http://seafarerslog.org/archives/files/original/a9fba33bb08f36e3e0b3a522ad19a573.PDF 6435ee97c1503e61977f8683ca58cf7c PDF Text Text ' , -'•; SEAFARERS UKS * OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE SEAFARERS INTERNATIONAL UNION « ATLANTIC AND GULF DISTRICT > AFL « "li NUtB VOTE BEGINS IN ATUimC FLEET -Story On Page 3 Back Lundeberg Conference Bid -Story On Page 3 Vf t/.' I ' W> f.'''it" fe'" a Happy Day E. J. Henry, an Atlantic Refining tanker, as they learn that the NLRB vote is be­ ginning. The same joy was shown throughout the fleet as the crews got the news of the coming vote. Present plans call for all ships to be voted in Atlantic Coast ports. The men in the fleet look forward to a speedy SIU victory. (Story on Page 3.) ' ;l i -.a .'I YM il ' '1 I il m '•••s.'S HI �4^;. SEAFARERS Fa«e Two LOG , ' : .Oetofeer SO, t95S AFL Dock Gains Mount; NLRB Sets Vote Hearing With hundreds of longshoremen deserting the ILA outfit every day, the new ,\FL-ILA continues to make steady progress on the docks. As pledge cards continued to pour in and more locals joined the new A "•L union, the National Labor Relations Board took preliminary steps to hold a port-wide representation election for for longshoremen, calling for for­ way from organizing the new AFL union to represent them. New York longshoremen. The mal hearings on the question. US District Court also took action It is expected that the NLRB May Extend Ban to protect longshoremen against will begin these formal hearings The original injunction issued is Intimidation by Tony Anastasia on the petition within the next a temporary injunction. However, and his lieutenants. 10 days. At these hearings, the the US District Court will begin Events continued to happen in discredited ILA, the shippers and hearings Monday on whether it rapid-fire order in the five-week- the AFL-ILA will have an oppor­ should extend the injunction. old drive by the new AFL long­ tunity to be heard. NLRB will The ranks of the new AFL imion shoremen's union, which has the then determine who will be eligi­ continued to swell as two more solid backing of the SIU and the ble to vote, who will be on the ILA locals swung over to the new Teamsters. The NLRB moved ballot and other technical details AFL-ILA. Local 968, comprised of rapidly on the new AFL-ILA's pe­ before the date is set for the vote. about 800 general longshoremen tition for a representation election In another phase of the organ­ working in New York Harbor, and izing drive, the NLRB early last Local 1398, which takes in all week issued a complaint again.st longshoremen and terminal wortcAnastasia and the old ILA a.«s a ers in Bridgeport, New Haven and result of charges of intimidation vicinity, have both voted to Join filed by the new AFL-ILA. As a the new AFL longshoremen's result the US District Court issued union. Hundreds of pledge cards an injunction against Anastasia poured in every day from indi­ and the mob to prevent any fur­ vidual longshoremen all over the ther attempts to intimidate or port. threaten the men. The AFL-ILA also filed unfair The injunction prohibits Anas­ labor practice charges with the tasia and the mob from preventing NLRB against the New York Ship­ longshoremen from going to work, ping Association, as the old ILA The SlU-manned passenger ship from threatening any longshore­ and the shippers resumed their Yarmouth is going south for the man with loss of his job, from contract negotiations. The new winter, and according to present | threatening any longshoreman with AFL longshoremen's union sent a plans, will remain in operation loss of welfare or pension rights, telegram to the shippers telling through the winter months. The from checking the books of men them that if the shippers want to vessel, owned by the Eastern reporting for work, from making negotiate a contract for longshore­ Steamship Company is being bare­ men work in separate gangs or men, it should begin negotiations boat chartered to the SIU- separating men from the rest, with the new AFL-ILA. An AFL-ILA spokesman stated, Longshoremen get the news In flielr own newspaper as, top, AFLcontracted P&O Steamship Com­ from threatening to shut down any 'We are not going to let the old ILA organisers prepare to distribute The New York Longshoremap shipping line or stevedoring firm pany. to dock workers. A group of longshoremen, bottom, catch up on The vessel is expected to leave because it employs AFL longshore­ ILA mob 'negotiate' any more the waterfront news and the AFL campaign to organize a decent Boston at Christmas to make the men, and also prohibits them from sell-outs. The longshoremen have Longshore union. (Continued on page 17) trip south. She'll stop off in New hindering longshoremen in any York on the way down, and will then begin her operating schedule out of Miami on January 25. She will make regular weekly cruises between Miami, Haiti and Jamaica. The company said that the cruise schedule is designed to "meet the wishes of the many people who With a host of shipping companies under contract, a large and militant membership and almost $6 million desire short winter cruises." The planned schedule calls for in assets, including welfare reserves, the SIU A&G District celebrates its 15th birthday Sunday, in the 15 departures from Miami at 5 PM years since the Union started in operation with literally a few pennies in the treasury and rented offices, the every Thursday. The vessel will _ visit Haiti and Jamaica and then SIU has made amazing forward strides. return to Miami at noon the fol­ Most noteworthy during tions, increases in pay and over­ Union's organizing machinery has Four Seafarers' children were lowing Thursday. The vessel will carry a crew of about 150, and in the past year, has been time. In addition, during the past been in fuU-swing. Sieveral new awarded the first $6,000 college addition to carrying passengers, the winning of completely year the Seafarers' Sea Chest, as companies have been signed, and scholarships under the new Sea­ will also have accommodations for the answer to a long-standing prob­ great progress has been made in farers' Scholarship Plan. In addi­ rewritten standard freighter and lem of seamen, began supplying organizing the men in the Atlantic tion, the 9,000-member Marinp automobiles. tanker contracts, with greatly im­ the ships with slopchests of qual­ Refining Company fleet, with an Firemen, Oilers and Watertenders Union of the Pacific voted to af­ proved working rules and condi­ ity merchandise at low prices. The election now under way. filiate with the SIU. The SIU has also been asked by the AFL to take a leading role in helping the new Oct. 30. 1953 Vol. XV. No. 22 AFL longshoremen's union get or­ As 1 See It Page 4 ganized, and the Union led the suc­ Committees At Work Page 6 cessful fight to save the Savannah Crossword Puzzle Page 12 and Detroit USPHS hospitals, and Editorial Page 13 is now leading the fight to save Foc'sie Fotographer Page 19 USPHS medical service for sea­ Galley Gleanings Page 20 men. Inquiring Seafarer Page 12 Officially, the actual birthday of In The Wake Page 12 the SIU was October 15, 1938, Labor Round-Up Page 13 when the AFL convention issued Letters Pages 21, 22 an international union charter to Maritime Page 16 Harry Lundeberg, secretary-treas­ Meet The Seafarer Page 12 urer of the Sailors Union of the On The Job Page 16 Pacific, which had been operating Personals Page 25 independently. Then, the SUP be­ Quiz >. .Page 19 came the West Coast district of the Seafarers In Action Page 16 new international, and the A&G Ships' Minutes Pages 24, 25 District was started with members SIU History Cartoon Page 9 who transferred from the AFL Sea­ Sports Line Page 20 men's Union, a group which had Ten Years Ago Page 12 been operating under a Federal Top Of The News Page 7 local labor union charter, affiliated Union Talk Page 9 directly with AFL headquarters. Wash. News Lellef Page 6 It wasn't untU November 1,1938, Welfare