Everyone
I joined the American Communication Association, CIO, Marine Dept., which at
the time was the only nation wide union for Marine Radio Officers, after I got
off
my first ship. Joe Selly was the International President of mainly Teletype
Operators and the brothers Murray and Jack Winnocur were President and Vice
President of the R/O division. They hired unemployed Bill Steinberg who had been
an R/O on Airplanes when they were all eleminated as unnecessary.
After the cold war started and Joe McCarthy became dominate, Bill Steinberg
testified before Congress that Selly and the Winnocur brothers were all
communists which they did not deny or confirm taking the 5th Amendment. At the
next election all three lost and Steinberg became President and changed the name
to the American Radio Association (ARA). The same kind of thing happened to
many other unions except to Harry Bridge's International Longshore and
Warehouse
Union (ILWU) which currently ARA is affiliated with, thank god or else there
would
be no ARA.
Apparently the Radio Officer Union (ROU) started later. I remember being told
that
Fred Howe, it's President then referred to ACA as 'Moscow On The Hudson' but
they did no contract negotiations, he simply demanded and got the same contracts
that ACA won, something we would call 'Free Loading'. Tsk, tsk.
Stan the Commie man a nd perhaps the oldest retiree of ACA/ARA?
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