Take It Easy, But Take It

"MASS VIOLENCE MILWAUKEE, WISC - CIO Strikers at the Alliis Chalmers Plant wasted no time in turning over an automobile attempting to enter the plant, April 1. Because authorities were unable to control the rioting, Gov. Heil ordered the plant closed. Credit Line: ACME 4/2/41"

Agreement Between Various Steamship Companies and the National Maritime Union of America C.I.O. Two year agreement spanning 1941-1943 for unlicensed seamen. Two sections in here stood out to me, the first regarding a ship's crew performing longshoremen's work, the other is about baking bread.  "Article I Section 19. LONGSHORE WORK BY CREW. In those outports where there are no regular longshoremen available, members of the crew may be required to drive winches for handling cargo, or may be required to handle cargo.  Borsch work performed during their regular working hours, they shall be paid, in addition to their regular monthly wages, at a rate of $0.70 per hour; and for such work performed during overtime hours they shall be paid at one and one-half times the overtime rate. The phrase "regular working hours" means men on regular straight time and is not restricted to men on sea watches. This section shall not be so construed as to be applicabl...

American Communications Association C.I.O. - 1941 Union Dues Pins ACA may count themselves as one of the 11 unions whose memberships refused to kick their radicals and communists out of leadership after the passage of Taft-Hartley, and were expelled from the C.I.O. These were telegraphists and radio operators both on land and sea. Many were radio operators on American Merchant Marine vessels.

United Farm Equipment & Metal Workers of America C.I.O. - Dues + Stewards pins spanning the years 1940-1949. FE was one of the 11 unions expelled from the C.I.O. in 1950 for refusing to kick radicals and communists out of their union leadership. They are part of a proud C.I.O. tradition of non discrimination along political and religious lines and held true to the end.