A WORD TO THE NEW MEN IN THE NATIONAL UNION OF MARINE COOKS & STEWARDS - 1946 NUMCS - C.I.O. - Publication No. 5

A WORD TO THE NEW MEN IN THE NATIONAL UNION OF MARINE COOKS & STEWARDS - 1946 NUMCS - C.I.O. - Publication No. 5 - Pamphlet To New Members.

"UNITY WITH ALL MARITIME UNIONS

How do we achieve these things? We no longer have to face the problem of obtaining wages and conditions and eliminating discrimination alone. At the National Convention of Maritime Unions in San Francisco, May 6-11, 1946, delegates from seven of the most important waterfront unions agreed on united action against the shipowners' attempts to cut wages, manning scales and conditions. The convention drew up a program for joint strike action between the National Union of Marine Cooks and Stewards, the National Maritime Union, the International Longshoremen and Warehousemen's Union, the Marine Firemen, the Marine Engineers, the American Communications Association and the Inland Boatman's Union. The program includes conduct of joint negotiations with the shipowners wherever possible, the formation of a national organization composed of the seven unions and the soliciting of support from the World Federation of Trade Unions, which would make any maritime strike by the seven unions effective throughout the world. The Committee of the seven unions which operates between conventions is the Committee for Maritime Unity (CMU) which won wage raises and conditions for all unions involved without strike action, June, 1946.

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