The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-02-01
Marine Workers and the Fight
Against InberialiSt War

CREW recently hired for the steamship 'SeafoX'
n which being fitted out Colombian gunboat for
the Amazon river fleet This hired at fighting
wages of seventy dollars per month which is fifteen to
thirty dollars less than the paid regular merchant
during the last In addition to receiving fighting
they forced to through examination that they
for the job
previous
Colombian Navy and in one instance ship in the regular Central Amer
xea war on the upper Amazon In the latter instance only the
crew from being hanghaied" into war service
Every DAY SHIPS OF the shman american P0ner american
from S. ports CARRYING cargoes Of munitions and war materials to be
by Japan Other destined countries and finally
war intervention against
tons and materials bearing innocent labels
men.
IN majority cases the crews Of the ships carrying munitions
the falsely labeled or unmarked cargo The shipping heed
less OF the danger to the men loading and carrying these munitions take
no measures to guarantee safe handling other than marking the cases
In this manner they attempt to hide their mderou trade and
support OF the lar Eastern and South American roboer wars under the
Chemical the ostenb
time producing munitions for export and for storage in o. s. government
becoming frequent The 1shan line ship steel
consigned ports cargo ship
military port
The physical danger Of handling munitions and the careless
aboard Halifax years the This
buildings all Halifax exaced horrible toll of lives An
naval collier Cyop with all
ANY Sn crew Sp ana crews 9 without any trace o.
of such disasters as mysteries of the sea-"
MARINE WORKERS all the dangers of actual COM
W baants action the last percentage of merchant
their lives than navy
being taken to draft the entire merchant
Ships officers being forced into the Naval and all steam
snip companies are introducing blacklist system and through this are
entire Institutes M
dictionary reost unions clubs and being used
valent about Americanng the merchant placing
subsidy whereby the majority of the of ship is paid for
by the condition that the ship built auxiliary
sent to the west coast in the past u months
sTs tbev aTs gi ss + rI4 t ps O01
trying to learn the character Of that munitions and
1s must be spured forward continuous
the seanen and lonhoremen Of the plans OF the
especially dealing with the necessity
ton in the Soviet Union as conrd H the deca Of the captat world
masses OF marine workers be enlisted in the struggle against i'm
perialst
1t closely
Is the attack on their working conditions and standards OF life with the
% certainty draw the inevitable conclusion that the tight for their
everyday demands closely bound up with the fight against mperiat
against such the stopping Of the shipments of
THE MARINE WORKERS of splendid
fight against and in defense the Soviet Union
brightest pages IN the history OF The labor movement was written by
being sent the allied Siberia
workers In 1888 the workers of all countries faced with another
intense activity of
stopped shipments accomplish
ent must not be allowed to into the limbo Of forgotten history
The shipment OF munitions must be stopped The marine workers
bear the burden Of this responsibility them rests the responsible
Of the peasts for another world attack the Soviet
Of
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