Maritime has a long history of blacklisting

Blacklisting in the maritime industry goes back at least to the McCarthy era of the 1950s. After the start of the Korean War, the imposition of the West Coast Port Security Program cost almost 3,800 seamen and longshoremen their jobs. The Program was the federal government’s attempt to weed out workers connected to organizations believed to have communist ties such as the left-leaning Marine Cooks and Stewards Union. The Canadian government brought in Seafarers International Union enforcer Hal Banks to literally break skulls and break up the “Red” Canadian Seamen’s Union. Though the landmark 1955 Parker vs. Lester (227 F.2d 708) ruling  allowed the reinstatement of mariners by mandating that they be allowed to see the evidence presented against them, many remained permanently on the beach because the staunch anti-communist unions which took over the industry generally kept the former blacklisted mariners out.

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