http://seafarerslog.org/archives/files/original/5b39636d1f01b8094a7881c0efe77d97.PDF 8422ee0d4bd08b503fad91413ec99e90 PDF Text Text ' J,:JS!a, LOG • OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE SEAFARERS INTERNATIONAL UNION • ATLANTIC AND GULF DISTRICT • AFL • BUCKO TANKER CO. / Win Agreement^ Kill $300G Suit -Story On Page 3 s^*'. On Thn firirLc Shipyard workers %/n r fie OriCI^S. stay out as a fullyma:nned Seafarer's picket line (above) outside the Bethlehem Shipyard in Brooklyn protests refusal of Valentine Tankers to hire SIU crewmembers. At left, coffee and doughnuts are distributed to pickets coming off the line. Company yielded after nine days of round-the-clock picketing and agreed to sign contract with the Union for its tanker operations. (Story On Page 3.) Aid For Korea. • Seafarers aboard the New Rochelle Victory look on as US Senator William Knowland Of California speaks at ceremonies marking the first shipment of food under the new Korean aid program. The vessel, operated by the SIUcontracted South Atlantic SS Co., is carrying a cargo of 8,000 tons of rice. (Story On Page 2.) V I 1 �Pa^e Twa : . SEAFARERS LOG ' f' '' Ancnst 21,195V r ^.- •••V- . ...; NewBasicShippingLaw SeenLikely:Sen.Potter By Senator Charles E. Potter, Chairman Special Subcommittee on Maritime Subsidies Long before the birth of; this nation as a free and independent republic, the diependence of the American colonies upon merchant shipping was fully recognized. One of the earliest acts of the Congress of the young nation was the enactment of.legislation to assure the maintenance and, therefore,-*the availability in time of need, of domestic shipping. And beginning with the Merchant Marine Act, 1920, with reaffirma­ tion in the pre­ amble to the 1928 act, and careful spelling out in the preambles to the Merchant A group of crewmembers fnua the New ROehelle Victory pose dockMarine Act, 1936 \ side with SIU Sao Francisco port agent, Tom Banning (standing, and the Merchant Ship Sales Act third from ieft). Banner along ship's side proclaims its mercy mis­ sion to Korea. of 1946, the Con­ gress has made it clear that as a matter of national policy the United States must have a strong and efficient merchant marine suf­ ficient to meet the needs of our water-borne commerce. A mer­ chant marine that would also be capable of expansion in time of war to meet our national defense OAXLAND, Calif.—With US and Republic of Korea flags requirements and "composed of hanging from her bridge, the SlU-manned New Rochelle the best equipped, safest, and most Victory left Oakland with the first load of food for Korea. suitable types of vessels, con­ Senator Charles Potter (left), chairman of the Special S^iatc The Government-owned Vic-*' — structed in the United States and Subcommittee on Maritime Subsidies, presides at a meeting of his manned with a trained and effi­ committee. At right is committee counsel John Drewry. tory ship, chartered to the supplies will be included in future cient citizen personnel." South-Atlantic Steamship shipments, although food is the After being discharged with the Company, carried a cargo of 8,000 most pressing need at the ijaoment. Senator Charles E. Potter, chair­ Proved In War The soundness of these expres­ man of the Special Senate Sub­ rank of major he was elected to tons of rice to help relieve critical Oakland's Mayor, Clifford B. sions of policy was plainly proved committee on Maritime Subsidies Congress twice, in 1948 and 1950, food conditions in the war-torn Rishell, presided at the shoreside. In World War II when a modest and author of the adjoinmg article, and in 1952 was elected to the US country. ceremony. The audience was ad­ US Senator William Knowland, dressed by consul general Young but modern nucleus maritime in­ has had a distinguished career in Senate. dustry, of ships, sTiipbuilding fac­ the armed forces and public life. The special counsel for the sub­ Republican of California, headed Han Choo, and C. Tyler Wood, ilities and trained management He first attracted widespread pub­ committee, John Drewry, has a a group of dignitaries, including American economic coordinator in with the highly essential skills of lic attention-in a special 1947 Con-, wide background in the maritime representatives from the armed Korea. . our American shipbuilding and gressional election in Michigan, field. From lOSV to 1939 he was forces, at pierside pre-sailing cere­ In his remarks. Senator Knowseagoing labor was available for when despite the loss of both legs connected witl^ a New Yofk ad­ monies on Tuesday afternoon, land cited the shipments as proof quick expansion to meet the un­ in World War II he campaigned miralty law firm, a position he left August 11. Speakers at the cere­ that the US is prepared to back precedented shipping and ship­ energetically and successfully on to serve in the legal division of the monies reiterated this country's up its words with deeds. Similar building demands of the War. We the Republican ticket for a seat in old Maritime Commission for eight determination to follow through on sentiments were expressed by were able to serve not only our the House. years. a reconstruction program for the Wood. own military supply needs but Senator Potter at 37 is one of In 1949 he resumed Government South Korean republic. The Korean consul general most of those of our allies as well. the youngest men to serve in the service as assistant counsel and Congress Voted Aid thanked the US for the gift and In the more recent history of Senate., He entered the US Army later counsel for the House Mer­ The New Rochelle Victory's pointed out that there were ten Korea, there was never a ton of in May, 1942, as a private. He was chant Marine Committee, from cargo is part of a 9200 million al­ million Koreans in dire need of cargo seriously delayed because of seriously wounded three times in January, 1949, to February, 1953. lotment voted by the US Congress. food and other supplies to keep a lack of merchant shipping. Our combat in Europe, the third injury He has been special counsel for Industrial equipment and other going and reestablish themselves. pre-World War II planning and making 'necessary amputation of the Potter subcommittee since ;o u r wartime expansion had both his legs. April of this year. equipped us for the Far Eastern emergency. The same was true in the purchase of our war- fore the special subcommittee. It the carrying out of the rehabflita- through built ships and in addition re­ was our feeling, which we believe" tion programs for the devastated ceived substantial services from the results to date have justified, countries of Europe and Asia who our own United States flag ship­ that the important first step was wore able to build their warto consider what kind of merchant damaged merchant marilfes ping. The record looks fine. But there marine the United States has and are unmistakable signs that our what it ought to have for our se­ CHICAGO—The Executive Council of the American Fed­ American merchant marine can curity and essential commerce. stand a long, hard look right now Not until such a quantitative and eration of Labor.has voted the suspension of the International Aaq. 21. 1953 Vol. XV. Mo. 17 —before it is too late. qualitative analysis of the size and Longshoremen's Association for failure to carry out a pro­ ;— » As I See It ..Page 4 It was in the light of these signs composition of our national mari­ posed clean-up of its ranks in-* Committees At Work Page 6 that the late ^stinguished junior time requirements is made, can we New York City. The suspen­ At the same time. President Ei­ Crossword Puzzle Page 12 Senator from New Hampshire, intelligently determine what kind sion recommendation was senhower has signed a bill passed Editorial Page 13 Hon. Charles W. Tobey, Chairman and how much aid should be pro­ issued on Tuesday^ August 11, af­ by Congress, authorizing the states Foc'sle Fotographer Page 19 of the Senate Committee on Inter­ vided by Federal legislation. ter the Council heard a report by of New York ,and New Jersey t® Galley Gleanings ..Page 20 state and Foreign Commerce, ap­ the ILA leadership on steps that take control of longshore activi­ Are Laws Adequate? Inquiring Seafarer Page 12 pointed a special i^ubcommittee, of The next major series of hear­ had been taken up until now to ties In the Port of New York In The Wake Page 12 which I am proud to be chairman, ings the subcommittee will eliminate the taint of crime and through a bl-state. agency. The Labor Round-Up Page 13 to make a compilehensive study of be onbefore the subject of existing legis­ r^keteering from the New York agency will begin operating on Letters Pages 21, 22 the overall maritime situation. lation and its effectiveness December 1 of this year. as an City locals of the dock union. Maritime Page 16 The other members of the sub­ instrument to meet our national It appears certain at this time Suspension of the ILA was an Meet The Seafarer Page 12 committee, are Hon. John Marshall goals. The basic shipping act im­ that the Executive Council's ac­ outgrowth of orders issued by the On The Job Page 16 Butler of Maryland and Hon. War­ plementing our national policy is tion will be ^stained by the com­ Executive Council's mid-winter Personals Page 23 ren G. Magnuson of Washington, the Merchant Marine Act, 1936, ing AFL convention, scheduled meeting last February, The Coun­ Quiz Page 19 both of whom are intensely inter­ for September 1. cil then instructed the ILA to (Continued'on page 17) Seafarers In Action Page 16 ested in the problems of our mer­ clean., up the port of New York or Ship's Minutes Pages 24, 25 chant marine. Counsel to the sub­ face suspension from the AFL. In SIU History Cartoon r.Page 9 committee is John M. Drewry who suspending the ILA now, the Sports Line ...Page 20 served during the 81st and 82nd Council indicated that it was not Ten Years Ago Page 12 Congresses as counsel to the House satisfied with steps taken thus far The SIU Welfare Flan office wishes to remhid Seafarers and Top Of The News Page 7 Committee on Merchant Marine to improve conditions in the port. their families that no lawyers are needed to collect any SIU WeiUnion Talk "... .Page 9 and Fisheries. Should no ihajor change take fare Plan benefit. Some cases have arisen in recent months in Wash. News Letter ...Page 6 its first hearing in May/- which lawyers were engaged, .^he only .result was a delay in col­ place in the situation by the time Welfare Benefits ... Pages 26, 27 theSince subcommittee has made much the convention rolls around, it haa lection of benefits and a charge against the benefit for lawyers' Welfare Report Page 8 progress in the gathering of mate­ fees.. • • been predicted that the AFL Will Your Constitution Page 5 rial through testimony of many expel the ILA and issue new chart­ It's emphaisized that the Welfare Plan was designed froqi. the Your Dollar's Worth .Page 7 jDUtstanding the witnesses from all ers to those local unions of dockbeginning to provide simple and speedy payment of all_benefit " '' PublUhaii biw«eKiy at fha headquarter* workers who want to stay with the .. of the Soafaren International Union, At- segments of the industry and claims, so as to bypass lawyers and.Jegal fees. Any applicgtlfltflwr iantic « Cult District, AFL, i7S Fouifth labor,, as well as from officials, of Federation, .eventually foming, a Avenue Brooklyn 32, NY. Tel. STerllng benefits should be made directly to the Seafarers Welfa^ BkM* .Sntorod. as saeond class matter the. interested (government depart­ new inteniational union in the ,at H Broadway, by the individual involved^ ^ ^ V at Vtho Vest Offlco in Brodklyn,- NY, ments.' No legislation has been be­ field.- SIU Ship Carries 1st Korea Kelief AFL,Council Suspends Longshoremen's Union SEAFARERS LOG NO LAWYERS NEEDED 'k" �SEAFARERS Aamrt 21, 1952 LOG :Mt\ '-••Ml rtm Thrf M ••:m •••p| •m ii v?SSl i ) . :| Law and order la In evidence as a section of tiie SIU picketline makes a turn in front of the gate, of the Bethlehem Shipyard in Brooklyn. The JCIO Shipyard Workers refused to cross the mass SIU picketlines, refusing to enter the yards to do any work as long as the picketline remained. New Tankship Co. Defies SIU; Tamed By Solid Tie-Up V Norwegian Hospital doctor ,(top photo) hei^fs S^farer Aussie Shrirapton Into emergencr ward after Shrimpton was , run down by Valentine TankenC port engineer's car as he was walk}ng on the SlU picketline. Shipyard workers (above) talk over the SlU's beef as they stand outside the gates, refusing to cross the SIU picketline. The Seafarers International Union, Atlantic & Gulf District, smashed its way through to a complete victory this week over a newly-orgaidzed tanker operator who pull^ every trick in the book to keep from signing an SIU contract. The Valentine Tankers Corporation threw in the sponge and agreed to sign an SIU contract after it became clear that a last-minute contract with the National Mari­ time Union, €10, would^ company $300,000 lawsuit, Bethlehem shipyard in BrookkpB not save it from bargaining charges before the NLRB and where the ship was being over­ the running down of two SIU pick­ hauled. with the SIU. Likewise ets The Valentine Company, which by a company representative's futile against the SIU were a car. An important factor in the nineday arou:id-the-clock picketing vic­ tory was the soiid support of the rank-and-file CIO shipyard work­ ers, AFL tugboatmen and other Union and company representatives prepared to enter full-scale bargaining sessions in maritime unionists. They refused the near future after a preliminary meeting held in Union headquarters, Monday, August 10. to touch the company's ship—^the Val Chem—as long as the SIU had As in previous years, arrangements have been made to deal with the freight companies pickets outside the gates of the Stage Set For New Pact Talks first. Tanker negotiations will in all probability be taken up after the freight talks are • well under way, or have been completed. SIU - contracted dry cargo shipowners have selected a commit­ tee of five to represent them in negotiations with the Union. Thb committee consists of Max Harri­ son, Waterman Steamship Com­ pany; R. Schilling, Alcoa Steamship Company; Captain Milton Williams, Bull Line; Charles Logan, Missis­ sippi Shipping Company, and Don­ ald Smith, Seatrain Lines. Procedures Set The first meeting between the Union and^the operators dealt,in the main with the procedure to be followed in the negotiation sessions. At future meetings the Union will present its demands which are currently in the process of preparation. . Last year, the Union re-wrote both its dry cargo and tanker agreements and standardized them. As a result of the sweeping revi­ sions of the contract then, it is expected that this year's negotia­ tions will center on wage, rates and various fringe benefits, as well as on those clauses in which hitches have developed, such as the ond covering monOy draw^-in foreign ports. ' , Paul<Hall (right, at table), SIU secretary-treasurer, and Sonny Simmons and Joe Algina (left and center at table) SIU asst. secretary-treasurers, address the group of shipowners called to a meeting to open nego^atlonS for a hew SIU contract. The meeting set a program for negotiations, which will deal with i operates a fleet of tugj and barges, purchased the tanker a few months ago from SOcony and was having it remodeled for use as a combined petroleum and liquid chemical car­ rier, the start of a new type oper­ ation in the tanker field. The SlO had been in touch with the com­ pany and had been assured that when the company started opera­ tions it would hire an SIU crew. However, while the company was readying the ship for service, it stalled the SIU repeatedly on hiring Seafarers for the crew and rejected Seafarers who applied fpr jobs with the company. When it became evident that the company was giving the Seafarers the runaround, the Union's picket appa­ ratus swung into action. The call went out for pickets and mocp than enough men came forward to keep the lines fully-manned at all times. Workers Stay Out As soon as pickets appeared, CIO shipyard workers coming in on the next shift balked at going through the lines. This situation held throughout the strike despite intense pressure applied on tho shipyard workers by the Bethle­ hem Company and by Valentine. The 500 rank and file workers in the yard refused to a man to go into the yard and touch-the ship. Sipiilarly, harbor tugmen, mem­ bers of the United Marine Divi­ sion, indicated that they too would not put a line aboard the ship w long as SIU pickets were there. Meanwhile the SIU's picket mo> chinery was working with welloiled precision. A full complemeHt v of pickets was maintkined at iContinubd on pkgb ill •ml •<il �• I-' hi Pare Four '.V. V "• •- rvM -i-'. • r; 'Si %' SEAFAItElLS ton Aiinut2M95S- Brfdiaer Crew Pays Off Inilnlon^Hq As 1 See it Usually a crew pays off on the ship, but when the Fort Bridget (US Petroleum) tied up in Curacao and the crew was flown home; the payoff was held right in the Union's Brooklyn headquarters. At left, Seafarer Edward Barbey, AB, gets his money from the company paymaster. At right, several more crewmembers wait their turn (left to right), Phil Nadelberg, AB; Harry Saltzman, MM; Fred Shuler, -AB; Ed Morgan, FOW; S. A. Forsolos, AB; George Harris, AB. Reader's Digest Lauds SIU A laudatory portrait of the SIU, Atlantic & Gulf District's operations, entitled "The Amazing Seafarers Union" is appearing in the September issue of the nationally and internationally-read magazine "The Reader's Digest," on sale on the newstands tomorrow. The article, introduced by^ the statement "Here's a labor cotics in his car, a frame-up which to question their officers on the organization that is run for its failed to take. "On the morning disbursement of union funds, to members by its members—and of January 21, 1949," the article accept or reject the leaders' lethey've made it off bounds for states, "the Bureau of Narcotics in ports. gangsters," was written by the na­ New York received an anonymous Self-Nomination tionally-syndicated columnist, Vic­ telephone tip that 50 ounces of tor^ Riesel. It praises the SIU's smuggled heroin was hidden imder "The Log actually informs each democratic operations, its effi­ a sofa pillow in Hall's living room. AFL sailor that he can nominate ciency and its militant activities "The agents drove out imme­ himself at any meeting, held man­ datorily every two weeks in all on behalf of rank and file seamen. diately. In the glove compartment ports, for membership on a com­ of Hall's car they found two en­ mittee to investigate the leaders Frame-Up Attempts It wasn't easy for the SIU to ar­ velopes filled with heroin worth or any of the union's policies, ac­ rive at its present status, the ar­ $2,000. A lengthy investigation tivities or expenditures. Before ticle points out. Both the Com­ proved that the dope had been each meeting a statement of their munist waterfront apparatus and planted.. rights is read to the sailors." The SIU's record as "one of the other illicit waterfront outfits have Furthermore, it emphasizes, the attempted to block and destroy nation's cleanest and most demo­ Union assures proper management the SIU, but without success. One cratic unions" comes in for con­ of its affairs by hiring trained ac­ such attempt took the form of a siderable praise. "Seafarers' lead­ countants arid experts. "The Sea­ frame-up of SIU Secretary-Treas­ ers," the article states, "constantly farers business department resem­ urer Paul Hall by planting nar­ urge their own followers to vote. bles the accounting division of a. large corporation. The comptroll­ er, a former business executive, has a staff of accountants, legal aides, efficiency experts." While making every effort to keep its, own house clean, the Di­ gest readers are told that the SIU has made efforts to eliminate un­ desirable conditions existing else­ Mobile's recording secretary at Seattle, although he still has a soft where on the waterfront. The Un­ their last membership meeting was spot in his heart for all the boys ion "proposed a ten-point program, Charles D. Merrill. He joined the back in Philadelphia. the first item of which was a 'Guar­ SIU in Philadelphia on November Wilson sails in the engine de­ antee of Internal Democracy in All 28,1942, and usu­ partment, holding ratings as fire- Local Unions' for every Interna­ ally sails as AB man-oiler-watertender. He will be tional labor outfit on the water­ and bosun. 26 years old this Coming August front. Union membership meet­ Merrill, who is 28. ings would be held 'at least once a native of Ala­ The reading clerk at that same a month,' with written financial bama, makes his Seattle meeting was Seafarer Ray and secret balloting. home in Mobile. Queen, a native West Virginian statements Any union official caught demand­ He is married who gave up the ing or receiving kickbacks from andhas one hills for salt maritime workers, stealing cargo, child. Being a water. Ray's an­ or terrorizing dock-wallopers or married man, he other of the seamen Into borrowing money Merrill i s particularly many A&G sea­ from loan sharks.. .would be ex­ enthusiastic about the Union's Va­ men who have pelled. ..Jobs would be handed cation Plan which gives him and gone to the West out on a rotating list, not at the other Seafarers the opportunity to Coast for their whim of a foreman..." spend more time ashore than they ships. He joined Traf^g Classes .. could otherwise. the SIU in New York in 1943 but Queen It's pointed out that the SIU en­ t. i t. in the past two courages seamen who have leader­ There's quite a few father and son combinations sailing with the years has stayed close by the West ship qualities to attend classes in SIU these days, and one-half of Coast for good shipping, good public speaking, parliamentary such a combination. Seafarer weather and fat payoffs. Queen is procedure and labor relations -at Eugene Wilson, served as record­ 29 years old, and sails in the deck the Union's headquarters. ."Thus ing secretary of the Seattle mem­ department. men are trained , nbt only to lead bership meeting on July 29. in union affairs but to cope with 4" 4 Wilson's father was one of the Handling the reading clerk's any emergency at sea." charter members of the SIU, and chores in Philadelphia was Jimmy The SIU's subsidiary operations, the son followed in the father's McPhaul, a veteran Seafarer who including the cafeteria .and Sea footsteps virtually as soon as he sails in the steward's department. Chest come in for praise, as well was old enough to go to sea. He Jinimy was biuii in Florida 34 as the Union's building program id»rted with the SIU in 1946 and years ago, and joined the' SIU on and the- rotary hiring system, de­ sailed East Coast for about four July 24, 1939 in JacksonviUe, He signed to-insure distribution of years. Then he went West in 1950 and his wife npwjnake their.home Jobs on a .fiinrtrcoine, ^first^eerved jmd now ships regtUarly put nf in Philad^phia. basis. • • J' IN RECENT YEARS YOUR UNION-HAS NOT OFTEN FOUND IT nectary to make uSepf its full economic strength in its dealings with shipowners. Most of the operators accept the fact that the SIU is here to represent their erewmeinbers and deal with the Union accordingly, aware that they are doing business with a militant organization that will protect the rights and privileges of its membership at al times. However once in a while we run into a company that attempts to avoid relationships with the Uniop. Behind such a company, maneuver is an obvious attempt to side-atep Union conditions and weaken the Union's position In the industry. It's easy to see that youp'Union, or any other union for that matter, could not let such a challenge pass without taking action. That's the kind of situation the SIlJ was faced witb in our beef with Valentine Tankers. Sets Up a Pattern As you" know now, we won that beef and our brothers are now man­ ning the ship in question. While this may appear on the surface to be just a wrangle with one company, it's actually a lot more important than that. What happens in one situation seems to set up a pattern that lias widespread effects throughout the industry. ' The one thing that this beef proved without a doubt, was that the SIU was ready to. take action when ^ the monieht for action came. Soine people might have thought that we would be a little rusty because your Union hasn't had too many beefs of this kind recently. But as the record shows in this case, we can handle a beef Just Ss well, or better,, now as we could at any rime in the past. We're by no means rusty as Valentine has learned. And any other outfit that might be tempted to try us out at one time or another will find that we are equally prepared to go to the mat with them when it comes to matters affecting the wellbeing of seamen represented by the SIU. That's because your Union' has always been aware that .protection of the membership is a 36&-day a year job. The SIU is always main­ taining its machinery in a state of readiness for anything that might arise. We're quite confident that wherever it is and whenever it is, we'll be able to take care of it in solfd SIU style. t- 4. t- A GREAT DEAL OF EMPHASIS HAS BEEN PLACED BY YOUR Union on the importance of maintaining the hiring hall system.. And rightly so, because the rotary hiring hall is the basis of any democratic method of awarding jobs in an industry like ours. Whether it's in maritime, construction work, or any other field in which a man nor­ mally goes from one job to another, a fair system of rotary hiring is absolutely essential. Without such a system, a worker often finds himself at the mercy of some kind of hiring boss, who has control over the man's opportunity for employment. And sinc^ the man goes from job to jbb, that kind of control can rest pretty heavily on the shoulders of the man in ques­ tion. . ^ There's plenty of Seafarers around who remember the days when the crimps, boarding house keepers and shipping masters had the jobs under their thilmb, and the average seamen had to shell out plenty for the privilege of making just one trip. When he got off the trip, he had to go back to the crimp again or forget about working. The re­ sult was it was the crimp who made a living while the seamen sweated trip after trip to pay off the burden. , Answer To Hiring Problem In the maritime industry particularly, the hiring hall has proved to be ^the answer to the industry's problem of getting competent professional seamen to crew the ships, while giving every working sea­ man equal opportunity for employment. Even the author of the Taft-Hartley Law, the late Senator Robert Taft felt that maritime, the building trades and other industries of like nature should have a hiring hali. Others in positions of authority have expressed the same idea. As a matter of far.L, the Congress lias Just recently passed legislation ap­ proving a Government hiring hall system to be operated by the states of New York and New Jersey on the docks in the port of New York. And this legislative action was taken with the full knowledge and approval of the state governments involved. Of coiuTse your Union has been strongly opposed to any. state or federal government control of the hiring of. workers in any industry. But while we disapprove of the role of the state governments in this instance, the fact remains that what they are setting iip is a hiring hall system to solve the problems of employment on the docks. Many efforts have been made from time to time in various areas to do away with the hiring halls in industries of this kind. Every such attempt to operate without a hiring hall has broken down to the detri­ ment of the workers and the industries involved. Those who are look­ ing for the correct answer to the hiring problem in maritime can fiiid it nowhere but in the hiring hall and the rotary hiring system. 4« t 4) RECENTLY A PASSENGER ABOARD THE ALAWAI, ONE OF TBDI many dry cargo ships that cany passengers, wrote "warm words of praise about the kind of sejwice she received from Arthur Rummeli the steward,, and the entire stewards department. -When it came to food, sendee and general all around efficiency, this passenger said there was nothing to beait'the treatment accorded her by the Seafarers ( on that vessel. Further, she wrote, her sentiments were shared by all of the otherpassengers on the trip into the West Coast from the Far East. As a result all concerhed had a very pleasant voyage, and left the ship with warn/memories the fipe service they had received. The SIU has always been proud of the fact that its ranks consist of competent, professional seamen who are specialists at their trade and who can handle their Jobs as riiey should be^ handled. It all goes band lir hand witlb the fgot that the SIU offei^$7the h^st of .shipbM and Uvind 'cyndliionsi epjktra«Hs ">nd '^hoi^)a4ife faciiltiig|^ ly �Angml th IMS SEAFARERS LOG Par* fir* New Hall Takes Shape Atlantic SlU Men Voted :v'!|'*' • ' •y-'-' Union Welfare Coverage Atlantic tankermen received their first installment on the promised benefits of an SIU contract, when membership meetings in all ports voted to extend SIU welfare benefits to all SIU members sailing in the Atlantic fleet. The benefits, will be Underwritten by th« SIU pending the signing of a'" contract with the Atlantic men in Atlantic, wak submitted to Several SIU members in Atlan­ the membership by SIU Secretary- tic have received SIU welfar* Refining Company. As a result, the SIU men In the fleet are nW eligible for the $15 weekly hospital benefit, the $200 maternity benefit, the $25 weekly disability benefit and the $6,000 four-year scholarship award. Their beneficiaries will be able to collect the $2,500 death benefit in the event of death. All of these bene­ fits will be retroactive to June 2, 1953, the date that the SIU formal­ ly petitioned for recognition as bargaining agent for Atlantic tankerman. Benefits w^ll continue for those tankermen who remain SIU mem­ bers in good standing, li^en At­ lantic signs an SIU contract, or when the individual SIU member goes into the employ of another SIU company, he will be covered by these same benefits through the SIU Welfare Plan. , The resolution covering SIU sV"«r' iob hold®"' „Offic®"^on«r 1® a. whether eleded of th® riSuhed to be Union, pnoY^ bonded • • • , This provision is designed to protect your property — the Union's cosh and possessions. Bonding of officers and employees who handle the cash means that the Union, and the membership, are fwUy insured against possible misuse of these, funds. / Army fines SIU Man $150 for Tardiness ' " >hi of Pusan, Korea, for being ashore but so far has received no satis­ a few minutes over the 10 p.m. faction on that score. The Union's curfew. Washington office is making every News of,Nottage's case follows effort to get a sympathetic hearing upon the story in the SEAFARERS on the issue, so as to try to squar* LOG of July 24,-revealing that away this problem. the Navy in Inchon had posted regulations providing fines and court-martials of seamen up to $150.00 for every hour of leave over-stayed—the fine to be worked off at hard labor at the rate of $1 a day. Had To Sign Statement Apparently the armed forces in Pusan are applying a similar regu­ lation, although In this instance they took Nottage's money in lieu of confinement at hard labor. Not­ tage in fact, had to sign a standard Federal agents have seized two form, LCPM Form 412, dated June SlU-manned vessels, the Coe Vie3, 1953, authorizing the wage de­ tcry and the Longview Victory, duction "as payment of a fine in claiming that the ships are owned lieu of confinement at hard labor and operated by aliens represent­ incurred by me a*s a result of ing themselves as US citizens. Army Court-Martial." Both ships, operated by Victory Nottage, a member of the crew Carriers, Inc., and were seized In of the Cuba Victory, was picked California ports. up by the Military Police a few US Attorney Lloyd Burks minutes after the curfew. First charged that when the Coe Victory Lieutenant John Willis of the MP was sold to Victory Carriers in company imposed the fine.. July, 1949, under the Ship Sales When Nottage complained that Act, it was purchased in violation it was a pretty steep fine for such of the law by persons represent­ minor offense, the lieutenant ing themselves as Americans. told him that he had a copy of the Actually, he said, they were front­ ship's crew list showing how much ing for "certain alien interests." wages and bonus each crewmemOnassis Named ber had coming to him. The Army He included among the alien in­ fined, he said, according to what terests supposedly in control of the man made and not according the vessel the multi-millionairs to what the offense was. Greek shipowner, A. S. Onassis. Since Nottage was sailing as 2nd Onassis is reputed to have owner­ electrician, one of the best-paid ship of more than 300 merchant ratings on the - ship, he was hit ships under various flags. He re­ with a stiff fine according to the cently purchased the Monte Carlo Army's way of figuring things. gambling casino. Resented Civilians. Apparently the charges on the Apparentlj', Nottage reported, Longview Victory are the same as the lieutenant seemed to resent those in the case of the Coe Vic­ the fact that seamen are earning tory. a good living as civilians and was The two seizures were the 25th looking for any excuse to take it and 26th of a series of similar out on any civilian. seizures by the Department of To add to their rough treatment, Justice and the Treasury Depart­ the Army jugged Nottage over­ ment in an effort to regain Ameri­ night and all the next day In an can flag vessels supposedly un­ old Korean jail cell. There were der alien control. In previous no blankets, no sheets and no seizures, the ships have been per­ sanitary facilities, for him and the mitted to continue sailing, subject other men confined in the prison. to Government approval and final The SIU has taken up the ques­ court decisions on the seiizur* tion of mistreatment of merchant cases. US Charges Aliens Own 2 SIU Ships YOifc (!