Jake Green National Maritime Union Photographs 1943-1947

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Jake Green National Maritime Union Photographs 1943-1947

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Jake Green was a member of the National Maritime Union (NMU). The collection contains ten photographs concerned with the NMu, including images of the union’s national conventions and officials, as well as Baltimore local NMU officials and events.

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Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives

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Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives

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National Maritime Union

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The National Maritime Union (NMU) was an American labor union founded in May 1937 representing workers in the merchant marine. It affiliated with the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) in July 1937. After a failed merger with a different maritime group in 1988, the union merged with the Seafarers International Union of North America in 2001....

Penman, Bill

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Postek, Stanley, 1912-1991.

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Stanley Postek was born Ladislaus J. Szeliga on February 5, 1912, in Lowell, Massachusetts. Mr. Postek was a visible unionist throughout his life. He left school in the mid-thirties and went to the sea. He was a union organizer for the International Seamen's Union of America at the age of twenty-five, and as the rank and file broke away to form the National Maritime Union, so did he. Shortly thereafter, he volunteered for the Abraham Lincoln Brigade serving in Spain. In World War Tw...

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Frederick Douglass (Ship)

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Drury, James.

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Lawrence, Josh.

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Gordon, Eddie

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Green, Jake

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Jake Green was a member of the National Maritime Union (NMU). The NMU, founded in 1937, organized seamen and waterfront workers. During its first decade it was one of the most radical labor unions in the United States. It lent support to anti-colonial and international revolutionary struggles and was a pioneer in integrating the East Coast shipping industry. The Communist Party was a moving force behind the union during much of its early history. From the description of Jake Green Na...

Boano, Danny

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Cayton, Revels

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Mulzac, Hugh, 1886-1971

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