On Mar 17, 2014, at 9:56 AM, Louis Proyect <[email protected]> quoted: > Furthermore, the invention of the oil tanker and > large-scale container ships contributed to the restriction of unionized > power.
Growing up, a good friend of mine was the son of the president of the Seafarers International Union, Paul Hall. (The SIU was the anti-communist alternative to the National Maritime Union.) He claimed to have co-invented the container ship along with the head of SeaLand, a major early container shipper. Merchant mariners don't like longshoremen, or didn't when I spent a few summers as one, because they stole everything on the ship that wasn't nailed down. So putting longshoremen out of work wasn't a concern of the SIU. Doug _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