$G«TS::ANC : OlfARAHtSED BY: YOiiR coMsnturiON. : TMfi?:: «S TO: • YOV- WrtH; THESE: SSOHTS: AHIT From Article XXVIil benefits in the past because of time they spent sailing on SIU ships. The latest step by the SIU extends this coverage to all SIU members in the fleet, whether or not they ever worked aboard any SlU-contracted vessel. Atlantic men are urged to get in touch with SIU organizers for th* purpose of filling out beneficiary^ cards. If any of them have been in the hospital since June 2, or have become fathefs since that date, they can get information on applying for' benefits due from shoreside SIU organizers and rep­ resentatives. The first reported case of a Seafarer court-martialed and fined under new regulations governing shore leave in Korea has come to light. Seafarer Anthony Nottage was given a drumhead court-martial and • ^ fined $150.00 in lieu of 150 seamen by the armed forces with days of hard labor in the port defense officials in Washington, The entire character of the out­ side of the building which will be the new SIU Baltimore hall is changing" as work progresses on what will be one of the most mod­ ern union buildings In the coun­ try. An entire new roof structure (picture above) has been added to provide shelter for what will be used as a glassed-in, sheltered sun deck at the top of the building, while windows are being closed up and ripped out to fit in with the entirely new design that is planned for the structure. - As the work proceeds, and it is right on schedule so far, SIU of­ ficials such as Earl Sheppard, Bal­ timore port agent, check the blue­ prints and specifications. At right, Sheppard (left) checks with one of the supervisors on the job. It is expected that most of the electrical and mechanical installa­ tions will be completed in the near future. The new Baltimore hall Is part of the Union's program of supply­ ing comfortable facilities for the members on the beach. YOU «iNr Menu CONSTIYUYION Treasurer Paul Hall and was adopted unanimously. The action by the membership is in recogni­ tion of the ntany sacrifices being made by SIU members in sailing under the inferior conditions offered to Atlantic tankermen by the company and its stooge union, the Atlantic Maritime Employees Unionr Not only were these men denied the advantages of SIU wel­ fare benefits up until now, but they have had to be content with inferior working conditions and take home pay as compared to conditions on freighters and tank­ ers under SIU Union contract. Cornhusker Cut In Two, Stern Saved PUSAN, Korea—Salvage crews attempting to save the grounded Cornhusker Mariner from total destruction have cut the ship in half and towed the stern section into a nearby anchorage. The bow of the SlU-contracted vessel remains firmly aground on Lighthouse Rock after being blown onto the rocks in a storm 43 days ago. Part of the rock has jutted throiigh the bottom of the ship, making it impossible to pull her off via conventional tug sal­ vage operations. All crewmembers have long since been removed from the ship and flown back to the United States. It had been reported that Army |ind Navy salvagers would attempt to save the ship by blasting the rocks away from her bottom with explosives. The grounding took place on the Cornhusker's third trip for- Seas Shipping Corporation, to which she had been chartered by the Government, v.V ii'S, ,s , -li;. - •M �#g^>Fu<Jl^it^> IPG ii^>W SlU In Culf Hits CP Via Radio Show ,. Christening NO Faciiiiies . NEW ORLEANS — A. series of radio programs designed to . acquaint the public with the menace of Communism is being sponsored in this city by the SIU New Orleans branch in conjunc­ tion with other AFL trade unions ' 1. New Orleans. The SIU's own vrole in fighting Communist infil­ tration on the waterfront is also / being publicized through the mC1 dium of this radio show. The series. . called "I Was Communist for the FBI" deals ; with the experiences of Mat Cvetic. who worked on behalf of the FBI in the Communist Pabty for many years in and around Pittsburgh. 'Cvetic was one of the Seafarer W. Chapman takes a shot as he and some fellow Sea­ ,many FBI undercover men in the farers try out the new pool tables recently installed in the New Party who later came out in the Orleans SIU hall for the enjoyment, of the members. open to testify against Communist leaders on trial under the Smith Act. One of the programs sponsored on Radio Station WDSU, a Na­ tional Broadcasting Company af; filiate, was introduced by remarks about the SIU's battle against the waterfront section of the Commu­ nist Party. Veteran Seafarer Benno "Dutch" Zielinski, one of the "We of the Seafarers Interna­ tional Union," the commentary Union's original members died in Kings County Hospital last . pointed out. "are perhaps a little week afier being struck down by an automobile outside the closer to the day-by-day reality of Communism in action than most Union's headquarters, after a new Thruway bridge across the general membership meeting. groups. River. "Over the years, we have en­ Zielinski was hit at 2:25 AM Hudson A native of' Danzig, Zielinski deavored to bring to the attention the morning of Thursday, August was one of the first seamen to Join of all our citizens the discouraging 13, and died in the hospital two the fledgling SIU when it was hours later. The driver of the car fact that it .knows no rules, re­ launched in the fall of 1938. He spects no rights and moves ahead was held for questioning and then released. on the weaknesses inherent in an orderly system of government. Zielinski, who was 64 years of "It is our hope that these pro­ age, had been Inactive recently grams will serve to make us all due to a heart condition. For the a little more aware of the under­ past several months he had been ground activities of the Kremlin receiving the SIU disability bene­ In the USA so that we all may ef­ fit. His last ship had been one fectively help to halt it's frighten­ of the sand dredges operated by ing pdvance." _ Construction Aggregates, the SandWell-known screen star Dana* captain. It was in the Tappen Zee Andrews portrays the leading role. working on the construction of the Zielinski Killed By Car, Was On Disability List SID COMMITTEES •T i I I I AT WORK The severest penalty .that can be sisting of N. Larson, J. Z. MarkInvoked by a trial committee is ham, R. W. McHveen, J. Ringo, I " expulsion from William Wells and Carl DeMarco, the Union. The testimony was presented that the constitution pro­ man had walked Off a ship in Longvides that expul­ view, Washington, just as the lines sion can be in­ were being let go. The skipper voked only in cer­ held up the ship three-quarters of tain serious of­ an hour pleading for the man to fenses, such as come back, but he refused, leaving being an inform­ the ship sailing er against the shorthanded. No Union, making replaccMarkbam false charges ments were availagainst a fellow Union member, able as the deliberate refusal to join one's ship Seattle hall was and misconduct aboard ship) and cleaned out and similar items. men had . been Most of the offenses for which flown from San a man is expellable also provide Francisco to fill alternative, lighter penalties which vacancies. Larson On another oc­ are invoked in most instances. Ex­ pulsion is reserved for the most casion, the ship's delegate of a ^ cerious cases, or for a repeated different vessel had complained that the man had missed his aeries of expellable offenses. watches several times and then Several Offenses quit the ship without notice. On A case of this kind came up in vessel, he had been unable, "the' port of Seattle recently, in­ aorthird unwilling, , to turn to on , three volving a man who had run up a separate occasions and was also Vbole string of offenses that in­ drunk and disorderly at the payoff. cluded deliberately Walking off the Hearing .all the evidence of ahip on two occasions, failure to present and past misbehavior, the atand watches, misconduct aboard committee recommended that he ahip and at the payoff, and similar be .expelled from membership in behavior. the Union, In notifying thie memAt the trial procee^ngs, which bef qt the action taken, notice was '-C:. l-Wxl - '--C _ ^ 'I were beard % a committee cqn^-j|!iy^en ^ to appeaL SIU NEWSLETTER from WASHINGTPN Despite the fact that Congress has enunciated a policy over the' past several years of having at least 50 percent of aid cargoes shipped via American-flag vessels, officials of the Department of State knd a size­ able group within Congress itself continue to take pot shots at the American merchant marine, claiming that a 50-50 shipping provision amounts to another subsidy for American shipping lines. On the other hand, hickily,. many Congressmen recognize that the US has ai choice of giving business to itS' owil ships or, in effect, sub­ sidizing the ships of Britain, Greece, Panama or some other foreign nation. . ' i.. . i A federal policy of having 50 percent of cargoesi financed by the US Government, shipped in American bottoms is keeping in line with the policy of the 1936 Merchant Marine Act, That-law recognizes tha necessity for maintaining and keeping an adequate American, merchant fleet. During the past six years the cost to the American taxpayer of sub­ sidizing farm products has amounted to well over a billion, vriiile, during the same period, it cost the Government,, through maritime sub­ sidies, only 268 million to support the American merchant marine. The above, and undoubtedly pMier cases, would indicate that the maritime industry needs a much better public relations campaign, ReCedtiy, a group of Senators, who do not want their names divulged, recognized 'this. They declared that entirely too many people are brought face to face with the existence of the merchant marine during war periods, and, therefore, think of the maritime industry purely ftom the defense aspects. This group suggested that the economic aspect of a merchant fleet, together with the matter of lu-estige of hav­ ing US-flag ships in ports throughout the world, should be stressed more. • i t During the past Diree-month period, a total of 1,449 charges of unfair labor practices were filed with the National Labor Relations Board, of which number 1,174 were charges brought against employers. Of the 1,174 charges against management, AFL affiliate, filed 583, CIO affiliates 240, independents, 62, while 289 were filed by individuals. t> , 4" A serious question continues to exist as to the future use of the Mari­ ner-type ships. Negotiations are under way for the sale of about three of these ships for $4Vi million each, while feelers have been received by the Government for 3 or 4^ more. Jlowever, this still leaves 29 Mariners which are not ticketed at this time for immediate sale to ship operators. Although the US Navy currently is in need of some refrigerated store ships, a special House subcommittee, headed by Representative Bender, Ohio, has decided not to recommend the conversion of Mari­ ners to Navy reefers. The suggestion to convert at least two Mariners for Navy use was made to the US Navy and the Department of Commerce by the House Appropriations Committee. However, both the Navy and Commerce are opposed to any such conversion on the grounds that it would not be economically feasible, nor militarily advisable. The position of the Navy is three fold in opposition to the proposed conversion, namely, that (1) the converted Mariners would not serve the Navy's purpose as well as new ships: (21 the cost .i)f conversion would be prohibitive; and (c) the security of the -country would be adversely affected by withdrawing two Mariners from our dry cargo fleet. pespitq the high cost of constructing the Mariners, it is still the aim The late Benno "Dutch"* Zie­ of jUie Government to integrate the ships into the commercial fleet. linski addressing recent SiU However, the Federal Maritime Board admits that because the Mariners meeting. are bigger than other type ships, this would tend to increase the operat­ ing subsidy bill assumed by the Government. The Mariners that are got his book as a member of the not sold will be put in lay-up or chartered out to the Military Sea Gulf District in New Orleans on Transportation Service. December 21, 1938, and sailed all ratings in the engine department. More and more American tanker compaides are becoming alarmed Since his retirement, the wellliked seafarer could be found-al­ oser the expanding operations of the Military Sea Transportation most any day at the SIU headquar­ Service. MSTS has been operating some 63 Government-owned T-2 ters hall in Brooklyn, near which, t and T-3 type tankers under service agreements with four private opera­ he lived, passing the time of day tors. Some private tanker lines are taking the vieW that the abnormal with other old shipmates who were gi'owth of MSTS^in the tanker field, at the expense of independent American tanker owners, may sound the death knell for the American also on the disabihty list. tanker fleet. In accordance with Zielinski's As of this writing, MSTS is acting under a directive from high-level last wishes, the Union has made ar­ rangements to have his body cre­ authority to consider putting the 62 Government tankers i'i mactive mated. Authorization has been re­ status and uising private tonnage wherever possibie. * 4* 4> ^ ceived from his next of kin, a sis­ ter living in California, to go According to the National Federation of American Shipping, a ship­ ahead with the cremation cere­ owner group operating out of Washington, more' than 82,500 seamen mony. The Union's $2,500 death are currently employed on US flag ocean-going vessels. The report shows a sharp reduction in the past five months in the number of men benefit will be paid his sister. wovking on tankers, resulting from the lay-up of many privately-owned petroleum carriers. However, the tanker employment reduction was off-set by the increase in the same period of men operating on dry cargo vessels. • » According to this maritime labor "report, the shipboard employment as of August 1, 1953 is 9 percent below that of the same time last year, A reminder from SlU and 25 percent below the postwar peak of early 1952 when more than . headquarters cautions all .110,000 seamen were working on American ships; ; Seafarers leaving thyir ships • 4"' • 4" ' 4to contact the hall in aniple About 80 percent 'of all cargoes to Konni were carried to privately time to . allow the Union to owned American-flag ships. It required 17,000 tons of equipment to dispatch a replacement. Fail-^ ure to give notice before « put pne American infantry division into battle, At Hungnani, merchant ships helped the Nayy to rescue 105,000 fighting men, 100.000 civilians, paying off may cause a . de­ layed sailing, force the ship^ .17,500 vehicles and 350,000 tons of material jn what was called an "incredible feat" of evacuation. , to sail short of the manning requirements and needlessly make, their'Work tougher for I:' T.Jj'-Vift- Quitting Ship? Notify Union •your ablates, ri'it.:.. li' �» '.lE/ZiliOG 'AMfV'iWeiii P&rts Distribute SI U Libraries BlIitiA TO GO ON TRIA|j-^A full dress trial of former Soviet secr^ police chief Lavrenti Beria is in the offing. Preparations are going ahead for d public performance in which it is expected that Beria r Avill confess to being ^n agent for the Western powers. Announcement of a trial is taken as an indication that Soviet Premier Malenkov is now .firmly in the saddle. . ' - 'f ' GERMAN FOOD. AID ENDS TEMPORARILY—Distribution of food parcels to residents of East Germany has come tp a temporary halt as the West Geiman government preparef ,for more efficient and a semi-permanent - food distribution system. Over 2,200,000 parcels of : American food surplus stock were given to hungry East Germans who defied Communist travel, bans and the chance of arrest and im­ prisonment to come to Berlin for the parcels. X- .'t ; i KOREA PW'I^ REVEAL DEATHS, IMPRISONMENT—US prisoners of war - being returned by Chinese and North Koreans under the armistice have revealed the^eath of thousands of American GI's In forced- marches - and in prison camps. They also stated that other officers and men had been impris­ oned just before the armistice and • that some were staying behind vol­ untarily. Evidence that the Com­ munists were withholding large numbers of American and South Korean prisoners led the US to warn that retaliatory measures would be taken if all prisoners were not returned. The Chinese radio later admitted that there were more prisoners than first accounted for. PUBLIC WORKERS STRIKE Cpl. Richard Davis of Nevada IN FRANCE—Attempts by .the Is lifted into an ambulance new French Government to econ­ after returning from a Com­ omize by laying off some govern­ munist prison camp. ment workers and raising retire­ ment age limits for the rest have been met with a wave of strikes in postal, railroad and other public services. Other groups, including miners, have al-so gone out. Both Communist and non-Communist - unions are involved in the strike action. \ it LIBERALS WIN CANADA VOTE—The Liberal Party, which has been in power in Canada for the past 18 years, won an overwhelming election victory which assures it another four years in office. The Liberals took 171 out of the 265 seats in the Canadian House of Com­ mons and 48 percent of the total popular vote as against 31 percent for their nearest opponents, the Progressive Conservatives. Xr X> X EISENHOWER ORDERS ECONOMY—With Congress refusing to raise the US debt limit ceiling above $275 billion. President Eisen­ hower has ordered all Federal agencies to whittle down their spending, and to reduce their requests for funds in the 1954-55 budget. Failure to keep expenses down will force the President to call a special session of Congress to raise the debt limit. Debt levels are expected to rise to $277 billion by December. Xt X> QUAKE TAKES BIG TOLL IN GREECE—A series of earthquakes On a group of small islands off the coast of Greece has leveled whole towns and cities and run up a death toll in the thousands. Food and water shortages followed, with hungry ^citizbns battling for scanty food suppiles dropped by airlift and distributed off US Navy ships and mer­ chant vessels in the vicinity. A great many deaths resulted when hospital were collapsed by quakes. Distribution of SIU shipboard libraries is now well underway with three more Atlantic Coast ports due to receive their quotas of books this week. Shipments of the 50-book assortm^ts have gone oiit to Boston, Baltimore and Philadelphia for placement aboard vessels sailing out of those ports. In the following week, the care of by port agents and patrol­ ous shore ; leave hunting around Union libraries will be avail- men. The cost of the program is for a store in which he could get in the Gulf - and Smith Atlantic port areas. West Coast ports of Seattle, Sari Francisco and Wilmin^ori will get their allotments orie week later. ' The first ship to receive a SEA­ FARERS LOG-sponsored - library was the Bull Lines' Beatrice, with the- SIU Sea Chest Cor­ poration putting a library aboard her on Augus't 5. Since then all vessels signing on in the port of New York have re­ ceived their quota of 50 books for a three morith period, or 100 books if the ship is scheduled to be out longer than three months. In any case each SIU ship will receive four 50-book libraries a year. All of the libraries are paper­ back books supplied by Pocketbooks, orie of the largest distribu­ tors of paper-bound editions, with thousands of fiction and non-fiction titles to choose from. Each 50-book library contains a varied assort­ ment of popular reading matter, including crime fiction, westerns, popular novels and humor. The books are all new ones, and each successive » assortment placed aboard a given ship will consist of entirely new and different titles. The SIU Sea Chest Corporation is handling the distribution from its central warehouse in New York and will .place books aboard in all outports where it has facilities fore delivering slopchests. In other ports, the distribution will be taken being carried by the SEAFARERS a decent supply of liooks and maga­ •i • LOG fund. Ail books are identified zines. as coming from "Your SEAFAR­ ERS LOG shipboard. library." . " The decision to supply libraries to the ships grew out of the longfelt ' dissatisfactiori of Seaf^ers Seafarers in all ratings with available reading material. whose income tax withholding While volunteer organizations have statemients , (W2 forms) would for some time now been collecting books for placement aboard, ships, show continiioius employment with orie company for a full much of this material consisted of year or more are urged to send old, worn and torn volumes on specialized subjeciSi of no particu­ these in to SIU headquarters for possible use in the Atlantic lar interest to seamen. Old school tanker drive. The Organizing textbooks and technical manuals Department has issued a call more often than not, made up the for tlpse as another means of bulk of these collections. showing Atlantic seamen the As a result, many ships' crews wage-earning potential they made efforts to get their own li­ can enjoy on SIU ships, wheth­ braries, financing the purchase of er they homestead one ship or books through a voluntary ship's company or ride a dozen. The" fund. This had drawbacks in that W2 forms should be sent c/o a ship's fund didn't always have money available for a decent li­ the SIU Organizing Depart­ ment. They will be returned brary, and some crewmember had to give up hours or a day of preci­ upon request. Need WZ Forms For Organizing Actor And Seafarers Odds Stacked, Car Union Says DETROIT—A booklet listing the odds against the bettor in all forms of gambling is being pre­ pared by the CIO United Auto Workers as part of its campaign agriinst gambling in auto plants. The booklet aims at convincing auto workers that the odds are stacked in favor of the profession­ als and bookmakers and against the average customer. It will list the odds against winning on horse races, numbers, baseball pools, and other common forms of gambling. Movie star Glenn Ford (right) poses on the Del Mar with Bob Spears, DM; Roy Harper, storekeeper, and Joe Collins, DM; left to right. Ford, who the crew says is "one swell guy" will make a movie in South America. YOUR DOLLAR'S SEAFARERS GUIDE TO BETTER BUYING magnesia contains approximately 38 grains of magnesium hydroxide per fluid ounce, as the labei says it does, and ! One of the'worst overcharges to which wage-earners ^ a retailer's.private brand is labeled with the same content are subject is the high pirice they pay for simple household why pay more? As further assurance that you can safely reniedies and proprietary drugs sold under heavily-adver­ buy the lowest-priced drug product labeled "USP" or tised brand names. "NF," all drugs in interstate commerce are subject to You may actually pay 500 per cent more for the same'" Federal inspection. ' product under one name than under another. If people only knew How much extra they pay for a , Want proof? Take the case of aspirin. You can buy it famous name. Recently a Massachusetts druggist, Edmund at Macy's departmerit stores, or any one of a number of C. Dickson, writing in Expose magazine, revealed that other retailers as just plain "Aspiring USP". But if you Empirin compound sells for $1.35 up, while the equivalent buy it under the name of B yer or Squibb, you pay 59 or APC tablets (aspirin-phenacetin-caffeine) sell for 55 cents '62 cents for it. Take milk of magnesia. You can pay or less; that Digitora wholesales for $2 per 100 while an 60 centstf quart for it under the famous 'ThiiUps" name, equivalent digitalis costs 36 cents, a difference of $1.64 or only 26 to 41 Cents under the private label of various that becomes a-difference of $2.50 or more in the retail price; that one type of adrenalin sells for $3.50 while the . retailers. • But are these cheaper brands really as good as the well- equivalent epinephrine hydrochloride solution seils for $1. known pne.s? Yes. The tip-off is those three little letters, Same Pill — Different Label "USP",'which this departtnent has mentioned before. Similarly, some years ago a Congressional committee ! Official Quality Standard < found that manufacturers charge several times as much •' ' Those letters stand for United States Pharinacopoeia, for drugs sold under adyertised brand names as for the which is the official set of formulas for various common same products under their chemical designations. For drug products. If a label carries (hose letters, it means exam:^le, a druggist paid 57 cents an ounce for phenothe product meets the official standard. Or if the label barbital, but $6.90 an ounce under the name of Luminal; says "NF", paeaning "iNfational Formulary," ypu can also acetylsalicylic acid was 13 cents an ounce, but under the ...feel assured it also meets the official standard. Moreover, Bayer Asphdn name the pubhc paid *{5; acetphenetidin : bfteri the irigredirints listed on was 21 cents, but undecAfae brand name of Phenacetln it ,; the labek if a welLknown high-priced brand of milk of :- Price Gouge on Household Drugs Written exclusively for THE SEAFARERS LOG. by Sidney Margolius, Leading Expert on Buying Much of the situation results from doctors themselves. As Mr. Dickson pointed out, they are continualfy visited by the "detail men" (promotional representatives) of the big drug companies, who sell them on the merits of their products and tell them what various drugs can be pre­ scribed for. So nowadays doctors tend to rely more on the easy method of prescribing some well-known, brand name, rather than rely on their own pharmaceutical knowledge. What can you do about it? At least for the household remedies you buy yourself—like calamine lotion, witch hazel, cod-liver oil, aspirin, etc.—shop by the "USP-! label. Many department stores, mail-order houses like Sears and Ward, the drug chains and neighborhood druggists, too, now have their own private brands. Ask for the private brand. Look for the "USP" or "NF" letters. Compare the ingredients listed on the labels. Shop Prescriptions Too You're perfectly entitled, too, to take a prescription a doctor gives you and ask several druggists how much it will cost to fill. The prices of prescriptions have been found to vary noticeably in several surveys conducted by Impartial experts. But most of all, if possible have tlie doctor give you the name of the product to buy, rather than get a pre­ scription. One survey found a prescriptidn for sodium salicylate pills cost 95 cents to $1.25 in various stores, while the same pills sold over the counter without an Rx for about 50 cents. •\ •e �WEZTnmmm:^ x<»ic •J J-tt rd.* r Future MDAided By Seholarsliip $ - ^ 1 S£A¥CASH BENEFITS • ••• t SEAFARERS WELFARE; VACATION PLANS REPORT ON BENEFITS PAID Prom August 3, 1953 T. August lA, 1953 * -• wwi ••••eteevOaeeaeeeeeeeereeeeeeeaeaeeeeaee • w ••••aeaoaeTeeeaeaaaeeeeeeeieaaaeaeaeaaeepoaeeoe m No. Seafarers RccciTing Benefits this Period Average Benefits Paid Each Seafarer Total Benefits Paid this Period SIU scholarship winner Miss Alma Iris Jimenez is shown with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Pedro Jimenez of Rio Fiedras, PR. A promising career in medicine is in the offing for Miss Alma Iris Jimenez, daughter of Seafarer Pedro Jimenez, thanks to the SIU scholarship award. And if past performance is any indication. Miss Jime--*nez is' likely to go through lighted'with the scholarship," she medical school with fiying wrote, "and I am very proud that my father is an active member of colors. Miss Jimenez and her parents were overjoyed, at the news that she was one of the winners of the four • year $6,000 scholarships offered by the SIU. "I am de- Captain All For Union's Slopchests The job that the SIU Sea Chest Is doing in supplying merchant ships with first-quality slop chests, has drawn high praise from Cgptain L. Lindquist, master of the SlU-manned Oceanstar. The Sea Chest service, the captain said, has piit an end to the squabbles and complaints that resulted when the ship, was suppliejjMjy the water­ front ship chandlers. Captain Lindquist is one of a -growing number of company of­ ficials, ships' captains and pursers who have written the Sea Chest praising the price and quality of the Sea Chest's merchandise. In the six months that the Sea Chest has been engaged in large-scale supply of ships on a competitive basis, it has won approval from :imany Who looked askance at the ddea of a Union-owned and oper­ ated corporation entering the slop chest field. The Oceanstar captain's letter i! reads as follows: ^ "As master of the SS Oceanstar, .1 am very -pleased that the Sea­ farers International Union has taken over the job of supplying the slop chest aboard their con­ tracted vessels. "We have been plagued in our dealings with slop chest vendors with inferior goo^s, unknown brands and seconds in name brands of many items. If we were given name brands then high prices pre­ vailed, "All this foregoing was a cause for many squabbles, beefs and led to many headaches for the master. Now under this liew set-up we find that this is now all behind and passed us as master of these ves­ sels. I wish to go pa record for my complete coopioratisn with the Sea» . iMrere Sea^ C^est; €orpoi«tioi^^ - the Seafarers Inteimational Union." At 21 years of age. Miss Jimenez has already received her college degree from the University of Puerto Rico's College of Natural Sciences. She has enrolled in the University's School of Medicine for the fall term, which got under­ way on August 14, 1953. Has Fine Record Miss Jimenez, who was born in Puerto Rico on March 25, 1932, and makes her home in Rio Fied­ ras, a few miles outside of San Juan, showed exceptional ability in both her high school'and college studies. She finished 17th in a graduating class of 396 students at the Central High School of Santurce. Her college record was equally scintillating. Carrying a program of scientific and mathematic subThis is the last in a series of features concemlii« the four winners of the 1953- SIU scholarships. Each of these stories has introduced one of the winners, so that the mem­ bers may leam a little about the persons that their Union Welfare Plan will be sending to college for the next four years. , jects such as quantitative analy­ sis, botany, analytic geometry, cal­ culus and similar weighty items, she rolled up an A-minus average. As a result of her distinctive achievements in college. Miss Jimenez was listed in the Who's Who in American Universities and Colleges, a roster of outstanding students throughout the US and its territories. • • -Miss Jimenez has long h»d the ambition to study medicine, and had been planning to attend medi­ cal school if it were financially possible for her to do so. Now with the aid of the SIU scholarship her ambitions will be realized. Her father has been sailing with the SIU for the past six years. He started in the engine department, but recently transferred his book to the stewards department. Authorities at the University are of the opinion that Miss Jimenez wrill do very well at the School of Medicine. "L am confident," Dr. E. Harold Hinman, dean of the university, wrote, "that Miss Jime­ nez will be a real credit to the Sea- farw'AttacMtieaia Union." / V-, ' m Wi WELFARE* VACATION BENEFITS PAID THIS PERIOD HQipittl Ptoefitf D^ath Dloabaitv Benofito UltMllltV BMrfit. U2L ?tactef 2E JjsiiL WELFARE* VACATION BENEFITS PAID PREVIOUSLY Hospital Benefito Paid Since Tulv 1. 1950 « | 3^7/3S ^V/3/7 Death Benefita Paid Since Tulv 1. 1950 DitaMUtY Renyfitf Pnid SjiicV Mgy h ?2 Matyftity Bettefitf Piiid Apytf • [ f'f/fCO il thM— Vayatjoft Pidd Siact fyfrt HI IPB * WIM Tgtfd Date WELFARE, VACATION PLAN ASSETS VacatiooCaah on Hand -Welfare Vacation Eatimated Accouma Receivable "^pelfare" USGovernmeot Bonda (Welfare) Real Eatate CWclfare) Other Aaaeta - Training Ship (Welfare) TOTAL ASSETS •COMMENTS; ' . mrimxih wsTimm wrrtmBa wmnsMm mamm i The winners of the scholarships have all been accepted for admittance to the schools of their choice* The winners and their schools are as follows; Charlantf Kolden; Richmond Professional Institute - Robert Gtoodwin,-" Univer­ sity of Oregon Dental School - Alma Jiminez Colls> Univ­ ersity of Puerto Rico-and Elizabeth Lomas, Barnard College in New York* . Some applicants are not sending in the cotnpXete infor­ mation necessary for the benefits to which they are Submitted A1 Ken* AseiattdSTXimiuiatfetof' .All•these . and, remeniber this. • • ave yours without contributing a single nickel on your part—Collecting SIU bene- . fits'is easy, whetljer it'sioy hospital, birth, disunity or death—lou gei'first rate personal: ,vhK; !u4:r ? service inmwdiateiy through your Uiiion'e repi?eia3ita1^^ , . , w. p> -1'.j �s-. 4., ••.;;-t •, •; SBdringK$ roM ffi. Mt t.l--! ' n«* UNION TALK SIU •SUPMenTearn UpOnNoyet iy KEITH TERPi The capitulation,of th# operator# of the tanker Val Cbem and their agreeing to sign, the standard SIU tankship contract offers a good moral for the uneasy gtiiding lights of the Jt.tlantic Refining .Company to etudy,. Acknowledging the superiority of SIU conditions hy running out on prior promises and signing a last-minute pact with the National Jdaritime Union (CIO), the Val Chem's operators chose the hard way to prove a point which the SIU has maintained for years. . This Union has safeguarded its top position in the industry because it assures its membership that it can provide job opportunities for all Seafarers when and where they're wanted, and the best conditions in maritime along with them. Reneged On Pledge The Valentine Tanker Corp. decided to play game.s with the SIU and. fenege on its pledge to hire SIU men, but it didn't figure on the .solid might of the SIU in any beef, plus the support from other trade unionists. CIO shipyard workers, AFL harbor tugboatmen and other jparine crafts wouldn't touch the ship, delpite the constant pressures put on them, because, like all legitimate trade unionists, they respect another union's pkketline in a legitimate'beef. The fact that Valentine ran to the NMU when confronted with the fact that it would have to put SIU conditions aboard th^Val Chera is the best indication anyone could ask for on who's really out front in the matter of take-home pay, working conditions and other benefits. Shipowners look out for the best deal for themselves only. It's not unlikely that Atlantic,, which was probably aware of the goings-on, watched closely. It knows that the day is not far off when it too will have to fall in line and sign the SIU standard tanker con­ tract, and in fact will have a mandate from the overwhelming majority of its ^nker seamen to do so, when they express their preference for SIU representation in the coming NLRB election. We hope Atlantic takes notice. It may save a lot of unnecessary trouble for all hands later on. 4 4 4. The extension of all SIU welfare benefits to SIU bookmenibers in the Atlantic fleet is already drawing enthusiastic comment from the tankermen, who realize now, if they never did before, that the vSIU can deliver on its promises to provide the best conditions and benefits foif its members in Atlantic, ^ust last week, the SIU membership in all ports approved this step, in order to show their brother members on Atlantic ships what some of "tlie best in maritime" is like. The comprehensive welfare coverage they can now enjoy at no cost to themselves is jUst one of the gains assui-ed them as soon as Atlantic is bi-ought under SIU contract. / . — Receive Same Benefits As the plan is set up, any SIU bookmember in Atlantic who has filed a beneficiary card for the death benefit and has had that fact noted in his book is eligible for benefits the same as any Seafarer aboard any SlU-contracted ship. This means a great deal of security to SIU mem­ bers in Atlantic, with every Atlantic seaman weU conscious of the need for security when you sail with a non-union tanker outfit. Although the turnover in the fleet through firings of SIU supporters Is nowhere near the astronomical figures reached in the Cities Service drive, many of the tankermen would have no means of earning a liveli­ hood today if not for the SIU's healthy book-to-job ratio and .the Union's ability to provide jobs for them. Atlantic apparenUy learned some lessons from the Cities Service case, and one' was not to indiscriminately fire every man who looked like he used the word "union" in his vocabulary. The company has fii-ed a great many.men but It added what appears to be a calculated effort hot to fii-e.in some cases. Instead, it's relied on tactics which are designed to harass a man to the point where he either quits or goes .loco. That's the new method. Fortunately, Atlantic guys are wise to it and they play along. They know that the real straitjacket cases are the manipulators of the company union, who had the notion they could keep on fooling Atlantic seamen about their own set-up forever. A former SUP dei^and has just had his second novel "The Alaskan" published with the aid of his Seafarer-literary agent. Robert Lund, now an engineer, is represented in his lit­ erary endeavors by Seafarer Carl Cowl, who sails as electrician on SIU ships when he isn't dealing with publisher's rep-' • resentatiyes. The theme of "The Alaskan" deals with.