Benefits ....Pages 26, 27 however, that the A&G District Welfare Report Page 8 actually started functioning. At ' Your Constitution Page 5 that time, the odds were stacked Your Dollar's Worth Page 7 50 to 1 against the new Union. The shipowners were determined' to i>ubiun*d biwtaleiy at haadquarter* •f »ha Saafareri intarnaflenal Union. At­ smash it before it got .started. The lantic a. Gulf Oistrict, APL, «75 Fourth Eager Seafarers mill around him as the dispatcher calls out tlfe Jobs from a shate shipping board in the powerful waterfront apparatus of Avanua. Bredfciyn 12, NY. Tal. ITtriing ••4471. Entarad ac saeond ciatf mattar old Sni hiring hall on Stone Street, WiUi Uie hid| and trappings changed,.the Union employs the same the Communist Party, which . kad at tha past Oftica In BrpMyn,. NY, ^undar tha'Acf af ^ system that tt did in the old days, .ot f rciipa (€OitUnUed oUCVggeirit>7<)//.':*d Yarmouth Heads Soirth For Winter SIU Celebrates 15th Year SEAFARERS LOG ..Wij �October sir, ISSS SEAFARERS LOG Paee Thre* Atlantic Fleet Voting Begins Solid SlU Majority Seen In 23-Ship Tanker Fleet With every prospect of an SIU victory, Atlantic tankermen have begun vot­ ing in the long-awaited National Labor Relations Board election. The 14-monthsold organizing driye by the SIU came to a climax last week when the Labor Board issued a long-awaited order for an immediate election in the fleet. As soon as the order was issued after three months of waiting, the Lahor Board moved speedily to get the voting underway. The first ship voted was the Atlantic Trave'er, which balloted today in Stapleton, Staten Island. Other ships will vote as soon as they come -finto the balloting area. For purposes of the ballot­ quarters, the Anchorage, will be The Armed Forces members, ing, the NLRB will vote the voted next Tuesday. Three ships tankermen who have been drafted out foreign will be voted as soon as or enlisted in service, can vote on the grounds that they are still on they return to the States. the company's payroil. The com­ Typical of the ships whose crewmen are voting In the NLRB repre­ Could End in Month pany pays a small sum to each of sentation election Is .the Atlantic Navigator, one of three super­ With the rapid fire voting of the its employees who .go into service. tankers operated by the Atlantic Refining Company in its 23-ship ships, it is possible that the voting In order to vote, however, the men fleet. Voting began this week. could be completed within a in the Armed Forces will have to month. That, of course, depends appear at one of the polling place.s, when the ships on foreign articles either at the Anchorage when it is get into port. voted, or on the ships themselves. A total of 975 men are eligible to Those men who were fired by vote, including 70 men now in the the company and have unfair labor Armed Forces, bosuns, shore gan.g charges pending against Atlantic men on vacation, and leadermen. will be permited to vote, although The Labor Board did not follow their votes will be challenged. the precedent set in the Cities Men Congratulated Service case as in that instance it The SIU A&G District has heartily endorsed a proposal by Harry Lundeberg, president did As soon as word of the election permit bosuns and stewards of the SIU North America ariS secretary-treasurer of the Sailors Union of the Pacific for a to benotpart of the voting unit. In the came in, the news was flashed to conference of all AFL and CIO maritime unions oh a variety of issues affecting seamen Atlantic election the bosuns will all the Atlantic ships congratulat­ and the maritime industry. be able to vote but the stewards ing the tankermen on their, longThe proposal for a confer­ at this time to bring the maritime of all American seamen. Accord­ will not on the grounds that they sought opportunity. "You hava (Continued on page 17) ence was described by SIU unions closer together in their pro­ ingly, the A&G District will notify are the heads of their department. Lundeberg that it would partici­ Secretary-Treasurer Paul Hall as grams and policies." Word of the proposal was com­ pate in such a conference. "a timely suggestion in the best municated fo the SIU A&G Dis­ interests of all seamen. The A&G District holds thai co­ "We are happy," he added, "that trict from President Lundeberg, operative effort in the interests of the president of the SIU of North calling for action on several mat­ all seamen could lead to note­ America has taken the initiative ters affecting the jobs and welfare worthy accomplishments in their behalf. As an example, there was an exchange of correspondence earlier this year between Lunde­ berg and NMU President Joseph The Marine Fireman, Oilers, Watertenders and Wipers Curran on the subject of union wcl. Union of the Pacific has become an official member of the Sea­ fare and pension benefits. farers International Union of North America with the issuing The Lundeberg-Curran exchange of an SIU charter to the-*of information, along with the MFOW. the MFOW . . . that leadership in SUP's investigation and study in that union take care of their rankThe MFOW's membership Just seven months after it first started putting slopchests other areas enabled the SUP to get designated Vincent Malone, MFOW and-file very, very well on the a broad view of pension problems question of contracts. aboard ships in. New York harbor, the SIU Sea Chest has for seamen. Consequently, the pi-esident, to serve on the SIU moved into new office and warehouse facilities that make for SUP was able to establish the best Executive Board as an SIU vice- Late? in the convention. Hall more efficient operation and+ pension system in the maritime president. This SIU vice-presi­ stepped down from his position as feet of floor space available for industry. dency was left open for the MFOW an International vice-president, better service to the ships. Among items proposed as possi­ at the last SIU convention by Paul and declared that, "any second Further, the new Sea Chest storage and stock purposes. The new warehouse set-up in ble subjects for discussion are the Hall, SIU A&G District secretary- position we may have held on the headquarters in New York are but Executive Board be left open until one part of a string of similar fa­ the ports is a far cry from the attempts to close the US Public treasurer.The presentation of the charter affiliations that are now in ques­ cilities in major Atlantic and Gulf (Continued on page 17) (Continued on page 17) was made at the MFOW's head­ tion are finished." ports. quarters in San Francisco during Hall told the convention that As a result of this more exten­ a regular membership meeting. the A&G District wanted to give sive set-up, every SlU-contracted The charter was issued after the up one of its two vice-president company, with the exception of the 5,000-man MFOW held a 90-day, positions on the International so Ore and Calmar Lines, is taking secret ballet, union-wide referen­ that the MFOW could have a rep­ aboard Sea Chest-supplied slopdum on whether to affiliate, in resentative on the International chests on a competitive basis. And which membership voted 2 to 1 in Executive Board once they had af­ both crewmembers and shipowner favor of joining the SIU. The filiated. Stating that he was giving representatives have expressed presentation of the chhrter made up his post as vice-president, he their satisfaction with the prices the MFOW the 45th union to be­ declared, "Brother Chairman, the and services provided. come a part of the SIU. reason there has been no nomina­ Ample Storage tion by the A&G District at this Militant Representation The new Sea Chest headquarters, point is that this position on the Founded in 1883, the MFOW has located at 18th Street and 4th long had a reputation as a militant Executive Board should be held Avenue in Brooklyn, is a large and progressive union. At the last open in the event of affiliation by one story building containing SIU