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9/18/09

Maritime Workers: Volunteers in Spain!

In this volume, there's a small booklet called, A Tribute to American Maritime Workers Who Fought for World Democracy in the Trenches of Spain by Roy Hudson.

Basically the booklet talks how the issues in Spain were seen as affecting the future of democracy in that if Spain fell to facism, then facism's power would increase around the world. I guess you could say they wanted to act like the neighborhood watchers.

It's quite a sad booklet because it shows pictures of dead men who were seamen. Apparently 400 seamen from America joined, which is cool, because you don't hear much about the seamen that participated in the Spanish Civil War, along with the Latin-Americans.

Then there was a news article discussing the aftermaths of the Spanish Civil War for the maritime workers. When the seamen came back, there were no jobs for them left. The honored Lincoln Brigade seamen vets could only get jobs as seamen. They were also given no recognition or public congratulations. The only people who got jobs were those who had been union officials.

Anyways, at the back of the booklet, which I found the most interesting, was a little card that you could fill out. You could option to "Join the Communist Party" or learn more about it. You would have to mail the thing to 35 East 12 Street NY. We should all stop by sometime and see what's up.