- the life of a seaman who goes ashore in Alaska in the '30's to live iu that then largelyundeveloped country. Lund drew on his own experiences as a sea­ man, longshoreman, and back­ woodsman in Alaska for much of the material in the novel. The book has been published jointly by The John Day Company in New York and by Harrup's in London. It will also appear in a paper-back edition that will be put out by Bantam Press. Sailed Steamschooners Lund started going to sea out of Seward, Alaska, in 1935 on a small mail and passenger ship. After that he sailed on steamschoonei's, American President Lines land other SUP ships. How-: Seafarer Carl Cowl, left, -who is also a literary agent and Robert ever, eye trouble forced him to Lund, former SUP member, look over Lund's second novel, "The quit sailing on deck and he became Alaskan." In between novels, Lund sails as an engineer. an engine room man, getting his license just before World War II. He now -holds a chief engineer's ticket and just got off the new superliner, the United States. •He came to a sea-going career by a round-about route. His great grandfather, Christian Lund, was a shipping man out of Copenhagen who operated three sailing ships. His grandfather was a member of A special report by the Mutual Security AdmihistraticMi" the original Mormon congregation which is ip charge of the country's foreign aid program, that trekked fi-om Illinois to Utah and helped found Salt Lake City. shows that the agency has lived up to the requirements of the "50-50" law in handling dry Seeks Seaman-Novelist American liners to the tune of 80 Cowl, who has been a member cargo and tanker shipments. The report, covering the percent of total shipments. of theSIU A&G District since The "50-50" law calls for 50 per­ 1939, has been operating a literary year from July 1, 1952, to June 30, agency for the last eight years at 1953, shows that American-flag cent of all foreign aid shipments, dry cargo vessels carried 56 per­ financed by US taxpayers, to be 516 Fifth Avenue, New York. cent of 2,200,000.tons of dry cargo cai-ried on American-flag vessels. "In the eight years that I've been in this business," he said, shipped by the Mutual Security "I've had hopes of getting a great Administration on regular liner novel of the sea from a seafaring .scrvices. During the same period man. -So far, Lund is the only US tankers carried 52 percent of novelist with a sailing background all such tanker shipments. Included among the areas re­ that I've come across." Seafarers sending telegrams Lund's first novel, "Hour of ceiving such shipments were Eu­ or letters to the New York Glory" was also published by John rope, the Near East, Africa, South headquarters dispatcher asking Day and by Pocketbooks in the Asia, the Far East and the Latin to be excused from attending paper-back edition. It is an histori­ American republics. headquarters membership On military items, which are cal novel about an ex-seaman, who meetings must include the reg­ was beachcombing in Guam when shipped under the Mutual Security istration number of their the Americans took over the island program and are included in the shipping card in the message. In 1898, and/ appointed him 'tem­ above totals, the figures show that From now on. if the number porary governor. His next pub­ 67 percent were carried on Ameri­ is not included, the excuse can­ lished work will be a group of can flag vessels. Homebound car­ not be accepted by the dis­ short stories that he wrote some goes of strate^c materials covered patcher. years back. by the progi-am were carried on Cartoon History Of The SIU The A&G District started 1948 by sparking am all-out drive to increase wages. Under a -special clause contained exclusively in SIU contracts, the , tC^ JJnion opened, wage negotiations. The splrallng cost -living made wsge boosts imperativei and the ' llfc told the operators It intended to get more 5^<rA l^rkchops—not promises. MSA Has Stuck To 50-56 Cargo Law, Says Report Put Sumber On 'Meeting Excuses Winning More Porieehopg By March 12,' the Union had forced a number of operators to agree to wage hikes averaging from 6,3 to 14.2 percent. The Union also won higher OT rates.. This broke the solid front, and the other op­ erators soon swung into line. The Increases set a new pattern for the industry, and other maritime unions were soon asking the same gains. Xo. 44 On the organizing front, the A&G District madi the big br' sk into the unorganized tanlcer field when the Cities Service tankermen voted 83.1S per­ cent for the SIU. The SIU was certified, but the NLRB refused to certify ships added to the fleet during the election. The Union weni hack te mtk on these new ships and proved successful sgala. �•;•«*• iPac* Tea J '•ju^.miil' sBArAkMna toe PORT REPORTS. won by a combined effort of AFL New Orleans: because the homeowners in the Gatvestan: outfits in this town, refusing to area put up such a bitter fight to cross a picket line. The contractors keep the Governifient from acquir­ yelled their heads off about losing ing more land to expand the pres­ money, but they finally came ent depot. After the Korean trhce around. was signed, the Government de­ We had the Lone Jack (Cities Shipping down h^re is at a Shipping has been holding its Everything here in this port cided to hold off on closing the Service) in here to sign on for steady pace and from the latest re­ own in this southern port, with present depot until present ammo seems to be going along pretty Japan and taking quite a few men. port will be pretty good for the W|U, including shipping. Every stocks at the dump were exhausted. two ships signing on for Japan. More of the boys wanted to get coming two weeks, we have sev­ Opposing the homeowners are var­ Ships Signing on were the Julessnfp touching the port is calling out on her. Must be the lure of eral ships due in here from the ious interested groups who have burg of Terminal Tankers and the for men. Two. Waterman vessels, the Orient. Far East and are due to go out Antinous and Iberville, came in made a fight to retain the installa­ Petrolite of Tanker Sag Harbor. the rush of shipping and again on the Far East run. ' this week and, each ordered five tion as it provides a good deal of In-transits included the Del Santos allWith bookmembers shipping out, ' We had five ship payoffs during men. That's the most coastwise work for teamsters, stevedores, and Del Alba (Mississippi); Can- we our were unable to hold a meet­ the period, six'lign-ons, and 14 inseamen and other groups. tigny (Cities Service); Steel Trav­ ships have taken in some time. ing this past^ week. Maybe we'll transits. Ships paying off included The Carpenters are on a con­ The Maiden Victory (Mississippi) eler (Isthmian); Seatrain Louisiana be able to scarb up a quorum next Del Alba and Del Mar (Missis­ tinuous meeting in Tampa. There paid off in this port a few days ago (Seatrain); Wacosta and Jean La- time if shipping isn't so ali-fired sippi); Antinous and Chickasaw and reshipi^ed and signed on a new Fitte (Waterman), and Genevieve is a wag^ beef, but the uniohs hot, » crew. MSTS then ordered her to Peterkin (Bloomfield). (Waterman); and National NavigRhere do not strike. They go on At present on the beach we haye tion's iay-up for a while, and as a result, Catahoula, Ships signing oh During the past period, apy Charles Seymour, O. Pedersen, continuous meetings or sometimes E. were Del Santos, Del Mar and Del all hands go fishing. There is a the crew was paid a. full month's beefs, that arose were minor and Lerma, J. P. Blackman, R, Boyd, matter of twenty-five cents an hour wages plus the seven days they were squared away on the spot in H: Blanchard, H. Granger, T. Jones Oro (Mississippi); Genevieve Peterhad on the foreign articles. A true SlU-style. across-the-board in differences. and Marie Hamill (Bloomfield); and L. Reiifthuck, who has just kin The Iberville, in Monday, had month and seven days' wages is a and Oceanstar (Dolphin). Oldtimers on the beach at this taken himself a bride. We wish her usual beef in thd deck depart­ pretty good haul for seven days of time include Jimmy Wall, R., Clark, them both Ships in-transit included: Alcoa's a lot of luck. ment. Seems as work. At the moment, the ship is H. Rosecraus, W.^ McCarthy, J; Cavalier, Pennant, Clipper and Leroy Clarke if this ship has a laying on the east bank of the Vaughn, T. Saustaire, W. Mitchell Pilgrim; Isthmian's Steel Traveler; Lake Charles Port Agent continuous beef river awaiting orders. Mississippi's Del Santos and Del and Earl "Tiny" Wallace. Men in t 4. First Mariner between the mate Oro; Seatrain New Jersey (Sea­ the hospital are K. Nikander, H. and the crew. Mobile also got her first Mariner- Forbes, W. Lipscomb,. F. Burns Miami: train); Claiborne and Monarch of Sometimes it is type ship this week when the Mag­ and J. Markopolo. the Seas (Waterman); Genevieve worse than at nolia Mariner (Mississippi) was de­ Peterkin and Marie Hamill (Bloom­ As far as the labor front here is livered to the concerned, all of the building others, but this field), and Evelyn and Mae (Bull). company and trades locals in the city have been time was pretty Crew Gets $ miid, compara­ cre^ed up. The out on strike for the past two Had several beefs since the last The shipping picture remains tively, so it was crew was trans­ weeks. They are demanding 25 Carter report and all were settled to the ported to the cents-an-hour raise. Can't tell how just as'bright as ever here, since quickly smoothed satisfaction of the crews involved. Pascagoula Ship­ they are going to do in their beef, we stiil don't have enopgh men on On over. Seems the mate wants his the Del Mar (Mississippi) a dis­ yard by bus to but hope they make out all right. the beach, and have to go search­ pie and wants to eat it too. The pute came up down iti Buenois ing to fill some of the jobs that we move the ship ex-delegate was the bone of con­ Keith Alsop Airas as to who should hdve turned get. We expect the shipping pic­ over to the New tention this time. When the mate Galveston Port Agent on the heating system and how ture to remain just as bright for fired him, he couldn't replace him, Orleans area much temperature should have t 4, the future, since we are'very short from which point so he agreed to take him on again. Horn been maintained. No one could of rated men down here, she will make Lake Charles: The Antinous, on the other handi \We paid off the Fiorida (P&O) seem to agree on .who was respon­ is a ship without a beef. It runs her first trip out under MSTS on continuous articles and had th^ sible so the crew collected two along as smoothly as an SIU ship orders. following ships calling in here: nights lodging for not having suf­ should run. A few of the old timers current­ the Ponce (Puerto Rico Marine), ficient heat in the quarters. The Cuban Government opened ly on the beach include Cyril Mize, the Wacosta, Afoundria, Mobiiian, The crew followed this beef fire on the one of the banana boats Herman Butts, A. King, Donald through from start to finish in fine Reporting from" down in the Yaka and War- - ' from Tampa this week. Three of Pool, Fritz Weidegren, J. F. GerSIU style by getting it recorded in garden comer of Louisiana, where hawk (Water­ the crewmembers were injured. sey, Ervin Bradley, J. Lawton, the log book at the time the quar­ Also, the Cuban'Air igorce turned Tom E. Brown, H. E. Nichols and all is not gold that glitters; some man), and the ters were cold, so of it is oil. Things have been mov­ Alcoa Puritan to and fired several hundred Richard Scheuttner. it was not too ing along at a rapid pace in this (Alcoa). rounds of ammunition at this ship^ Hunts Alligator hard a beef to We had some All these boats, owned by Hamil­ For the Seafarer of the Week town. Shipping was very good for collect. It may ton .Brothers, are under foreign we nominate Brother Donald Horn, the past two weeks as we shipped beefs on spme of sound like a a total of 78 men in all depart­ the intercoastal ? flags. who has been a member of the minor beef, but ments. ships, but got ' Oldtimers around are Gus Tay­ SIU since its beginning. He is two nights lodg­ Causing this rusff were the F -ad- these all squared lor, Aaron Varn, Paul Carter, Tony single and makes his home on ing for the entire Sosa and Frank Land. Most of Cedar Point Road near Mobile Bay ford Island, French Creek, Logars away to the'eat- ' Vllar crew of 108 un­ isfaction of the these fellows have only been in where he spends his spare time Fort, Winter Hill, a few days and are hanging around trying to hog-tie an alligator in Council Grove crew, and everything else was ite en sed men and C h i w a w a home until ready to ship again. smooth, except for a few perform­ ain't hay. All Bollinger the creek which keeps him awake Ray White ers on these ships. The member­ crews should fol­ all night. Horn took a job on the (Cities Service), Tampa Port Agent new Magnolia Mariner just to see and Petrol Tank­ ship has gone on record to take low the example of this crew. When there is no heat or water or any­ er's Bull Run. care of these characters, how she sails. His only regret is • . t i On the labor J. Caldwell dropped into the thing else due the crew under the that his bosopn buddy, Charley Mobile; front the Office hall to say hello, and ^en took off agreement, have a record made at Spencer, did not make the ship Employees Union for a vacation in Havana before the time in the official log book witti him. we had a chance to talk him into and the beef will be paid. Members are again remiiided (AFL) won their All members ate urged to take shipping out again. Jose C. Viiar Relnchiick that if they want to get off any strike against the advantage of the new clarification construction firms is in the Veterans Hospital in Coral ship in the harbor they must give committee set up in headquarters. with a nice contract and secured Gables, and is doing so weli that the 24 hours notice required by Shipping in this port for the When something comes up that is last couple of weeks remained the agreement or they won't be almost all of their demands. The he expects to be out in a couple of to be clarified mail it in or turn it main one was union ^cognition weeks, able to pay off. good with 176 mem shipped to reg­ in to any of the officials in the re­ which they now have, also an in­ Eddie Parr • Cal Tanner ular jobs and about 70 men spective ports and they will see crease in wages. This victory was Miami Fort Agent Mobile Port Agent shipped to various relief jobs that it is submitted to the commit­ around the harbor. During the tee for clarification in order that same period we registered approx­ the beef will not come up. any imately 143 men. longer. This committee meets regu­ Ships paying off included the larly and hands down clarifications Pennant, Clipper, Puritan, Runner, on beefs that come lip involving Pilgrim and Corsair (Alcoa); and the contract. Jeff Gillette. Agent Elliott 4334 FORT WILLIAM....llBVi Syndicate Ava, Monarch of the Seas and ClaiborncSIU, A&G District TAMPA. 1809-1811 N, Franklin St Ontario Phone: 3-3221 Blood Donors (Waterman). Signing on were the BALTIMORE Phone 2-1323 PORT COLBORNB 103 Durham St. 14 North Gay St. Ray White. Agent WILMINGTON. Calif 909 Marine Ave. Ontario Phone: 5591 A fine Union spirit and con­ Pennant, Puritan, Pilgrim and Earl Sheppard. Agent Mulberry 4S40 John Airabasz. Agent Terminal 4-2874 TORONTO. Ontario 272 King St. E. sideration of others was once more Runner, while in-transits included BOSTON EMplre 4-5719 ....276 State St HEADQUARTERS... .679 4tb Av4.. Bklyn. SECRETARY-TREASURER VICTORIA. BC 61714 Cormorant St. demonstrated in this port during the Iberville and Antinous (Water­ James Sheehan, Agent Richmond 2-.0140 Paul Hall Empire 4531 308>/4 23rd St. ASST. SECRETARY-TREASURERS man) and Cities Service's Royal GALVESTOllilf VANCOUVER. EC..,,...969 HamUton St. the past week, A request came Keith Alsop. Agent Phone 2-S44S Robert Matthews Joe Alglna from the USPHS hospital for Oak. In the next two week period LAKE CHARLES. La 1419 Ryan St. Claude Simmons . Joe Volpian SYDNEY. NS 304 Charlotte St. Phone 6-5744 WilUaA Hall Waterman has the Claiborne, Leroy Clarke. Agent blood donors for veteran Seafarer Dolphin Hotel BAGOTVHXE. Quebec. 20 fflgln St. Chickasaw, La Salle, Monarch of MIAMI Johnny Murry, Frank Piecykoln, Eddie Parr. Agent Mfami 9-4791 Phone: 845 ^ SUP 1 South Lawrence St. THOROLD. Ontario 92 St. Davids St. 3aJ Lafuentes and Jack Moore im­ the Seas, De Soto and Maiden MOBILE £5LT«"I!?'!. Phone 2-17.54 HONOLilLU....".... CAnal 7-3202 16 Merchant St. Creek due in for payoffs and re­ NEW ORLEANS 923 BlenvUle St. 113 Cote De La Montwe mediately volunteered. A second Phone 9-8777 QUEBEC Llndsey WlUlams. Agent Quebec Phone: 2-7078 PORTLAND 922 N, W. Everett St. placements. Alcoa has the Patriot, _ Magnolia 6112-6113 177 Prince WlUlam St. call was received tor the bipod re^ Be^on 4S^ SAINT JOHN 679 4th Ave.. Brooklyn RICHMOND. CALIF. NB Phone: 2-5232 placement tor the wife of Seafarer Pofaris, Pointer, Roamer, Cavalier NEW YORK 5th St. „ STerllng 8-4670 Phone 2509 and Ci/pper due in as well. Baldy Bollinger, Bob Ferrell and NORFOLK 127-129 Bank St. SAN FRANCISCO 450 Harrison St. Great Lakes District 2SS, Phone 4-1083 Move In Doubt Tim Browii responded. PJ^AD^PHIA 337 Market St. SEATTLE .2700^ Ist^Aw ALPENA ......133 W. Fletcher At this writing the future of the S. Cardnllo, Agent Market 7-1639 Danny Thomas, Bob Adams, .. Main 0290 Phone; 1238W ^THul..,-, 411 Austin St WILMINGTON 909 Marine Ave. BUFFALO. NY 180 Main St. Theodore llmmunition dump lo­ PORT Don HUton. Rep. Phone 4-2341 ' Terminal 4-3131 Phone: Cleveland'7391 Dick Sutt^, Buster Wells , and .SAN FRANCISCO .......450 Harrison St. NEW YORK...,. F79 4th ^e.^ Brim^ CLEVELAX4D cated right outside of Mobile is in T. 734 Lakeside Ave.. NE Arthur Larigevln are among, the Banning. Agent... Douglas 2-5475 Phone: Main 1-0147 doubt. The Government made Marty Breithoff. West Coast Representative OEnROIT .1038 3rd St. newly hospitalized members. Each CaiKijdidn Dittrict PUERTA de TIERRA. PR. .Pelayo 51—La 5 Headquarters Phone: Woodward 1-6857 appears to be progressing .nipely. plans to close this depot and move S^,CoUs. Agent Phone 2-5996 MONTREAL...,..,.684 St James St. West DULUTH 531 W. Michigan St. to a spot hear th&'Alabama-Georgia SAVANN.^ .-...2 Abercorn St. , r ... PLateau 8161 Phone; Melrose 2-4110 Jeff Morrison, Agent Phone 3-1728 HALIFAX, NJ,v.J. 138»>ff^KolIle St. SOUTH CHICAGO;.... 3261^; 98nd St. Une/This'niove^ was to be made sEArruE.,.,,,,.,,;..;,,..a7oo ist >v«. N(tw OrieeiiB Boit Agent . Pbonei 3-8911 Phone: Esses 9-MlO Tampa: Iberville Has Rmnliig Beef In Deck Dept. Dalldlag Trade Unions On Strike Two Weeks Grew Gote.Twd DiiyI' Lodging On Heal Hoof /• We're Sim Hunllng For More Haled Men Lare Of Orleni Galls As Men Head For Japan Seafarers Grew Gets Menth's Sin Lay-Up. sm MALM. DiMtMCTOMty y •"• r - �w tagilRlevem SJLAFAREJtS LOG • • • ....PtUtT REPORTS hpurs beyond the International Date Line loaded with Army sup­ plies bound for" Korea and Japan when the Army turned her back after peace talks concluded in Ko­ rea. She is now In Bangor, Me., discharging the cargo which will take about three weeks. Oldtirhers on the beach include Nels Lai-sen, B. Roll, J. Kismul, J. Ringo and R. Queen, while two Seafarers in the hospital are M. E. Newman and L. E. Twite! Jeff Gillette Seattle Port Agent Fairland, Chickasaw and Afound­ Philadelphia: ria (Watertnan); the Steel Admiral (Isthmian); the Hilton (Bull); the Robin Sherwood and Robin Tux­ ford (Robin); the Perolite (Tanker Sag Harbor), and the Chiwawa Beefs on various ships coming The Port of New York has been Shipping in this port has been (Cities Service). into port during the past' two ^uniming for the past two weeks. Earl Sheppard good for the past two weeks, and tVe had a very busy period as far Baltimore Port Agent 'weeks have kept us on the go. One we expect that it will remain that in particular concerned the chief as the shipping end of our business way in the future. At the same & SI £> engineer on the De Soto' (Watei> is concerned. Shipping stili held time, the beefs have been few and man). It seems this chief was run­ far between. up good for all departments, but Wilmington: ning around with a gun and a Work on the new building fias engine department ratings are still blackjack, ready to give it to slowed down somewhat due to in the greatest demand. everyone. He got so menacing, the some additional work that is being We paid off a total' of 24 ships captain finally had to take them done, but this will mean even In the past two weeks, signed Sf t> taway from him. more extended facilities for the seven on foreign articles and serv­ We went down to the ship and membership here in Baltimore, so ice 13 in-transit ships. The follow- San Francisco: Shipping is so good out this way it js well worth it. At the present that if we get any more jobs we'U brought this fellow up on the car­ in ships paid off; Frances, Ann time, the work is going along on have to ship out the patrolmen. pet. It seems his Marie, Beatrice, Suzanne, Angelina, schedule on the top three floors. What's more, the outlook is so whole beef was Mae, Elizabeth and Binghamton per­ All of the steel is in the top and bright, we have sent wires to Mo­ something Victory (Bull); Scatrains New sonal against the items such as windows and so Jersey and New York (Seatrain); bile and Galveston advising them Shipping out here has been very SIU. The com­ Dennison Victory, Afoundria, good during this past period, and forth should be completed within to come and get it. Lafayette and Azalea City (Water­ we expect to have good shipping the next few weeks. Ships paying off and signing on pany asked us man); Archers Hope, Government out here for some time in the .Atlantic Drive were the Ames Victory and Coe not to cause any ' Camp, French Creek and Cantigny future, especially if things hold The top of the new discussion Victory (Victory Carriers); Cuba trouble and it (Cities Service); Seathunder (Co­ up the way they have been going. here in Baltimore is the Atlantic Victory (Seas), and The Cabins would take care of him. However, lonial); Northwestern Victory (Vic­ We paid off the Young America drive right now, with all the mem­ (Cabins). In-I think the talk McDonald tory Carriers); Robin Tuxford and bership showing great interest in transits included we had with him Robin Gray (SeaS); Steel Artisan (Waterman); the Lewis Emery Jr. the new developments in the fleet. the Sealegend was much more effective. (Isthmian), and Fort Bridger (US (Victory Carriers); the New Ro- The men are all hoping that the and Ocean Ulla chelle Victory (South Atlantic), and The De Soto has one of the finest Petroleum). Atlantic men will have an SIU (Ocean Trans.); the Seapender (Seatransport). crews sailing. The stewards depart­ Sign Hoosler Mariner contract very soon. Sunioh (Kea); The Young America, Lewis ment deserves especiai praise for Signing on were the Northwest­ Ralph Whitley is one of the men Calmar, Yorkmar Emery Jr. and Seapender signed fine work. However, we have to ern Victory; Steel Recorder and on the beach here right now. He and Seamar (Cal­ make sure the chief stays in line. Hoosier Mariner (Isthmian); Schuy­ back on, as well as the Young sails as steward mar); Seagarden Far East Run ler Otis Bland, Lafayette and Fair- America, Jean LaFitte and Choc­ and has been Ih (Pen. Nav.); Hur­ land (Waterman), and the Robin taw (Waterman). One of the regular boys who ricane, Raphael the SIU since Calling here in-transit, we had 1947. He is one of Shervyood (Seas). Ships in transit just came back to port is Williani Semmes, John B. were Alcoa's Pointer, Planter and the Alamar (Calmar), the John B. the sidewalk su­ Waterman, Bucyrus Victory and F. McDonald. He has been absent , Ranger; Seatrains Texas, Georgia, Waterman, Hastings, Kyska and perintendents we Morning Light (Waterman); Re­ from the Port of Philadelphia for . New York and Louisiana (Sea- Raphael Semmes (Waterman), and have had with public (Trafalgar); Marven (Int'l about a year, running Far East. train); PeSoto and Iberville (Water­ the Coe Victory (Victory Carriers). the new building, Nav.); Michael (Carras); North He expects to settle around Phila­ We had a beef on the New Ro- and since he man); Marymar and Penmar (CalPlatte Victory (Mississippi); Sea delphia for the next month or so" mar);, Bull Run (Petrol Tankers), chelle Victory about some disputed sails as steward, Comet II (Ocean Carriers); Gen­ on vacation. He has been sailing .and he has* taken and Isthmian's Steel Admiral. eral Patton (Nat'l Waterways); with the Union for two years.' ilBiEiiiii overtime Whitley some OT for re­ special interest Claude Simmons Steel King (Isthmian), and Clarks­ Originally, he came from Atlantic, stricted time, but in the plans for the galley 'and burg Victory (Eastern). Ass't. Secretary-Treasurer but he thinks there is nothing found that' some cafeteria facilities in the new like the SIU. Restricts Crew t 3^ of .the crew building. Steve Cardullo N Ran into the usual beefs which Seattle: fouled themselves Philadelphia Port Agent Payoffs are expected, however the Cuba up as far as the During the past period, we paid Victory was a little different. S> SI SI ' , OT was con­ off the Kathryn, Ines and Evelyn Seems like the captain had a lot Boston: cerned, by "not (Bull); the Massmaf (Calmar); the putting in their Bents Fort and Salem Maritime of faith in his typewTiter and halfOT sheets for "it. (Cities , Service); the Bienville sheets of blank white paper. He "Kent restricted the crew in two ports Though shipping ihas been a Some of the little slow the past two weeks, the OT for' restriction to ship was as (Waterman); the Oremar, Marore, and limited the shore time in holiday season has been at a peak good as gold, since the skipper Cubore, Steelore, Baltore and another. At the payoff he produced Arnold T. Policy, of the National in Seattle with various social restricted the crew to the ship Venore (Ore); the Robin Sherwood two of these half-sheets, one for events and entertaining activities on only a verbal order. However, (Robin); the George Lawson (Pan Inchon and one for Pusan, sup­ Shawmut Bank and treasurer of going on, Seattle has been cele­ many of the men in'the crew did Oceanic), and the Holystar (Interr posedly signed by MSTS restrict­ the Propeller Club .here, visited us recently. He looked over the ing the crew to the ship. brating its annual Seafair week not bother to put this OT down continental). We signed on the Sweetwater Yarmouth and said he was very with lots of beautiful girls from on their overtime sheets. Needless to say, none of these (Metro); the Steel Vendor (Isth­ impressed with the heads-up SIU which to choose the Seafair Queen were acceptable, as MSTS is not We had the pleasure of seeing mian); the Kathryn, Ines and crew that he saw in action and the and princesses dor the year, Shir­ the SIU first again, when the SIU- Evelyn (Bull); the Bethore, Ore- the port government auUiority. cleanliness of the ship. ley Givens, representing a labor The crew wound up with 1,535 union, was chosen as Seafair manned New Rochelle Victory mar, Marore, Steelore, Baltore, hours restricted shore time which Skip Payoffs sailed from here with the first Cubore and Venore (Ore); the Queen for 1953. : We paid off the Council Grove cost the company $2,190.27 in lieu We had the honor of having cargo of grain to go to Korea Julesberg (Terminal Tankers); the of launch service expenses to take (Cities Service), and signed her on under the new Rehabilitation Act Bents Fort and Salem Maritime President Eisenhower here attend­ the crew ashore. Collected anoCher again. We had the DeSoto and ing the Governor's Conference. for Korea. Quite a few important (Cities Service); the Bienville $136 for the 34-man crew for Iberville (Waterman), and the persons boarded the ship and an (Waterman); the Massmar (Cal­ The Gold Cup boat races were launch service not provided in Robin Tuxford (Robin) here inheld here last week with "Sio Mo .impressive ceremony was held to mar), and the Mary Adams (Bloom- still another port. transit. field). mark the sailing of this first cargo. •Shun IV" winning again for Seat­ All the payoffs were clean, and John Arabasz T. Banning The ships calling here in-transit tle. In addition to this, the weather it seems that the membership pol­ Wilmington Port Agent San Francisco Port Agent included the Antinbus, Wacosta, has been ideal for this time of the icy of warning performers and year. gashounds to stear clear of SIU ' Ships in-transit include, the Seaships has kept them away from . vigil (North Seas); Hastings and this port, since we have had little Keystone Mariner (Waterman); trouble on that score. Yorkmar and Alamar (Calmar); We have had some activity in . and The Cabins (Cabins Tanker). this area with Atlantic ships dur­ Clean Up Ship ing the past couple of weeks. We Shipping Figures July 29 to August 12 In a discussion aboard the Seahad the Atlantic Importer up in vigil, the captain agreed that the SHIP. SHIP. TOTAL Revere, the Atlantic States in REG. REG. REG. TOiAL SHIP. ship was in foul condition and DECK ENG. STEW. SHIPPED Providence and the Atlantic Deal­ PORT DECK ENGINE STEW. REG. er in New Haven. needed a lot of cleaning up in the 38 15 10 13 23 18 , 79 Boston ..... 40 The men in the Atlantic and the crews' quarters, officers' quarters 100 365 508 134 l3l 120 173 215 New York ., Seafarers up here are still talking and galley. We informed him that 130 39 42 - 49 132 39 32 61 Philadelphia about the way the AMEU chair­ SIU ships were clean ships and 283 73 111 99 304 98 82 man failed to even show up at the ... <. 124 Baltimore .. we certainly didn't want this one forum in Philadelphia, and just to. he an exception. Further, it was 17 3 4 10 10 41 ..... 13 18 Norfolk .... sent a letter instead. Some of the ai niust with the crew that the 10 4 5 43 1 15 17 11 Savannah guys say that the AMEU is so used ship's quarters and galley be 7 9 10 26 35 17 11 Tampa ........i............. *7 to "representing" tlie men in the ' dleaned up. To' make a long story 176 63 52 61 49 48 143 Mobile 46 fleet by just sending a letter to the short, the captain authorized sancompany—if they even bother to 88 78 250 - itat-y equipment and the sougeeing 81 84 262 NeW' Orleana -•....92 mention anythipg to the comapny of the stewards department, gal­ 17 102 34 24 44 61 18 Galveston' 26 —that the AMEU chairman ,just ley, messhall and quarters on an 3 14 6 5 39 12 10 Seattle * 17 couldn't get used to the idea of overtime ba.sis. We didn't hear any 45 44 143 148 54 45 49 . San Franeisvo 54 going any place in person to reprer . further beefs on her after we left, 46 25 105 sent his membership. 34 115 ..•42.." . io we • assume an'other clean SIU; ./' Wilmington .............v:';. 50 T T' f ' James Sheehan . ship is bri its way: . u..d^in X' . Boston Port B ' . . 472 , 0.659 The Keystone Mariner was six , 525i; New York: TopjUmon Shipping Kefps Port Humming •:-i^ Baltimore: Lois Of InierasI Here In The Allanlic Drive Union Clears Up Hoof Wilh Do Solo Ghief Colled 1,535 Hrs. OT Deef On Cnba Vielory Don't 'Forget' To Pnt til For Yonr OT HighlighisOfWeekFor Sealile: ike^ Seafair - --'"Vl Propeller Club Head Lauds Yarmoulh Crew ii stammfG mEmm as V;- ^".1 'J �Fare Twdve • ^ SEAFARERS LOG Annut 21,195S IN THE WAKE seacoasts, but there has never been KENNETH E. BECKERICH—FWT any definite proof as to whether or Seafarer Kenneth E. Beckerich tee ship in France because of a not this is actually true. Some has been sailing for only five years, sailing schedule mix-up, he caught scientists assert that the number of deaths during any given day is Question: Do you ever pass time but in that time, almost one-fourth the Fort Bridger and signed on evenly distributed over the 24 by tossing a line over the aide and of his life, he has come up with there with six of his ex-French a probable first with the SIU and Creek buddies who were left in hours; others maintain that more fishing while oh a trip? several near misses. the same boat. He spent five people die "when the tide goes out" —that is, between midnight and The Bronx-born 21-year-old is months on the Fort Bridger before Joe Miller, ch. stwd.: Siure, that's an FWT who has been a member paying off in Palermo, Sicily. The the very early hours of the morn­ one of the things I really like to of the Union since 1949. He was ship had been out 17 months when ing—than at any other time. do when we're 17 at the time and was, probably, it paid off its entire personnel, un­ 4. 