The daily Nome industrial worker., 1918-01-17
LEAVE IT TO FURUSETH, HE'LL
 GET THE SAILORS.

OCSl pdlu SCdulOu duOdL IS uuS LO Andrew Furuseth, who last year put bill through Congress which not only compelled shipowners to pay more wages but to put more men on their ships. Result: Ship owners declared that they must go out of business-and some did. And so. when 1t came to building mer- chant marine moneyed men shook their headG. Nevertheless Uncle Sam :s building ships, and the pro- fits made in the sea-carrying trade have never been greater.
 Still more ships are needed to take food to our Allies and our men to the war, and while Uncle Sam can solve the problem of pro- ducing the ships, he was somewhat puzzled how to produce the men to man them. Then the Federal Ship ping Board thought of Furuseth They sent for him and talked the matter over. Furuseth promised
 
 ,'Furuseth has never broken his word" declares the Philadelphia Public Ledger, which says of the seamans friend:
 It was about thirty years ago that MT. Furuseth made his appearance on the water front of San Fran cisco. A viking from the north, when he stept ashore to fight the sailors fight he was the mildest- hammered but most aggressive agi- tator that ever harrangued a mob. He formed the Coast Scamen's Union, and when he had it well launched made a demand for high CT wages on all coastwi5e vessels.
 A fight was started on the San Francisco water front which was destined to last for years It was a bitter fight--a fight of vexatious delays and broken heads. Strike breakers took the place of striking sailors, and they were better with their hands and fists on shore than when they got to sea. The ship owners started an opposition union, but the sailors stuck to their fight until they won it. In few years the name of Andrew Furuseth was known in every port in tine Seven Seas.
 Despite the violence that accomp- anied the efforts Of FuruSetn to bet ter the condition of the seafaring man, he wGS never personally known to engage in an altercation other than verbal. He has piercing eyes, black hair, and -he features of an American Indian, and he was called an anarchist and an agitator. But he was never anarchistic in his methods. He patiently sought the support of the newspapers for his movement, and it was not long be- fore his power was admitted.
 Sailors and walking delegates told reporters stories that would not stand investigation. But the word of Andrew Furuscth it was found could always b3 confirmed and thus he "got one foot on the ground floor of the newspaper world"
 In those old days "shanghGing" was favorite methods of provid- ing a ships crew in San Francisco, and The Public Ledger says:
 Two or three wind-j -jammers, sometimes dozen, would drop an- chor in the harbor in twcnty-four hours. Most of these were lime juicers,'' as the British bottoms are known to sailors, They came from England and Australia, from the Far East and Africa, from the is lands in the Pacific. Every other ship brought a story of cruelty at sea, and the men hurried ashore to confde their woes to the water front reporters from the seclusion and supposed safety of sailors boarding house When the aIthori- ties sought confirmation of the stor- ies for the purpose of prosecution the men were not to be found. They were outside the Golden Gate on their way to the Far East Eng land, Africa, CT the antipodes.
 Blood money was tho moving spirit of the 'crimps,'' or sailor