Word: seamen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...crossing were the U. S. Lines or Pan American Airways. Pan American Clippers still flew twice a week, but they were booked heavily weeks ahead. U. S. Lines operated on full schedules, stepped up their sailings to evacuate 5,000 U. S. citizens still stranded in Europe. But their seamen, striking for 25% wage increase, war-risk life insurance and bonuses, delayed some eight liners nearly a week...
...ships used are part of the Atlantic Coast Training Fleet, and were manned by regular seamen and marines. The Unit served as reserve officers, practically running the destroyer by themselves...
Reminding the American Trader's crew that Franklin Roosevelt had proclaimed a national emergency, tough Captain George Fried of the U. S. Bureau of Marine Inspection & Navigation had up twelve strikers before a board of investigation, threatened to revoke their seamen's certificates. The C.I.O. National Maritime Union's hulking President Joe Curran had previously ended a similar flareup on two other ships by agreeing to negotiate, making the settlements retroactive. He first said his union had no hand in last week's strikes, later declared: "Our offer to furnish crews without wages for ships carrying...
Meantime the Allied blockade of Germany became impressive. In The Downs from Broadstairs to Dover stretched a long line of merchantmen arrested and anchored pending examination. Aboard each was a guard of British seamen under a junior officer. Two British destroyers and a French gunboat patrolled the roadstead...
When her submarine-shy crew last week refused to sail the Greek freighter Thermoni home from Seattle, Wash., its captain received an odd request. Fifteen Polish, German and British seamen, stranded in Seattle since the outbreak of World War II, and spoiling to get home to join their armies, had agreed on a working armistice, wanted to man the Thermoni and head her for Europe. British Seaman Charles Home, whose father died fighting in World War I, hopefully suggested that, once in Liverpool, his German mates might be permitted to proceed unmolested...