4. ^ anchored oif the youngest Seafarer to sail any licensed and otherwise, going into The longest fishing line in the someplace and qpe of the seven seas. His other layup for awhile. world—36,000 feet, and made of things are dull SIU distinctions come in the ma­ Likes Coastwise Runs steel, was used, not by an enthu­ Once, while we ternity field. After returning as a passenger siastic fisherman, hoping for a were anchored On May 18, 1951, just about six prize haul, but by sea scientists on off the Southeast weeks after tee maternity benefit on the Vulcania, Ken got his book a scientific expedition aboard the coast of Africa, I went into effect for members of before setting out on an interGalathea, a Danish flag ship. Un­ threw a line over the Union, Ken and his wife Mar­ coastal run with Waterman. He ran lumber and dry cargo between reeling their giant line till it and landed garet qualified with a bouncing touched the ocean's bottom, 6V4 good - sized boy, Kenneth John Beckerich. The Oregon and New York, and has i 4. X. miles below the surface of the shark. Man, was than fun catching. younger Beckerich was the third stuck close to the US ever since High seas never meant the size water, the scientists were able to his first, long foreign run which SIU baby to bring in a maternity came as a pleasant and unexpected ^ » 4i or violeiic-e of the waves past the lure aboard such fabulous creatures benefit. Now, there seems evi­ three-mile limit. In its oldest sense, as the six-foot larva o£ an eel (this J. Behar, MM: Sure, and I like dence that the Beckerichs will be surprise. Not only do I like the coast­ high seas means the same as high­ means that the fully grown eel to catch stuff that I can cook and right up there among the second- wise runs," said Ken, "but 1 prefer way—a public thoroughfare which would probably stretch 130 feet in eat. Once - when time-around group to collect bene­ may be used by all who wish to length) and other creatures, which we were outside the Seatrains. It is a short run fits on an all-SlU family. Wife travel on it. "Under the weather, live so far below the surface of the Panama, I start­ with better than average pay and Margaret is expecting once more, a term which can now mean feeling water that no light from the sun ed fishing food, and I get a chance to see af d and tee latest edition to the grow­ sick either ashore or at sea, started ever reaches them, and which sur­ caught six dol­ my family every other week in ing Beckerich family may see the New York. You can't beat it for off. as a seasick expression, when vive in their water world, under phins, all in a light of day before this hits print. a top deal, even in the SIU." the new sailor, not as chipper as pressures as heavy as 15,000 couple of hours. As of the latest reports, the Beck­ he might be, and buffeted by the pounds every square inch. They were really Ken's last vessel was the Longerichs stand fourth in line for wind, curled up beside the bulwarks running good. view Victory (Victory Carriers), ^ 4) » second-time honors. on the windy or weather side of the And then we signing off .it late in June. Right Mai de ncr, or, to be uniHessant SIV OrgaulMr ship. c leaned and noiv, he said, he's waiting for a about it, seasickness, may be a unit 4- 4 Ken, who started sailing at 16 Seatrain again. The Longview ran crew sersal illness, but statistics have cooked them up with the SIU, was an organizer on army cargo to Antwerp, Cherbourg Many of the most common proved that men take this kind of loved them. tee Lake George when US Petro­ and Bordeaux on a European run. articles of clothing worn by the misfortune more bravely than * % X. leum came into the SIU fold. He man of today owe their popularity women.. For every five male victims Lives In Mt. Vemqn Charles LaRosa, OS: No, I never was with the first SIU crew to to the first World War. When he of seasickness, there are eight Seatrain Lines have a special do much fishing when I'm on a sail the ship in 1948 after the com­ took off his khaki uniform in 1918, women. place in his heart, for he,got off . ^ trip. I guess It's pany signed up with tee Union the American male decided he A long swallow of beer was as "t too dull for me. for better performance all around. the Seatrain New Jersey in Sep­ liked the trench coat, and added it welcome to an ancient Egyptian as I just like to He .was a cog in the organizing tember, 1950, in order to get mar­ to his civilian wardrobe, as well as it is to us today. As far back as stretch out in my wheels for Cities Service, too, ried. Didn't take him along, either. such everyday items as the wrist the year 5,000 BC, Babylonians sack or on a cot where so many Seafarers won their Three days after the payoff he was watch, a muffler, woolen socks, setting up the Beckerich family drank beer which they brewed up on deck and spurs as organizers. slacks'and soft collared shirts, home in Mount Vernon, NY. from barley. The Greeks and read to pass the "Speaking of Cities Service," Xf X> i/i Ken is known among his Sea­ Romans, however, who depended time. That's a the youthful Seafarer said," there That the tide affects the death on wine to quench their thirst, lot more relax­ was one trip I'll never forget. I farer buddies for his prowess in of human beings is a belief which scorned the barbarous drinking ing and restful took a lot of ribbing about it from weight lifting. He is also an avlH existed among the ancient Romans, habits of their Egyptian neighbors, than holding a tee boys. I was supposed to be cartoonist and caricaturist. How­ ever, he had to give up another who, along with such notables as but the lowly habit seems to have piece of line hanging over the side. out for six weeks, but it was 131^- one of his hobbies after he left Shakespeare and Dickpns, thought stood the test of time pretty well. • 4) 4months before it ended." school and got married. Ken was that more human beings died when The original invention of beer is M. Reid, eh. stwd.: Sure I like to Beckerich, he tells tee story on the lone male cheerleader, and the tide was ebbing than at other attributed to the goddess Isis, and fish, especially when we're on a limself, was on tee French Creek head of the squad, when he times. "To go out with the tide," even today, many people believe eight and one-half months after cavorted acrobatically along with usually about midnight, is a super­ that blowing on the foam of their long trip and signing on for a one-trip foreign 25 girls for Bronx Vocational High stition which is especially strong beer will-influence the goddess to there's nothing to do aboard ship. run of six weeks. After missing School. among people who live along the bring them good luck. When w e'r e around Panama, I always throw out a line and try to hook some of those GreenOn the beach 20. Not aboard ACROSS 41. Where Prime Minister Winston dent Roosevelt and Prime Minister Kind of tide Brindisl U • ship jacks. They make Mexican Skip bait on Churchill arrived in Quebec, W. L. Mackenzie King of Canada farmer 23. The hook 43. Native of great eating issued a joint statement in Quebec, water Murmansk Port E of Port 23. 4. SIU member N Canada, for a sixth conference to the same effect. . . Through the 7. Job for the when they're cooked right. Arthur 26. Gulf of 44. Indian tribe delegate with President Roosevelt on the medium of the SEAFARERS LOG, Blaa 45. Wedgeport 4) 4^ » 8. What SIU Fruit drink 27. Wing catch provides Atmosphere Joe Farrell, FWT: I never bother conduct' of the war, in which, for the Union helped td" explain the Vigor 38. 47. Formerly 6. Invoke the Brother of 29. Yea 49. Take water with fishing. Wh^n I was on the the first time, Canadian officials new withholding tax on wages Deity Moses 31. Prohibit from boat 7. Area N of IB. It runs from Robin Tuxford, I would take part. Premier Joseph ^hich affects Seafarers ... A Ger­ 32. Position BO. Iiland W of Chaleur Bay Miami to 33. Annapolis used to stretch Stalin, it was stated, is not likely to man submarine in an attack off the Rat 8. Aleutian Havana graduate: 81. Bore out Island , Rear out on a cot up participate ... The Italian Govern­ Sicilian north coast sank a cruiser Abbr. S3. Place to avoid Angers Crooner 39. Trial SB. Galley delicacy on deck and read ment announced that "In view of of the Brooklyn class which was Skin opening Island near Commune in Ulithi while Johnny repeated aerial attacks against protected by destroyers, Berlin SicUy Red or Black (Puzzle Answer on Page 2B) Byrnes used to Rome it has now been deter­ said . . . The islands of Lipari and Ceylon export 16. "evolve^ Semester: be over at the mined to declare formally and Stromboli, north of Sicily, sur­ Abbr. 1 2 5 rail fishing all publicly without further delay that rendered to a US naval expedition Where. SIU fought for a the . time. He Rome is an open city and that all ... An Executive Order by Presi­ 12 hospital used to catch necessary measures in conformity dent Roosevelt was made public seaman Came to rest enough fish for with internationar law « e being giving the WLB power to punish a . 15 16 Youth group: the whole darned crew, so I never taken" ... The SlU-SUP opened balking labor union by withhold­ Abbr. 18 se. Common event even tried! one of the most modem and attrac­ ing check-off dues until it comes in in tropics tive Union halls in the country last line, or to suspend other major Every ship Xf X> 'X 57. 122 23 has one John "Bananas" Zierels, bosun: week in Los Angeles, Cal., to han- labor union contract benefits. 58. Most books Sure always. One time we were le increased port traffic and hiiv 26 27 26 X> X> Xi have them • 29 32 33 City in Brazil ing facilities for Seafarers . . . The Official announcement was made hove to on the Sea bird |3S 136 liner Normandie, bought by the in Washington that Moscow had old Del Mar, and Navy boat Attempt US from Frsnce and renamed the "relieved" Maxim Litvinoff of his w e landed a 37 Exclude 138 39 Lafayette, was partly floated in post as Soviet Ambassador to shark about eight Island WNW of Curacao ler slip in New 'York City after the United States and appointed feet long off 41 142 Run, as a line having been burned and turned Andrei A. Gromyko as his suc­ Northern ' Brazil. Pert, to punishment 47 over 18 months ago. 148 cessor . . . The Union, fighting for 49 50 Man, what a bat­ Creek the rights of the Seafarers, saw 4 4>4i tle he gave me. Filipino 154 55 Wand North The Navy diecloiied in Washing­ Matthew Dushane, Washington Whenever I'm of Greenland ton that American and Canadian representative of the SIU-SUP, aropnd Panama, Voag Stb |57 158 Aimer's pal roops landed. In force on Klska appointed official AFL member of I try to hook DOWN :[sland in the Aleutians and found the newly created maritime panel into some barracuda. They really fw" mad at the enemy had departed. Presi- of the National War Labor Board. give a battlsk: -Hfy'.nastedt The dancinr fish, according to many people, is just a fantasy out of Alice in Wonderland, but the little grunion, a native of Californian waters, actually does per­ form a kind of dance every spring ; and fall. When the time comes for - her to lay her eggs, the female Bwims ashore with the waves and balanced upright on her tail, whirls around in the sand in the moon­ light. By this dance-like motion she digs out a hole in which she can lay her eggs. With the next wave she is carried out to sea again, . leaving her fertilized eggs buried in the sand, and with the next in­ coming tide, salt water breaks the shells of the tiny eggs and the little grunions follow their mother out to sea. ^ 1 1' •f. TEN TEARS ACQ J • 'iy-in fivjod lefi; y/d-pn �-r'J ^ Avrittt M. 1988 4!-iTr'-V ;...-;T ' •• SEAFARERS " LOG SEAFARERS 0 LOG AegHtt 21, 1953 Vol. XV. : •' '"A Pag* Thirteen 'ief's Face Iff No. 17 Published biweekly by the Seafarers International Union, Atlantic & Gulf District, AFL, 675 Fourth Avenue, Brooklyn 32, NT. TeL STerling 8-4670. PAUL HALL, Secretary-Treasurer . EdUor, HcitfiCBT BRAND; Managing Editor, RAT DENISON; Art Editor. BERHAaB SEAMAN; Photo Editor, DANtEL NILVA; Staff Writers, HERMAN ARTBOB. IRWIN SPIVACK .ART PERTALL, JERRY REMER, AL MASKIN; Gulf Area Reporter, BILL MOODY. ISO The Sales Tax Drive For several months a quiet drive has been conducted by outfits like the National Association of Manufacturers and the US Chamber of Commerce to enact a Federal sales tax. The drive is simply an attempt to shift an even greater burden of taxes on to the backs of wage earners. It is no accident that the sales tax program is coupled with a program to reduce income taxes. Income taxes are grad­ uated; that is,, a person pays more according to income. Those whose income is small, pay a smaller percentage of taxes. But a five percent reduction iii income taxes means pennies , for the wage-earner, thousands for the big income brackets. The sales tax on the other hand, makes no allowance for - ability to pay. Those who have to count their pennies will pay the same tax on a pound of hamburger as the hamburger buyer who shops in a Cadillac. And the sales tax burden is complicated by the fact that many states and cities already have their own heavy sales faxes. For years, this country has held that people who can best afforci to pay should contribute the largest share of the cost < of government. That is the fair and democratic way. There's no doubt that a Federal sales tax would be a step backward = and;a blow to millions of American families. SI 4" t Asks To Amemf, Taft-MMartley Law To ttie Editor: Toiiay, the American worker is three times as produetive, earns six times as much money, and has pension, health, education, medi­ cal and other fringe benefits, add­ ing to his security, that he did not have 40 years ago. Most of this advancement is at­ tributed to American labor unions, which led the march from un­ employment and breadlines across the nation to prosperity,- full employment and . security. Despite its enormous con­ tributions to the Brault American way of life, the labor movement has been An eight-day strike of fruit can- 7,000 Indiana Bell phone workers losing ground since the end of the ners in California ended with were still out on strike. Approxi­ war. Only 15 million of a working wage increases of eight to ten mately 11,000 telephone employees force of 62 million people are un­ cents an hour for 35,000 members in Illinois picked up $1.50 to $5 ion members, according to figures. of the AFL Cannery Workers weekly increases, while 6,500 in Something has to be done to Union. The agreement covered 68 Wisconsin got $1.50 to $4. All of On the heels of orders imposing severe penalties on seamen strengthen the union movement plants throughout the state and in­ them are members of the Commu­ overstaying shore leave in Korea comes news that one Sea­ and to increase the seciu-ity of cludes a health plan and other nications Workers of America, farer was fined $150 for being ashore a few minutes past the working people. fringe benefits. CIO. curfew. What's more the Seafarer spent the night in a lock-up The principal reason for this de­ 4 4 4 4 4 4 which didn't even provide the crudest sanitary facilities for fection in the ranks of labor is Drivers hauling baked goods In A runaway textile plant, that 'the Taft-Hartley Law. prisoners. left Massachusetts to avoid a CIO NY were awarded $6 to $10 weekly Amend Law Textile Woiiiers Union contract, increases retroactive to May 1 in When the Seafarer protested the size of the fine, he.was has been ordered by the National an agreement between Teamsters Since 1947 unions have asked for told that the MP's knew what he was earning and were fining the repeal of the law. Yet, willing Labor Relations Board to dish out Local 550 and the New York City him accordingly. If he wanted to skip the fine, he could work to compromise, they are now fully back pay and reinstatement to Bakery Employers Council. A wel­ it' off at hard labor, $1 a day for 150 days. cooperative with the administra­ about 400 employees. The Mount fare plan provided under the new In other words, the Seafarer was being penalized heavily, tion, not to repeal the law, but to Hope Finishing Company closed contract calls for contributions of not because he overstayed shore leave, but because he was amend it in such a way as to bet­ its plant in North Bighton, Massa­ $3 per man per week, to go to $4 making a good living under the SIU contract. The idea of ter serve the interests of the peo­ chusetts, in October, 1951, and weekly after two years. The con­ a working man getting paid his due apparently is very up­ ple. This is a must if labor and moved to Butner, North Carolina. tract covers 3,000 drivers and management are to go along hand It's estimated that the NLRB or­ driver-salesman in the metropolitan setting to the Army brass. in hand making this country the der will cost the company a area. It may be all right for the armed forces to push their strong leader it has always been. minimum of $500,000. 4 4 4 •* own lower orders around in the manner of domestic animals It must be revised to permit the Printers' annual earnings have 4 4 4 although we've heard it isn't considered good for morale. two functions to negotiate the kind Legal aid for workers in New more than tripled over the past 20 It's about time though, that the-Army was reminded in strong of contracts necessary without the York State deprived of unemploy­ years according to an official re­ threat of Government intervention ment insuranee benefits through port issued by the International terms about the rights of civilians. in private industry. teehnicalities and red tape ha^ Typographical Union. The average 4 Government has no business been promised by the State Fed­ typesetter earned $1,719 in 1933, regulating health and pension eration of Labor. The Federation's while in 1953 the average was up plans or outlawing union security last convention in Buffalo was told to $5,255. Part of the increase, of An article aj^aring in the September issue of "The Read­ agreements such as check offs and that employers are increasingly course, came from the fact that the closed shop, at least to my way turning to the courts to whittle most workers were working only er's Digest," entitled "The Amazing Seafarers "Union," casts of thinking. The closed shop is away workers' rights to collect un­ part of the year back in the depres­ ' quite a few compliments in the direction of the SIU. Summed the finest expression of majority employment benefits. sion days. lip, the article describes the SIU as a democratic union, de­ rule in a democratic society. When 4 4 4 4 4 4 voted to the interests of rank and file seamen, militant in a majority of the employees of any The strike of building construc­ Gunshot wounds caused the defense of their rights and aggressive in seeking out ways business or industry decides what death of United Mine Workers or­ tion truck drivers in New York en­ to be done for the working ganizer Charles Vermillion, found tered it& second month with no . and means to better their conditions on ship and ashore. members in that particular field, it on a highway near Hyden, Ken­ solution yet in sight. City officials The SIU is proud bf the fact that it has attracted this kind is only constitutionally and demo­ 1 ' of praise. The Union intends to make every effort to continue cratically correct for the dissident tucky, in his car, Several months have attempted unsuccessfully thus back Vermillion and three other far to mediate the dispute which to live up to the above description. factions to go along with the pre­ UMW members were wounded in a has tied up work on highways, vailing thoughts. 4 4 4 shotgun ambush following a union schools and other city construction projects. The strikers, members of Cooperation Necessary meeting. local 282 of the Teamsters Union The Taft hartley Law is many 4 4 4 things to many men. To manage­ of 12 girls from 15 drive sand, cement and ready-mix The laudatory letter on the SIU Sea Chest received from ment it is an invincible weapon of to Employment 17 years of age on Government- concrete trucks. Previously lumber the master of the Oceanstar is a sure sign of the growing coercion and retaliation, cudgeling contracted work has cost Barclay haulers belonging to the same popularity of SlU-supplied slopchests. The Oceanstar skipper workers and imions into line. To Home Products Inc. of Cohoes, union had settled their contract wrote the Union that the fair prices and first quality mer- labor, it is an oppresive regula­ New York, a $6,700 fine. The firm, with employers. 4 4 4 : chandise supplied by the Sea Chest were eliminating the beefs tion aimed at destroying or ham­ which was manufacturing sleeping pering some of the rights for which bags for the armed forces, had Television engineers employed by ' that plagued him in the past. they fought over the years. been shifting girls from one plant, the New York TV station WOR-TV ; This letter'is typical of the reaction of a great many It behooved neither party to on civilian production, to the one have gone on strike in a dispute - '.skippers, pursers and ship-owner representatives in recent work at counter-purposes to the on, Government production by over working rules. Members of months. "Their original hostility to the idea of Union participa­ other. This is not a war of dia­ means of an overpass across the Local 1212 of the International tion in the slopchest business is rapidly dissolving in the face metrically-opposed ideologies. It street. Federal law forbids em­ Brotherhood of Electrical Workers of the obvious superiority of the Union's slopchest service. should be an attempt between two ployment of children under 18 on left their jobs, and among other principals on the same side of the Government contracts. thmgs, temporarily interrupted In other words, the Union's experience in the slopchest American fence to get together to televising of Brooklj'n Dddgers ,44 4 business proves, what the Union maintained all along—that iron out their minor differences in Telephone operators employed home baseball games. Federal me­ Y^.there was ,a peed for an, honest, reliable and fairly-priced the field of labor-management re­ by Ulinois Bell Telephone and diators are attempting to reach a t tPjhe. cbiseling and crooked- lations.Wisconsin Bell Telephone^ have solution to the working-: rules w^'^^ra tnat^aye plagued this business in the past. Ray Brault se..tled contract demands^ v.'hile difficulty- ROUND-tIP Army Versus Seamen High Praise For SHI Sea Chest Sueeess • 'i . -r_l'-'i' : I• •a..:.. • . .' . IL':^ f*i il �Pi^e Foniieen SEAP ARE It 5 lO G Aavwt 21,11)51 ^ I I•'f' •' m- 8^ '. j The Alcoa Puritan's deck gets freshened up with some paint. George Leer (center) dips into the pail while Bob Weidermeyer looks on. The bosun is to the rear. American movies are popular in the far reaches of the world. Here Jane Wyman's hoto enlivens a billboard in far off Djakarta, Indonesia. Picture taken by Seafarer ohn Westfall while a crewmember of the Steel Director. J I i I J:;.- [ Seafarers on the Morning Light J N their regular shipboard meeting. - J for th^ ggjisieifc I • V down in the crew'ss messroom for uiauf settle sciLxv auwn me crew lor xnei v may oe no greehs^ but your loyai goner is pncnmg: : Babalek (left foreground) served as chairman , and putting all the time. Niclr} on the Alcoa Puritan, i ,.v ^ ^ v/'taJ>®s:feis-cut.iout ��>• ;-• : •" • Paffc-Sixteen SEAFARERS IPG Avvut 21, 195S SEAFARERS Great Lakes ere carrier operators 'expect to break all monthly Handling Storage Batteries tonnage records In August with the addition of two new carriers, the Richard M. Marshall and William C. Ford, to the Great Lakes ore Accidents involving the handling of the low voltage wet-cell storage fleet. In July the carriers had towed just under 14V^ million tons of batteries on board ship are rare and unusual. But there are certain iron ore. In itself a new monthly mark. Barring an early freese on precautions that should be taken because of the sulphuric acid in the the upper Lakes, shipments are expected to exceed 100 million tons batteries and the highly-explosive hydrogen gas given off by a battery this year . . . The Chinese Nationalist government has released the when Charging or discharging. A washing machine is a fine freighter Marllu that was seized off the mainland of Red China. The Hydrogen explosion is not to be taken lightly. The Graf Zeppelin Marilu's cargo has been unloaded In Formosa, and apparently Is being thing to have aboard"ship—when disaster of many years back was one such explosion which killed sev­ it works. But when the machine eral hundred passengers and put an end to the use of dirigibles for confiscated. goes out of order, then the men commercial 4. i ^ air travel. Such an explosion can take place inside the aboard have a real headache be­ The motor vessel Hampton Roads has been abandoned by its crew cause it means going back to the cells proper, or in the compartment where the battery is located any after being badly battered by gales off the North Carolina coast. old-time washboard days. This can time there is a concentration-cf about foiu* percent of hydrogen in Crewmembers were pkked up by the tanker Gulf^ Service . . , The be real tough when you consider the air, a small amount of hydrogen in a confined space. Kings Point Merchant Marine Academy celebrated its tenth anni­ that the seaman may have to scrub Flame Can 'Ride' Hydrogen Stream versary by graduating 143 licensed mates and engineers. Twenty of down plenty of There is no way hydrogen can be ignited except by a flame from them went right into the Navy, while the rest were commissioned grimy work the outside, but should there be a lighted cigarette in the "vicinity or as ensigns in the Naval Reserve ... A new million-dollar wharf, clothes. an open flame the flame can travel into the ceil on the stream of third new facility to be opened in Houston since 1950, has been com­ That's why hydrogen and cause the battery to explode with considerable force pleted by the Houston Navigation District. It is designed for open-air Seafarer Lester throwing pieces of the heavy case about and squirting the area with cargo handling such ai steel rails and lumber. Peppett received damaging battery acid. 4 4^ high praise from Since hydrogen is the lightest of all the elements it escapes rapidly his shipmates and a battery compartment can be kept clear of fumes by having an Concerned about the high percentage of aliens on Its vessels, Switzer­ for the work he overhead vent. Adequate ventilation will prevent an explosive mixture land has made plans to train Its own merchant crews. At present only has put in to from forming in the ooqipartment, but the hydrogen streaming one-fourth of crewmembers on Swiss ships are Swim nationals. The keep the wash­ from Swiss merchant marine was created In the wartime emergency in Peppett the vent holes, could Imcome ignited and the flames could travel ing machine nm- back into 1941. It now consists of 35 vessels grossing 200,000 tons over all . . . the battery cells. An Indian concern has purchased the Norwegian cargo ship Begran ning in good shape. Peppett knows Even when a battery is not being used, it is discharging slightly, and Is renaming It the State of Saurashtra. The new owners flew how important machines are from so that a certain amount of hydrogen gas is given off at all times. first hand experience since he was a crew of Indian seamen to the States and the vessel loaded a cargo For the ventilation system to woric properly the air supply should of grain for Pakistan on Its first voyage . . . Two tankers and a tug sailing in the days when machines suffered minor damage when they collided In the narrow channel didn't exist aboard ship.- The 34- come in to the compartment and the exhaust vent should be near between Governors Island and the Battery. The tug Esse II was year-old Seafarer is a native of the overhead where the light hydrogen gas can escape easily. Sparking squeezed momentarily between the tankers Esso Lynchburg and Fort Massachusetts and joined the SIU should be avoided at all times in the compartment. This can be done Fetterman. The Fort Fetterman then ran aground temporarily, after in Philadelphia just ten years ago by making siuo battery circuits are dead when leads are being con­ nected to or disconnected from the battery. Proper sized wrenches the collision. Damage to the tug and crewmembers was minor, on August .11, 1943. should be used on the bolts of clamp terminals since a wrench that consisting mostly of broken glass and cuts. 4 4 4' slips might produce a spfuk that would be enough to ignite the gas. The Importance of standing all The further precaution bf throwing a rubber or canvas sheet across The Cunard Line has announced that the liners Caronia and Maure- watches on tankers and not miss­ cell connectors would prevent sparking in case the wrench slipped. tania will make six Caribbean ahd South American cruises this winter, ing the ship was stressed in a lit­ When connections are being made or broken, the vent plugs shbikld with stops at St. Thomas and other popular Caribbean resort-towns . . . tle talk given crewmembers of the be screwed tight. If at all possible, the lighting for the compartment A new Gulf of Mexico cargo service between US and Mexican ports Bradford Island (Cities Service) by should come from the outside and the bulbs protected by moisture has been undertaken by Transportes Maritimos y Fluviales, SCR, a ship's delegate Frank Flanagan. proof globes. It's a good idea to keep a light wooden shelf above the Mexican concern. The motorship Emancipacion and Veracruz will He pointed out that if men miss tops of the batteries so that metal objects falling on the batteries could touch at New Orleans, Houston and Mexican ports, including Veracruz watches or miss the ship it often not cause sparking. The shelf, of course, would have to be hinged and Tampico . . . The keel of the second atomic sub will be laid in deprives fellow crewmembers of or removable. the Groton, Connecticut, yard of General Dynamics' Electric Boat their full shore leave since they Use Rubber Aprons, Gloves Division. The first atomic sub, first ship ever to be driven by nuclear have to stand the watches of the Burns resulting from battery acid splattier can be prevented by missing^ men and lose out on the power, may be ready for service next summer. brief shore leave time that tanker- proper precautions in preparing the acid and handling batteries. 4 4 4 Goggles, rubber gloves and rubber aprons should be worn when men receive. Travelers from New England to the Eastern part of Long Island Flanagan has been a member of handling acid. When the battery acid is being prepared from tlie can take advantage of a new ferryboat service that has been opened the SIU since March 13, 1951, join­ concentrated sulphuric acid and water, it's important to add the between Saybrook, Connecticut, and Orient Point, LI . . . Several ing in the port of New York. He acid slowly to the water, not the other way around. When water is foreign nations have had striking growth In their merchant fleets In was born in Virginia on February added to the acid, a great deal of heat is generated and the small recent years. Turkey's merchant fleet now totals 552,989 tons, practi­ 6, 1923, and sails on deck. amount of water may boil over and spatter acid on the man doing cally all of It developed in the last quarter century. More than half the job. By adding acid to ^e water, the heat is diffused through 4 4 4 of the tonnage Is controlled by the Turkish government. West Germany tiie whole quantity of water and doesn't cause it to boil. A sound suggestion to help keep Is In the midst of a remarkable shipping and shipbuilding boom. The Equal precautions should be taken when cleaning away corrosion fleet has doubled In the last two years, now totaling 1,841,000 tons, down the roach population in the that -forms around battery" terminals and surfaces. They should be with another million tons under construction In shipyards. The pre­ ship was put forward by Seafarer brushed off by brushing away from the body. Blowing them off may John Carroll ait the last shipboard war German fleet for all Germany was 4iA million tons. cause acid pa^cles to fly back into the eyes or on the skin, resulting meeting of the in serious damage. Sometimes a good deal of corrosion deposit results 4 4 4 Azalea City (Wa­ from an excessive charging rate which causes acid mist to be carried Foreign shipping is rapidly invading the Great Lakes. Canadian terman). Carroll out of the vents with the gas. The mist then settles on surrounding sources report twice as many foreign vessels this summer in Toronto suggested that surfaces where it can corrode metal and injure the skin of anybody as compared with 1952. Ships of eight nations are now actively lime be sprin­ touching it. This condition can be avoided by proper control of the trading on the Great Lakes, including vessels from England, France, kled in aU gar­ Holland, Germany, Sweden, Norway, Cuba and Venezuela. Many of bage cans while battery's charging rate. Baking Soda Solution these vessels are staying on the Lakes full time during the shipping the ship is in season, running between US and Canadian ports. Should acid be spattered on the skin or clothes a weak solution port to prevent of ammonia water or a baking soda will neutralize it. Acid in the 4 4 4 infestation of the eyes has to be washed out by pure fresh water. For that reason then, Customs and immigration agents In the port of New York had a vessel. Otherwise Carroll it's a sensible precaution to have a container of pure fresh water on busy day recently when seven passenger liners disembarked 6,848 the garbage is passengers one morning last week. The seven ships were the Queen sure to attract a variety of unde­ tand in the battery compartment. The container should be a distincMary, Liberie, America, Independence, Ryndam, Neptunia and Con- sirable creatures that will make ve size and shape so that a man temporarily blinded/by acid in the eyes will not noistake it for the acid containers. ' tessa . . . A Coast Guard cutter had to tow in the cruise ship Nuevo themselves a home abodrd. Dominicano when she suffered an embarrassing lack of fuel on her Other general precautions that are advisable include keeping a CarroU, an AB, has been sailing run from Nassau, British West Indies, to Miami. The ship ran out of SIU for just a few months now, C02-type extinguisher readily available in or near the compartment; fuel just sixty miles from the port . . . The Norwegian-American Line since lie is one of the Atlantic removing or taping over finger rings when working on batteries, as a has put the new 6,400-tbn motor ship Foldenf jord Into service. Another tankerinen who got bounced by the short through the ring can caUse jo bad burn; avoiding use ol sea 8,100-ton vessel, the Norejford, will be ready Id a few days for the company for talking up SIU on the water with battery acid as it will release chlorine gas and ruin the Norway to US run. effectiveness of the acid; use of carrying devices to move batteries. Atlantic ships. AcflON S' '(f^7 • - I B" If"... Burly Aaleep In The Beep WHY, Its KNVCKte-HeW HOOWM,oU>i sreRUNG SBCONO MAre- AHO , vMLfcW m HIS sisaj I &OTTA XHO. SOMEYHIN'/ Bp Benpard Senman �AnciUt 21, 195S SEAFARkRS LOG ^ Pare Seventeen •-frr-. Battle For Crewman's Life Proves Fruitless The valiant, but losing battle of an SIU ship's captain and crew to save the life of a Seafarer has been described in detail by Arnold Reibus, AB, and Alf P. Sandvick, chief engineer, It was in the early part of May aboard the SIU- Newfoundland, still 400 miles dis­ ntianned George Uhler (South­ tant. He changed course to meet a ern Steamship) that Captain Coast Guard cutter at an appointed Ralph B. White and the crew, in- rendezvous. . eluding