HD 6515 S4 W55 1985
Keywords: Trade unions, Merchant mariners, National Maritime Union of America, United States
Abstract
This work examines the early history of the National Maritime Union and traces Joe Curran's rise to prominence as a major labour leader. It focuses on the East coast seamen's short-lived unity under Joe Curran and the National Maritime Union and describes the movement's subsequent division into separate entities. The work, after surveying early twentieth century East Coast maritime history, discusses the following topics; the 1936 and 1937 East coast maritime strikes; the Mariners Club, the Five Pointers, the 1939 Tanker strike, the National Maritime Union during World War II and the union's postwar programs.
October 3, 2007