Convention, when the ques­ the MFOW, so they can designate 5,000 square feet of floor space, in tion of the possible MFOW affilia­ a man to fill this spot." addition to the offices of the Sea tion with the SIU was discussed. Chest corporation. Built out of Hall told the convention, ". . . we Sea Chest funds, it provides easy are very gratified that this much access to the waterfront, ample progress on the question of affilia­ storage space for a wide selection tion has been worked out , . . we of branded merchandise, and ra­ Regular membership meet­ say to our delegates, we will be pid-fire loading and unloading of ings in SIU headquarters and most fortunate if this affiliation supplies. at all branches are held every carries . . . and to the MFOW, we • Sea Chest trucks can be driven second Wednesday night at think you too will be most fortu­ • right into the warehouse building 7 PM. The schedule for the nate if this vote goes on the 'yea' to take on their supplies for the next few meetings is as follows: side." ships. The operation is far more November 4, November 18, Hall, in describing the MFOW efficient than curbside loading December 2. in his speech to the convention, with consequent saving of expense. stated, "... the MFOW is an antiIn the outports, warehouses are All Seafarers registered on Communist union . . . the MFOW Loaded with slop chest material for an SlU-manned ship, a Sea currently functioning in New Or­ the shipping list are required is an honest union ... there are no Chest delivery truck leaves the new warehouse-offices that serve leans, Mobile, and Baltimore, with to attend the meetings. rUcketeers and no racketeering in as New York headquarters for the Sea Chest. ^ '' between»>3,800(. and ithOOO square ships in any port they touch at north of Cape Hatteras. For practi­ cal purposes, that means most of the voting will. be done in and around Philadelphia. Men at Atlantic Refining's head- A&G Backs Lundeberg's Bid For Sea Union Conference Sea Chest Expansion Boon To Ship Service MFOW Gets Charter, Malone On SIU Board Meeting Xight Every 2 Weeks �.-'.r/r'-^iV'-^':-— " Pairi> .Four SEAFARERS Oetober M, 1953 LOG Largest Prop Is Delivered By Sea Route M1 See It The largest cargo ship propeller ever made in this country is goings to have to travel by sea—because It's too big to be delivered by truck. It was found that the pro­ peller is too big to travel by truck, as originally planned, between Bethlehem Steel Company's pro­ peller plant on Staten Island and its shipyard in Quincy, Mass. The 66,930-pound propeller, which has a diameter of 22ii feet, was originally scheduled to make the trip by truck. It was planned Liberty-type vessels, such as the John B. Kulukundus, would be to make the 300-mile trip in short converted into faster cargo ships capable of 15 to 18 knots, under daylight steps, with the aid of po­ a suggestion made to the Senate committee. lice all along the route. The size of the propeller would have meant that it would block at least two lanes of any road it travelled, and would thus need special permits and police cooperation. State Blocked Trip The propeller left Staten Island on the back of a huge trailer Liberty ships that could do 15 or 18 knots an hour and com­ truck, but never got past Secaucus, NJ, because the New York State pete with the best of post-war designs have been seriously Department of Highways told the proposed by Hugh Gallagher, president of the Propeller Club company it wouldn't permit the and veteran shipping man. heavy load to travel over New Furthermore, Gallagher's emment might experiment with York State roads. proposals are based on recom­ two or three ships out of the re­ The company then considered mendations made by prominent serve fleet aloBfi these lines and taking the huge screw to Connecti­ naval engineers and architects. see if the idea is workable in ac­ cut by barge, and then taking it The proposal calls for remodel­ tual practice. the rest of the way by truck, but ing the forward one-third of the He pointed out that if a rea­ this was abandoned because of the Liberty ship for speedier lines, and sonably-cheap reconversion pro­ large expense of transferring the providing new propulsion machin­ gram could be worked out for Lib­ large cargo to and from the barge ery capable of providing the neces­ ertys, it would be possible to sell and onto the truck. sary power. This would be much or charter them to American oper­ Instead, the propeller is going cheaper than scrapping the reserve ators who are reluctant to invest to have to hitch a ride as deck fleet of Libertys and building new the huge sums required to build cargo on a ship going up to Bos­ ships to replace them. brand new ships. Proposes Experiment ton, and will then travel by water Gallagher cited many other in­ to the shipyard. The propeller is Testifying before the Merchant stances in the past of successful destined for the largest cargo ship Marine Sub-Committee on Mari­ conversions by which old ships had ever built in the US, a 45,000-ton time Subsidies at the committee's been made over into serviceable tanker that is under construction recent San Francisco hearings, vessels. These conversions usually Gallagher suggested that the Gov- involved Installing new engines for World Tankers Co. and strengthening and altering hulls. According to engineers who have looked into the problem, the Lib­ erty's shell-plating, frames and deck edges on the forward third of the ship would have to be par­ tially removed and the length in­ creased by about 34 feet. New ma­ The fish down in Mobile Bay Fletcher, former vice-chairman of chinery would then have to be breathed a sigh of relief when two the Atlantic Maritime Employees installed to provide greater horse­ of the area's most avid Izaak Wal- Union, who dealt a body blow to power ratings. tons took time out to run the SIU that company - dominated outfit While conversion is going on, it Mobile port meeting. The chair when he switched to the SIU. would be possible to provide larger was capably handled by Dolphin Frank is 30 years old and a native and more comfortable crews* quar­ L. Parker, known affectionately to of South Carolina, although he now ters, additional 'tween deck space his friends as "Jughead.'' lives in Philadelphia. He's proud and more cargo gear. Parker, who usually sails as of his SIU book which he got in Aside from the commercial value bosun, likes to spend his spare New York last of such conversions, Gallagher time trolling for shrimp in his July. Frank points out that the Government little outboard runabout. He's been served as reading could establish a reserve fleet a member of the SIU since 1940, clerk at the meet­ capable of doing 15 knots or better joining in the port of Houston in in convoy during a war-time emer­ ing. May of that year. He's married and The other ex- gency, a very important factor in makes his home in Mobile. Atlantic tank;r- the success of emergency opera­ The other fisherman on the job man was Frank tions. In Mobile was L. C. (Connie) Bemotas, who Knowles. Connie was the recording also generally secretary at the Fletcher sails as bosun, Philadelphia S3Sbut right now he sion. Bemotas is a Pennsylvania is working on the native all the way, being born Under the Union constitu­ Alcoa shore gang. there in May, 1927. He got his SIU tion every member attending Knowles is a hook book in New York last March. a Union meeting is entitled to and line man nominate himself for the i 4" 4" himself when it Another Parker got in his licks elected posts to be filled at comes to chasing as meeting chairman in the tanker the meeting—chairman, read­ the finny crea­ port of Lake Charles, Louisiana. ing clerk and recording secre­ Knowles tures. This one was James H. Parker of tary. Your Union urges you The 36-year-old Seafarer, (he Georgia. He's been a union mem­ to take an active part in meet­ Just recently celebrated his birth­ ber for iy-L years, joining up in the ings by taking these posts of day) becaime a member of the port of New York, He sails on deck service. l^nion in Mobile on August 1.5, and calls Moultrie, Georgia, his And of course, all members 1943, He's married and has two home town. have the right to take the fiobr children, and lives in Crichtun, The recording secretary at the and express their opinions on Alabama. Lake Charles meeting was John any officer's report or issue Mitchell out of Houston, Texas. 