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a Mlle a ee lhe gall, + fisherren or cock rorgars. Lt do very sipnisicant that tie NM, Le groving in the Hampton boucs arga. Another p-robler is th: racial probles - re have u lerpe number of colored seuacn ont colored stewards, The income of the 1.5.U. used to be 2150 to {200 & wack. Nom we say that our income last month waa close to $8,0v0. Ve khve organized lines that Lave never been organized. After four montis of orgéniza~ tionul tork or the coul-boats, re were uble to call oOtrike trikes. 100% ef- fective. Every ship of the 18 that cane into Port a: ining the 8 daya of the strike struck 100%. The men cent back to the ships with an increusa in wages, the Union recognized, Mecters & Pilots noting into the MiP. unc Engineers going into the /.E...4. anc dauio Operators zoing into the a.Nwi.e. The seamen of tie rort of “Yortole ang LL imoricean Beninon "Oe that, throuys this convention «a (ill te able to sut our heads tovether unu work out oo fitting an. proper bonstitution .or th. advance- ment of all American Geunen. ad is ‘ 7 Report of Brother emitl. peat, Gulf District Orga nizer. I has alvays bern thought that the : of the Lykes Shivs were backward, but during tha sirlke and since ner have .roven thot the, are good unios men. After tie strike, the nen vera forvec to snip throuzh the I,o.J, and repudiate the strike anc the rank sag Clb: leadership. It loskec are tty black in the Gulf then, as it ate everyencre. Now, though both they T.G.U. anu the HM. delegates have jusses “0 board the’ Lykes Hrothers auips, the I.G.U. is not mecting with much Success ajc pore anc more men are joining the N.4WU. We ure still week on th \vaverman Lines. coc had trouble sith our Delevutes therg + who ebsconded with #69.00 when he was elected to come to New York to stand trial. I be- lieve the Converition thould set aside come tine to ciscuss especiclly the problem of the tanxers. The Convention should tuke us the natter of Tirancin; the @orts shere the tankers come in, Uoo. Loackt wd irotuer 3. 3 sawtext of Suvancuh, Taorgia, T woule Like to have all men coming inio the fer Charleston and Jacksonville contact ihe Songehorouen. The | Long shoremen down there are very backvard, those in the Union make 407 an hour and those vho ure not make 30¢ an hour. any coopcration from you men on the Shiga *ouli be appreciated. Y Brother adrian Qulfy of the Great Lik: a: Jur usin cirficulty on tre Great lukes is in visiting the ships.