Word: seamen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bruised and battered by San Francisco's general strike, seamen, longshoremen and other maritime trades banded together loosely in a Maritime Federation of the Pacific. Their slogan: "An injury to one is an injury to all." Within a year they counted 8,000 members of the Sailors' Union of the Pacific, 17,000 members of the International Longshoremen & Warehousemen's Association, 17,000 members of nine smaller unions...
...booted out of A. F. of L. But when his sailors voted to join C. I. O. he promptly locked the votes up in a San Francisco bank. Joining C. I. O. would have meant the subordination of Harry Lundeberg to Joseph Curran, leader of C. I. O. seamen in the East (who outnumber West Coast seamen five to one). "Yoost a sailor," Lundeberg wanted to be alone. Last spring he began to "dump" East Coast seamen from West Coast ships, picket C. I. O. crews. When Harry Bridges' C. I. O. longshoremen crashed S. U. P. picket lines...
Fortnight ago, at the fourth annual convention of the Maritime Federation of the Pacific, Lundeberg's seamen accompanied by licensed officers and firemen walked out when the meeting refused to seat delegates of a Tacoma local of A. F. of L. longshoremen, Harry Bridges' bitter enemies. Also grieved because Harry Bridges has eagerly taken shoreside unions into the Maritime Federation, Lundeberg snorted: "We don't want any more cannery workers telling us what...
...British seaman was killed. The British-owned port at Gandia, with Union Jacks painted on the rooftops, was bombed and machine-gunned in what British Manager Edwin Apfel called a "deliberate brazen attack on British property." At Denia, a raisin exporting centre, the French merchantman Brisbane was bombed, five seamen were killed, a British observer for the Non-intervention Committee killed and the captain injured. Farther down the coast at Alicante the British freighter St. Winifred and the 5,387-ton ship English Tanker were hit, and the British oil tanker Maryat was destroyed. Although some British captains were reported...
...Black Sea area. To the inhabitants of Caucasian and Crimean ports the sight of the Davies 316-foot yacht Sea Cloud was a never-ending diversion. They thronged the piers to watch the Ambassador step from the yacht's speedy trim launch manned by snappily costumed, briskly saluting seamen...