, capital of the territory. As the transport steamed into the bay, she had planned to fire a few five-inch shells into Taku Glacier, so that the President could witness the great ice precipices crumbling and falling into the sea. Fog settled down, however, and the firing could not be attempted...
...making an effort to gain a firm foothold on the Pacific Coast. The July 1 number of The Marine Worker (published free of charge by the Marine Transport Workers' International Union, No. 510; address Box 69, Station D, New York City) gave some indication of the propaganda which the I. W. W. are carrying on in Los Angeles. It is published about 25% in Spanish and carries such slogans as: Boycott all California-made Goods and Motion Pictures. You Cannot Fight the Boss and Booze at the Same Time. Be Like a Mule and Kick if Conditions...
...must be understood that the M. T. U. (Marine Transport Workers) are violently opposed to the I. S. U. (International Seamen's Union) and .the Federation of Labor (which they call the Fakeration). The same num-ber of The Marine Worker refers to the pie-cards (i. e. paid officials) of the I. S. U. as " these vermin/' speaks of their " slimy tactics," calls them grafters and pimps and other names. Ships' officers are termed " crimps" (i. e. men who sign seamen on ships), and " scissorbills " (conservatives, not members of the I. W. W.), and "finks" (scabs...
Robert Williams, General Secretary of the Transport Workers: "War with France is nearer today than war with Germany was in 1911. We cannot desist from criticism of and protest against the wanton policy pursued by France in destroying the economic integrity of Europe. The working class must seek to establish a real democratic diplomacy. We must challenge the assumption that Poincare speaks for France any more than Curzon for England. Unity of the working class is the only means of preventing...