the victim's own brother, When the cutter came alongside, made every effort to get help, only it put out a motor lifeboat with a to have the Seafarer die on the doctor aboard. The doctor boarded way to port and a hospital. the Uhler and examined Sturgis. The Uhler, Reibus said, was en- He saw that he was critically in route from Bremerhaven to New need of oxygen, so the cutter sent York, about three or four days out oxygen equipment aboard which at sea, when James Sturgis, 3S permitted Sturgis to breath easier. saloon messman, started complain Then arrangements were made ing that he feit ill. He had been to transfer Sturgis to the cutter. Two hours later though, Sturgis all right when they were in Bremer­ haven, Reibus said, and had gone died aboard the cutter. The Uhler Not even a driving, cold j-ain can stop these Seafarers as they man the picketline which tied up the ashore with the rest of the gang received notice by wireless of his Val Chem and the Bethlehem Shipyard. Just to get the chill off, thby polish off some hot coffee and but a couple of days later to death. , doughnuts supplied by the SIU strike kitchen that was set up for them. Stopped Engines take to bed with what turned out to be a severe case of pneumonia ''At 12 o'clock, the captain or­ At the time Sturgis became seri­ dered the engines stopped for one ously ill. Captain White started to minute's silence. Everybody stood treat him using the ship's medical by on the boat deck. Then we , book as a guide. Sturgis rapidly started up the engines' again and grew worse, so Captain White went on our way. radioed New York for instructions "Captain White did everything He followed them as best he could that was humanly possible to save but Sturgis continued to suffer. him, but it just didn't help." (Continued from page 3) organized on a rotary basis so that resistance to the SIU and its rea­ Started Spitting Blood Sturgis' younger brother Claude, hours of the day and night, no regular shifts could be maintained son for signing an NMU agreement "At the beginning," Reibus said, who is 21, was working as crew matter what the weather condi­ on the line. at the last minute was its desire to "he didn't seem to be very sick and mess aboard the ship at the time. tions. Dispatching of pickets was Food needs were taken care of escape meeting the first class con­ wasn't running a very high fever. to everybody's satisfaction by the ditions of the SIU tanker contract. But later on he had a lot of trouble The company then wheeled up SIU cafeteria and by a mobile cof­ breathing and toward the end he fee and sandwich canteen on the its big guns and went after a court istarted spitting blood." waterfront. Each tour of picket petition for an injunction against Captain White then instructed duty stamped on a picket's card the picketline. The company also the radio operator to contact the was good for a hot meal in the SIU filed a $300,000 lawsuit and insti­ passenger ship United States which cafeteria, with choice of all items tuted charges before the NLRB. was in the vicinity. The passenger The legal moves were futile, how­ on the regular cafeteria menu. ship America, 100 miles away, also ever, and SIU picketing continued Attacks Picket With Car hegrd the call and offered to stand As it became apparent early in at full strength. Crewmembers of five Great Lakes car ferries will have an by. But the United States was a Realizing the futility of fighting the strike that the picketline had good 60 miles from the Uhler and opportunity to vote for the Great Lakes District of the SIU completely bottled up the ship, the SIU, company representatives as the union filed a petition for a National Mediation Board the nearest vessel was the British representatives got a lit­ contacted the Union and agreed to ^election. The car ferries, company passenger liner Queen Elizabeth, tle desperate. The company port withdraw all legal action and be­ owned by the Ann Arbor Rail­ engineer blew his staek. and gin negotiations for a settlement. only 30 miles astern. The only trouble was that darkness had set road Company, employ 295 gunned his car into the line of After a few days' discussions the unlicensed seamen in all depart­ Seafarers, injuring two men, company agreed to hire SIU men in and the seas were rough with ments. winds blowing up. Aussie Shrimpton and Frank Pasa- whom it had previously discrim­ The National Mediation Board luk. Both of them had to be treat­ inated against, as crewmembers. Too Risky has jurisdiction in this instance be­ ed at Norwegian Hospital, with Arrangements were then made to The Uhler's motor lifeboat was cause it covers all labor matters Shrimpton laid up for a week with sign an SIU contract. The ship has put in a state of readiness in case on the nation's railroads and rail­ internal injuries. already left port on its first coast­ of transfer. But after communica­ road subsidiaries; Up until now, the Instrumental in the company's wise voyage to Texas City, Texas. tion with the Queen Elizabeth, the board has not announced the date captains of both vessels agreed of the election. that it would have been too risky A three-way choice will be en­ to attempt transfer of the stricken tered on the ballot, the SIU Great man in the stormy sees at night. Lakes District, the National Mari­ (Continued from page 2) The Captain's next step was to enacted seventeen years ago: lis time Union, CIO, and no union. Up radio the Air-Sea Rescue Station principles still appear sound in until now, the NMU Lakes section operated by the Coast Guard at most respects. Nevertheless, in has held a contract for the car view of the violent economic, and ferry employees but SIU Lakes political changes, both domestic representatives reported the bulk and international, which have oc­ of the employees were looking for curred in those years, it may well SIU representation. Not the least be found that new approaches to of the attractions for these em­ the problem of achieving a mer­ ployees, they said, were the su­ chant marine adequate to the na­ perior benefits offered by the SIU Great Lakes contract. tional needs must be adopted. The ferries involved carry rail­ Program To Come road freight cars, automobiles and With the establishment In tangi­ passengers in between lake ports ble terms of a clear goal and the in Michigan and Wisconsin, includ­ machinery to keep it current with ing the ports <of Ludington, Mani­ changing conditions, and with a WASHINGTON — Despite com­ careful analysis of existing legis­ towoc, Kewaunee, Menominee and plaints about high taxes and dire lation, we will then be able to go Manistique. predictions of possible falling to our third phase, the recommen­ profits, the Commerce Department dation of a program and the legis­ Swap yarns or watch the fights |reports an average increase of lation to implement it. on television with your old ship­ 4^ percent in dividends paid by It is too early to state any con­ corporations up to August 1, 1953. clusions, but I am highly gratified mates at the Port O' Call—YOUR Regular membership meet­ Corporate dividends in the first with the progress made to date union-owned and union-operated ings in SIU headquarters and seven months of the year totaled and the many significant indica­ bar. Bring your friends — where »4.8 billion with some dividends tions which have developed during at all branches are held every AT SIU HEADQUARTERS you're always welcome. And the increasing as much as 16 percent the series of seventeen days of second Wednesday night at over the previous year. Transpor­ hearings on the size and composi­ tab won't fracture that payoff. 4th Avt. A 20th St. • Brooklyn 7 PM. The schedule, for the tation equipment companies led tion of the American merchant next few meetings is as follows: ithe parade to higher earnings, but marine which the - subcommittee August 26, September 0, Sep­ Ibanks and insurance companies held from May 14 to July 30 in OWNED AND OPERATED by lh« were not far behind. Oil refining Washington. -Hearings in San tember 23. SEAFARERS INTERNATIONAL UNION isnd machinery industries also did Francisco and New Orleans during All Seafarers registered on ATLANTIC AND GULF DISTRICT A.F.I. well. ' the Fall will broaden the record to the shipping list are required I -The only industries that showed form a firm base for the legislati^'e to attend the meetings.. declines in dividends were in tex- studies to be undertaken during second-sessfon of this Congress. New Tankship Co. Defies SIU—Tomec/ By Picketline Lakes SIU Seeks Vote For 5 Car Ferry Crews Potter Sees New Ship Law Likely US Reports Dividend $ Up In'53 Meeting l^ight Everg 2 Weeks -1 s\ •i-'V I I �Pacre EIrliteeii SEAFARERS Seaman Joe — Taken To The Cleaners LOG AariMt ^1, ifljfS By Lloyd Serfrand That the practice of wearing the wedding ring on the third linger of the left hand originated, because the ancient Greeks thought that a vein ran through that linger di­ rectly to the heart? In fact, how­ ever, the vein'that runs through the wedding ring linger doOs not run to the heart, but runs directly to the funny bone, 5; ^ t i t That the fastest mammal in existence is said to be the Cheetah? The Cheetah has' been clocked at speeds up to 70 miles per hour for a distance of over 100 yards. For faster speeds, the birds have the field, with most hawks rated, at possible speeds of over 180 miles an hour when chasing prey. The Deer Fly, however, an insect, is said to 'hold the all-time speed rec­ ord with some say^ig it can attain speeds of up to 818 miles an hour. • ' That the SIU's Welfare Services Department handles an average of over one request for help every four ininutes from Seafarers all over the world? Set up to give Seafarers personal service on any types of «problems that they may have, particularly off-the-job prob­ lems, the department now handles and finds solutions for more than 15 Seafarers every hour. That the Oolachaa, a species of fish'^found in the northern Paciflo which average about a foot long, are so oily that the Eskimos usa them for candies? The F^thead and Alaskan Indians catch these fish and then let them dry out.' Once they are dry, a wick of either rush pith or inner cypress bark is pulled through the center of the fish, and then the entire fish is used as a candle. i That, with other conditions be­ ing equal, it is easier to lift a • weight with a large pulley than it is with a smaller one? The larger the wheel used, the greater the mechanical advantage in overcom­ ing friction. For this reason, a larger pulley wheel is easier to use. Just as it is easier to pull a wagon with large wheels than one with smali wheels when the weight contained is the same, t 4" Thar* washing eggs will injure their ability to keep? Clean un­ washed eggs brings the highest prices, and all eggs have a natural coating on the outside to prevent or delay the entrance of harmful germs. Once washed, this coating is gone, and the eggs are likely to spoil much more quickly than they would if they were left unwashed. Cookins Up Some Fresh Air Up on deck for a breath of air is part of the Simmons Victory steward department. They are, left to right, Clarence Gardner, chief cook; Bob Pierce, second cook, and Gus- Skendelas, third, cook. Photo was taken by James Parker. LOG-A-RHYTHM: Oriental Sleuths Safe As Crew Draws Only Breath No Greater Love By Sam Seafarer Were I Leander f'd swim the Hellespont for you. Or as Romeo choose death to be near. Or as a Byrd go see the Arctic view. Just to hear your voice, my dear. . :t -V.-.r •-r 1. I would ford the deepest rivers on a braes of stilts. Or catch quicksilver in my fevered hand. Give you the moon or the sun that wilts Mine own passionate glands. I would scale the Alps, Himalayas, or Andes, too. Sail ships from A^ to the Zuider Zee, Conquer^many lands with my legions few. Or renounce all poetry. I would choose to freeze, grow warm, or die, as you see fit. Here or in any other time or clime. All I ask is to; be left half my wit To make awr hearts beat in rhyme. For you so gladly would I undertake all these pains, ^But tonight, my sweet, T won't be over it rains/ -Ok::: 'r m: -Jp. What the crew of the Amersea (Blackchester) needed on a recent run to the Far East was a seagoing Jimmy Valentine, according to Seafarer Bill Pieszczuk. If a maritime ver­ sion of the celebrated safecracker was unavailable, the crew was ready to settle for a ton and a half of dynamite. Any or all of these would panionship awaiting them on the Excitement was at fever-pitch un­ have come in more than handy for other side of a draw. Patience til the master called in a pair of the crewmembers on that Oriental and Oriental sleuths helped them local Charlie Chans. It took the run. • For the fact of the matter a long way toward achieving both local sleuths all of 36 hours, to get was that the men were without goals. the tumblers to fall into place. the wherewithal to add spice and It all started with the Amersea No End in Sight flavor to the Japanese Islands, lying in : the harbor of Sasebo, Sasebo wasn't the only drawless while the greenbacks lay neatly Japan, about 50 refreshment-less port on the foreign run. In fact, ensconced behind steel walls in days out of Philadelphia. it would have been nothing short . the captain's cabin. of heaven, according to the crews' Champ At Bit This was one time steel walls needs, and wishes, if the moneyless With the men champing at the Journey hSd ended there. did a prison make, with the cap^in unable to bit, the sad news was relayed to Back in Kure, Japan, the crew# give out a . draw them that the captain could not already hardened to the prevailing to the men be­ get any m<mey from shoreside situation,' met the .same sad.Story.cause he couldn't agents because of some monetary Then over in Sokcho-ri, , Korea, get the safe open. mix-up Involving the company. All where the fare was stiU as fouL There were des­ did not seem lost at the'moment, This time the ship was Old oh the perate men however, for the skippe^ was ready hook in the stream, the men amus- among the host to put out the draw from the money ing themselves by swimmingv fish-i * who favored a in the safe. ihg and reminiscing what it .U8ed \ major prison To - everyone's consternation, to be like In days long past. When break, thinking the safe proved to have a faulty shore leaves and' draws came at Pieszczuk rather , irration­ combination lock ' and jammed. the same timie on a Far Eastern ally qf the bier ahd feminine com- Pamiemoniiim reigmm Oh thO ship;' run. ' ' -'-' 'p--:'' : • .'>«•»!»c-it- -.a-r' ;yc/ �'i'mnm n, i«5s SEAFARERS S; Fake Nlaetcea LOG ':4i: Ketch Caught Far At Sea Adds Adventure To Long Voyage Home By SEATARERS LOG Photo Editor Many's the strange sight which greets a seafaring man .on Jiis watery tours of the world. British film manufacturers are maintaining a blistering pace in the Not only on land and in the air, but on the surface of the sea as well. And it isn't often pew film speed derby. Kodak Ltd., of Great Britain has Just announced a panchromatic plate with an exposure index of 500 daylight and 400 that, a chance comes up to turn a buck at sea in salvage rights. ^ .1 • tungsten. Recommended processing is in Kodak Press Contrast deThere's many a tale of a .yeloper diluted 1:3 with water with'extended development in a 1:1 Rest, Relaxation Aboard Steel Ranger whale and a stormy night at solution of the same formula advised for maximum emulsion speed. sea spun in the off-watches to the tune of a lowering sky. There's Perpetual Developer talk of flying fish and ghost ships The day may not be too far away when we will be able to replenish and hordes of octopi. But it isn't our photographic developers perpetually by immersing a pair of elec­ often that a ketch is caught far at trodes in the solution and briefly switching on thi electric current. sea, sighted in mid-ocean, running Pierre Roman of Kodak-Pathe, Paris, is doing the research work on almost derelict-free. this project. Unlike familiar developing agents which are irreversibly Such was the unusual case, how­ oxidized after acting on the exposed film, the soluble silver salts of ever, which the Seafarers of the certain metals like tungsten, vanadium and chromium are stable both Robin Sherwood (Seas) came in their fresh and spent forms. They can be converted from the latter across recently as the ship was out­ 4o the former by passing an electric current through the solution. ward bound, from South Africa and Roman reports that the action of the vanadium salt . is. so rapid that heading for New York. It achieves in 30 seconds the proper speed and contrast that usually a-equire 30 minutes at the same standard temperature. Another nice Headed For Azores thing about this new method is that the fresh vanadous solution is Somewhere in mid-ocean the lavender in color, while the oxidized vanadic form is green. This Robin Sherwood's crew was star­ permits the energy level of the developing solution to be observed tled to see a tiny ketch bobbing and maintained colorimctrically. with the waves and wind. It was New Electronic Flash sailing, carefree as a gull, tacking with the wind in the general di­ Portable electronic-flash units powered by dry batteries are apparent­ rection of the Azores. Conjecture ly here to stay. With one exception, all the manufacturers of portable ran rampant through the ship as equipment have dry battery outfits to offer. The biggest splash was foTwhat it was, and the curiosity .made by the new Heiland Strobonar V which provides a lighter-weight about the craft extended from the dry battery powerpack than has heretofore been available at roughly foc's,le to the bridge. half the weight. Altnough the single-unit 510-volt battery of the Stro­ bonar V provides only 500 flashes, many amate.ui'S who take less than Curiosity became too much for 500 flash shots a year will find the cost disadvantage academic and the the captain as well as the power­ weight and bulk-saving advantages very real. ful, inquisitive feline, and he put The shoulder weight of the entire powerpack with battery included about to see what it was that was bobbing on the horizon. Chief Is less than 3?^ pounds. Older dry battery units employed a single among the possibilities was the ,225 volt battery with a voltage-doubling. vibrator powered by a small probability of the craft being a .auxiliary battery, or a 450-volt battery made up. of two 225-volt derelict, and there was more than batteries. Some had five 90-volt units. •The shoulder weight of the one mouth watering over pros­ -voltage doubling type of powerpack is approximately 5 pounds and of pects of salvage if the ketch the multi-unit type about 7 pounds. ^ proved to be seaworthy. It would Photo Typesetting ^ not bring a prince's ransom, as­ ' Photography seems to be making notable inroads in the typesetting suredly, but it might add to the craft. The Graphic Arts Research Foundation announced the.completion payoff for a litle extra icing on the of a photoelectric typesetting machine that has been in the works since cake. Whatever the reasoning 1949. To commemorate the occasion Dr. Bush, a director of the founda­ aboard the vessel, captain and tion, presented the first book to be composed on a pilot model of the crew were glad of the chance to new machine to Dr. Compton of MIT. The new .equipment, which com-' relieve the monotony of the long pletely eliminates movable metal type, employs.an electronic flash voyage home with the possibility mechanism to photograph type characters on a whirling glass disk of off-beat adventure. Relaxation seemed to be the keynote aboard the Steel Ranger as bearing the equivalent of 16 fonts of type (or 1,440 characters). The she lay at anchor near Oahu, Hawaii. Upper photo shows, left Ketch Is Manned characters to be photographed are selected by means of a standard to right, K. McCullough, James Thomas and William Philip resting Approaching within a quartertypewriter keyboard. -The end result of the process is a sheet of photo­ during coffee time, while Thomas Yablonsky and Carl White, in mile of the now recognizable craft:, graphic-process film from which the desired copy is photoen^aved same order in lower photo, bask in the sun. Photos by Arnold the officers and crew of the Robin on plates for printing. It is expected that 75 of these machines will Rosenblatt. Sherwood were amazed to see two be completed by the end of 1953. ^ men come out of'a tiny cabin on deck and view the larger vessel through a pair of prying binocu­ lars. Satisfied with the freighter's identification, the men retired to If someone asks Seafarer Chester Carlow aboard the Seatrain Louisiana (Seatrain) what's Under the rules of the Va­ the privacy of their cabin. cooking, he is liable to tell them plenty, including the vegetables. cation Plan as set forth by the The ketch was sailing free as the Carlow, it seems, is a man of simple wants. He does not want the unattainable luxuries trustees, a Seafarer must ap­ wind, plowing through the waves ply within one year of the of life. Give Carlow the simple 4over the ripples of any land­ life and he is happy. He asks man as ever sailed the briny deep, his mind and a few culinary payoff date of his oldest dis­ as locked lake, according to reports, charge in order to collect his but one thing: vegetables sat down in the .mess hall and pointers on legume litany. and kept on going that way after full vacation benefits. If he which have not been parbroiled, began to dig into his victuals with The advice rjp off the steward's carefully scrutinizing the giant presents any discharge whose boiled, cobked and fricaseed to a relish. Much to his dismay, he back lil^e money away from a fool, bearing down on it. Flying no col­ payoff date is more than a turn. What any less can man ask enjoyed the entire repast except and the vege­ ors, nor otherwise identifiable, the year before the date of his va­ for the vegetables, which were too tables kept com­ than palatable legumes? ketch went off in the distance by cation application, he will lose The whole vegetable fiasco well-cooked for his taste. ing out of the dint of sail alone. Although out on the sea time covered Sooner than it took to stir a cooking pot in started when- the ship was out at dreams of light-hearted adventure by that particular discharge. sea late last month. Carlow, as souffle, Carlow marched down to the same fashion. had been shattered. Seafarers and Don't sit on those discharges. hungry a hard-working seafaring the steward to give him a piece of Carlow took just topside were amused all the way Bring them in and collect the about all his Jnto port wondering about their money that is due to you. sensitive stomach little liferine competitor. 'Mad Be^r' Bets Set For Scalping could stand, then he attempted to breach the stew­ Carlow ard'^ fortress once again. Matters stood at loggerheads (1) Do the trade winds always blow in the same direction? until the next day things came to (2) A person who sunburns repeatedly but does not tan is called a: the boiling point between the stew­ ard and Carlow. Not so the vege­ (a) heliophobe, (b) heliotrope, (c) theliopolis? (3) How many years are there from 20 BC to 50 Al): (a) 30, (b) 70, tables, though. After much ineffec­ tual complaint, Carlow finally got (c) 130? (4) How many mouths has a sponge: (a) none, (b) 100, (c) varies? vegetables which were not over­ (5) How old is written history approximately: (a) 5,000 years, (b) 10,cooked. He would have been de­ lighted, ordinarily, except for the 000 years, (c) 6,000 years? (6) The symbol for the element, gold, is: (a) Ra, (b) Au, (t) Ag. • fact that his vegetables were served (7) Is a dock: (a) the solid fleshy part of an animal's tail, (b) a wharf, raw while the rest of the crew had (c) the place where the prisoner stands in court to be tried? their vegetables cooked to a T. (8) What have the pitcher plant and the venus flytrap in common? Knowing when he's licked, Car(9) Complete the following quotation: "I know not what course others low backed down on his vegetarian stand" and decided _to'eat the food may take ..." (10) Driving steadily, motorist A drove west at 50 miles per hour, however it was dished ujp by the stewards department. Seems that while motorist B headed in an easterly direction at 40 miles ffer hour. he was outvoted, too, by the riest A left at 3 PM and B two hours later. How far apart were they at -Wallace "Mad Bear" Anderson, right, is pictured just before cutof the crew, who liked the vege­ midnight? . ting off the locks of tfellow crewmemher -r Who is not. quite- sure (Quiz Answers On Page 25) • tables just as they were. that, everything is going to come out as: he planned. Languid Legumes Not Luscious^ Says Brother r- f i - •*^1 i-j Don^t Wait^ Get Vacation Pay Qiiiz Corner - iI :€I I Jil �Vac* —' StArAMtUt xo* Hoiyskir Captain And Mate Treat Seafarers To Old-Time Shipping ^ hr -fr ,-••*' AlrfiM Bjf SpiJtg Martin About six years hack a gentle­ they were all sweetness and light. Dredging up old talesnf bucko skipper's, hard-timing mates and shades of that old sea man named Murphy from Beacon Why, they said, no rookie ever has monster, Wolf Larsen,.the cre,w aboard the Holjittar (Intercontinental) knows what it means Street la- Boston got the bright to worry about a raise. If he shows ^ idea of organiidng a baseball play­ ability, they tear up his contract to sail under some of those conditions, according to Robert Schlagler, ship ^legate. ers guild. He: looked around for a in mid-season and write a neW On a trip to Yokohama andt—f likely place to begin and found it one the very first year. Kiner swal­ other Far Eastern ports, in Pittsburgh. Murphy actually lowed that one as meekly as e Leg-Pulling On Steel Architect Schlagler and his shipmates got most of the players signed up good curve ball at the knees and had ample opportunity to observe and there was even talk of a strike. backed out gracefully. the antics of the captain and the But the whole thing folded, leav­ Tel! For A Patrolman mate. Turned out to be a comedy ing Murphy to go back and brood That wasn't all tlmugh. Even of minor terrors aboard the vessel on Beacon Street. before the meetings 'some anony­ before it reached Baltimore for The Pittsburgh incident, coupled mous players suggested that may­ payoff. with the Mexican raids and a be what they needed was a good couple of law-suits, broke the own­ patrolman—somebody smart and The captain of the ship, who ers into a cold sweat. They, ar­ tough who could even handle acted more like a commodore in Lord Nelson's day and milieu, had ranged for a feeble kind of ball Branch Rickey's four - syllable players company union with each words and come back with some more ways of irritating the men league to have a representative to of his own. What Was even morp than a squadron of Jersey mos­ take up players' beefs. quitoes. important, they wanted somebody Low Draw Asked For A Raise who wouldn't be on some ball Recently the owners had meet­ club's payroll and could raise a After geting stuck on one low ings with their player representa­ beef without having to worry draw in Moji, Japan, the crew tives, Allie Reynolds for the^mer- about bJs own contract negotia­ made up for it partially in -Yoko­ ican Leaguers and' Ralph Kiner tions the next spring. Somebody hama a few days later when they Camera hounds aboard the Santa Venetia take time out from a for the Nationals. The representa­ else suggested that maybe the man got the same meager amount to ship's meeting to pose. Sealed around the table are K. Trieman, tives had some kicks. They wanted they had in mind was Moe Berg, last them for one week. The same M. Pergiment, M. Ryswyk, O, Olsen, F. Bentz, M. Badig, T. Marino the minimum, raised above the Back In the 30's Berg was a sum couldn't go three days in and J. Allman. present $5,000 claiming that most catcher with the Boston Red Sox Moji, but the boys left bar bills rookies had to support two homes who achieved more fame with his behind them in the Japanese ver­ The mate was doing all right on women and children in the boats sion of the big town, and so drew his own, too, and along with the that came alongside the ship to —one back home and one in the tongue than his bat. He was a' the draw out in a fine, thin line. captain he made a great Damon talk to the crew. Still later, he city where their ball club was. master of-several languages, in­ The captain didnt leave his de­ to the skipper's Pythias. They got employed other delightful methods They also asked for a ban on night cluding Sanksrit, owned a Phi vices off the coast of Japan, un­ to be so log-happy, they stayed in routing stowaways from the games the day before they had to Beta Kappa key and could handle travel to another city. pitchers besides. fortunately, and awake nights thinking up offenses. holds. He would turn on the The players said too that they When the suggestion was put to the crew was still . The chief mate, according to the steam smothering system and didn't like the idea .of those twi­ the owners the temperature in the to come in for a crew, had a few tricks up his drive them out that way. light-night. doubleheaders, which chilly. No thank you, they said, we few surprises. sleeve which even the intrepid All in aU, it was a pretty rugged usually wound up around 1 AM. want no part of Mr. Berg. As tse Taking a leaf captain did not think of. The trip, but the payoff took the boys' The owners- handled the re­ he was concerned the owners from an old Navy mate, it seemed, had nothing bet­ minds off the old-time seafaring quests with ease. When Kiner put as picked ~up their bats and balls and manual, the skip­ ter to do some days than to take habits found aboard ship and gave the proposition for a raise to 4hem, just wouldn't play. per began to a tape measure to see how much them the last laugh. The skipper shake down the more one man painted as com­ was last seen' gnashing his teeth crew's lockers pared to another. Another one at the OT. and paying strict atten­ Time Out For Picture Taking and suitcases on Schlagler in which he took fiendish delight tion as the patrolman gave him a personal sleuth­ was turning the fire hose on a lesson in officer-crew etiquette. ing hunt. The crewm'embers never did find out what he was looking for, because the captain never found anything. There was a sneaking suspicion aboard the ves­ sel that he didn't, know himself. Nor did the ca^in stop at that, employing still other resources in his grab-bag of low tricks. On meeting any of the crewmembers . Wljen a matter of grave importance comes up that affects in the passageways, the skipper the welfare of all the men on a ship, the only thing to do would revert to a Bronko Nagurski is to call a ship's meeting and discuss the problem imtil a and bowl over all obstacles enroute solution is found. That's just'* to his goal. The crew began to what the crew of the Govern­ that can be found. It's coffee at Jim Moran, left, and Ralph MuUer of the Steel Architect's deck be shell-shocked after awhile, what ment Camp (Cities Service) breakfast, at coffee-time, at lunch, department pull the wool over shutter-bug's eyes. Picture was with being whomped into the bulk­ did. during the afternoon, at supper, in taken by Emil Opplce while on last trip around the wdrld. heads at a moment's notice and 'Seamen, as a group, are one of the evening, and certainly during the turn of a corner. . the heaviest consumers of coffee the night watches. As such, coffee is an important part of the life aboard ship—and when it gets to the point that everybody is com­ plaining about the coffee serv^, then something has to. be done The LOG opens this column as an exchange for stewards, cooks, bakers and others who d like to share favored food recipes, little-known about it. and bakinsf hints, dishes with a national flavor and the like, The coffee abo«d the Govern­ cooking suitable for shipboard and/or home use. Here's Steward Williant ment Camp started tasting even Boron's recipe for "Stuffed Cabbage" worse than .the coffee usually Sailing for over 10 years, and tastes aboard ship, so the matter For his prized recipe, stuffed was taken up at the meeting. The of that in the stewards department, crewmembers started comparing is long enough for any Seafarer to cabbage, Baran .said It is necessary to have five pounds of ground pork notes on, what the cause might be, know his onions. Baran delights in cooking and and beef, five- heads of cabbage and added up the observations of thinking up dishes pleasureable to one pound of rice cooked about all the crew. the palate of the men with whom half-done in a pot, three finelyBlamed On The Sun sails. Cooking is second nature chopped onions, six eggs beaten'' Finally, the men decided that he to him, he *9id, and he can do it lightly, gaU and pepper to flavor the cause of the.whoie thing was blind-folded. It is as instinctive to the conco^on, five cans of .toma­ the warm, sunny weather they hhn as breathing. toes, and optional ingredients of were having. The sun, of course, "I* y e cooked three cloves of chopped garlic and brought out a number of. sun wor­ this stuffed cab­ two cans of sauerkraut. shippers every day, and these char­ bage on ship­ To start with, Baran said, take acters hdd to have some protec­ board and at the five heads of. cabbage and tion from the burning rays of Did home and it goes steam slightly to remove the leaves. Sol, so they were using sun tan over big in both Then mix the ground meat, onions, oil. places. My moth­ eggs, rice and seasoning in a large The only trouble was that the er showed me pan. Place the mixture in a rPlI sunbathers were putting the sun how to make it of cabbag* leaves, about a galley tan oil in the coffee cups and then and there was no spoonful at a time in separate carrying it ou^ on deck, where better place to rolls. After most of it is used up Baran they would use it to protect their leais. My wife in this fashion, make extra layers bulging muscles. '^The result was and kid are crazy about it, and so of sauerkraut interlayed with that some of the oil probably didn't are the men." small cabbage leaves. wash out of the cups—and sun tan. Bom near Wilkes-Barre, Pa., the Alter the last layer Is placed In oil mixed with coffee is not worid- 36-year-old Seafarer now lives in this fashion, pour on the tomatoes. renowned for its taste. the town with his wife of 15 years, Then take up the concoction,, set The result: a decision by the Grace, . and. their eight-year old it on the range, and boil slowly meeting and a warning that "cof­ son. It doesn't make any differ­ for about hours before, sendng fee cups will -be used only for ence where he sails, said Baran, as to t^ 35<|nen i-eady and wilUpg. to drinkhig purposes."