4" t i under discussion. Seafarers A couple of former Atlantic Mitchell was bom in the Lone Star are urged to bit- the deck at Cankermen were chosen by their State 25 years ago and joined the these meetings and let their Union brothers in Philadelphia to Union in Galveston on October 24, shipmates .. know what's on help run the last meeting in that 1947. He sails in the engine detheir mind. , port One^ 0^^ Frank p^yrtipent, Suggest Gov't Program For 18-Knot Libertys Speak Your Mind At SIU Meetings THE FINAL STEP IN THE AFFILIATION OF THE MARINE Firemen, Oilers and Watertenders Union with the SIU of North America was taken out in San Francisco recently when the MFOW received its SIU charter. Your Union is certainly happy to welcome them into the SIU family. For some time now,'the MFOW had been operating as an independent union. But they realized after their experience, that it was tough to to go it alone, and that any union is better off when it has the backing and cooperation of other outfits in the same Industiy. Consequently after finding that they would be welcomed into the SIU of North America they asked their membership to vote on the question by secret ballot. The result was a solid pro-SIU vote. With the endorsement of the membership on the record, the MFOW has now completed all steps of the affiliation procedure and is a member of the SIU of North America with the same status as the A&G District, SUP, Canadian District or any one of the other autonom­ ous groups that makes up our international union. ' With the MFOW solidly lined up with us, both we on the Atlantic and Gulf Coast and oim brothers in the SUP know they can count on the support of over 5,000 men in the black gang on West Coast ships. That certainly can make quite a difference in any beef. But the advantages of hav­ ing the MFOW in the SIU works both ways. It helps the SIU and the MFOW. t t THIS SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 1, IS THE 15TH birthday of the SIU A&G District. It was 15 years ago, on November 1, 1938 that we in the SIU got our charter and were set up as a Union. There are still quite a iew brothers actively sail­ ing with our Union today who still remember how things were at that time. As has been pointed out many times^ none of those who were in that group expected that the SIU wOuld accom­ plish as much as it has in 15 years, or 50 for that matter. ' I \,Astonlsh^g Progresi That is, the most important fact about the history of our Union. The SIU has been able to make that kind of progress, whkh is astopislring by any standards, because of the kind of membership it has been; fble to attract and hold through the years. Many of the seamen— hard-working -militant and union-conscious men—who helped .fqliid this Union and see it through its earliest days, were lost to us dhrlhg the years of World War II. Still the SIU was the kind of a Union that was able to replace those severe losses, as new membership equally militant, came into the organization. But throughout the membership, whether new or old, your Union has found that there has been a willingness to go all out on any issue that affected the well-being of the Union. It is your Union's secret weapon. The reason the membership has been willing to make special efforts on behalf of the Union, is, we believe, the great degree of membership participation in all phases of Union activity which is encouraged at air times. As long as your Union rests on such a solid base, it can look forward to another 15 years that will be as successful as those that have gone before. 4" 4" 4) ' IT'S BEEN A FEW MGNTHS NOW THAT YOUR UNION HAS BEEN placing 50-book libraries aboard SlU-contracted ships. Apparently the idea has met with general satisfaction, judging from the response we have had up until now. Since Seafarers have had a good opportunity to observe the way the library service has worked, we would like to hear suggestions from them on ways that the service could be improved, if any. If there are any titles or types of books that are in demand. Head­ quarters would like to hear about them. Every effort will be made to get them-aboard for the satisfaction of the crewmembers. SEVERAL ITEMS HAVE APPEARED IN THE SEAFARERS LOG recently about men in the various US Public Health Service hospitals getting movie service and projectors donated by your Union. The latest hospital to receive this kind of service is the one in San Francisco, where all the patients will have an op|)ortunity for a little recrea­ tion and entertainment to pass away the days until they are fit to ship again. The SIU has always tried ,to see to it that the men in the hospitals are assured of the best possi­ ble service from their Union. This is the type of service that makes being sick a little easier to bear. And it certainly helps your Union in the minds of men from other Unions who benefit equally from extras like these. Certainly, these services have been most welcome both by the patients and the hospital staff who of necessity, -have to be concerned first with the medical condition pf the men. They find it difficult to provide recreation for the patients as well. Even when it comes to medical matters, your Union has been able to help out by providing blood donors for the Seafarers in any emer­ gency that may arise. Seafarers in the hospitals can always, be sure that their brothers will come forward not only for them, but for mem­ bers of their family as well, as has happened many times in the past - There have been many instances recorded where Seafarer-donors have filled the bill after all other sources of aid had been exhausted or had proved fruitless. Seafarers can be proud of the fact that quite a few lives may have been saved in the process. ' It^a .this kind of response on the part of the Seafarer that goes a long way inward explaining^W^y the SIU is so highly regarded both by-its �II .1 .1 ••"!!• .ui<:.^yri.»ip .ii^.i LI., ^ -; '-.v OeftMier 3«» 1»S3 " . PaCftVlT* SEArAREK9 LOG Senator Propdsns New MSTS Curb, Subsidies Unioii. Financial Commiftee Meets The Senate will hear recommendations for brand new ship­ ping legislation to curtail MSTS activities and to subsidize US coastal and intercoastal shipping, Senator Charles E. Pot­ ter, Republican of Michigan, has predicted. known cases of discrimination against American flag shipping." Potter, who is chairman of the special Senate sub-Committee GO Maritime Subsidies has been .traveling around the country with his committee, holding numerous ppblic hearings on the American merchant marine. There is only one more hearing planned,for New Orleans in December, but he said this may be cancelled. Widespread Complaint .Potter promised that he would personally recommend that MSTS be curtailed. He said that his com­ mittee has heard widespread compfaints about MSTS competition with private shipping, and said he will propose that MSTS be limited strictly to carrying only military cargo and personnel." Commenting on subsidies for coastal and intercoastal shipping. Potter said that his committee doubted whether such subsidies were possible, but Potter said that he. feels that construction subsidies for such operators are possible. "I think you will see, too," Pot­ ter said, "some constant prodding of the State Department to act on AFt Asks Curbs On TV Deception The AFL called upon the Fed­ eral Trade Commission to adopt trade practice rules designed to give the public greater protection against deception in ' purchasing radio ^and TV sets. The union took particular