the Supreme Court , in the year of our Lord 1897 , upheld imprisonment fo r qui tting a ship , which in pl ain language spell s involuntary servitude, a thing supposedl y not tolerated in the United States since the Civil War. The authority under whic h the Court acted? The Consolat de Mar, a maritime code evolved 12001400AD in Catalonia to set rul es for the burgeoning medieval sea trades of the Mediterranean. Stephen Schwartz, veteran of merchant marine service in the 1970s, and of work in railroad labor unions since, labored some years to produce this sweeping history of a hundred years of the maritime labor movement on the West Coast-a work that also sheds interesting light on East Coast labor history . The National Society's founding trustee Karl Kortum , Chief Curator of the National Maritime Museum , San Francisco, worked with Schwartz from his own knowledge of the movement and the conditions of seafaring. The result is a powerful and compelling history that does a much to fill a long-felt gap--a gap resulting fro m the absence of any gatheri ng-up of the strands of the long fight for social justice and fa ir working conditions aboard the ships the of US merchant marine. Some of these ships earned the name " blood boat" from the conditions of unspeakable brutality prevailing aboard. This was no figure of speech but a recorded reality-blood literally spilled on deck by
A. T. Pouch Endowment Fund In me mory of A. Timoth y Po uch , Jr., an endo wme nt fund has been set up to ensure the future of the National Soc iety . Thi s fund is espec ially suitabl e fo r bequests, and me mbe rs may want to conside r leav ing a gift to the NMHS . Bequests of thi s sort can decrease or eliminate Federal and State estate a nd inheritance taxes while benefittin g the Soc iety. A bequest can be a sum of money, shares of stock , o r othe r property; or it can be all or a portion of what remains after other gifts have been made . For more in fo rmatio n call o r write: John H . Reill y, Jr. , Esq . c/o Natio nal M aritime Hi storical Soc iety Mr. Re illy, an atto rney and trustee of the Society, w iII answer your questi ons.
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