Curran Resigns
As UMW President
NEW YORK, (/Pi—The resigna
tion of Joseph Curran, president
of the national maritime union
(CIO) as co-chairman of the com-1
mittee for maritime unity was ap- ]
proved by the union membership
at a lengthy meeting after Curran
declared the CMU had “gone off
its course.”
Curran told 2,500 member at
the meeting that “some persons
inside and outside our union want
to take over our union and gun it.”
He did not elaborate on this point.
Curran’s action apparently pre
cipitated an open break between
opposing wings of the NMU lead
ership, with two other national of
ficers supporting him and three
officers in opposition. Jack Law
renson, a vice president, and M.
Hedley Stone, treasurer, upheld
Curran’s resignation, and vice
presidents Joseph Stack and How
ard McKenzie and Ferdinand C.
Smith, national secretary, opposed
it.
The split in the union leadership
had been reported since Curran
several months ago accused Com
munists of trying to take over the
union and of overstaffing it to
provide jobs for their followers.
Curran repeated charges he
i
made when he announced his res
ignation that the CMU had been
dominated by West Coast Mari
time labor interests and had been
outvoted in the committee for,
smaller unions.
He called the members’ atten
tion to a meeting scheduled for
next month in Washington, at'
which representatives of seamen’s
unions will consider unified action
regardless of whether they are
CIO, AFL or independent.
McKenzie, in urging Curran to
reconsider his resignation, said
breaking up of the CMU would
end an organization that had been
“a nightmare to shipowners.”
Stack said the CMU would be
“traveling down a dangerous
road” in folowing Curran. He de
; dared the union was in danger of
“winding up in the hands of the
AFL.”
SEATTLE, i/P)—Unanimous dis
approval of the resignation of
Joseph Curran ASN co-chairman
of the CMU has been voiced by
the 160 members of the NMU here,
Jack Smith, port agent for the
NMU, said.
After a consideration and dis
cussion of statements by Curran
and other national officers, Smith
said the Seattle local unanimously
re-affirmed their 100 per cent sup
port to the program and principles
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ence to any atom bombing tech
nique.
Tae statement was made in com
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for joint training of American and
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of the CMU; instructed the na
tional convention to take neces
sary steps to heal the breach in
maritime unity caused by Joseph
Curran’s unauthorized action;”
and asked immediate election of
another co-chairman.
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