Whalen sailed out of New York on one of the merchant ships in the early 1930s, and Charles Rubin, a communist seaman, shipped out with him. Whalen apparently had conflicts with the railroad companies and began a wandering period that ended with him finding work in the engine rooms of merchant ships. Whalen was born in 1884 and followed his father into the locomotive engineers’ union. Only one person could have rallied the Baltimore strikers after two months of privation and the desertion of other waterfront unions. However, by Christmas 1936 ships were leaving Baltimore harbor with full crews, and on January 14 other waterfront unions called off their strikes and ordered their members to return to work. It was led by a rank-and-file committee within the ISU that challenged the legitimacy of the ISU itself. The strike began in early November in sympathy with West Coast waterfront workers. The insurgents within the International Seamen’s Union (ISU) were on the ropes and desperate action was needed to save their rank-and-file caucus. on what became known as the Midnight March of the Baltimore Brigade. Route 1 from Baltimore, Maryland to Washington, D.C. On January 17, 1937, hundreds of striking seamen hiked down U.S.
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