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Under President Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal policy. ![]() A History of Total Health. Lincoln Cushing. Heritage writer. Labor day launchings in Richmond, Calif., Fore . The United States Navy recently announced plans to name the fleet oiler T- AO- 2. San Francisco politician, and Navy veteran Harvey Milk. Several ships in this class commemorate social justice heroes and heroines, including the T- AO 1. USNS Henry J. Kaiser. During World War II, when production was maximized and the workforce was essential to victory, labor and management made great efforts to be as cooperative as possible. On January 1. 2, 1. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt reinstated former President Woodrow Wilson’s National War Labor Board to anticipate and resolve labor- management conflict. Labor Day ship launchings often feted the local labor community, but trade unionism was further elevated during the war by naming Liberty ships after labor leaders. Launching of the SS Andrew Furuseth, Fore . A sixth ship (the SS Samuel Gompers) was launched on June 2. Seven additional ships named for Jewish American labor leaders were launched between January 2. October 1. 3, 1. 94. Labor took the lead in this campaign. In July, 1. 94. 2, the Sailors’ Union of the Pacific petitioned the United States Maritime Commission and the War Shipping Administration for a Liberty ship to be named in honor of Andrew Furuseth, the longtime president of their union. The plea was reported in the Oakland Tribune, July 1. Mariners ask ship to be named for union leader”: Members of the West Coast Local No. National Organization of Masters, Mates, and Pilots of America today petitioned the United States Maritime Commission to name one of the new Liberty ships after Andrew Furuseth, one of the founders of the Sailors Union of the Pacific. In a resolution forwarded by Captain C. F. May, president, the Commission was asked to select one of the ships to be launched on Labor Day, September 7. Captain May told the commission that, if the committee selects a vessel to be named Furuseth, it “will not only be honoring an outstanding labor leader and citizen, but also recognizing the American marine seaman of today for his bravery and sacrifices which he is making to win the war.”Logo, Labor- Management Committee, War Production Drive, 1. On September 7, 1. United States Maritime Commission arranged to have five ships launched that were named for labor leaders. The launch ceremonies, held at four different shipyards around the country, were to be linked by a coast- to- coast broadcast and feature speeches by John P. Frey, an executive of the American Federation of Labor, and John W. Green, president of the Congress of Industrial Organizations. The two organizations would merge in 1. AFL- CIO remains the largest federation of unions in the United States. An Associated Press account described the Labor Day launching event in Baltimore: With thousands of workers looking on, three Liberty ships slid down the ways at the Bethlehem- Fairfield shipyards Monday as the climax to a Labor Day celebration attended by political notables and ranking labor leaders. For the rest, it was just another working day for Bethlehem- Fairfield workers as they followed the lead of other defense industries and stayed at their jobs. Two of the new vessels were christened in honor of outstanding labor leaders and one of them was constructed in the record- breaking time of 3. Yard General Manager J. Willis keynoted the ceremonies when he said “In all the history of America never has there been a Labor Day as significant as this one.”Labor men everywhere, Willis continued, “have turned their parades into the shipyards and other defense industries in order, that not one hour of their productive effort be lost.” John Green, national president of the Industrial Union of Marine and Shipbuilding Workers of America, spoke of the steady growth of unionism. Our organizations are accepted as a necessary part of free American society. Our job now is to demonstrate that we are worthy to inherit the Promised Land made possible by the struggles of our pioneers,” Green said.“Labor to be honored at Friday’s Launching,” The Bos’n’s Whistle, Oregon, 9/9/1. Even as the war wound down, labor was honored. A November 9, 1. 94. Labor to be Honored at Friday’s Launchings” informed readers that “Labor of the entire area will be feted for the part it has played in the Portland- Vancouver Kaiser company shipyards during the war in a huge . Built at Kaiser Richmond shipyard #1; sold to Norwegian interests as Essi, 1. Scrapped in Japan, 1. Norway- born Furuseth (1. American labor leader. He helped build two influential maritime unions: the Sailors’ Union of the Pacific and the International Seamen’s Union. Furuseth served as the executive of both for decades. SS Peter J. Mc. Guire. Built at Kaiser Richmond shipyard #2; scrapped 1. Mc. Guire (1. 85. United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America in 1. American Federation of Labor. He is credited with first proposing the idea of Labor Day as a national holiday in 1. SS James Duncan. Built at Kaiser Oregon Shipbuilding (St. Johns, Ore.); scrapped 1. Duncan was a Scottish- American union leader and president of the Granite Cutters’ International Association from 1. He was an influential member of the American labor movement and helped found the American Federation of Labor. SS John W. Built at Bethlehem- Fairfield Shipyard, Baltimore, Maryland. John W. Brown (1. Canadian- born American labor union leader and executive of the Industrial Union of Marine and Shipbuilding Workers of America. This Liberty ship is one of two still operational (the other being the SS Jeremiah O’Brien, berthed in San Francisco) and one of three preserved as museum ships. Brown is berthed in Baltimore. SS John Mitchell. Built at Bethlehem- Fairfield Shipyard; scrapped 1. Mitchell was a United States labor leader and president of the United Mine Workers of America from 1. A sixth labor ship, launched June 2. SS Samuel Gompers, built at California Shipbuilding Corporation (Calship) in Sausalito. Gompers was the first and longest- serving president of the American Federation of Labor. She replaced a cargo steamship with the same name which had been torpedoed and sunk by a Japanese submarine in the South Pacific on January 3. Seven other Liberty ships launched in 1. Jewish American labor leaders. January 2. 1: The SSBenjamin Schlesinger was launched from the Bethlehem- Fairfield Shipyards. This was followed by the January 2. SSMorris Hilquit. Both were honored for their wartime contribution through the International Ladies Garment Workers Union. The SS Morris Sigman, launched from Baltimore on February 4, honored the former president of the ILGWU, followed by the SSMeyer London, another ILGWU leader. The SS B. Charney Vladekwas launched from the New England Shipbuilding Company in South Portland, Maine, on July 7. She was named for Baruch Charney (1. Vladek” as a nom de guerre surname in Tsarist Russia). Vladek emigrated to America in 1. Jewish labor leader and manager of the Jewish Daily Forward. The SS Abraham Rosenberg was launched from the New England Shipbuilding Company in early October, named for the former ILGWU president. And on October 1. SS Morris C. Feinstone, named for the the late general secretary of the United Hebrew Trades, was launched at the St. John’s shipyards in Florida. AFL President William Green paid tribute to Mr. Feinstone as “a devoted member of organized labor.”Also see: “Liberty and Victory Ships named for African Americans” and”Henry Kaiser and merchant sailors union: the curious case of the SS Pho Pho” about the SS Harry Lundeberg, 1. Photograph of the Essi courtesy Den Norske Libertyflaten, (The American Liberty Fleet and other U. S.- Built Merchant Ships) Vormedal Forlag, Norway, 2. Did you know that Norwegian for “scrapping” is “opphugging”? Short link to this article: http: //k- p. Tags: American Federation of Labor, Baruch Charney Vladek, Bethlehem- Fairfield shipyards, California Shipbuilding Corporation, Harry Lundeberg, ILGWU, Industrial Union of Marine and Shipbuilding Workers of America, International Ladies Garment Workers Union, International Seamen's Union, Jewish labor leaders, John P. Green, National War Labor Board, Portland- Vancouver Metal Trades Council, Sailors' Union of the Pacific, United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America, United Mine Workers of America, USNS Harvey Milk, USNS Henry J.
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