Word: seamen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...were wrong, mind, but we've got to stick together." Ted was trying to explain why he and 15,000 other London dockworkers were on strike. They had refused to work two Canadian ships, the Beaverbrae and the Argomont, involved in a Communist-led Seamen's Union dispute in Canada. British Communists said the ships were "black" ("hot" in U.S. labor jargon), and urged the men to boycott them...
...home for long. At 17 he wanted to join the army, but an uncle took him in hand and put him to work loading at the Black Sea port of Zonguldak. That, says Erato, "is where the worm got him"-in Zonguldak, among the Communist seamen who lured him off to Russia...
...robust. He had a morbid fear of serious illness, and it made him a self-centered hypochondriac; his letters swarmed with such remarks as: "I ... venture to say [that] a very short space of time will send me to that bourne from which none return . . ." To most of his seamen he was the kindest, gentlest hero imaginable; to his Sea Lords he was exasperatingly 'vindictive, suspicious and intolerant. He was as alarmingly unstable as a prima donna-until the moment he marched to the center of the stage and put on a priceless performance. The Nelson touch, says Admiral...
...summer of 1943, which left the city with nearly as many dead as were killed in Britain by bombs and rockets during the entire war. Hamburg's great port is virtually paralyzed and many of Hamburg's sea captains have become trolley car conductors. Nearly 30,000 seamen drift from one odd job to another. Even the tough waterfront has lost its rowdy vitality. In the dark alleys, these nights, the stillness is broken now & then by the shuffling gait of a homeless seaman or the importuning of a hard-working streetwalker, dragging a drunken, crippled U-boat...
...would be some time before the West Coast could untangle the mess created by a work stoppage of three months and get some 265 idle ships moving. There were still a number of problems to clear up, chief of which were wage discussions with Harry Lundeberg's A.F.L. seamen, who had had no work since no ships sailed. Said Lundeberg: "We have heard that the faucet is open and we mean to get ours...