The Maritime Industry Strike Files, 1965
Collection Number: 5330
Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives
Cornell University Library
DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY
Title:
The Maritime Industry Strike Files, 1965
Repository:
Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives
Collection Number:
5330
Abstract:
Includes miscellaneous union-produced documents having to do with the Maritime Industry
Strike of 1965 and related matters.
Creator:
American Merchant Marine Institute
Quanitities:
1 cubic feet
Language:
Collection material in English
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.
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.
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The Maritime Industry Strike Files #5330. Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation
and Archives, Cornell University Library.
Names:
Calhoon, Jesse M.
Casey, Ralph E.
Hall, Paul
McGaven, Peter M.
Sheldon, Lloyd W.
American Merchant Marine Institute, Inc.
International Organization of Masters, Mates, and Pilots
National Marine Engineers' Beneficial Association
National Maritime Union of America
Subjects:
Labor unions--Merchant seamen--United States.
Collective bargaining. Merchant marine. United States.
Grievance procedures. Merchant marine. United States.
Merchant marine. United States. Manning of vessels.
Merchant seamen.
Strikes and lockouts. Merchant marine. United States.
Trade- unions. Merchant seamen. United States.
Wages. Merchant marine. United States.
CONTAINER LIST
|
Container
|
Description
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Date
|
|
| Box 1 | Folder 1 |
MEBA - April, May, June
|
1965 |
| Box 1 | Folder 2 |
MEBA - July, August
|
1965 |
| Box 1 | Folder 3 |
Maritime Trades Department Masters, Mates & Pilots National Maritime Union
|
1965 |
| Box 1 | Folder 4 |
American Marine Engineer Department of Labor Diebold Reports Maritime Administration
|
1965 |
| Box 2 | Folder 1 |
American Merchant Marine Institute American Maritime Association
|
1965 |
| Box 2 | Folder 2 |
Newspaper Clippings - June
|
1965 |
| Box 2 | Folder 3 |
Newspaper Clippings - July
|
1965 |
| Box 2 | Folder 4 |
Newspaper Clippings - August
|
1965 |