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Ever since Harry Lundeberg led the A. F. of L. Seamen down the plank to the most concerted strike effort since the railway debacle, the public has been aware that this was no ordinary strike. No one seemed to be talking about company profits or dictatorial union practices. It seemed that the seamen wanted more money and the companies were willing enough to give it to them, but that Washington, the wettest blanket at a sweet party, had said a lond and determined...
...Wage Stabilization Board is not acting as referee to two outside parties, but realistically determining how much of the taxpayer's money is to be spent in underwriting seamen's pay (still low according to American standards) and company profits. And every time jolting Joe Curran and Harry Lundeberg feel itchy and sailors on the nation's waterfronts tumble off the ships, they cast a longing thought back over the hectic thirties. For then the villian was rich, boated and all capitalist, and not wearing red, white and blue suspenders...
Hardboiled Harry Lundeberg' in the West, and in the East, medium-boiled John Hawk of the A.F.L. Seafarers International, yanked out 43,000 men. Longshoremen, tugboat men, radiomen, masters, mates and pilots announced that they would support the strike. Machinists in repair yards "hit the bricks." Even C.I.O.'s wily Johnny announced that he would respect A.F.L.'s picket lines, although he promised to work UNRRA ships...
Everyone, that is, but Johnny. His white cap cocked, Harry Lundeberg gave his considered opinion of "those phonies" in Washington. "I warned Schwellenbach and the WSB that when this union takes a strike vote it means it. Old sister Schwellenbach keeps calling me but he's wasting the taxpayers' money. Even Ma Perkins was better than him. We're not playing politics, we're counting our economic strength...
...show that he meant business, Mr. Green described the progress of A.F. of L.'s new International Maritime Federation, "the biggest effort we have ever made in the maritime industry." A double wedge to pit Harry Lundeberg's dissident Sailors' Union of the Pacific against C.I.O.'s West Coast longshoremen and A.F. of L.'s Atlantic longshoremen against C.I.O.'s National Maritime Union in the east, the Federation, said Mr. Green, was starting with 25,000 members, aiming...