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"Since 1885, the mission remains unchanged: to maintain and develop skill in seamanship, to effect a change in maritime law towards the development of the American Merchant Marine, and to assist the seamen of other countries towards the establishment of the Brotherhood of the Sea."


The ILWU based in Canada walked off the docks for a week, forcing Employers back to the table and a settlement. Back in the U.S., senators opposed to labor brought out anti-stike legislation aimed at longshore workers. The IMO declined to be definitive on ship emissions and alternative fuels while a terrible ship fire caused the tragic deaths of two New Jersey firemen. The improved backlog on MMC credentials was offset by growing passport delays, and we publish Matson wages, look at the sub Titan disaster, and remember the terror of the Union band members of Titanic and Blood Thursday.

Union strikers amid the tear gas, including members of the Sailors’ Union of the Pacific confront police armed with billy clubs and firearms, as spectators watch from safety atop Rincon Hill in San Francisco, on the morning of July 5, 1934.

The Big Strike, as it was known, came in May of 1934, when maritime workers in every US West Coast port walked out for better wages, conditions and Union hiring halls. It reached a momentous turning point with the death of two strikers on July 5, 1934, which was instantly known as "Bloody Thursday." It led to a giant funeral procession and a general strike in San Francisco, where all work was stopped for four days, eventually turning the tide toward Union recognition and control of the hiring process.


A pivotal moment in hard times, a time of deprivation and depression, when workers had no rights: The Big Strike was one of the most important events in world labor history. It had many cascading effects of worker empowerment, making West Coast ports Union havens, and soon became the driving force behind the legislative effort of the Wagner Act in 1935. Known as the National Labor Relations Act, that law recognized the rights of nearly all workers to form or join a Union, the “Magna Carta” of American organized labor still elemental to employment today. They fought and died, and created a better America.

The 4th of July is a day of national observance of the moment of our independence from the British Empire. The date itself comes from the document, boldly inscribed at the top of the parchment: it was July 4, 1776 when the newly formed Second Continental Congress approved of the final wording of the Declaration of Independence. But years of struggle and resistance preceded it, and it June 12, 1775 that the first armed conflict at sea took place, between American merchant mariners and a British warship, in Machias, Maine, only a few months after "the shot heard round the world" was fired at Lexington and Concord. This is how the U.S. merchant marine pre-dates both the U.S. Navy and the nation itself, and fueled by that original American spirit and an ongoing obligation, how we celebrate the holiday.

On June 17, 2021 President Biden signed legislation that made Juneteenth (June 19th) a federal holiday. The holiday's name is a blend of the words "June" and "Ninetheeth," the date of its celebration. The new holiday officially commemorates the ending of slavery in the United States. It derives from the arrival date of Union troops in geographically isolated Galveston Texas on June 18, 1865, when General Granger announced emancipation in the form of "General Order No. 3" which read in part:


"The people of Texas are informed that, in accordance with a proclamation from the Executive of the United States, all slaves are free. This involves an absolute equality of personal rights and rights of property between former masters and slaves, and the connection heretofore existing between them becomes that between employer and hired labor."

The national recognition of the pain and suffering of generations of Black Americans is monumental enough, but the holiday also speaks to honest employment relationships, as the proclamation says. A day's work for a day's pay, and for that, as well as all of the deep historical and social motivations, the SUP celebrates Juneteenth.