issue with dealers who sell second-hand sets under the names of "floor samples" and ""demonstrators," or described as "rebuilt" when it has not been completely dismantled and all de­ fective parts replaced. In addition, the AFL wants the consumer protected against mis­ leading claims that a black-andwhite sot is readily adaptable to color reception In all cases. The Senator also predicted that his committee would recommend lower Panama Canal tolls for American-flag intercoastal vessels as another method of helping this part of the maritime industry. The subcommittee, which also includes Senators Warren G. Magnuson, Democrat of Washington, and John M. Butler, Republican of Maryland, has been holding hearings on all coasts, hearing testimony and suggestions from various representatives of shipping companies, unions, ship repair men, shipbuilders, and ship chandlers. Panamanian Problem Among those testifying at the West Coast hearings was Harry Lundeberg, secretary-treasurer of the SUP, whd suggested subsidies for coastal and intercoastal ship­ ping, lower Panaman Canal tolls, allowing shippers to charter Gov­ ernment-owned ships at a token rate of $1 per year, allowing no Panamanian, Liberian of other run-away flag ships to carry Amer­ ican military or aid cargoes and forbidding any American built ves­ sels from transferring to foreign flags. Lundeberg also suggested that no form of Government aid should be given to companies which operate both American flag vessels and foreign flag ships. Liberty Conversion Senator Potter announced that his committee has been "im­ pressed" by a suggestion from the Propeller Club for conversion of Liberty ships. The suggestion was made that the Liberty ships could be converted, through some struc­ tural changes and the installation of. new engines into cargo carriers capable of making 18 or 19 knots. According to Potter, all these recommendations will be made at the next session of the Senate, and the Senator said that he expects Congress will act on many of the recommendations that are to be made. YOU aifif five «U coNfTiruriON From Article XIII, Section 6 "All reports by committees. and the Secretary-Treasurer under this article, except those of the Polls committees, shall be entered in the minutes of the port where headquarters is located. Polls Committee reports shall be en­ tered in the minutes of the Port where it functions." As porf of the permanent rCicord, headquarters, as well as the other ports, maintains complete reports of all committees and officials. On file in .headquarters and the SIU port offices ore records of all re­ ports made in fhe Unipn. fOUft KIOHTS ANO f>ft(Va.EGES;;AS ^ Sl« M£N ARE ^ OUAEANrEECj. SA; . YOOR COMSBTUnOti.' THiS' FfXi tyRE ts besiON^i TO: AcouASitT : TOO V/ITH. lyek ORlVllEOES The Slli quarterly financial committee is shown-here consulting with Union auditor A1 Siegel on Union financial records. Around the table, reading from left to right, are Maurice Whale, Edward Hansen, Alexander Dudde, Joseph Malone, James Lippihcott and Joseph Pilutis. The committee is elected by the headquarters membership. Scholarship Exams Nearing^ Can Apply For '54 Grant Now With the jaext SIU scholarship qualifying examination coming up on December 5, 1953, Seafarers applying for scholarships, or children of Seafarers, are urged to ge^ their appli­ cations in now for the 1954 scholarship awards. Four successful applicants will receive four-year scholarships worth-*$6,000 for study in any field at candidates is that they be under Professional Institute; Robert any recognized college and 35 years of age at the time of their Goodwin, son of Seafarer Eugene university in the US. application. It was the feeling of Goodwin, the University of Oregon Meanwhile, the trustees of the the trustees of the Welfare Plan Dental School; and Alma Iris Welfare Plan are keeping in close that the cut-off age was desirable Jimenez, daughter of Seafarer touch with the four winners of tho in order that scholarship winners Pedro Jimenez, attending the medi­ 1953 awards. Regular reports on be young enough to profitably -ap­ cal school of the University of their work are being received from ply their studies in later life. Puerto Rico. the schools they are attending, Since the Scholarship Plan is since one of the conditions of the administered by the SIU Welfare award is a requirement that the Report Lost winners maintain a satisfactory Plan, all applications should be mailed in to the Welfare Plan level of performance. Baggage Cheek office at ll Broadway. To date, the Three Years' Sea Time Seafarers who lose baggage Plan reports, a limited number of The basic qualification for Sea­ candidates have replied so there checks for gear checked at any farers or children of Seafarers is is plenty of opportunity for thoss; SIU baggage room should a record of three years' sea time who have not yet made their bid. ^notify that particular hall on SIU ships. In the case of the The time that the application is right away so that no ohe can children, of course, the sea time received or the test taken has no improperly claim the baggage record will be their father's. AiJ- bearing on the selection of the with that check. Headquarters plications for the scholarship have candidates. ' officials advise you to do this to be accompanied by a transcript immediately to avoid loss of Winning 1953 candidates and the of the applicant's high school rec­ your gear and/or trouble schools they are now attending are; ord to show that they finished Miss Elizabeth Lomas, daughter of, claiming it later on. Make in the upper third of their high Seafarer sure you notify the hall where Lomas, attending school class. Three letters of ref­ Barnard Arthur the baggage was checked as College, NY; Charlene erence, one from the high school Holden, daughter of Seafarer Stan­ soon as you find out you've principal and two others from resi­ lost the check dents of the applicant's home town ley Holden, attending Richmond must accompany each application. The letters should deal with the candidate's interests, activities and' personal'character and abilities. Every qualified candidate will take one of the standard Collegg Entrance Board examinations that PHILADELPHIA—Seafarers from the Philadelphia hall are given at regular intervals in hundreds of major cities and this week went aboard the fifth of the new Mariner-class towns throughout the United States vessels to be assigned to an SlU-contracted company. and its territories as weil as in The SIU crew took over the some foreign countries. The De­ Badger Mariner at the Sun comfortable and roomy crew's cember 5 examination is the next Most foc'sles have only one, but other exams will be com­ Shipyards, in preparation for quarterSr two men, while some foc'sles are taking her out on her first MSTS ing up on January 9, March 13, May 22 and August 11. Where the voyage, destination unannounced. provided for only one man. Each applicant lives more than 75 miles The vessel is one of the 35 Govern­ foc'sle has a private shower, or from a city in which the test is ment-built, post-war freighters that else shares a shower with the ad­ given, special arrangements will be are being built." The new, speedy joining foc'sle. Built-in - drawer made to give the examination at a ships which can make speeds "well and locker space, inner-spring mat­ nearby high school or college. All above" 20 knots, are the only cargo tresses, wash basins in each exams will be graded by the Edu­ ships that are building or are un­ foc'sle and roomy accommodations cational Testing Service which der construction for US registry, are found on each of the vessels. Last week. Seafarers in Boston conducts the College Entrance Ex­ and actually are the only new freight ships that have been built crewed up the new 29.000 super­ amination program. for US registry since the end of the tanker Orion Comet, which is the Performance Counts first of four such super-tankers or­ The winning candidates will be war. The Badger Mariner has been dered by the Colonial Steamship selected by a group of. college ad­ ministrators on the basis of their assigned to South Atlantic. Previ­ Company. Colonial also has ap­ performance on the college en­ ously, Seafarers have crewed up plications for six more super-tank­ trance board tests as well as on the Keystone Mariner (Waterman), ers now pending with the Govern­ their past records. Then they will the ill-fated Cornhusker Mariner ment. These six would be built be- free to enter a college or uni­ (Robin), the Magnolia Mariner under the construction subsidy versity of their choice and special­ (Mississippi), and the Hoosier provisions of the Long Range Ship^ ping Law that was passed at tjie Mariner (Isthmian). ize in any field of study. The large new freighters bbast 1952 session of Congress. -..A-Ttie only4in»Uation -based on the Badger Mariner Crews dp. Assigned To Union >11 r#; �^: t-.. •; 1 rsiasiiSEnSitryUins.'jj > x*err».