* long as he sails with the SIU. devour IL ! Suntan Oil Stirs Tempest In Govt. Camp Coffee Cup KMOlVriMIt fow AVAIIM'JM iMAU-As^HAUS ARB copies OP -ffte Mevi/ SaoRlEf e)lPlAlSliA6 -JHB COM' VmE B£T-op OP IAS eju wemne %Afi. iHB BooKier vescnees /v VBrAll, Al.L1HeBefJeFnB WOMB/ •fie OAIIOAI ARD phw Yoo (U>LiBcrl �SMAFdREMS C^iehraies Tern To lite EdUor: It ts/with great pride tfaat I am writing to the LOG today, Auffust End, as It is my tenth anniversary with the SIU. I joined in the Port of. New,. York .at 2, Stone Street in • 1943.1 and a lot of other Seafarers never dreamed that we in the SIU could advance so much in 10 years, but we sure did and I am proud to belong to such a powerful Union. Bight now I am on the Mobilian as BR on the' intercoastal run. I am su^rised that so few Uookmembers take these jobs; we have mostly permits on here but we sure hit plenty of ports. Wilmington Tough We left Baltimore on June 3 for Philly, then went to Charleston and from there to the Panama Canal bound for Wilmington, Cal., where we stayed for seven days. Wilmington is a good place for sea­ men, only watch out for the cops if you go to Pedro or Long Beach; they are tough and pick you up for the least little thing and if you've been drinking, fine you $25 or five days in the can. So he careful. While in Wilmington there" are a couple of h^uii I •would recom­ mend, as they are owned by former Beafarers and you won't get clipped. These are the Bos'n Club, (formerly Tony's) on 236 N. Avalon Boulevard, which is operated by Charles Boeder and Jimmy Dean, both Seafarers. Then the J & V Club (formerly Erlcksea The Gay Nine­ ties) operated by Vince Pakuscik and Tony from our Fishermen's Union, AFL, located at 300 N. Avalon Boulevard. I would like to have you send some LOGs to both these places so Seafarers can read it while having a cool one. Likes West Coast Shipping I would also like to give our agents in Wilmington a lot of credit for contacting all the ships that hitf the Los Angeles'* Harbor. They sure are doing a wonderful job. The same^goes for the Seattle and San Francisco agents. It's a pleasure to be on the West Coast We are now on our way bade to the East Coast and expect to pay off'in Baltimore about August 20th. There are rumors that the Mobilign is going back on the German run again. She has been inffercoastal "^^for two trips. We hope she: is going to Europe a*s she is a fine ship. Smooth sailing to all hands. Eddie Ericksen (Ed.- note: Copies of the LOG will be sent regularly to the bars you suggested; thanks for passing their names and addresses on to us.) l" 4" E sua T Reads T IMGE A S ' sure you'll like it better than crawling through the mud. Ask a man Who knows. I would like to say hello' to all my friends on the West Coast' Waterman scows. I would appre^ ciate it if the LOG were sent to me regularly. Pvt. John Haihnan US 662052 * Co. "L" 136th Inf. Reg. 44th Division Fort Lewis, Wash. (Ed. note: The LOQ will be sent to you regularly, as 'issued.) 4 4> ' Ships f ast With SiU^ Xot So Arco To the Editor: I would like all my friends to know that I am now sailing SIU' ships. When I first Went to Atlan­ tic for a job they told me that they would call me when they needed me. Well, it took them all of 5V4 months before I got a- wipers job even though I have my FWT ticket. It took me exactly 15 minutes to get a ship in the SIU hall in Phil­ adelphia. That's quite a bit of dif­ ference. I registered at 10:30 am on July 20, and at 10:45 am I had a job as fireman on a ship going to the Far East. It would take "Double-Deal" Alcott longer than that to say "Well, I'll see what I can do for you, but I'm not ^ime it't much be­ cause these shoes are killing me." B. J. Dzelak Three Shippers For Anne Butler To the Editor: With all the things that have been happening on this ship, t thought I might pass on a bit of interesting information to the mem­ bership about the masters of the vessel, the Anne Butler (Bloomfield). . About nine weeks ago we got our third skipper to about .six months. If that's not some soit of a lefthanded record, it will have to do until something better comes along to take its place. Guess we just use up a lot of masters on this vesseL I am sending to some pictures of the crew playing softball against the Japanese shipyard workers. The games were held while the ship was in drydock after running aground. A good time was had by all, with the crew being feted by the Japs after the ball game. We played them three tilts to all, winning two out of three by scores of 16-7 and 19-9. Daniel Piccerelli For Newrs OtSIIJ To the Editor: I have been receiving the SEA­ FARERS LOG reguiarly ever since my induction into the Army. I en­ joy reading it more now since my induction than when I was an ac­ tive member, because I am kept informed of all the happenings, improvements in the Union bene­ fits and the whereabouts and do­ ings,of my former'shipmates. I was trans- • ferred recently. I would appre­ ciate it very much if you would continue mailing the LOG to me at my new address, also if you would say hello to all my Thibodeaux shipmates for me and ask them to drop me a line. I am getting along pretty well in the Army and I hope that my two years are up soon so that I can return to the good old SIU shipping and sail with all my bud­ dies again. Pvt. Evis J. Thibodeaux Us 18152618 C Co. 25th AIB 1st Armored Division Fort Hood, Texas (Ed note: Your address has been noted and the LOG will be sent to you .every two weeks upon publication.) 4 Praises Book By SIU Stewardess To the Editor: I was fortunate to receive one of the original copies of "Oh, For the Life of a Stewardess," writ­ ten by Mrs. Rosalie Rodrigue and after carefully reviewing same was amazed at the clear and concise way it was written. I started reading this book and never stopped until' I had finished it, it was so interesting and had so many memories to recall. Now, brothers, this book was written under adverse circumstance, and believe me, that in Itself is a great credit to the author. From the beginning to the end the book is full of interest, espe­ cially to the Seafarer who has al­ ready been to South America. Has Everything Apart from everything you have humor, romance, adventure, and lastly, an informative story of all the geographical areas in South America. Therefore, I advise you to pur­ chase this book. It only costs $3, an amount you would spend on a t round of drinks in a gin mill. Get this book and after you read it, put it in your bookcase for others to peruse, because it is worth while. I never had the pleasure of Mrs. Rodrigue's acquaintance, but I have met guys ,who sailed with her and they inform me that as a shipmate she is tops. Paddy Farrell' 4 4 4 Fine Doe SoUs With Del Snd ' To the Editor: -We, the crew of the Del Sud (Mississippi), want to express our appreciation and gratitude to Dr. Charles Chesnutt of Little Rock, Ark., the ship's doctor for voyage No. 42 aboard this vessel, for his kind, considerate, competent and efficient services rendered. There was not a man who -was not treated to the best of, the doc­ tor's ability. We are sorry to see Dr. Ches­ nutt leave us after one trip, but knowing his desire, that will be our command. So we say thanks again, and may good health, happiness and wealth follow him wherever he may go. Crew Of Del Sud To the Editor: I wish to give, my thanks and heartfelt gratitude to the ship's doctor of the Del Sud,'Dr. Charles Chesnutt, who has given me his time, patience and medical skill— in which he abounds. I wish to give thanks to the ship's officers and to the personnel of all three departments for their kindness and courtesy to me Since I joined the Del Sud; since my illness, es­ pecially, each and every one has offered to do anything they can, or try to fulfill my every wish. Thank each and every one of you. M. C. "Pop" Sweeney Sees SIU Ship, Gets Homesick HoiysterHasNo Auyeis Topside To Ae Efiton Well, this may be the last letter from the angels' home on the Holystar. It is too bad that the liame of the ship and the ship itself do not match. We have managed thus far to survive the ordeals that have taken place, and in about a week it will be all over but for the spending of the payoff. •• We M-e now three men short and one bosun too banged up to turn to, thanks to the mate, V. H. Ross. Mate Plays Tarzan I never saw any one guy who could mintoterpret the agreement the way this guy does. This is the good union man (so he says) that I wrote about in another letter. Since Tie clob­ bered the bosun he has taken to going around with hig.shirt off, flex­ Bedell ing his scrawny muscles, trying to get the deck gang to hop when he comes by. His voice has changed to a high, squeaky pitch. The crew is looking forward to hitting the block in Baitimore and catching up on some long cool ones. A few of the handicappers plan to invest in the ponies at Atlantic City and New York. But myself, I can get rid of it fast enough around my home town. This is about all for now. I will see you all around the hall in Bal­ timore. Charlie Bedell ' 4 4 4^ Thanks Welfare Services For Aid To the Editor: I want to write just a few lines to say thanks to the Union and the SIU's Welfare Services Depart­ ment for the help they gave me "recently. The personal kind of service that the SIU gives its members is one of the things that makes me proud and happy to be a member of the best Union in the -world. I was having great difficulty trying to get my wife into this country. I had gone to the GoveiTiment, and tried for some time before I finally contacted the Un­ ion's Welfare Services apd told them what the problem was, and asked them to help me out. Well, the Union went right tov work on it, contacted the proper authorities, wrote •some letters for me, and in a short while' I was told that everything is all set, and I will be seeing my wife in the very near futurq. C. A. Gardner To the Editor: I am now stationed in Germany. I was receiving the LOG while I was stationed at Fort Jackson, SC, taking basic training. At that time I asked you to discontinue sending it to me at that address. I would appreciate it very much if you would send it to me over here at the addi-ess at the bottom of this letter. . I came across from New York on an MSTS transport. It took us ten days from New York to Bremerhaven, Germany, but the first thing I sighted in the port was a i t i little bit of home. Sitting in the harbor was an SIU ship. Water­ man's LaSalle. It made me feel good, but I would have felt much To the Editor: better had I been on it. T am enclosing a picture of my­ Pvt. John Forbes self, which was taken by Lars NeilUS 53095188 son while our ship, the Steel B Battery 5th FA Bn. APO 1 c/o PM, New York, NY Desert Calls To An SIU Sheik Oifers Advice To Drqit'Age Seamen To the Editor: This is intended for all the boys of draft age in the SIU. Once upon a time I was a happy-go-lucky AB. Now I'm a rookie in Uncle Sam's outfit where there aren't anji pa­ trolmen to handle beefs" at the pay' off. • " My advice to those boys of draft age would be to join the Naval Re­ serve. I laughed when they told me to do that, but now I'm laugh­ ing out of the other side of , my in­ duction notice. Now that I am in the Army, my sea time Is shot. Lose Sea Time I've got to stay in service for ' two years. If I had joined the re• serve I probably would never have been activatecj. If I had, it would only have been for two 'years and I would have been -able to keep up my sea time. As it is I am up tlie familiar ci'edc without a paddle. So, play It cool and jiet In an outltt Where ypu j iimei Tni WnB^Vwemtf LOG '4 4 4 Wants To Hear From Shipmates Vlotory Bmlles after the ball game oreasb the faoea of Anne Butler erew. Shown, left to right, bottom row, are G. Hoeneman, Harry CellHMb Eddie Celkos, Walter Zaleahl and Mike Flood. Top row: Ed Moaaiwwdd, laadere Lader, Fred Salamom BUI Wnuibel and Qeoifo Berber, ixvmDtmktkw took t«i« nMnea odt of three. To the Editor: I get the SEAFARERS LOG every time it is published and I enjoy it very much. I would like to tell you about the time I was on a tanker. 'We were carrying four million gallons of bunker C fuel oil and we were hit by heavy seas about 600 miles off Guam. It was on the USS Ramapo and we were going to Shanghai, China. I would appreciate it very much if I heard from some of the gang on that ship. My address is 37 East Fort Avenue, Baltimore, Md. . Byren^ Toang . 1 ai Vendor, was to Arabia. Right now ' I am.aboard the Royal Oak tanker on a South American run. The ship will be in New York soon and I hope to see all the brothers around the hML ' A. P. Be Marc* �'F iAlillMAfr - PMre Twenty-tw*'^- l4Dt0^kshmP^ Men ^ Cooperate Wuily if " r-' i? •- To tiie Editor: ^ . , This ship, th^ Clarksburg Vic­ tory (Eastern), is pra,ctically loaded with. green hands and sea-going recruits. Among these are, a few from the southland, mostly Caro­ linians. Whenever you get a group of southerners and northerners on board the same vessel, the battle of Gettysburg, Bull Runyind Appomotax' Court House 'are reenacted. The southern boys are trying to fan the dead embers of the Civil War. . - -' Most of . the guys, especially some Brooklvnites, are holding their own in this latter-day battle. It's all in good fun. anyway, with all the men showing signs of ex­ ceptional all^iance to the spirit which has made the SIU strong. They are cooperative, willing, ready and eager.to make this trip a success. Thps far it looks any­ thing but boring. M. -Daniels a> t t Former Seatarer Owns Laundry !• |f^ fe' I ^'' Ifey I ii'ii- _ \p-CI ii'"'V • HI/m II ^ • IHv--' m- lis.: p". - V m,: • f-';.• V. . r>, iP'- • • my '• • To the Editor: I just want to get this off my , chest because I have been thinking about it for a long time and 1 think the devil should get his due. Of course, there's no devil in­ volved. This is just a plug for a former SIU member, now retired, who's set up his own shoreside cleaning establishment. Maybe it is because he was a Seafarer him­ self, or maybe it's because he knows what he's doing, but he sure does a ffne job on our (Rothes. Just about the. best any cleaner and dryer has ever done with sail­ ing gear. His name is Leonard Bolton, Book No. B591, retired, and the liame of his establishment is the La Velle Clean­ ers and Dyers. He retired his book a couple of months ago and now he's work­ ing out of Hous­ ton, Texas< where the laundry serv­ ice is located. The address is Bolton 727 East Elev­ enth Street. It's really a good deal, guys, and Bolton knows what he's doing when he's taking care of Seafarers' gear. No more missing buttons, torn shirts and dirty trousers. This guy learned how to do a job in the SIU and hasn't forgotten. • Chester E. Mazuk t Urges Workers To Join Union To the Editor: In all the world I can't think of one fair-minded employer who has ever, voluntarily, increased the • working man's "cost of living" bonus when it had to be choked out of him in the first place. In America, we have what the Middle Ages called "benevolent - despots" jparceling out crumbs to the work­ ing class. When are we goirit to wise up and realize that no one has ever succeeded In getting nothing for nothing. White collar workers, the aristocracy of the laboring class, as they would have it, will never get anywhere as an unorganized labor force. I don't know who said it, but it should have been "In unions there is strength," with the empha­ sis on the plural rather than the singular, and directed toward the American labor movement. Why is it incongruent for the - working man to establish a bar­ gaining force to help him fight other unions? I'm tall^g about such "unions" or confederations the NAM and AM.A. If they're not i grouii of tried bahded together to • Mr TM MS : iuilaril^lfSf Knows Top Night Spot For Crews To the Editor: I_ have a pretty good suggestion for the members of the Union' who are in San Juan,' Puerto TUco, for a few days and who do not want to hang around the wqterfront. I would like to pass the word around < about a very good place to go. That would be ('Don's," a .night i cihb. The owner; is a for­ mer seamani and Lasso knows just what the guys wint in some decent entertainment and refreshments. Robert Lasso Last year it was the,'West Virginia State Champiqnship. The ..racing season will end in the fall and I The Union sympathizes with won't 'be able to get away until you in your distress, yet must then. So far the raCe track is about admit there is little it can do even, but would show a profit" if it in this type of problem. The wasn't for the taxes." current procedure is according So t hope Nick Tater, Jonnie to law and for the Union to Seai^ick, Bobby Melay, Tomnoy insist. on a more strict system Self, Wally Kahut, Guy Pagano, would cause us not only fq vio­ Jack Dunn, E. B; Macauly or FVank late the Taw, .but also to in­ McCorniick, and any of the other t 4)' '4) , fringe on the imividual mem­ fellows I know who happen to Ibe ber's right to privacy in his passing through, will stop over at -personal Mfairs. the track and be my guests. One driver, ^who has been in To the Elditor: several smash-ups,'^said to me one Here on the Lawrence Victory, night, '*i can't understand how the "Goose Bay Ferry Boat," it's you fellows risk your lives day in t $ a lot cooler than in New York. I To the Editor: and day out on those ships; sup­ can't figure out' why they named As stewards department delegate posing they sink?" This from a this place Goose Bay. No geese, on thl.s ship, the San Mateo Victory guy who risks his neck every time no sea gulls, no beer, no women, (Eastern), I have come across a he makes a lap on the track! You To the Editor: no OT, no shore' leave, no mail, no seemingly new angle on overtime figure it .out. Lots of luck. Just a note to thank Al Thomp­ nothing. But she is a feeder. We worked by the purser. Barney McNally son of the SIU Welfare Services have a swell crew on here. The As I understand it, overtime is 4> t> Department for the wonderful steward* is a good Joe as well as either good or bad, with the bad care and service he gave me while the chief mate and the old man. subject to debate by the company I was in the Staten Island USPHS The bbsuh is aces also. I can't and the Union. The purser on here hospital. leave' out the purser, who gives you nas a cute trick. He doesn't dispute To the Editor: I'm an SUP bookmember who a draw whenever you want it. OT. He merely puts a question , Four years ago, in 1949, I had to got hurt on the Southwestern Vic­ mark against what he thinks is stop shipping with the SIU and go tory and wound up in the hospital One Louse Aboard . Of course we have to have one wrong, then enters it on a separate b^k home to the Netherlands be- here in Staten Island. I had a frac­ stinker in the crowd. It is not an sheet. It has a way of getting lost catase of troubles in my family. I tured cartilage, torn ligaments and hadn't intended to stay away from a few other injuries. When Thomp­ SIU- man, but The Kid himself, from that point. Unless a delegate Is on the job the SIU that mng, but after I .got son came around it didn't make a chief engineer, Edward Stephen­ son again, who is still-thinking and when the men pay off they ~ are back my father died, my wife had bit. of difference to him whether a implying that he is God. Not in a liable to find that they have been to havq an operation, apd some of man was SIU or SUP. They all got reiigious way, though I don't think short-changed and a few hours my children living there were sick. the care and attention they needed. he worships anyone besides himself. have been chopped off their time Each time I was ready to go back I'd like the SIU members to to the United know that I certainly appreciate He sure puts the heat on for sheets. If they don't catch it at States something what he did for me, acting as a the electricians, especially the first the payoff, there's little use in else would come representative of the Union. assistant. He haunts them from crying about it. A promise to pay by the master or company after up. George M. Waggoner Jbell to bell, insisting that they Finally when work and stay on deck regardless the ship has paid off and com­ 4) 4) i got ready to come of the weather, while working pleted another voyage is rather a back, I ran into cargo around the clock, eight hours pretty risky chance to take. We have men on this ship at a little trouble on and eight off. He is alwaj^ getting my papers To the Editor: tinkering with electrical work hiriT- the present time who have sub­ straightened out, self. He thinks he is another Rocky mitted OT to me and to the ships I am writing to extend my sin­ delegate for the past trip. The So I wrote to the cere thanks to the crewmembers of Beye, Sr. Graziano and offers to take anyone patrolman who boards this ship Union and the the Seastar (Mercador) for their out on deck to prove it. will be presented with these iten^, Welfare Services Depajrtment no­ kindness to me while I was on This character was warned by but what happens after that re­ tified the Aimerican consul back board that ship as a non-working the patrolman in New York, who mains to be seen. I think, such OT home that everything was okay workaway from Yokohama to Oak­ made a special trip to Norfolk. He should have been settled long ago. and 1 would be able to ship. land, Cal. t.v also is on probation with the The patrolman has enough to do When I iot back to America, I Owing to injuries received on marine superintendent of the Mis­ on a current payoff without caring was really amazed to see all the board the Greenstar (Traders) I sissippi Steamship Company, Cap­ about past beefs. changes that have been made in was put in the hospital in Japan on tain Spicen But if it is in one to When the patrolman boards us just four years. First of all, I had April 13, .1953. When released from be a louse it always comes out. for the payoff, 1 think he.is going nqver seen anything like our new the hospital I was sent home on There is no cure. to have some news for the purser headquarters building, since when the Seastar. When I went on b^oard So electricians, beware if you and the captain about this quesI left the Union was still on Beaver the captain informed me my credit meet this guy on any ship. You tion-mark-OT. Street. Certainly I, never dreamec was riot good for ..slopchest or knew what to expect, as he will that a Union of seamen like our­ draws, but the crew saw to it that John Jellette want to revise any rules of the selves would ever have a building I got >^at I needed. 4) 4) $1 agreement we have. of this kind.' When I arrived at Oaklahd on H. Magnamio That wasn't all that was new to July 3, 1953, the ebmpany agent 4) 4) 4) me. When . I went away the Union could do nothing for me* until I did not have the To the Editor: reported to the hospital. I was flat I'd like to let sontie good ship­ Welfare Plan or broke but once again the crew­ mate . friends of mine know what the Vacation Plan. members, both SIU and SUP, did To the Editor: I'm doing, so if they pass through All of these bene­ their part. They took up a collec­ At one of our recent shipboard Pittsburgh, Pa., between now and fits did not exist tion after the payoff and I got meetings, we, the crewmembers of the fall, I can expect them to stop then. They are enough money to keep me going certainly wonder­ the Steel Artisan (Isthmiah), gave by and be my guests. until such time as I got fixed up a vote of thanks to the captain, and When I arrived here in Pitts­ ful things for sea­ with the company agent. crew of the Netherlands ship, Zee- burgh, my home town^ in the men to have. I want to thank these brothers The wages and landfer. They played a major part spring, I invested in the Green for helping me out. A lol^ of credit in helping this crew put out the Vqlley Speedway. I'm a quarW conditions' on the Beye, Jr. should be given to Kenneth fire which broke out aboard ship partner, with one of the state's ships have "Bcotty" Collins, ship's delegate on while we were in Dammam, Saudi better drivers,/Bjiddy O'Connorj changed a great deal too. They are the Seastar, for the fine job he did Arabia. who has taken several champion­ far better ^han they were in 1949. in getting better conditions on that Crew of Steel Artisan ships each year he has been racing. I'm only sorry now thSt I couldn't ship. He goes after what he wants get back earlier so that I could in Union style. He is not afraid to take advantage of the many things talk to topside. He makes his de­ the SIU has vyoi) for its members. mands according to the agreement Both my son, Jan J. Beye, Jr., and he gets good results. Credit and myself are proud of the fact also goes to Brother Banning, the that we are members of the SIU San Francisco port agent, for the and sailing with the best union in fine job he did in getting all beefs -the seafaring industry. and OT settled to the satisfaction Jan J. Beye, Sr. of the criew. 4) 4i 4) I wish to thank the crewmembers of "the Greenstar for sending signed statements in regard/to my injuries on that ship. . Thanks a lot, C. H. To the Editor: Andrews, AB; A. Carter,/AB; F. X. • The captain of the - Fairlsle, Phelps, AB, (Waterman)' praised the crew for I would like' to get hiformation their action when the ship ran from the crewmembers of the aground in. the Straits of Shimon- Greenstar about some souvenirs I sekl, Japan. Bosun Paris,' toO, was left' behind. I received a few items Old shipmates together in Pusan aboard the Sek Monitot included praised for hii emergehcy action. from - Alike Sirkorsky, /AB,. and (1. to r.) Frenchy Michelet, Cpl. B R. Kazmiorski and Gal WlUon. There was veiy'llttlte idamake to would appreciate hearing' about . John Macarek la in boat at top". KgzritlerskT Ik waititiig tb get out the huH.'''/'"''^'^ - • Wfeiit of these things, J•• J, - Of theTlifmy before shipping BUT sgatn, •' protect their own highly specialized interests, I don't :kndw what is. . This is a plea for the white col­ lar worker to part conipany with his pal, the ostrich!; It's time for him to get his head out of the sand and take a good look at feality. American economy is no babes in the woods affair. It's time to rinionize, ^ ; James (Pop) Martin *3 r»img Wives' Alaska Run Ms Cool And Quiet Warns Crews To Watehl OT Skeets Grateful to SiU For Kind Care Gone 4 Years^ Sees Big Change Thanks Seastar For Helping Him Dutek Seamen Help Fight Fire Member'sWelcome At Pa* Speedway Old Shipmates Together In Pusan Master Praises Crew^s Action �^<M|«wl.lk;l»5|- SEAFJUEttS lOQ y<f» Tir^fr-t|rf Museliffi Holds Some Reminders Of 'Frisco's Old Shipping Cbry Few dties in the world owe as much to the development of their waterfront as does the California metropolis of San Francisco. A sleepy little fishing village of 800 people when it was taken over by the Americans at the end of the Mexican war, its famed bay quickly became the terminus for thou-4 — sands of gold seekers during the temjinus for trade with the verted into a towing barge. She the 1848 gold rush, giving it Orient and Australia which clipper came to an inglorious end in 1909 a. head start as a-shipping center that it has never lost. San Francisco's shipping history, including the relics of many a famous clipper, lumber schooner and whaler 'that called the city their home port, Is housed in the Maritime Museum, a modem struc­ ture suitably located on a hill over­ looking San Francisco Bay. In re­ cent years the museum has h^en building up an impressive collec­ tion of displays of the city's sea­ faring traditions. ' . First Iron Clinier Included among the-exhibits is the unusual figurehead that graced the bow of the clipper Roderick Dhu. The Dhu was the first of {several iron clippers built by the British firm of Mounsey and Foster In 1873 and the years thereafter. Subsequently she became the nucleus of the now-famed Matson fleet. San Francisco's growth as a port was in large part synonmous with the development of the clip­ per ship, because the city became ships,monopolized for many years in the J9th century. , Originally designed to house immigrants in her 'tween decks on a run between the US and Mel­ bourne, Australia, the Dhu quickly proved her designer's claims both as to speed and cargo-carrying ca­ pacity. In 1888, while engaged in the Jute trade, she made a record run of 88 days from Liverpool to Calcutta. In 1891 she beat all comer%in a race from Liverpool to San Francisco. For a while the fihu stayed in the California grain trade until Captain Matson bought her for use in the sugar trade with the Ha­ waiian Islands. When the ship was 25 years old it celebrated by set­ ting a new record of nine days and three hours for the Honolulu-San Francisco i^. Ran Aground However, the day of the clipper ship was fast ending, and two years later in 1900 she was con­ when she raft aground, on a reef off Point Finos while bound for Monterey, California, out of San Francisco. Clippers were not the only ships •that crowded San Francisco's waterfront in those years. The city also served as a center for the Aleutian whale fisheries during the post-Civil War years. The maritime museum consequently contains numerous relics of the whaling days. Whalers The transfer of whaling activ­ ities to the West Coast spurred the development of steam whaling. Steam whalers were about three Hmes as expensive to build as sail whalers and operating expenses were also higher due to use of coal and the need for stokers and engineers. Consequently it became the practice-for steam whalers to spend longer and longer periods of the year in northern Pacific whaling- waters. When the ships returned with a full load of oil and whalebone they had no time to make the long run back east. The cargoes were un­ loaded in San Francisco and shipped overland by rail. Other exhibits at the museum include a wide variety of'ships' bells salvaged on the Pacific Coast from vessels active in the area 50 to 60 years ago. Seafarer George Hildreth, bosun, looks into the eye of the stern visaged figurehead of the famous iron clipper ship, Roderick Dhu (above). Belpw, Hiidreth examines harpoons used by steam whalers. r/ I .