Communist Party on the American Waterfront

Revolution, Reform, and the Quest for Power

Inbunden, Engelska, 2019

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In the early years of the Great Depression, the Marine Workers Industrial Union (MWIU) was a colorful presence on the American Waterfront. In 1935, the MWIU seemed to vanish, closing its halls and stopping its publications. Vernon L. Pedersen convincingly demonstrates that the MWIU did not vanish—instead it was ordered by the Moscow-based Communist International to send its members into mainstream ALF unions and take over from the inside. Initiated by accident on the west coast and deliberately duplicated in the east, the Communists seized control of the west coast longshoremen’s union, destroyed the International Seamen’s Union, and created the Communist-dominated National Maritime Union.

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Utgivningsdatum2019-12-20
Mått160 x 229 x 23 mm
Vikt517 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor224
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9781498598019

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Chapter One: Radicals on the Waterfront Chapter Two: The Birth of the Marine Workers Industrial UnionChapter Three: Rivalries and DivisionsChapter Four: A Hamburg DifficultyChapter Five: Eddy, Ralph and JonesChapter Six: The Baltimore SovietChapter Seven: On the EmbarcaderoChapter Eight: The Lessons of the San Francisco General StrikeChapter Nine: The End of the MWIUChapter Ten: The Strike of the SS CaliforniaChapter Eleven: The Birth of the National Maritime Union

Vernon L. Pedersen has diligently mined a host of heretofore untapped and close archival sources to present the first thorough examination of the efforts of the Communist Party of the United States to organize maritime workers in the 1930s. His careful evaluation of their successes and failures offers both a correction to previous interpretations and reveals insights into the internal conflicts and rivalries in the Party and among those trying to organize a radical union.