Democracy & Union Conglomerates

At the corner of 15th Street and Union Square West, on June 1, James Morrissey and Ralph Ibrahim, two seamen, watched outside the Amalgamated Bank while bags of ballots were loaded from the vault onto a truck for delivery to the National Maritime Union headquarters where they were to be counted by the Honest Ballot Association. NMU members had voted for national officers by mail during April and May. Morrissey had been bucking the Curran administration since 1966 when he ran for national secr...