Word: seamen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...about the only visible progress in the eight-week-old maritime strike, which has become one of the most frustrating in U.S. history. The walkout by deck officers, engineers and radiomen has idled 99 of the best U.S. ships (including the superliner United States), beached 10,000 officers and seamen and cost the economy some $90 million...
...Bananas. Some 2,000 fewer longshoremen than usual are being hired each day on the New York waterfront, and seamen have already suffered a $5.5 million wage loss. More than 15,000 travelers have had to change their plans because of canceled sailings. At least $200 million in cargo has been delayed, some of it fatally: $400,000 worth of Ecuadorian bananas have rotted in holds. A leather importer from Philadelphia faces bankruptcy because he has been unable to meet his commitments to local shoe manufacturers, and some Manhattan antique stores fear that the delicate finish of such antiques...
...strike, the Marine Engineers' Beneficial Association, for making "unreasonable and inflationary" wage demands. Too often, say some Washington officials, the shipping executives give in to such demands because they know most of the costs will be carried by the Government. In fact, almost 75% of the seamen's wages are paid by federal subsidies. Critics believe that if the Government would spend less to subsidize wages and more to subsidize modernization and automation, it might have a solution...
...expected to top $7 billion for the first time in history. This commerce takes some fascinating forms. Japan imports millions of dollars worth of coal from North Viet Nam-and is distressed because the trade recently has been impeded by the refusal of some frightened Japanese seamen to sail into Vietnamese waters. Britain buys cashmere from Red China, weaves it into sweaters and socks for sale to the U.S. and other Western countries. Italy is keeping its state-run shipyards busy by building six tankers for Russia. Several countries rely heavily on their sales to the East; Finland sends...
...stretching the legal scope of seamen's employment, the Supreme Court has constantly expanded the right to "maintenance and cure." That right theoretically ends with willful misconduct, such as the contraction of venereal dis ease, but the court has held that seamen are "in the service of the ship" even when falling-down drunk ashore. In one famous case, a tipsy sailor tumbled out of a dance-hall window in Naples and broke his leg. Another dived into a dry dock a mile away from his ship in Palermo and was permanently disabled. Both casualties sued their shipowners...