Word: seamen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When John Allan Sullivan, 53, president of the Red-led Canadian Seamen's Union, was bedded by a heart attack a few months ago, he had some time to think about his politics and his job. What he thought made him so mad that last week "Pat" Sullivan walked right out of the C.S.U. and slammed the door. The slam was heard all over Canada...
...Sullivan was tattling at this late date because he had finally come to "realize what a wonderful country" Canada is. Communists began to join the Canadian Seamen's Union, he said, soon after it was born. Some of them, he said, came from the U.S., and were not seamen at all. Before long, "it became the policy to make sure that any [new union employee] was either a party man or at least sympathetic. ... In the national office, the Communist Party, of course, has taken full control." When Sullivan at first protested, he was told that "Communist Party discipline...
...decided to take his case to the seamen. Under a full head of steam he sailed off to Mobile, New Orleans, Houston...
Galveston. He hit the East Coast ports. Everywhere he went he talked, dishing it out to oilers, firemen, wipers, seamen. What he said ran like this...
...best extracurricular job any college professor ever had. Eventually promoted to captain, Morison could go & come as he pleased throughout the world-flung U.S. Navy. By V-J day he and his staff had witnessed all the major U.S. naval operations, discussed them with admirals, petty officers and seamen, consulted reams of action reports and war diaries. If North African Waters is a fair sample, the completed history will be one of the basic records of World...