The Maritime Industry Strike Files
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Scope and Contents
The materials deal chiefly with MEBA and include news releases concerning negotiation efforts of Ralph E. Casey (president, AMMI) and Jesse M. Calhoon (president, MEBA); also news releases conerning various contract proposal rejections and statements made on strike issues. Additionally, reports to MEBA membership; memoranda; and miscellaneous materials. Maritime Trades Department (MTD) items include news releases regarding statements on the strike by Peter M. McGavin (executive secretary and treasurer, MTD), and Paul Hall (president, MTD).
Documents relating to the MMP include a joint statement by Lloyd W. Sheldon (president, MMP), and William R. Steinberg (president, American Radio Association); news releases regarding the MMP agreement with the Tanker Service Committee, ending the tanker industry's 23-day shut-down; and issues of the newspaper THE MASTER, MATE AND PILOT. A National Maritime Union of America (NMU) file includes an NMU proposal for a merger of unions of unlicensed seamen; a joint statement on the amalgamation of the NMU, American Radio Association, MMP, United Marine Division, and Brotherhood of Marine Officers; and clippings. Materials of the American Merchant Marine Institute (AMMI) include news releases and statements by Ralph E. Casey on behalf of the steamship companies which he represented in contract negotiations; and clippings.
Dates
- 1965
Language of Materials
Collection material in English
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Conditions Governing Use
This collection must be used in keeping with the Kheel Center Information Sheet and Procedures for Document Use.
Biographical / Historical
This maritime strike lasted seventy-five days and ivolved three unions and eight companies.
The unions involved were the Marine Engineers Beneficial Association (MEBA); the international Association of Masters, Mates and Pilots (MMP); and the American Radio Association. The companies involved included the United States Line Company; Lykes Brothers Steamship Company; Grace Lines, Inc.; Moore-McCormack Lines, Inc.; the Gulf and South American Steamship Company, Inc.; Farrell Lines, Inc.; Prudential Steamship Lines, Inc.; and Broomfield Steamship Company. The American Merchant Marine Institute (AMMI), as bargaining agent, represented the eight government subsidized lines. The negotiations involved pensions, manning problems on automated ships, and the demand by the companies for new grievance-arbitration machinery.
Extent
1 cubic feet
Abstract
Includes miscellaneous union-produced documents having to do with the Maritime Industry Strike of 1965 and related matters.
Quantity:
1 linear ft.
Forms of Material:
Case files, records (documents) .
General
- Contact Information:
- Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives Martin P. Catherwood Library 227 Ives Hall Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853 (607) 255-3183 kheel_center@cornell.edu http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/library/kheel-center
- Compiled by:
- Kheel Staff, July 03, 2014
- EAD encoding:
- Kheel Staff, March 11, 2019
- Collective bargaining -- Merchant marine -- United States
- Grievance procedures -- Merchant marine -- United States
- Labor unions -- Merchant seamen -- United States
- Merchant marine -- United States -- Manning of vessels
- Merchant mariners
- Merchant mariners -- Labor unions -- United States
- Strikes and lockouts -- Merchant marine -- United States
- Wages -- Merchant marine -- United States
- Title
- The Maritime Industry Strike Files
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Compiled by Kheel Staff
- Date
- March 11, 2019
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
Revision Statements
- 02/23/2024: This resource was modified by the ArchivesSpace Preprocessor developed by the Harvard Library (https://github.com/harvard-library/archivesspace-preprocessor)
Repository Details
Part of the Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives Repository
227 Ives Hall
Ithaca NY 14853