*-AWg-*»tc.«g7J*l«wMfyat|if«i • ; - •»• •' III iJ.Mi"^'-'.' ."• •• '.'! Pac* Sfac SEAFARERS t-""-' Oetober S*, 195S lOa SIU NEWSLETTER from WASHINGTON r ' 1 I The Maritime Administration had hoped that a number of shipping lines In the foreign trade would.be willing to charter Mariner-type ships and thereby obtain necessary practical operating experience, leading even­ tually to purchase of the vessels. However, the fact that only one steamship line, the Pacific Far East Line, offered to charter Mariners, when bids were opened recently, leads to the conclusion that the American lines in the long-haul trades are holding off in the hope that the Government eventually will recommend to Congress a lowering of the purchase price, now esti­ mated at about $4,500,000 each. PFEL offered to charter three Mariners at a monthly rate of $32,757 per vesseL The same company already has agreed to purchase three Mariners. The bulk of American shipping lines' feel that the initial- capital outlay for purchase of Mariners is too much, but would like to see an atmosphere created where they could purchase them,. Failing this, the ship operators prefer to see the Mariners in the reserve fleet rather than going to MSTS because the cargoes they would carry for MSTS otherwise would go to private operators. t Extra high tides caused flooded streets and piers all along the coast. Here, Boston's famous "T-Wharf" is ^vered by water. Boats moored at the wharf float even with it, and a girl working in one of the business establishments on the wharf travels by boat. Other cities along the East Coast, especially New York, experienced sUni-'ar flooding, _ - East Coast Hit By High Tides Harbors along the East Coast were hit with abnormally high tides this past week, with the vessels berthed in New York Harbor riding up level with the piers. The moon was blamed for the whole thing. In the New Ybrk area, the was a full moon. This combination this was coupled with the full water rose up and flooded meant that the moon was in a di­ moon this year, the results was one of the highest tides seen in over many waterfront streets. It rect line between the Earth and a decade at most points. the Sun, and was exerting its was level with most piers and rose up above some. It was estimated greatest gravitational pull on the that the rise and fall of the tide sea." The moon, along with the in New York covered a range of gravitational pull of the Earth it­ 6.7 feet, far more than average. self, exerts the greatest single ir* Other cities along the East Coast fluence upon the tides of the were similarly affected by the high oceans. The result was that the sea rose tides. In Boston, where waters overran the piers, streets near the up over the coastline in many docks were flooded to knee level points all along the coast, flooding and higher, and small boats were street, stopping traffic and flooding brought into play in order to get the basements of homes near the coast. The Government has recovered around. Tide and weather experts ex­ The position of the moon, and about 63 percent of the operating plained that the moon was in peri- the resulting high tides occur only subsidies it paid to shipping com­ gee^ts nearest approach to the about twice a year, according to panies during the ^ast 14-year earth—and at the same time there the Hayden Planetarium, but since period, according to a statement by Rudolph Hecht, chairman of the board of the SlU-contracted Mississippi Shipping Company. r 1 1 Unlike other Government pro­ 1 grams, said Hecht, the subsidy 1 1 agreements in the shipping indus­ try call for repayment when the companies earn enough to do so. 1 1 "Sixty-three percent of all Govern­ 1ment operating payments for ter­ minated accounting periods Recently in the port of New heard the charges consisted of Ed ^through 1951 were recovered by York there were two membership Robinson, Stanley Schuyler, A. the Government," he said. At the same time, however, trials heard by the same committee Gonzales, A, H. Anderson and Hen­ Hecht denied that subsidized lines that had unusual twists to them. ry Herkenhelns. One of them dealt with the rarely- This same committee heard an­ pass wage increases to the Gov­ used charge of dual unionism. In other case dealing with a common ernment. Writing in an article in the other case, the trial was balked enough charge but ending in an the "Maritime Affairs," a bulletin because the accusers failed to unusual way. The accused Sea­ published by the subsidized shipfarer in question had been fired by p*ng companies, he declared: show up for the proceedings. The first instance dealt with an the steward on the grounds that "There is no other Government SIU member who had shipped he had left the ship on sailing aid program to industry," he said, through the NMU hall for three day without per­ "that contains this significant pay­ trips on an NMU contracted ves­ mission. The back feature. Consequently, when sel, staying on the ship for several steward, think­ shipping managements negotiate a months. While it's not unusual to ing that the man wage increase with a union, they find SIU men on ships ot other had quit the ship, do so with the knowledge that the unions and vice versa, these are called the hall company, not the Government, usually the result of getting emerfor a replace­ may have to pay all or part of any g e n c y replace­ ment, but when such increase." ments and are a the replacement one trip only arrived, the man proposition. had come back. Schuyler In this case, The net result th;.' fact that the of the hassle was a charge placed brother bad against the original man for quit­ A reminder from SIU shipped as a reg­ ting the ship without notice. He headquarters cautions all ular crew mem­ was notified in accordance with Seafarers leaving their ships ber iot" three the regular procedure and ap­ to contact the hall in ample Herkenhelns voyages appeared peared on the appointed date be­ time to allow the Union to fore the trial committee. to be a clear in­ dispatch a replacement. Fail­ dication that he was attempting to However, his accusers failed to ure to • give notice before holcT membership in a dual union. show up. And since nobody can paying off may cause a de- ' Accordingly, after all the evi­ be tried in the SIU. without having layed sailing, force the ship dence was presented, the trial the opportunity to confront his acto sail short of the manning committee recommended tiiat he, cusersr the case had to be dis­ requirements and needlessly be expelled from the SIU on the missed for lack of evidence. make ^eir work tougher for /Whether ; qr , wrong, you charge of aiding and ab^lhg dual your shipmates. x*. . .,'f " unionism,' The comtnlHIjj^ that have a chance to speak. US Recovers Over Half On Ship Subsidy siteOMMhTEES BAT WORK Quitting Ship? Notify Union Although the Bureau of the Budget'and the Public Health Service are studying the possibility of shutting down the free medical program for merchant seamen, medical and dental officers of the Public. Health Service will continue their program of furnishing professional services to enroUees of the US Maritime Service Training Stations and to cadetmidshipmen of the US Merchant Marine'Academy. In addition, no thought is being given to disturbing the arrangement whereby profes­ sional guidance and supervision is given the personnel assigned to emergency rooms at the eight Government Reserve Fleets. 