-•S - -> . - •\ V All The Worl<J Loves A Lover By Aussie Shrimpton, Steward Skee the bosun was the acknowledged Casanova of the 88 Steel (jirder. He was a rugged, virUe young buck who took his love life where he found it. Quite a few of the joints he managed to find it in, were, to put the matter mildly, somewhat unorthodox. By no stretch of imagina--^ Hildreth tries the bell of the SS Savan, a steamer built in London iir 1896, one of a coilectlon of old ships' bells la the maritime museum. The bell was found in the locker of a tramp steamer in 1937. tion could Skee.be termed a God-fearing citizen. Neverthe­ less, he firmly believed in the biblical exhortation of "sow thy seed and be plentiful." By the same token, he was a past mastef of the very difficult art of success­ fully rotating his pastures. Won­ derful and most exciting adven­ tures in the fertile fields of love just naturally happened to Skee. He was a good Union man too. In his book, all weekends were blanket overtime in port! His shipmates passed through all the various stages of doubting, scoffing, and finally envying the proven prowess of this paragon of passion. By. the time the Girder had reached the half-way mark of her round-the-world crawl, the en­ tire unlicensed personel had come to regard their amorous boson as something akin to a barometer of love. Up River To Nowhere Some eight weeks out of New York, the Girder crept slowly up a dirty yellow river and cautiously dropped its hook off the squalid Collection of mudshacks that were dignified with the name of Koh-siChang. The crew lined tha^ bul­ warks and viewed the dismal shoreline with the usual jaundiced appraisment of sailormen. It was the general consensus of opinion that even their champion ^yas go­ ing to be hard pressed to maintain his record fn this dump, • ejy, Aftw fiippei; that kcs tb« gangplank re­ splendent in his best go-ashore gear. His descent into the waiting launch was ac­ companied by a rousing cheer from his ship­ mates who had mustered to a Shrimpton man to see him off on his adventure. At turn-to the following morn­ ing lover-boy staggered aboard hollow-eyed and decidedly wobbly around the knee section. Sure enough Don Juan had done it again. His Koh-si-Chang Venus turned out to be a local gal whose father was a. customs inspector. This, Skee felt, added a certain scintilla of respectability to the affair. Everything was fine he re­ ported, except for one very minor problem. It seemed he was expected to act the gay Lothario in a mud-hut where the only form of privacy was a thin strip of burlap sus­ pended from the thatched roof. As his girl friend had quite a large collection of brothers and sisters Skee complained that the set-up made him r^er nervous. He said he didn t mind the barelyhidden audience, but his real beef was that he had neither bed nor mattre.ss whereon to rest his waiting launch. Accordingly, l\e i duly, cornered Gloomy Crus, arid put it up to the towards the comfort of his Koh-siChang love-nest. That same night, down the gang­ plank went the lover of the Girder, with a crew mattress firmly strapped across' his back. All hands accorded him a terrific ova­ tion. Hearing the racket, the skipper came out on deck to see who was being murdered. When he glimpsed his bosun heading for the dirt with a ship's mattress across his back, the old man blew a gasket, and promptly sent for the steward. Gloomy Gus poitred out the entire tale of Skee's dilemma, where­ upon the captain dashed for the bridge, and blew three long blasts on the siren as a signal for the launch to return to the ship. As it came alongside Skee was prepared to give battle royal against all comers for the reten­ tion of his bedroom furniture. "Hey bosun," bawled the skip­ per, "For fifty years now, man and boy', I've,been going to sea. Many times I've heard tell of sailors go­ ing ashore with their mattresses on their backs, but by the (]lood Lord on crutches, this is the first time I've ever set my lamps on it. Here, bosun, catch these with the com­ pany's compliments, and if you'i*e not aboasd by turn-to tomoiTow morning I'll log you every cent you've got in the ship." And down into the launch thudded two blue and white striped pillows. You have got to hand it to that guy Shakespeare. He sure knew what he was, talking about wbah he^ �SEAF AGREES ^ac« TWMlifKfMMP tag Aoffuttl, list . DIGEST ofi SHIPS* BIEETIN6S GEORGE A. LAWSON (P«n-Ocaante>, July S—Chairman, Waltar A. Yahl; Sacratary, Kainowikl. Ship's delegate con­ tacted the captain about a draw in Keelong, Formosa, and was refused. He also refused to purchase a variety of sizes for the slopchest clothing. One wiper was hired in Yokohama. Headquar­ ters should be contacted, to see if Cap­ tain is familiar with the Union contract. ALEXANDRA (Carras), July M—Chair­ man, C. B. Moose; Secretary, H. J. Sperling. One man missed the ship twice in Japan. Another was logged for missing ship in Japan: he is supposed to be in the hospital. There was a fight between two members and a discussion on the bad relicy of fighting on board ship. Steward is going to the hospital with a leg infection and will take cure of the next trip's stores before he leaves. CAMAS MEADOWS (US Petroleum Carriers), June 28—Chairman, Paul Arthotfer; Secretary, Peter Patrick. Any­ one fighting wiil be brought up on charges. More night lunch should be left out. Vote of thanks went to the steward department for good food and service. AMEROCEAN (Blackchsstsr), July S— Chairman, John Cummins; Secretary, Da­ vid Pine. One man missed ship in San Pedro. Candy and some cigarettes are stale. Men were asked to conserve water. The S44 in the ship's fund was spent on the purchase of movie film in San Pedro. There was a vote of thanks for the cooperation of the departments in stowing stores in San Pedro before sail­ ing. Each department should list needed repairs. GENEVIEVE PETERKIN (Bloomflsid), Juns 1—Chairman, Hutcherson; Secretary, Simpson, On«.man missed ship in New Orleans. Cups and glasses should, be returned to the pantry. Fans should be turned off, as replacement parts are not available. Crewmembers are not to enter the messroom or pantry improperly clothed. Discussion Was held on proper care of the washing machine and drink­ ing fountain. July 12—Chairman, Hutchorson; Sacratary, Simpson. A few beefs at the be­ ginning of the trip were squared away. One man was picked up in Rijeka. Yugo­ slavia. to replace the man who missed ship in New Orleans. Ice box door should be repaired. Repair list will be made out as soon as possible. Port steward's attention should be called to the lousy mattresses put aboard last trip. He should try to get innerspring mattresse.s. First aid kit should be in­ stalled in the engine room. Surplus linen should be turned over to the steward. Vote of thanks went to the baker. ¥' 1^ I • hi. ;^.c.,-. at all times as well as pantry. Members are to clean up after Hiemselves. Vote of thanks went to the steward depart ment for the fine chow and elTlclent service. COUNCIL GROVE (Cities Service), July 3—Chairman, John Newmdn; Secratary, Richard Ceiling. Discussion was held on the men leaving the messroom dirty. One of the shower heads In the deck depart­ ment needs repairing. Bosun was asked about his working on deck. He left it up to the men if they wanted to work the con^iany way or not. Discussion was held on cleanliness of quarters. Repair ILst should be turned in, especially re pairs that can be done during the trip. Ship's delegate will ask the captain what, kind of money will be used for the draw in Germany. MAE (Bull), Chairman, J. Shea; Soc^ rotary, E. Hogge. There is a 870.17 bal­ ance in the ship's fund. Carlson was elected ship's delegate. A new salt tablet dispenser is needed. Chairs are needed for deck aft. One porthole Is needed in the 3-12 deck department room, when the ship goes to the yard. Some of the lock­ ers are rusty and should be replaced. Larger boxes of soap should be placed aboard. June 7—Chairman, E. Hogga; Secre­ tary, J. A. Shea. There were no repairs made on lockers or portholes while the ship was in the yard. There is 86.17 on hand In the ship's fund. It should be built up this trip, to make up for the money spent to repair the TV set. Set was fixed and cleaned in Pasadena. Wash­ ing machine needs ffxlng. Chief engi­ neer will be contacted. Juna 21—Chairman, Hipp; Secratary, E. R. Carison. There Is 828.87 in the ship's fund. Playing cards are available. Motion was passed to repair the washing machine and paint out crew's quarters and passageways. Ventilating sTstem force will be increased. Patrolman will be asked to see the mate on posting sailing time on the board. More In­ secticide bombs should be put aboard— one for each foc'sle. Cots have been ordered. Screen doors need repairing. Porthole dogs should be freed. Instruc­ tions for operating the TV set should be posted. linen. Dlsciisalon was held on sanitary pumps' working condition. July If—Chairman, W. Brown; Secrotary, Whltey Lewis. Repair lists will be made up and given to the boarding pa­ trolman. Overtime at longshore rate turned In by the deck crew is being dis­ puted., Crewmembers passed a motion unanimously to demand that sanitary pumps aft be repaired immediately. *Can^hakera^ Have iVo OK The membership is again cautione(] to beware of persons soliciting funds on ships in be­ half of memorials or any other so-called "worthy causes." No "can-shakers" or solici­ tors have i-eceived authoriza­ tion from SIU headquarters to collect funds. The National Foundation for Infantile Pa­ ralysis is the only charitable organization which has re­ ceived membership endorse­ ment. Funds for this cause are collected through normal Union channels at the pay-off. Receipts are issued on the spot yet. There should be less noise made in the passageways. List of beefs will be handed over to the patrolman in San Pedro for action. YAKA (Waterman), no data—Chairman, John Flanagan; Secretary, R. Sedowskl. W. Wharton was elected ship's delegate. Suggestion was made to have engine de­ partment foc'sles painted. Washing ma­ chine should not be overloaded. Each department should use Its own shower. More care should be taken in hanging clothes in fidley. LUCILR BLOOMFIELD (Bloomfleld), July 14—Chairman, A. G. Brown; Secre­ tary, L. W. Ange. Headquarters will be contacted on the two men who missed ship In San Pedro. Discussion was held on war risk insurance, and why the men didn't sign for It. Amount of salad and vegetables will be checked. Care should be taken with the- washing machine. Ship's delegate wlU check crewmembers' maU on arrival. OCEAN ULLA (Ocean Trans.), July If —Chairman, B. Mlllerson; Secratary, T. EVELYN (Guil), no date—Chairman,'w. Wesley EIfy; Secretary, R. Connor. F. Graansy. R. Reustle was elected ship's delegate, B. MUlerson, deck delegate: J. Howarth, engine delegate: T. F. Greaney, steward delegate. Mattresses will be checked to see how many need to be re­ placed. Nnmber of cots needed will be asked for. This report will be turned in before arrival in San Pqdro. Crew's passageways will be painted when the ship leaves the shipyard. Library will be taken care of In Baltimore. Ship's fund now stands at 82o.93. Crew's re­ PENNMAR (Calmar), July If—Chair­ CLARKSBURGH VICTORY (Eastern), frigerator needs repairing: wind chutes man, J. Millar; Sacretary, S. Czosnowskl. July 18—Chairman, not listed; Secretary, are needed for crew's quarters. One man paid off on the West Coast. Charles Demers. Delegates reported no DEL NORTE (Mississippi), June 28— Beef about the food will be taken up beefs. Discussion was held on the re­ Chairman, Eddia Stough; Secretary, John with the patrolman. Ship's delegate was pair list. Zimmer. A few logs will be taken up told by the captain that he would put a draw whenever he's ready. Wash­ STEEL FLYER (Isthmian), July 1» — with the patrolman in New Orleans. out Chairman, E. Dupont; Secretary, J. Fur- There is a cash balance of 8144.73 in the ing machine broke down and the chief engineer told the delegate that It's the ton. Baseball equipment and ironing ship's fund. Brothers were thanked for board were bought out of the ship's their cooperation in helping the editorial crew's responsibility to repair It. Hind: there is a 84.3.03 balance left. staff publish the ship's paper. CAMP NAMANU (US Petroleum), July Some repairs were taken care of. Pa­ GREENSTAR (Traders), May 10 — If—Chairman, P. Mitchell; Secratary, R. trolman will be told of t.i! chief engi­ Batcombe. Names and papers of the men Chairman, David Barry; Secretary, Paul neer's attitude on repairs and other mat­ Steward could not get who missed ship will be sent to the ters pertaining to the crew's welfare. En­ G. Luteman. gine department mess needs a clock. milk in Yokohama. One man missed the Union hall. Discussion was held about Discussion was held on cold drinks and ship there, another left to go to the the privileges of time off In port. August 1—Chairman, P. Mitchaii; Sec­ the lack of ice water on weekends. hospital in Kure. Captain said he will There should be more variety in the night have the foc'sles sougeed. CaptOin said retary, Andy Bannon. Disputed overtime for no shore leave in Bombay will be lunch. Patrolman will be contacted on the pantryman's 75 hours of overtime US currency draws in. foreign ports: for making ice and bailing water out of turned over to the patrolman at the none were put out though other ships the pantry was unauthorized. The crew payoff. The captain said If we don't take bought the present washing machine and it off he will send a letter stating men are getting American money. , wants the company to put on a new one. went ashore against master's orders. Crew gave the steward department q Messhall and heads should be kept clean­ vote of thanks. Suggestion was made to er: washing machine should not be over­ refer one ex-officer to the patrolman, as loaded. A letter will be sent to the well as the matter of the captain having LOG about getting a representative in the ship secured with the watch on deck. Japan to handle beefs and replacements. Ship's delegates should collect $3 from, Master will be contacted about sending each man for a donation to the next-of- in an order for Bahrein for men needed kin of Raymond W. Saunders. Captain in Japan as we are too shorthanded. SEAVICTOR (Bournemouth), July 17— is not abiding by the agreement. STEEL SURVEYDR (Isthmian), July If Chairman, J. Norgaard; Secretary, G. Johnson. Permitman was picked up in CHICKASAW (Waterman), August »— —Chairman, Lea Snodgrast; Secretary, Yokohama to replace the man who Chairman. A. Silva; Secretary, R. Locks. John H. Ediund. Jack Olsen was elected missed ship in the States. Old vvashing Motion was made for the men to keep ship's delegate; Steward will take care machine should be taken off in the the messhall deck clean. Ship's delegate of the bad bread. Meats should be States and a new one bought. All store- will check with the captain on pay for cooked to satisfy all. Baker wUl work roms and galley should be fumigated be­ men cleared by the doctor on August 5th. at night. Shoreside men are to be kept out of crew's messhall and passageways. fore the ship sails or stores again. Re­ pair list should be checked and repairs ANDREW JACKSON (Waterman), July completed before the new crew goes on. 30—Chairman, R. Swayne; Secretary, A. Laundry should be cleaned after usS. J. Kuberski. Captain was told by the Captain's refusal to give some men their Honolulu agent that no stores would be full draw will be referred to the patrol­ available at the next port: that's why we man. There is disharmony in the stew­ were unable to get more milk. Repair ard department: steward should take list was made out by all delegates and Rrmer control. Steward will order more turned over to the ship's delegate. fresh stores at the first Japanese port. Repair list was then read. Crew re­ Two men should be used with the elec­ quested innerspring mattresses and a SOUTHERN STATES (Southern Trad­ tric chipping hammer. - Air vents need new and larger coffee urn fog the crew ing), July S—Chairman, Manuel S. NeHo; repairing. pantry. Suggestion to have each man Secretary, Carl D. Delse. Some repairs donate 81 to the ship's fund was favored have been taken care of and the rest DOROTHY' (Bull), June 14—Chairman, by all hands. There Is a 810 balance In will be taken care of by individual de­ Walter Kohut; Secretary, R. C. Klenast. the fund now. partments. Ship's delegate will see the Walter Kohut was elected ship's delegate chief engineer about checking valves in by acclamation. Card players should no date—Chair­ crew's heads, placing a fan in the engine clean the recreation room when they are man, Clifton Treull; SscMtary, VIda R. department head. Captain will be con­ finished. Ship's delegate will see the Parker. Delegates were thanked for their tacted about new lumber for shower mate abut locks on the screen doors. cooperation. Picnic fund for the annual floor boards. Cots should be removed Men missing ship will be reported to p cnic of the Del Sud will be started In from deck and fantail, so as not to be the patrolman. plenty of time: due to last year's over­ In the way of men securing lines In June 27—Chairman, F. F. Jeffords; Sec­ whelming success, the crew feels that port. Suggestion was made to add to retary, Charles R. Johnson. Cups should the picnic will be bigger and better the ship's fund, which now stands at be returned to the pantry and placed in next time Louis J. "Baldy" Bollinger 811.45. Mate will be contacted about the sing. There should be more quiet in was reelected unanimously as ship's del­ painting the crew's foc'sles and heads. the recreation room alleyways and mess- egate. Ship's librarian reported 821 spent room at night. Thanks went to the stew for magazines: 85 spent for books. Sports ANTINOUS (Waterman), August 2— vd department for good feeding. director reported that ball players are Chairman, Bryan Yarn, Jr.; Secretary, July 12—Chairman, Walter Kohut: Sec­ needed: he wishes to play the beach­ Lee Allen. Men sleeping on poop deck retary, F. P. Jeffords. All hands were combers again. Treasurer reported on should make" less noise. New Orleans complimented for keeping the recreation the money spent for the picnic and movie haHRwlll be asked about the wiper mak-' room clean. Books and papers should be machine. One seaman Is being carried as ing coffee on Sunday morning. OS will returned to the library after they have a passenger. keep laundry clean^ wiper will clean the been read. Men going on watch should recreation rooms. Chief - mote will be be served first. 5E I '•®®END (Ocean Trans ), July 28 asked (o test Are bells. Menu will be ^halrman, A. Hovdie; Sacretary, Frank typed up for each table. There Is 829.95 BUCYRUS VICTORY (Waterman), July E. Gardner. Ship's delegate saw the cap­ in the ship's fun^. 1»—Chairman, W. Young; Secretary, J. tain about making Ice but got no definite A. Ryan. Men missing ship and faUing answer; this will be disputed. Patrolman JEAN LAFITTB (Waterman), June 17— to secure ship for sea will be reported will take up all other complaints with Chairman, N. E. King; Secretary, W. J. to the boarding patrolman at the payoff. the master. Two men missed ship. Sug­ Brown. Whltey..Lewis was., elected ship's Bepait list will be turned over to the gestion was made that each man donate delegate. Daymen asked men to wash ship's delegate. Men should not come »i to the .iliip'g fund to buy en Iron, during the: day,' not at night. Flushing into the messhall unless they are proper­ checkers, cards, cribbage board and system In: toilets Is pot .working eft. ly dressed. Messhall should be kept clean other articles. Bed light was not repaired gtewofit Uked the ww' t» Ttoa * ifa Ml M. .ipmOh-JB'iQJtR itp'y-jbeP'AM i-«...suv4'im. •.•-jSi.rN.yp.. • >s.fc-.tirv,l. -.f .-J -.'.-n 'ir.v V" ig machine should be turned out when it is not being used. There are no spare parts for the machine, so It should be taken care of. Fans should be turned off in the roohis when they are not occupied. BRADFORD ISLAND (Cities Service), August 5—Chairman, M. Bendron; Sec­ retary Paul H. Bryson, Frank Flanagan was elected ship's treasurer: there Is 831.51 In the treasury. Two men missed ship In Lake Charles: one in New York. Brother Robinson was elected deck del­ egate. Captain should be contacted about putting an awning on the fantail and getting separate watch foc'sles for the black gang. MICHAEL (Carras), July 2f—Chairman, P. L. Shauger; Sacretary, W. T. Langford. Fred Aderhold was elected ship's delegate. He will contact the captain about getting wind scoops in San Pedro as well as a new refrigerator. AU fans should be put in working order. Mess* man should make coffee at coffee time and the urn should be cleaned each time. Repairs should be listed and addi­ DEL SUD (Mississippi), July 12—Chair­ tional chairs purchased for the mess- man, L. J. Ballinger; Secratary, S. A. room. Bailey. Chief mate aiul the first assist­ ant said a few words on the safety of TRINITY (Carras), no data—Chairman, the ship. Librarian rtported that all not llitad; Secrotary, H. Wsstphsll. There books were turned in: he thanked the Is a 829.25 balance in the ship's fund. .jirew for their cooperation and asked for One man was left in the hospital in some money from the ship's fund to buy Venezuela. Motion was made to see more books. There is a balance of 8278.74 about getting .a slopchest from New in the ship's fund, after a deduction of York.. This ship is going to the Mediter­ 821.60 was made to buy fiowers for the ranean so the steward will see that there funeral of the chief electrician's motheris enough fruit Juice for the trip, and iiylaw. 825 will be spent on magazines will get some bread boxes; There Is not and books for the next trip. Crewmem­ enough linen for a long trip and the bers were asked to return coffee cups to sheets are too small and should be re­ the pantry and to stop taking glasses placed. • out of the passengers' pantry. Second steward will give glasses to anyone who BOULDER VICTORY (Seas Shipping), July :5—Chairman, Nick Chirlehalla; Sec- Egg boiler should be repaired or re­ rotary, Joseph Vallncla. Messhall should placed. Coffee urn should be fitted with be kept clean at night by the crew. Cups a pyrex lining so coffee does not get and spoons should be replaced In the stale so quickly. pantry: ashtrays should be used, not coffee cups, for ashes and butts. SEATRAIN LOUISIANA (Sestrain), July 24—Chairman, J. B. Flannery; Sec­ PETROLITI (Tanker Sag.), August I— retary, Fred Irizar. No holds have been Chairman, H. Waller; Sacretary, V. L. sprayed out. Coke machine and 70 cases Harding. Patrolman will be contacted of coke were paid off. There is $4.60 on about an awning for aft. 'There Is $12.05 hand and 27 cases of coke sold. lS-4 in the ship's fund. Men changing watch fireman wants to change watches but has should notify the department head, so no one to change with. Patrolman will they will know who is' on watch. Men be called and asked to ship a new man should not slam doors when others are out by midnight. trying to sleep. Last man on standby is to clean the messhall in the morning. SEAPENDER (Ssatransport), April 4— Ant powder should be put out. Chairman, L. W. Leibig; Secretary, .H. R. Hutchins. A. R. Webeer was elected ship's delegate by acclamation: P. Cheklln was elected engine department del­ egate. August 2—Chairman, L..W. Leidig; Sec­ retary, H. Hutchins. Repair lists were given to the chief engineer and the mate, who will take care of as many repairs ABIQUA (Cities Service), July 25— as possible before reaching port. Sparks Chairman, William Logan; Secretary, wiU give everyone an account of ex­ Vincent L. Ratcliff. Captain has been penditures on slops, draws and amount shown new Coast Guard ruling about of pay coming. Everyone will get two hiring replacements In foreign ports to weeks' linen allowance. Ship needs fu­ replace missing men. Steward depart­ migation. Two men missed ship in Ja­ ment quarters will be painted. Vote of pan. Ship's delegate Webber got a vote thanks went to the steward department of thanks for a well done Job. Mixer will for the excellent Job they are doing. be put aboard before the ship sails. Cots Complaint was made that no hot water and linen should be turned in and fo'c'.sles is available in showers. Fans should be checked before the payoff. All repairs repaired. Captain will try to have Jap­ should be taken care of. Slopchest should anese money redeemed for those men carry larger variety of clothing and who drew too much, provided he gets it sizes and more cigarettes. Some of the meat Is not of good quality. Vote of In time to turn It over to the agent. thanks went to Captain P. Bamberg for his consideration and complete coopera­ BIENVILLE (Waterman), July Chairman, Barney. Kelly; Secretary, R. tion to and for all crewmembers. It's a P. Deran. The ship's delegate- asked the pleasure to sail with a captain like Mr. captain about cancelling logs and the Bamberg. captain said he would take It up with LOGANS FORT (Cities Service), August the patrolman. Repair list was turned in from each department. Some beefs S—Chairman, O. C. King; Secretary, Rob­ will be settled at the payoff, as well as ert L. Ford. Lake Charles patrolman will some disputed OT. Discussion was held be asked about the milk situation there. on several men who want to get per­ Black gang foc'sles will be sougeed. Cots mits: they will be recommended to the will be issued when the weather gets patrolman. Foc'sles should be cleaned hot or at anyone's request. Eleven new before leaving the ship: ship should be mattresses have been ordered. brought in in SIU style. Everyone is SOUTHPORT (South Atlantic), June 21 doing his part, —Chairman, R. E. Pierce; Seoretary, J. *ROBIN GRAY (Robin), June 21—Chair­ man, Edgsl Luzier; Secretary, Frank Col­ lins. There was a general discussion on more quiet in the passageways so men off watch can sleep and a discussion on Improving everyday shipboard life. SOUTHERN CITIES (Southern Trading), J^uiy 24—Chairman, R. Davis; Secretary, R. Ericsen. Beefs on working rules will be settled by the patrolman at the first port of call. R. Davis was elected ship's delegate. New fans will bevJnstalled In crew's quarters. New chairs are needed for^ the messrooms and quarters. Old washing machine is to be repaired or new one Installed before the ship leaves the repair yard. Repair list will be made up before the ship reaches the shipyard. Chassereau. Motion was made to get screen dors put up and make up a re­ pair list before leaving Europe. Washing machine and laundry should be taken care of. Unnecessary noise should be cut down. Roach powder will be distributed. August S—Chairman, James H. Chas­ sereau; Secretary, Rupert E. Pierce. Foc'sles need fumigation. Crew was asked to turn In dirty linen. Discussions were held on springs and straps for the bunks, on cleaning the laundry ^And re­ pairing the washing machine. There is a balance of 824 in the ship's fund. ALCOA RANGER (Alces), August 2— Chairman, Fred Spruiil; Sacretary, P. B. Nealy. Repair list was turned In. Keys were obtained and one flushometer re­ paired. Water fountain should be re­ paired as soon as possible. Laundry should be kept clean: each man should clean the machine after he has used It. Chief engineer will be contacted about sougeelng the engine department pas­ sageway. If this Is not done the patrol­ man will be notified. CHIWAWA (Cities Service), August S— Chairman, H. Goldman; Secretary, D. Powers. Washing machine should not bo run too long. EDITH (Bull), August 2-Chelrmsn, R. O. Reurke; Secretary, Louis Rizie. George Heinnaut was elected ship's delegate In absentia. Toaster will be repaired. Coffee urn and percolators were (discussed, as BUCYRUS VICTORY (Waterman), Au­ well as the purchase of a television set. will be used in the crew gust 2—Chairman, Joe Ryan; Secretary, Tablecloths Emil Orstsky. Robert W. Schoolcraft messhall. was. elected ship's delegate by acclama­ SUNION (Kea), no date—Chairman, J. tion. Ship's delegate should call and get Sullivan; Secretary, Harry Meeney. Two a new library in Pedro. Cleaning sched­ men missed ship through no fault of ule . for the laundry was posted In the their own accordlngjto letter read by the messhall. steward. Ship's delegate resigned since DESOTO (Waterman), June 28—Chair­ he may have to leave the ship to be hos­ Steve Emgrsbn was elected t4 man, A. Danne; Secretary, Philip Reyes. pitalized. his place. Engine department will elect' a delegate. take No date—Chairman, J. Sulllvsn; SeereSuggestion was made , that the new agree­ tary. Harry Meeney. There is S3 In the ment specify that innerspring mattresses ship's fund. Suggestion was made thdt be provided. Clothes should not be left all change at the payoff be. donated to" hanging in the laundry longer than nethe ships fund. Letter will be sent to ce.ssary, due to limited space. Old books headquarters about the two men who will be donated to the Salvation Army. Steward asked" for .donations for the missed ship. • movies and thanked those who donated. MOTHER M. L. (Eagle Ocean), June 28 It was agreed that there- be no obscene -Chelrman, H. OI Mesford; Secrelery, and dirty talk at mealtimes and that a Jimmie D. Ceker, Refrigerator bell will minimum of decorum be observed. Re­ pairs will be submitted to the delegates. be repaired. Crew's quarters will bo •^8 are- to be repaired: Suggestion was made that Hiere be cold ei in ^|ie messhalls an4 buffet suppers during the hot weather.'' CTalleT: iflid pai^> sinks O. M«sfprd:yms.electe(| LUCILI BLpOMFSb'LD . (ileemfieldr, Jung r—Chsirmgni;' 4., •I'dniisni •eerb^' �Aiwost ti. 195$ . • ': • ' of the man who 'niissed ship will be : (Continued from pase 24)' turned over to the patrolman. The stew•hip's 'delegate. 'Repair list will he hand­ "ard's e^lanation of the shortage of night ed over to the ship's delegate before ar­ lunch was accepted. rival in San Francisco. Each man will donate $1 for the purchase of magazines HOLYSTAR. ariton), July 24—Chsirand an ironing board. Dirty dishes Waiter F. Waiiacei Secretary, John should be placed in the pantry after use., man. J. Payne. Leak in the messhaU has be^n AU requested repairs will be made in fixed. List for slopchest and repairs has San Francisco; .new mattresses wiU be been turned in. Only tooth paste was placed aboard. obtained. man was taken off the .^uly . 7—Chairman/ .Jehn . Fisher; Secre­ ship in SanOne Pedro service. tary, JImmie O. Coker. .Tohn Fisher was Head and shower offortheselective depart­ elected ship's delegate; William Welcher ment was painted, but no engine foc'sles. Noth­ was elected engine delegate. All hands, ing was said about painting: Letter will are to help keep the messroom clean at' be mailed to the Baltimore patrolman all times. Shelves will be built in the about the chief mate's assault and at­ library: each department will help paint tempt to kiU the bosun with an iron bar. the library. Washing machine' wiU be Patrolman wUl be asked to check on moved so that water does not spill on ownership of the washing machine. the deck. Thanks were givcff to the August a—Chairman, Harold Thomsen; steward department for the service and Secretary, Wiiiiem.Beiiowt. Some foc'sles efforts they put forth in serving' food. have been pSintedi as weU as the recre­ ROBIN CRAY (Seas Shipping), J.uiy 24 ation- room. Thanks were given by the —Chairman, LsPcinte; Secretary, Frank SUP • man to a good, cooperative crew. Coiiins. Mate will be contacted about Vote of thanks went to 'aU the delegates painting deck department head and for their good work. Reports on the showers. Request was made that better chief mate and the master for the Union care be given the washing machine. and the Coast Guard were read by the Pockets should be emptied before they ship's delegate. go into the washing machine. We aU know that they are a big improvement DEL MONTE (Mississippi), July 21— over the old scrub brush and board, so Chairman, V, S. Aiford; Secretary, Harry let's keep ' them. Motion was made to Woiowit. .Quito a 'few articles ordered have a lu^er and better sports column did not come abokrd before the ship In • the LOG so that the brothers in for­ sailed. Ail should help keep the laun­ eign ports WiU have a better idea of dry and washing machine cleaned. Justin what's what in sports. Wolf was elected ship's delegate by ac;. August *—Chairman, Yshcey; S4cre- clamation.' tary, J. N. LaPoinfa. Motion was made to' show the patrolman the scupper in LAFAYETTE (Waterman), no datathe laundry and try* to get, it repaired. Chairman, Roxbary; Secretery, W. icime. Steward department got a vote of thanks. Repair list wUl be turned over to the Deck delegate wUl call the haU to find patrolman. Inncrspring mattresses wUl out if gangway watches in New ITork are be included on the list. (8 from the old to be maintained. A Jar wiU be left in ship's fund WiU be spent on books. the messhaU at the payoff for each mem­ ber to donate what he wants to the start­ SEATRAiN NEW YORK ((aatrain), ing.of a ship's fund. Discussion was held July 2f—Chairman, R. W. Sweeney; Sec­ en new mattresses and the upkeep of retary, C. E. Mesiey. . Hommer 1. Nichship's gear. oles was elected ship's delegate. Brothers were asked to take better care of the washing machine and the television set. Everyone should exchange linen, prompt­ ly, so that It can be sent to the laundry. BTEEL ADVOCATE (isthmian), June 27 —Chairman, Waiter Mitchei; Secretary, Joe Kramer. Most of the repairs were taken care of: the rest wiU be done when the ship gets back in New York. Rex H. Cote was elected ship's delegate. Cups should be put In the pantry and not left ail over the ship. The washing machine was not properly fixed; it wilt be taken ashore again for repairs. SEATRAiN CEORGiA (Seatrain), July 1*—Chairman, E. Losoya; Secretary, J. E. Pedasa, Jr. Balance of (4.13 in the ship's fund was Imnded over to the dele­ gate. Galley steps leading' to the store room need repairing. FAiRiSLE (Waterman), July 1«—Chair­ man, e. Dunn; Secretary, W. "Terry" Paris. 'Vote of thanks went to the stew­ ard department for exceptional chow. Heat In the 12-4 foc'sle should, be' taken care of. Captain praised the crew for their action when the ship ran aground In Straits of Shimonseki, Japan. OREMAR (Ore), July 24—Chairman, Sam. Duruy; Secretary, J. L. Hodges. Steward will see about getting more ice cream. There is a shortage - of clean linen. Men who are getting. off were asked by the steward to strip their bunks and turn in all dirty linen, leaving the rooms clean for the next crew. BALTORE (Ore), July 29—Chairman, James Corcoran; Secretary, George Prota. Joseph MuUen was elected ship's dele­ gate. Delegates wiU coUect repair lists and turn them over to the recording sec­ retary for typing. Crewmembers will note repairs needed in the shipyard. CUBORE (Ore), July 17—Chairman, Paul "Dufch'- Witthaus, Jr.; Secretary, Chuck Hastetter. Chuck Hastetter was elected ship's delegate by acclamation. Name t' ^ SHOPS Get New Boehn Through Agenin Seafarers who applied for new membership books in New York but are now sailing from outports don't have to come to this city to get their new books. If the men involved will write to headquarters and tell the Union which port they are sailing out of, the Union will forward the book -in care of the port ag^nt. Under no circumstances however, will the books be sent through the mails to any private addresses. 9- «• • Twenty-fiv*" -" ^ 'Fa*« Landsman. Cigarette beefs wUl be re­ ferred to the patrolman: as weU as tlie matter of the cots. Repair Usts wiU be compUed by aU delegates. Keys are needed for the foc'sles. ROBIN TUXFORD (Seas ShippincT), Au­ gust 1—Chairman, Nocoia Baithia; Secre­ tary, George Biiiek. AU linen should be turned over to the steward before the crew leaves the ship: quarters should be left neat and clean. A new washing ma­ chine is needed. The old one is beyond repair. New scuttlebutt should be in­ stalled in the engine rom if the old one cannot be repaired. Food has been under par- for the last week. Additional arti­ cles are needed for the slopchest. COMPASS (Compass), July 5—Chair­ man, O. Jones; Secretary, Dick Palmer. i&RSOiiAiis -• :4 : 4"'4 ana Hao aaa aae-' sdSQa aaaJHH saaaanH anGDsa ...ana naa '* Steward reported that ail but a few re­ pair items were taken care of. O. Jones was elected ship's delegate. Men should see their department delegates with beefs' before coming to him. Steward will make out a cleaning lisr for the recreation room. Card players were asked to clean up after their games. Shipmates 'were asked not to make too much noise so men off watch can sleep. Games should be placed in the spare room during dis­ to serve milk three times a day in port charge of eargo. and three times a day at sea for as long a* it lasts. First assistant • wUi be con­ SUZANNE (Buii), August 5—Chairman, tacted by the delegate about sougeeing not listed; Secretary, T. Vigo. Quarters and painting foc'sles for the black gang. should be painted. Discussion was held on the seasoning of food. Present cuts GREECE VICTORY (South Atianllc) of meat are a little below standard. This June 14—Chairman. W. C. Crockett; Sec­ WiU be referred to the patrolman. Garcia retary, Ambt Baum. Three beefs WlU be was elected ship's delegate. brought up before the patrolman. Dele­ gates win be elected Immediately after AFOUNDRiA (Waterman), August 3— the payoff to take care of any disputes Chairman, Derwood Mann; Secretary, in port. Five new mattresses are needed. Frank Miller. AU repairs will be taken Steward said this win be taken care of. care of by the patrolman. The 'Ust was July 1—Chairman, James H. Bales;'Sec­ made out. Washing machine needs fix­ retary, Amos Baum. Three replacements ing: men should take better care of it. fafled to report to the ship in Boston. Foc'sio locks need repairing, as weR as James H. Bales was elected ship's dele­ the drinking fountain. Cots snould be gate. Valuablea should be turned over treated better. to the captain for safekeeping. BEATRICE (Buii), August 3—Chairman, F. Loriz; Secretary, Le Roy Johnson. No action is. being taken on the repair list. Patrolman wiU be contacted. Captain should be contacted on having the galley FRANCES (Buii), August 10—Chairman, sougeed at least once a month overhead. Frank Cornier; Secretary, Neai Cairns. Crew donated (18 to the library fund. LAFAYETTE (Waterman), July 14— One man paid off in the Dominican ReChairman, Clyde Garnor; Secretary, Jay pubUc to go to the hosi ical. One beef July 23—Chairman, J. H. Bales; Secre­ C. Staeie. Ship's funds wUi be returned. will be taken up with the patrolman. tary, A. A. Baum. Ship'a delegate re­ Union WiU be contacted about the offi­ that the captain showed him the cers using the washing machine, and STEEL TRAVELER (isthmian), August ported regarding no shore leave in Goose about having the sanitary men cleaning 9—Chairman, F. Jankowski; Secretary, letter as weU as documents stating that the laundry and library. Wiiiiam Deveiin, (1 donations from each Bay, the slopchest could not be broken member were turned over to treasurer between Gooseseal and St. Johns. Cus­ DENNISON VICTORY (Waterman), July WUiiam DeveUn for the ship's fund. toms wanted to Bay charge (8 to open this in 13—Chaiiman, Joe DcOrio; Secretary, Ed­ Locks and keys for the foc'sle doors wiU St. John on Sunday. Condition of the ward Cogcn. Complaints about the food be checked in New York. Beefs will be lifeboats wiU be reported to the patrdlturned over to the New Orleans patrol­ man: if they are not in proper working should be taken up with the steward. man. He WiU see the captain about condition before sailing, the matter will Minor beef between two members were draws. Ship's fund was turned over to be reported toj the Coast Guard. Captain settled. Ice wiU be bought in Casablanca. There should be two cold meals a week, the chief electrician to purchase a time to Uft the logs. No one should and jeUo should not be served more than regulator for the washing machine. New refused make toasted cheese sandwiches in the library y,Ti be procured for the next toaster. Crew was asked to take better twice a week. There is too much indi­ gestion. Food is so dry and overcooked. trip. care of the equipment. Complaints were GaUey blowers should be cleaned. One made about n>itting on decks in head big salad should be served. - instead of -LOGANS FORT (Cities Service), July drinking fountain. Additional fans individual ones. 25—Chairman, Edwin Ritchie; Secrafary, and July 24—Chairman, H. Winn; Secretary, Robert L, Ford. There is (10.o2 in the are needed in the crew mess. Fable Perez. One wiper was picked up ship's fund. Wind chutes will be pro­ BEAUREGARD (Watorman), July 12— at Casablanca. A blank repair list wiU cured in. New Jersey. One man missed ship in New York. Motion was passed Chairman, C. E. Waiiick; SaCretary, R. be placed on the buUetin board for the Barker. All repairs wiU be made before crew to make out. SkyUght should be the ship saUs. Men are to be properly made in the engine room for ventUation. dressed in the messhaU during meals. Deck department wiU put flushometers Members should help keep the messhaU on their repair list and pantry clean, and not leave utensUs lying around. Cups should be returned STEEL RECORDER (isthmian), July 24 to the pantry. Doors midship and aft —Chairman, Mcricsena; Secretary, Donshould be secured, so shoreside person­ aid Zubiick. One wiper missed ship in Nelson E. Norwooji. nel do not come inside. Steward should New Orleans. Passageways should be Please contact Raymond K. order inncrspring mattresses in New kept locked to keep out shoreside person­ York. There is to be no more''drinking nel. Screens and DDT are needed for the Kierr, 1746 Natiofial Bank of Com­ aboard ship. trip to India. Laundry should be cleaned merce Building, New Orleans, La., up after. It is used. Drinking water is WACOSTA (Waterman), July 12—Chair­ bad. Repair list was read and added to. /Concerning your lawsuit set for man, Van Whitney; Secretary, H. L. Haii- Ship needs fumigation. Deck department this coming December. ey. Captain has suggested that a separ­ rooms have not been painted for two ate antenna be rigged for the crew's years. radio. One man missed ship in Phila­ WUliam A. Dallas, Jr. delphia: report has been sent to head­ FRANCES (Buii), July 27—Chairman, quarters. ToUets need repairing. Patrol­ Neai Cairns; Secretary, A.R. Carrasquilie. . Contact your sister, Mrs. Lillian man should see about getting inncrspring Ail repairs have been completed. One Mitchele, 1913 Annapolis Ave. Bal­ mattresses aboard ship. . man missed ship in New York, flew down July 26—Chairman, H. J. Robin: Sec­ to San Juan, reported to the Union hail, timore, Md., phone ED 6-3698, or retary, H. L. Hsiiey. One man missed paid his fine and was given his shipping your mother, Mrs. Lilliam Dallas, ship in Miami; one man missed ship in card to rejoin the vessel. Discussion was Motion was made to have held on parliamentary procedure. 