Clarence Reed Papers 1957-1974
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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....
Reed, Clarence, 1909-
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Clarence Reed was born in New York City in 1909. After working at odd jobs in the army, in lumber camps, and on the railroad, he became active in the Unemployed Councils and the Friends of the Soviet Union in the 1930s. He found work with a shipping company during World War II, when he joined the National Maritime Union. After the War, Reed was expelled from the Communist Party and helped establish a rank and file committee in the NMU. The rank and file committee ran slates of candidates against...