4" 4" . t The program authorized by Congrem under which surplus US agri­ cultural commodities will be shipped abroad has proceeded at a slow . pace. The Mutual Security Act of 1953 provided for the purchase of up to $250 million worth of such commodities, to be resold overseas for foreign currencies. Shipment of these purchases will be subject to the 50 percent Ameri­ can-bottom shipping proviso. A check at the Foreign Operations Administration (formerly EGA) reveals that, although the program is^ not yet in full swing, foreign steamship lines already are actively tiying* to line up their part of the shipments in order to get their share of the business. It is anticipated that up to $130 million in the program wilj account for commodities to be shipped to Europe, with the renteining going. to other friendly nations. The program for any country will not become firm until the foreign government concerned has submitted a request for acquisition of US surplus commodities, and FOA has approved the program. These sub­ missions by foreign nations are expected to get into full swing ii^ the very near future. 4. ' Western Germany plans to reenter the North Atlantic passenger business with the acquisition of the SS Italia of the Home Lines and the SS Gripsholm, of the Swedish America Line. These two large passenger ships will be chartered by the Hamburg American/North German Lloyd Line in order to resume its North Atlantic passenger service via Halifax to New York. 4 t di For the year 1952 the marine transportation industry ranked 37th of 40 leading industries in the frequency of accidents. Therefore, the National Shipping Authority believes that its Safety Program has some­ thing to offer the shipping industry. NSA hopes that men who have sailed on NSA ships where the safety programs are in existence will help to establish the same procedures on ships where programs never existed before. In the first 3-month period of this year, 44 percent of the accidents on NSA ships occurred in the deck department, 35 percent in the en­ gine, and 21 perceht in the steward department. Of the accidents on NSA ships reported, 18 percent were the result of slips and falls, 14 percent improper handling of materials, 16 percent improper use of hand tools, 13 percent were in some manner connected with heavy weather conditions, and 28 percent caused by so many varied conditions, that they were grouped under the "miscel­ laneous" category. ^ t Although the US Government has lifted some of the restrictions on the building of foreign-flag ships in American yards, this comes a little late to be of great benefit to American shipbuilders. Lifting of the restrictions is like locking the bam after the horse is stolen, as the damage already has been done to the American yards, which could have obtained much of the work now being done abroad. All in all it appears that American shipyards wiU have to rely jpractically. solely on American flag operators or on the Federal Government for new ship construction orders. ' 4" 4" 4" . • The Department of Defense believes that the most useful merchant ship, from the military and commercial viewpoint, is one having the capacity and characteristics of the C-2 and 0-3. , In the matter of tankers, the Defense Department believes that the one most suitable for military purposes would be one of 25,000 DWT, capable of carrying several types, of petroleum products. Although tankers of larger DWT capacity can be .utilized to a liniited extent. Defense does not recommend that the entire replacement of existing tanker tonnage be confined to the "super-tankers" because their use^ in the majority of ports, would be limited by their size, draft and maneuverability. ' , • �October 3i, 1953 SEAFARERS LOG Pa«e Sevea Passenger Uses Grease Gun, Saves Hurt Seafarer's Life US BAPS ISRAELIS—^In a move calculated to ease tension In the middle east between Israel and her hostile Arab neighbors the State Department announced that it' would cut off all monetary aid to Israel until that country ceased its engineering operations in the Quick and ingenious action by a missionary doctor who operated on a Seafarer with a Jordan River area. Jordan, Syria and Lebanon have charged that grease gun is credited with saving the life of Seafarer James McGhee of the Steel Fabri­ Israel is attempting to divert the course of the river to her own cator (Isthmian). Doctor Charles Bisseli,, a Presbyterian missionary who was headed for benefit. The US had earlier condemned an attack upon Jordan civilians Thailand as a passenger, per-fby Israeli forces in an across the border raid. formed the emergency opera­ 4" 4" 4^ tion after McGhee injured PRO-RED POW RETURNING—Cpl. Edward S. Dickenson, an Amer- himself seriously in a shipboard " lean POW who had previously declined repatriation, foresook the fall. Communists and returned to American forces in Panmunjom last A Coast Guard rescue plane sent week. The erstwhile farmer from out to meet the vessel and pick up Big Stone Gap, Virginia, has been McGhee had a rough landing. The held captive by the Chinese for ship had to pick up the plane's the past two years. Asked his rea­ crew and the plane was abandoned. sons for returning Dickenson re­ However, the doctor and his wife plied, "I did not want to stay with nursed McGhee until the ship ar­ the Communists any more. I had rived in port. enough of their life." He declined McGhee is now in St. Luke's to comment on the remaining Hospital in Manila and is given a twenty-two Americans who still re­ better than 50-50 chance to re­ fuse repatriation and have stated cover. their intention of living in China. McGhee was working up on the American reaction to Dickenson aft part of the officers' deck, when was mixed. Several former cap­ he slipped and fell to the main deck tives of the Chinese were still —about 18 feet. On the way down, bitter about Dickenson and all the his head hit the wire rope on a "progressives." boom, and then hit the metal deck, Cp!. Edward S. Dickenson, 4 S- 4 POW, who stayed with Chinese, according to J. L. Gomez, ship's MORE GOP TROUBLE IN WIS­ has agrreed to be repatriated. ° delegate. CONSIN—A Republican candidate Gomez reports that McGhee be­ suffered a resounding defeat in Wisconsin's ninth Congressional district, where a Democrat was elected gan bleeding profusely from the for the first time in history. This obscure off-year election attracted nose and mouth, and received in­ national attention because observers regSrded it as a yardstick of juries to his body, arms and legs. farm vote opinion. Democrat Lester Johnson easily defeated Republican Crewmembers, along with Rev. Al­ Arthur Padrutt in a district that is 80 percent rural. This election ton Wallace and Rev. D. Taber, whs interpreted as a stinging rebuff to Agriculture Secretary Ezra says Gomez, formed a medical Taft Benson and the Republican farm policy and brought about de­ party at once. Dr. Bissell ex­ mands by both parties for Benson's immediate resignation. President amined McGhee and said he had a Eisenhower indicated his intention of sticking by the cabinet member. fractured skuli and extensive in­ ternal bleeding. 