406 S. Poppleton St., Baltimore, Philadelphia. the Union start taking the necessary Md., at once. Urgent. Or will any­ steps to help seamen's famiUes receive SEATRAIN NEW JERSEY (Seatrain), treatment in USPHS hospitals. July 5—Chairman, Sir Charles; Secretary, one knowing the present where­ medical Patrolman will receive report of the ar­ Sir Charles. Letter will be sent to head­ abouts of William A, Dallas Jr., gument between two members. Steward quarters about getting six large wind who went aboard the Green Bay wiU exchange linen for the cr4w when­ chutes and 12 more electric fans with extra parts. Brothers should not make Victory last April, please contact ever needed. unnecessary noise during the day in the CHiWAWA (Cities Sarviee)r July 7— messhaii, as this wakes the 12-4 watch his sister or mother. Chairman, Joe J. Martus; Secretary, R. which have the room nearest the mess- Qnix Answers (1) Yes, always from an easterly direction toward the equator, (2) (a) Heliophobe. (3) (b) 70. (4) (a> Noiie. (5) (c) 6,000 years, 4 t •'(6) (b) Au. Patrick Swift (7) Ail three. Please contact Phil Carovich, in . (8) They are carnivorous, or care of the Boston SIU hall. flesh-eating plants. .4 4. 4 . (9) "But as for me, give m^ lib­ Leonard F. "Whitey" Lewis erty or give me death,". Patrick Contact Charles Hansen, Wood-, Henry. law Cemetery. 3514 Bainbrldge (10) 730 miles, Ave., New York 6, NY, as soon as possible. Important, Puzste Anstver 4 4 4 Stanley Klenkowitz Please contact John Valasco, c/o •Sifi QIIB QESSSHS Jungle Club, Agaadllla, Puerto Rico, Liana snra sLinm GiHcaa HBaanmaa •'•:W SEAFARER!^ LOG SS Burbank Victory Crew June 18. '52. to Aug. 25, '52 George Crosby, 2nd eldct., on that voyage, is suing Easterh Steamship Co, for Injuries re­ ceived. He asks that crewmembers contact him or his attorneys, Jacpbsen i»nd. T^bin, 995 , Market Street, San -Francisco, Calif., and a^ that thiey >p«kk to Ao one e'l^ conceiving the suit room. Thermometer in the • messroom will be read and notice taken of the tem- perature each 'day to show to the patrol­ man. Roy Jopiin was elected ship's dele- . gate. July 24—Chairman, R. Jopiin; Secre­ tary, Sir Charles. Six more large windchutes are needed, though the repairs are coming along fine. Motion was passed to take SI from the ship's fund to buy boo!<s in which the delegates can keeprecords of Union members'iip. Sugges­ tion was made to give a little financial support to Brother Robert Lester for • buying new films. Steward will contact the Union hail if the company cuts down on his requisition. Crew is not satisfied - these days with the way the food is being cooked. Cups should be returned to the messroom. Fruit juice was re­ quested. ROBIN SHERWOOD (Seas Shipping), May 3—Chairman, Wallace; Secretery, Thomas Williams. AU beefs were cleared and aU repairs taken care of. Each man • will chip in' 2(4 shiiiings for the ship's fund, to buy misceUaneous articles in South' Africa. List for the cleaning of the laundry will be posted. Washing ma- 'chine is not to be used after 10 PM. AU garbage is to be dumped aft. June 19—Chairman, Wallace; Secretary, T. Williams. Shoreside people should be stopped from using the washing machine. Captain will be contacted by the delegate about getting a light in the passageway. Purser is selling the slopchest. CECIL N. BEAN (Drytrans), August 7— Chairman, T. E. (Pop) Foster: Secretary, M. F. Kramer. New roUers were put in the washing machine and gaskets renewed where necessary. One brother missed ship in Yokohama. Martinez was elected ship's delegate. Delegates wiU go ashore and see what the charges are against the brother who is being held by the Army authorities. They wUl take him some cigarettes. Bosun wiU see the mate about using the gangway instead of the pUot ladder for boarding and leav­ ing the ship. The pilot ladder is too dangerous. - ALCOA PATRIOT (Alcoa), August 9— Chairman, E. A. Grady; Secretary, J.A. Austen. Repair lists were turned in at Trinidad. There is a (10.90 balance in the ship's fund. Discussion was held on getting phonograph records, and about taking care of the ball equipment. CALMAR (Caimar), August 2—Chair­ man, E. Seeiey; Secretary, A. Nelson. Beeching was elected ship's delegate, Messman's locker was not rep.iired. though it was put on the list. Laundry should be kept clean and the washing machine unplugged after use. •<S BIENVILLE (Waterman), August 14— Chairman, John R. Dixon; Secretary, Bar­ ney Keiiy. Barney KcUy was reelected ship's delegate. One man missed ship. Repair list is being checked over. Bread box wUl be taken off the table whUe it is being set. Crew wiU look for windchutes and screens before reaching tho next port. Delegates wiU try to get keys for the foc'sles. Crew was asked to co­ operate with the new messman, as this is his ilrst trip, and place dirty cups in the pantry. CATAHOULA (National Nav.) August 12—Chairman, L. M. Roberson; Secretary, Wiiiiam J. Barnes. Fans will be taken care of in New- York: fans and washing machine wiU be brought to the atten­ tion of the patrolman there. One man missed ship in New Orleans. Ship's fund will be collected to repair the radio and record player. TADDEi (Shipenter), May 31—Chair­ man, P. Jordan; Secretary, F. Wasmer. A. Monahan was elected ship's delegate by acclamation. No date—Chairman, E. Hansen; Secre­ tary, F. Wasmer. There are a few minor disputes. The captain claims no cargo bonus is coming for cement. The trouble between the deck gang and the chief mate will be cleared up in port. Three men missed ship in Yckohama. Their gear has been packed. Sailing board was ail fouled up and no sailing time was posted. Repair list will be made up be­ fore hitting port. Recreation room needs to be sougeed. Editor, SEAFARERS LOG. 675 Fourth Ave., Stephen Wagrerik Your watch, damaged in the lire Brooklyn 32, NY NOTICES aboard the Steel Artisan, has been repaired and can be picked up iq I would like to receive the SEAFARERS LOG—please the Sea Chest in SIU New York put my name on your mailing list. (Print Information) headquarters. 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 A. Triblo NAME Please send your home address to the LOG, so your bound volume STREET ADDRESS of the LOG can be forwarded. Neil Boyle CITY Please pick up your gear from the Steel Admiral at the baggage room in SIU New York headquar­ 5ign6cl ters. TO AVOID DUPLrCATION: -.r t, ' ..ZONE ......STATE If you «r« an old tubscribar and hav( • chang* of addrats, piasia glva your fermar addrait balowi Louis T. Marshall Contact the SIU Welfare Serv­ ADDRESS ices , DepRrMent at l^cad,qqa]:ter5 as soon as possible. . CITY u,-i_ •••••(••(•(•«•(((•((• (•<«••(• •((••(((•((•••(•••((•(•^••••••••••(•••••Ma'aasEa a«aaa*»(ataaaaaaaaaaaaat((M(a^«Bii t f--J '• »• •i .'iL.' i.? ..ZONE i »'• ) .'lO'l.'-" JiU ..STATE ^ aaBMMGMtaAGa' -.t: ' - �^ r. W' . . SEAFARERS r-', Pase Twenty-six FvV-. LOG Aano^Sl. 198S Morticians Inflafo Burial Cost • Recently Jit has come to-the attention of the Union that soiiie.of the families of Seafarers have been taken for extra-heavy, funeral expenses "by undertakers who knew of the Union's $2,500 death benefit. The" families had little left over to. tide themselves over, as the resul of the loss of a breadwinner."*" volved where such information is but will then suggest that perhaps The following list contains the names of hospitalized Seafarers who Such conditions are not un­ needed to establish proof of ability it's "not good enough" for the de­ are being taken care of by cash benefits from the SIU Welfare Plan. common. Other unions who to pay. ceased. The family will be asked in the HOSPITALS '• - •>:? • j" established welfar funds and While one purpose of the death death benefits ran Into the same benefit is to assure the Seafarer a difficulties. decent buriaI7 that is not its only This kind of situation can be objective. The other one is to pro­ avoided by the use of a little re­ vide the family with a cushioh un­ straint and caution. It's not neces­ til they can get settled and take sary to tell an undertaker all about care of their own financial needs. Ask About Assets financial circumstances and money It's the normal practice in the coming in from the Union, just as it isn't necessary to tell a doctor undertaker business (which after or a hospital about the $200 mater­ all, is a business run for profit like nity benefit. By doing so, the Sea­ any other enterprise) for the un­ farer or his family is tempting dertaker's representative to ask these people to charge him more first of all how much cash, in­ for services rendered, or to involve surance and other assets the fam­ ily has. him in unnecessary expenses. The undertaker will start out It's only advisable to give out information about the benefits in-1 by offering the low-cost funeral if it wants, the coffin lined In silk or satin. Whichever it chooses be comes the higher-priced. They arc told that silver handles on the cof­ fin are not enough. They should be gold. The best thing for a family to do under these circumstances is get a third party to/nake the ar­ rangements for them, somebody who is sympathetic but can con­ sider the matter sensibly and not be carried away by a highly emo­ tional appeal. Welfare Services has found that the price of the fuifbral has little or nothing to do with the attractiveness or dignity of the funeral. While the Plan aids them financially, all of these men would welcome mail and visits from friends and,shipmates to pass away the long days arid weeks in a hospital bed. V'SPHS hospitals allow plenty of time for visitors. If you're ashore and you see a friend's name on-the-list, drop, in for a visit. It will be most welcome. USPHS HOSPrrAL STATEN ISLAND. NY Rocco Albonese Stanley Leako Edwardo Balboa John Maclnnes Melvin Bass Robert E. MiUer Frederick Burford Luther R. Milton Benito Centero Frank Nering Clarence Crevier Jerry J. Palmer . Sixto Escobar Joe Perrelra L. Franklin Edgar A. Piatt Burton J. Frazer Carlos M. Ponce Eatell Godfrey John Rekstln John Roberts Joe Carl Griggs Jesus Rodriquez J. W. Hamilton Santiago Rosarlo John Hamilton J. Sampson Floyd M. Hansen Virgil Sandberg Herman Hass Juan M. Soto Samuel Jonas Walter Sudnick Oscar Jones George W. Thayer Leon Kane Thor Thorsen James J. Kelley Harry S. Tuttla A. Klngsepp PRESB-YTERIAN HOSPITAL NEW YORK. NY Alfredo Cedeno Edward Angelo Rossi, Jr., born Byron Sidney Bruno, born June All of the following SIU families will collect the $200 maternity 27, 1953. Parents, Mr. and Mrs. January 31, 1953. Parents, Mr. and benefit plus a $25 bond from the Joseph S. Bruno, 33 Holly Drive, Mrs. Edward A. Rossi, 220 Spring Court, Baltimore, Md. Xlretna, La. Union in the baby's name. t 4) 4i Tina May Kieiber, born June 21, Theresa Bojko, bora July 15, 1953. Parents, Mr. and Mrs. Mel- 1953. Parents, Mr. and Mrs. Stan­ vin Charles Kieiber, Box 344, New­ ley Bojko, 3018 "D" St., Philadel­ port, Ore. phia, Pa. 41 4> 4' Richard Wayne Anderson, born Julio Febles Olivera, born June June 27, 19.53. Parents, Mr. and 4. ,1953. Parents, Mr. and Mrs. Mrs. Eric H. Anderson, 12 Pleasant Ramon Olivera, 29 Capara St., St., Holbrook, Mass. Cantan, Puerto Rico. Bernedette Procter, born May 16. 1953. Parents, Mr. and Mrs. Edward Procter, 1014 Cook St., Gretna, La. 4) ^ 4^ ^ Myra Dale Williams, bora July 24, 1953. Parents, Mr. and Mrs. Dale Williams, 535 W. Port Arthur Road, Port Acres, Tex. 4- 3^ 4 t 4j'' Carlos Rios, born July 13, 1953. Barbara Jean Willis, bprn July Parents, Mr. and Mrs. Juan L. 24, 1953. Parents,- Mr. and Mrs. Rios, 7 Manhattan Ave., Apt. 21, Perley D. Willis, 303 E. Berkley New York, NY. Ave., Norfolk, Va. 4> 4> 4> 4^ 4- 4- 4 4 4 James Racs Weddle, bora June 2, 1953. Parents, "Mr. and Mrs. Alves F. Weddle, 1813 N. 145th St., Seattle, Wash. 4 4 4 Petros Marcos Drosses, born July 27, 1953. Parents, Mr. and Mrs. Marcos P. Drossos, 18-A Mag­ nolia Homes, Galveston, Tex. 4 4 4 Mitchell Mignano, born July 27, 1953. Parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ben­ jamin Mignano, 333 ^ First St., Brooklyn, NY. 4 4 4 Veronica Ann Danne, born July 16, 1953. Parents, Mr. and Mrs. Adolph L. Danne, 457 S. Hamilton St., Mobile, Ala. 4 4 4 Blanche Ygama, born January George Joseph Thompson, born Mona Ann Calamia, born July 24, 14. 1953. Parents, Mr. and Mrs. July 22, 19.53. Parents, Mr. and 1953. Parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Andreas Ygama, 1440 Gates Ave., Mrs. William E. Thompson, 187-32 L. "Calamia; 1202 Marigny St., New Brooklyn, NY. 91st Ave., Hollis, LI, NY. Orleans, La. 4< 4" 4 4. 4 4 4 Frank Hugh Wells, born July 21, Nola NaUine Covinston, born Beverly Dolores Blanton, born 1953. Parents, Mr. and Mrs. Hugh June 30, 1953. Parents, Mr. and July 29, 1953. Parents, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Albert Covington, Rte. Frank Wells, Jr., 1930 Fig St., Mrs. Wilbert Blanton, 3644 6th St., Kenner, La. 2, Box 42A, Wilmer, Ala. Port Arthur, Tex. 4 4 4 i t t 4 4 4 Linda Fae Pedraza, born July Roberta Lee Nicholas, bom July Theodore Francis Derol, born 20, 1953. Parents, Mr. and Mrs. 20, 1953. Parents, Mr. and Mrs. Leroy Maurice Nicholas, 2453 Du- Lorenzo Pedraza, 317 2nd Ave. S., July 25, 1953. Parents, Mr. and Mrs. Boleslaw Derol, 311 8th St., Texas City, Tex. bose Street, Mobile, Ala. Brooklyn, NY. 4 4 4 t 4Steven Lewis Henley, born June 4 4 4 John Joseph Michel, born July David Charles Wong, born July 13, 1953. Parents, Mr. and Mrs. 15, 1953. Parents, Mr. and Mrs. 30, 1953. Parents, Mr. and Mrs. August Michel, 168 Louisiana Virgil M. Henley, Falco, Ala. Kong Wong, 99 Debervoise St., Street, Westwego, La. 4 4 4 Diane Elaine Irvine, born July Brooklyn, NY. i 3) i Charles David Lakin, born June 14, 1953. Parents, Mr. and Mrs. 4 4 4 14, 1953. Parents, Mr. and Mrs. George Irvine, 123 Perry Avenue, Louis J. Cevette, Jr., born July Richmond, Staten Island, NY. Charles Y. Lakin, Kerr, O. 29, 1953v Parents, Mr. and Mrs. 4 4 4 Louis J. Cevette, 454 Sullivan St., 4" 4" 4" Peter Alfred O'Neill, Jr., born Elmira, NY. Jo-Ann Stewart, born July 7, 1953. Parents, Mr. and Mrs. Hugh July 25, 1953. Parents, Mr. and 4 4 4 L. Stewart, Jr., 621 W. North Ave., Mrs. Peter A. O'Neill, 4116-17th David Alonso, born July 22,1953. St., San Francisco, Cal. Baltimore, Md. Parents, Mr. and Mrs. Manuel Fi4 4 4 t 4) 4^ gueroa Alonso, 691 Jackson Ave;, Miguel Angel Reyes, born July Bronx, NY. Marilyn Louise Shaffer, born July 15, 1953. Parents, Mr. and. 23, 1953. Parents, Mr. and Mrs. 4 4 4 Mrs. Gerald Francis Shaffer, 1401 Francisco Maldonado Reyes, 950 £. Lloyd Thomas Gunnels, born 163 St., New York, NY. W. Erie Ave., Philadelphia, Pa. April 28, 1953. Parents, Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Gunnels, 518 8th St., Union City, NJ. If- 4 • The deaths of the following Seafarers have been reported to the Seafarers Welfare Plan and $2,500 ' death benefits ' are being paid to beneficiaries. •fe-;;' i-:.. cAr I" James F. McCarthy, 51: A heart disorder caused the death of Brother McCarthy on May 30, 1953. He died aboard the Yenore and was buried in Baltimore, Md. An OS in the deck department. 4 PRESBYTERIAN HOSPITAL SAN JUAN. PUERTO RICO F. Reyes POTTENCER SANITORIUH MONROVIA. CAL. L. Pritchard USPHS HOSPITAL MANHATTAN BEACH. BROOKLYN, NY Victor Arevalo James J. Lawlor Walter Chalk James R. Lewis Charles M. Davison Francis F. Lynch Emilio Delgado H. F. McDonald John J. Drlscoll A. McGuigan Jose Gr- Espinoza C. A. Markell Vic Miiazzo Bart E. Guranick Alfred Mueller Peter Gvozdlch Eugene T, Nelson John B. Hass G. E. Shumakcr Thomas Isakscn Henry E. Smith L. Kristlansen Renato A. Villata Frederick Landry VA HOSPITAL CORAL GABLES. FLA. C. Vilar BRUNSWICK GENERAL HOSPITAL AMITYVILLE. LONG ISLAND. NY Kenneth Marston NEW YORK MEDICAL COLLEGE NEW YORK, NY Edward C. Marlon ^ USPHS HOSPITAL NORFOLK. VA. William H. Harrell Herbert W.: Lamm DAMAS HOSPITAL PUERTO RICO Charles R. Miller USPHS HOSPITAL BOSTON. MASS. Albano' T. Mastaler Edward V. Burke J. M. Pinkus John J. Flaherty Oscar Smith R. Greenridge Paul C. Turner S PITAL USPHS E, MD. BALTIM Edgar L. Krotzer Thomas R. Bach Ben J. Lawson Roland Bell G. Lightfoot Clyde Clarke G. T. Liverman B. S. Conway Gustave LoefTer Antonio Cosplto Thomas V. Logan Jeff Davis William MitcheU A. DeFilippie Ralph L. Nixson Leo Gillls Ralph H. Nay Gorman T. Glaze Thomas Nicholas Joseph F. Goude Telcstro Roman H. Greenwald R. T. Shields Allen Heddings David F. Sykes John W. Jones USPHS HOSPITAL SAN FRANCISCO. CAL. Mike Dikun Raymond T. Sparks John C. Ramsey Joe Wakin Peter Smith P. D. Broderick D. K. T. Sorensen USPHS HOSPITAL FORT WC- fH, TEX. Joseph P. Wise Tliomas Liles Jr. USPHS HOSPITAL SAVANNAH. GA. W. W. Allred J. I.tttleton R. CarroUton L. T. TdcGuwan Leonard N. Evans H. E. Mathes F. W. Grant J. P. Neveraskus Joseph Ifsits Randolph Shedd C. E. Johnson USPHS HOSPITAL GALVESTON, TEX. W. M. Adams W. W, Lipscomb F. H. Burns Thomas E. Lowery Howard W. Forbes J. E. Markopolo C. U. Francis Karl Nikander Glenn W. Hines T. A. Spencer USPHS HOSPITAL MOBILE. ALA. Clarence Jones John El Zfegler ST. AGNES HOSPITAL PHILADELPHIA, PA. Clyde Clarke Thomas DriscoU JOHN HOPKINS HOSPITAL BALTIMORE. MD. Leland McMUlian US NAVY HOSPITAL JACKSONVILLE. FLA. Lloyd L. Jenkins USPHS HOSPrt-AL MEMPHIS. TENN. Charles Burton * USPHS HOSPITAL NEW ORLEANS. LA. L. H. AUaire J. B. Holsenheck T. L. Ankerson John Homen L. Bailey Philip Horowitz James E. Belcher Gustav Hoyzanl S. L. Bion;:!) Ramon Irizarry Vernon Bolton J. H. Jones Percy J. Bover E. G. Knapp E. Bracewelf John J. Knowlei E. G. Brewer D. Korolla Donald S. Brooks Leo H. Lang J. S. Capps A. Laiigevin „ WiUiam R. Carroll A. J. Laperouse William S. Cato Theodore E. Lee Jessie A. Clarke R. Lumpkin J. T. Collins Milton J. Mouton Jose A. Colls John T. Murray S. Cope Albert W. Nelson Adion Cox Kenvon Parks Rogelio Cruz Abram A; Sampson Robert G. Dewey J. Santiago Thomas L. Dugan Luther C. Seidle T. R. SUnley Henry Durney A. E. Swenson Edward J. Gillies J. D. Thomas Jack H. rieason J. F. Thornherg Paul Goodman Lohnie R. Tlckld Louis S. Crab •John H*<ne J. E. Ward Virgil E. Wilmottl Harry ^. Hankee Richard Worley C. M. .awklns A. J. WyzenskI John T. Hicks SAILORS SNUG HARBOR STATEN ISLAND, NY Joseph Koslusky USPHS HOSPITAL SEATTLE. WASH. Donald Gilbo M. E. Newman Alfred Johansen L. E. Twite USPHS HOSPITAL CHICAGO. ILL. Euitinio Melone SEASIDE GENERAL HOSPITAL LONG BEACH. CAL. Samuel J. Brooks LONG BEACH NAVAL HOSPITAL LONG BEACH, CAL. WUIiam J. Turk FIRLAND SANITORIUM SEATTLE, WASH. Emil Austad USPHS HOSPITAL FORT STANTON, NM Bruno Barlhel i USPHS HOSPITAL DETROIT. MICH. Tim Burke Harry J. Cronln BEEKMAN HOSPITAL NEW YORK, NY Jens^Grangaard First Born In Spotlight 4 Sue Ann Worsley, born August 1, 1953. Parents, Mr. and Mrs. Jo­ prother McCarthy joined the Union seph W. Worsley, 170 Harrison in New York in 1951..He is sur­ Court, Biloxi, Miss. vived by his wife, Theresa R. Mc­ 4 4 4 Carthy, 173 Elrtiwbod Avenue, Larry Ellorln, born August 2; Selden, Long Island, NY. . 1953. Parents, Mr. and Mrs. Lazaro Ellorin, 101 St. Marks Place, 4 • • 4' • '4 • Eimer J, Blanes, 59: On March Brooklyn, NY. 6, 1953, Brother Blanes died 4 4 ^ aboard the Amersea of a heart at­ William Allen Lupton, born Au­ tack and was buried at sea. HUt es­ gust 5^1953. Parents: Mr., and Mrs. tate is administered .by, Minnie Joseph - G. Lupton,. 6106 Herbert Belle Blanes. St., Norfolk, Va. Christopher Alaric Bamberger looks quite pleased with the whole thing after bis parents, Mr. and Mrs. Edward' W.. Bamberger re* ceived the SIU maternity benefit. ^ ' �• .*i.-' : r;-;.r,; '..--i , . • -^ SEAFARERS Ancust 21, »53 LOG Vacation SS in Hospital SEEDT THE SEAFARERS I With WALTER SIEKMANN Jmm INews about men in the hospitals and Seafarers receiving SW Wel­ fare Benefits will be carried in this column. It is written by Seafarer Walter Siekmann based on items of interest turned up while he makes his rounds in his. post as Director of Welfare Services.) The great state of .Texas has got one of its boosters in New York right now. Brother Chuck ColUns from the Lone Star state is laid up in the Staten Island hospital with a bum ankle. Collins was on the Afoundria (Waterman) his last trijp, and had to go into the Naval hospital in Jacksonville, FloridaX for treatment. We made arrangements to have him transferred up here to Staten Island where he's resting comfortably now. Brother Richard Weir has been having some trou­ ble with his ulcers again. He'd gotten out of the hospital some time back, but they started acting up on him again. He's back in there for treatment to see if he can't get his condition under control. e.n,nu.n We have two men off the same ship, the Schuyler aampson Bland, hospitalized at the same time, Juan Leiba, the chief cook, and Jabez Sampson. Sampson asked us to locate his gear that he left behind him on the ship. He had left instructions for one of the brothers to take it off for him, but it appears that the brother left the ship and left the gear behind. We're running .the stuff down for him now. Flew Back to States Frederick Bnford is recuperating nicely after getting oft his ship In Japan. He had just been flown back to the States, and we arranged for him to get a $100 draw from the company so as to have some cash handy. Then he was driven down to the Staten Island ferry where he could go right over to the hospital. His gear is checked into the €IU baggage room, so everything is settled on that score. Some of the other brothers who are in drydock now getting back into shape include Stanley Lesko, off the Queenston Heights, and Robert Miller, whose last ship was the Heywpod Broun. Lock King, who came into New York on the Steel Artisan, had to be taken off the ship and sent into the hospital. t 4" We've had one or two instances recently of men Hing getting hurt because they tried to handle a- job by themselves that would normally call for two or three men. This is a pretty foolish and risky thing to do. If there's not enough men around to handle the job, and it isn't an emergency that has to be taken care of right away, it's only sensible to make every effort to get a full gang on the job. Otherwise, by doing it yourself, you're looking for a mess of trouble. Of course it's the responsibility of the officers to see to it that there's enough men assigned to a job, and the company is liable accordingly. But it's a whole lot better to be in one piece in the first place and avoid the discomfort of being hurt on the ship and then maybe losing a couple of months of shipping to the bargain while you're recovering from the accident. Seafarer Jesus Rodriguez, who was laid up at the Staten Island USPHS Hospital, receives his vacation money from Welfare Services representative. A1 Thompson. Pick Vp'Shot' Card At Payott Seafarers who have taken the series of inoculations re­ quired for certain foreign voy­ ages are reminded to be sure to pick up their inoculation cards from the captain or the purser when they pay oft at the end of a voyage. The card should be picked up by the Seafarer and held so that it can be presented when signing on for another voyage where the "shots" are required. The inoculation card is your only proof of hav­ ing taken the required shots. Those men who forget to pick up their inoculation, card when they pay oft n^ay find that they are required to take all the "shots' again when they want to sign on ' for another such voyage. Spring Seafarer From Arab Jail Prompt action by Welfare Services in cooperation with the SIU's Washington office was successful in releasing a Seafarer from a Sludi Arabian jail cell. The Union's interven­ tion in this unusual situation may have saved the Seafarer from serious illness or possibly death. As is well known to Seafar­ the nose, besides behaving in a contacted, and Assistant Secretaryers on the Persian Guff run, manner that seriously offended the Treasurer Bob Matthews who is in that area is just about the hottest religious feelings of the local popu­ charge there took the matter up and driest section of the world. lace, who are the most orthodox with the US State Department. Deaths from heat prostration are Moslems in the world. As a result, Saudi Arabian representatives in not uncommon. The Seafarer in the local police picked him up and this country and at home were ap­ proached on the problem with the question was imprisoned in a small, carted him off to jail. poorly-ventilated local lock-up and While his behavior might have result that they agreed to order got scanty supplies of water and been considered acceptable in the JSeafarer's release even though food only at the discretion of the Western eyes, it was regarded as he had been 100 percent wTong in local jailor. insulting by the local residents the situation. Only the fact that he was able wha have different standards than Consequently he was let go and to get a cable off to headquarters ours, and by their lights, they placed on a homeward bound ship, somehow kept him from serving a were fully justified in imprisoning a little shaken by his experience long stretch. As it was, his youth him. but other^vise in good physical and good physical condition kept When the Seafarers's ^frantic shape after his ordeal. him in good shape through the ten cable was received in headquarters, However, they indicated that days of his imprisonment. Had he Welfare Services got in touch with future breaches of the peace by been compelled to stay in the lock­ the Isthmian company agent in crewmembers in their ports would up rqpch longer in the blazing sum­ Saudi Arabia and the American not be dealt with lightly but that mer heat, there's no telling what consulate there. It found that guilty parties would have to pay might have happened. there was no question of the Sea­ the full penalty under Saudi Ara­ farer's guilt in the situation, so bian law. In such circumstances, Attacked Arab Longshoreman The whole incident arose when that the only thing that could be the SIU would be unable to help the Seafarer in question got into done was to appeal to higher the individuals involved. an argument with an Arabian Saudi Arabian authorities to par­ The whole incident points up the longshore boss. The Seafarer lost don the prisoner. value of getting in touch with Weir The SIU Washington office was fare Services in case of trouble his head and punched the Arab in over seas. While the Seafarer in question was so foolish as to get himself in trouble, he had the sense to contact his Union to get him out of his fix. At the same time it emphasizes the need to live up to local rules and regulations while ashore in When death occurs m a family its an upsetting experience Saudi Arabia. The government and that takes quite a bit out of the survivors. On top of that, people there are sensitive. about the family has to be concerned about making funeral arrange­ their religious obligations and local laws. Those who offend these sensi­ ments and paying funeral-*" costs. Several families of Sea­ the $2,500 death benefit. The bal­ bilities or violate the laws are lia­ farers faced with this situation ance of the benefit was turned over ble to run into serious difficulties. have been assisted by Welfare to Mrs. Hyams. Services in handling all the nec­ essary details. They've found that this way they are assured of the proper kind of funeral ceremony which places no pressure on them to make arrangements. A case like this arose recently with the death of Seafarer -Simon Goldstein. He had been 111 for some time, and had instructed his sister, Mrs. Ethel Hyams, to get in touch with the Union in the ev^nt of his death. * Upset At News When he passed away, the sister notified Welfare Services. The family was quite upset at the news and were confused and uncertain about the funeral arrangements. Furthermore they had found that they would have to lay out cash on the line to pay for the funeral expenses. Consequently they turned the whole matter over to Welfare Serv­ ices. Welfare Services arranged Mn. Ethel Hyams reads letter from Union about her late brother, for a chapel, and undertaker, the Simon Goldstein, while SIU Welfare Services representative Miitoa flowers and all the other incidentid items* aiid paid the costs" out of •'/Flynn''loolci-on.'•• Funeral Arranged In Proper Style By Welfare Services .-i v.t tif' .aj,' • V- '' (I �>'j C. " : •- OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE SEAFARERS INTERNATIONAL UNION • ATLANTIC AND OULF DISTRICT •^AFL • , • -' -* -i ..-.• • ,- ^ .• •rx-h -L -j. i,: ¥^ii, , M-- .-"V. • '4iH' i: t Hi' s It- : IS • £:'-''v»•>!•-.; i'\ ••:: ;j .•ri-''f '••• h: '' ' -il: -\*^3 , "!.i; "i'H: -x' I?'". Seamen hove long hod the reputoHon of toking core of their own problems ond diffi­ culties without turning to the outside for help. Thot trodition still goes for members of the SlU, through their Union;r The SlU hos mode speciol provision, under its Welfore Plan, to toke core of those Seofdrers, young or old, who comno longer soil becouse ijlness or injury hos permonently robbed them of their ability to work. t I fe" In yeors gone by, o seomon in this fix would hove been dependent for survivol on the uncertoin mercies of Government ond privote chorities. He would foce a dreory future without hope ond without dignity. - Todoy, the permonently disobled Seoforer who meets the guolificotions of the Wel­ fore Plon con look forword to o lifetime of security in the SlU. He is ossured of regulor benefits of $25 eoch week, yeor in ond yeor out with no strings ottoched. He is free to come ond go os he pleoses insteod of being tied to on institution. V • V 'l" V • •I ^ - -jM The SlU disobiiity benefit, like the SlU controct, SlU representotion ond other SlU welfore benefits oil odd up to one thing—greoter security for the Seoforer on ship or oshore. It's further proof that the SlU takes core of its own. . •v ^;• Mi-y • > Kj ,v>' •! v.. -• :v, Vv.- • ' . t,' '.J.. ' V .* . 'v if "'1 :^l.':ij -v.I � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Seafarers Log Issues 1950-1959 Description An account of the resource Volumes XII-XXI of the Seafarers Log Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Paul Hall Maritime Library Microfilm 1939-1993 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Seafarers International Union of North America Document A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource August 21, 1953 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Seafarers Log Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Paul Hall Maritime Library Microfilm 1939-1993 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Newsprint Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Vol. XV, No. 17 Description An account of the resource Headlines: NEW BASIC SHIPPING LAW SEEN LIKELY: SEN. POTTER SIU SHIP CARRIES 1ST KOREA RELIEF AFL COUNCIL SUSPENDS LONGSHOREMEN'S UNION NEW TANKSHIP CO. DEFIES SIU; TAMED BY SOLID TIE-UP STAGE SET FOR NEW PACT TALKS READER'S DIGEST LAUDS SIU ATLANTIC SIU MEN VOTED UNION WELFARE COVERAGE NEW HALL TAKES SHAPE ARMY FINES SIU MAN $150 FOR TARDINESS US CHARGES ALIENS OWN 2 SIU SHIPS CORNHUSKER CUT IN TWO, STERN SAVED SIU IN GULF HITS CP VIA RADIO SHOW ZIELINSKI KILLED BY CAR, WAS ON DISABILITY PORTS DISTRIBUTE SIU LIBRARIES ODDS STACKED, CAR UNION SAYS FUTURE MD AIDED BY SCHOLARSHIP CAPTAIN ALL FOR UNION'S SLOPCHEST SIU-SUP MEN TEAM UP ON NOVEL MSA HAS STUCK TO 50-50 CARGO LAW, SAYS REPORT THE SALES TAX DRIVE ARMY VERSUS SEAMEN SEA CHEST SUCCESS SEAFARERS TRAVEL LOG BATTLE FOR CREWMAN'S LIFE PROVES FRUITLESS LAKES SIU SEEKS VOTE FOR 5 CAR FERRY CREWS US REPORTS DIVIDEND $ UP IN '53 ORIENTAL SLEUTHS CRACK AMERSEA SAFE AS CREW DRAWS ONLY BREATH KETCH CAUGHT FAR AT SEA ADDS ADVENTURE TO LONG VOYAGE HOME LANGUID LEGUMES NOT LUSCIOUS, SAYS BROTHER HOLYSTAR CAPTAIN AND MATE TREAT SEAFARERS TO OLD-TIME SHIPPING SUNTAN OIL STIRS TEMPEST IN GOVT. CAMP COFFEE CUP MUSEUM HOLDS SOME REMINDERS OF 'FRISCO'S OLD SHIPPING GLORY ALL THE WORLD LOVES A LOVER MORTICIANS INFLATE BURIAL COST SPRING SEAFARER FROM ARAB JAIL FUNERAL ARRANGED IN PROPER STYLE BY WELFARE SERVICES Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 8/21/1953 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Seafarers International Union of North America 1953 Periodicals Seafarers Log