4 4 4There were only first-aid kits LABORITES HIT GUIANA POLICY—The British Labor party in­ available as medical equipment, so troduced an unsuccessful resolution of censure, denouncing Prime the doctor had to improvise. He Minister Churchill's government for sending troops to British Guiana saw that McGhee was choking an^ and suspending the colony's constitution. This announcement followed smothering because he couldn't a conference between Labor Party leader Clement Attlee and Dr. breathe through the blood filling Cheddi Jagan, deposed Guianese premier. At the same time the his mouth and throat. The doctor Laborites denounced some of the speeches and statements made by got a thin rubber tube, and put Jagan and members of his Peoples Progressive Party. that down McGhee's throat sb that Coast Guard rescue team (above) is shown on deck of Steel Fabri­ he could breathe through it. Then 4. 4 4 cator after they crashed at sea in attempted plane pick-up of Sea. BURKE SUCCEEDS TAFT—Cleveland's Mayor Thomas Burke was Dr. Bissell rigged another thin farer James McGhee. Lifeboat (below) put out with McGhee on named by Ohio Governor Frank Lausche to succeed the late Senator rubber tube to a grease gun. Us­ littler but had to return to ship when plane crashed. Robert A. Taft. The naming of Burke Indicated that Governor Lausche ing the grease gun, the doctor will seek another term as governor, rather than run for the Senate sucked out the blood as fast as it seat itself. The Burke appointment was immediately criticized by Taft clogged McGhee's throat, so that plane was sent out from nearby aboard. It had to turn around, but Sangley Point, Cavite in the the rough seas had started more Republicans on the grounds that the mayor is a Fair Deal Democrat. he could breathe. Philippines. "The entire crew kept internal bleeding in McGhee by At the same time. Dr. Bissell got Governor Lausche, meanwhile, keeps himself in the spotlight as a a tank of industrial oxygen, tubed praying and searching the sky for the time it got back to the ship, potential contender for the Democratic presidential nomination. it into a jar of water so that it the plane," says Gomez. When it and Dr. Bissell went back to work ATOM PLANT TO PRODUCE ELECTRICITY—The Atomic Energy bubbled up through the water so arrived, however, swells were run­ again with his "special surgical Commission has announced it will build several plants around the the water would filter and purify ning five and ten feet high. The tools." country to produce electrical energy for industrial and home use. It it a little, and then rigged a mask plane landed, but the landing was A second plane was sent to the will be the first peacetime utilization of atomic energy. At present, so that McGhee would be fed the so rough, the plane was damaged Fabricator, but by the time it ar­ and unable to take off. rived, Dr. Bissell said that McGhee though, all authorities concede it will be much more expensive to oxygen to breathe. But a boat had already left the was improving and shouldn't be produce electricity through an atomic power plant than by burning Meantime, the captain radioed for assistance and a Coast Guard ship for the plane with McGhee moved again in the small boat. • oil or coal YOUR SEAFARERS GUIDE TO BETTER BUYING ticians do take more care than others in preparing the prescription. But some of the price variation exists only Whether you are buying eyeglasses for yourself or your because optical shops that have expensive locations, spend family, you can get seriously nicked if you don't under­ a lot of money on advertising, sell glasses on the install­ stand the facts about how to buy them. In fact, wage- ment plan, or that have a low-volume high-profit policy, earners haive been subjected to overcharges on this item must charge more. so often, that unions themselves are now sponsoring opti­ You are certainly entitled to comparison-shop for eye­ cal-care centers in New York and Chicago, and in Phila­ glasses as you do for other goods. It's harder, of course, delphia, too, there is an eyeglass co-op (see below). because it's difficult to tell if you are getting first-quality For example, one working man reported he had paid lenses. But getting estimates on a prescription from $69 for eyeglasses on-the installment plan and then found several opticians will soon show whether anyone is far he couldn't wear them. He later found he could have out of line. gotten suitable glasses for only $28. Another man reports To make sure you are not getting inferior lenses, insist one optician charged him $58 for glasses, and subsequently that the optician specify first quality in his price estimate, another optician filled the same prescription for only and have him note it in writing on your bill. An un­ scrupulous optician may do that anyway, but he'll be more $29, using the same brand^of lenses. Why this great variation? Well, the more expensive reluctant about it. opticians claim they use only first-quality lenses and take You also ought to know that even in first-quality lenses more timie in fitting. Those who charge less assert-the there are two grades. One is called "toric" or simple high'-price shops go through an unnecessary ritual in fit­ lenses. In this type the outer edge is generally standard ting the glasses, and sometimes also kick back to the pre­ 'and only the inside ground to prescription. With the more expense corrected-curve lenses, the outer edges are scribing doctor. It is true that there is more than one grade of lense specially ground too. This provides additional assistance on the market, but the difference in the actual cost of for people with very defective vision, but may not be these is small and cannot account for the big difference necessary for less severe cases. If your doctor has pre­ in retail prices. . o' scribed corrected-curve lenses for you, have the optician, Part (9if>tlie qjttlte dltferenc« ^curs .1)Maus)e $6me op-. note that on your bill too. _ ,f Don't Get Bilked on Eyeglasses Written exclusively for THE SEAFARERS LOG. by Sidney Margolius, Leading Expert on Buying It's hard to tell whether an optician is kicking back to your eye physician, if you did go to an M.D. for your exam. But if a physician insists that you take his pre­ scription to just one particular optician, that's something to be cautious about. Be wary of being sold extra features which push up the cost of glasses excessively. Some opticians charge very high prices for decorative frames for women's glasses. As You Get Older As everyone reaches middle age, the ^focusing muscle of the eyes grow weaker, and some aid in reading is usually necessary even though there is nothing seriously wrong with the eyes. That's why many people buy socalled "reading glasses" in the five-and-ten for little dough. But even if reading glasses are all you need (and it's impossible for you to be certain cf it), you do yourself an injustice by buying them without an eye exam. Union, Co-op Centers Union and co-op sponsored eye-care centers which give examinations and make the glasses at reasonable charges include: ^, New York: Union Optical Plan, 152 Fourth Ave. and 39 West 32nd St. Chicago: Union Eye Care Center. 343 S. Dearborn St. Philadelphia: Consumer Services cSoperative (check phone book-for address). i �SEAFARERS Elsbt Mercy Plane Crashes, Seafarer, 3 Others Pie 1 s II I.-'ij MD Fee-Splits Found Common Fee-splitting doctors who recom­ mend operations their patients may not need, have come under fire in an article in Collier's called "Why Some Doctors Should Be In Jail." ^Less skillful surgeons, author Howard Whitman said, are most apt to kick back the greater part of their fees to general practition­ ers in referral cases. Operations On women and appendicitis cases provide the richest gravy for the unethical doctors. Whitman re­ ported after a nation-wide survey. Most prevalent cases were found in the mid-West, with less on the East and West coasts. Twenty-three states have laws against fee-splitting, with the American College of Surgeons and the American Medical Association condemning the practice. How­ ever, top medics feel that the law is as effective as Prohibition, with not a single prosecution taking place in any of the states. ir^I-' MEETYOOi^aOSHlP' MATBSAnnesiueom •k-, •- ' AV-THE UhllON HAIL 4TH4VEANP20Wsr. mSQook'LYN.SWAP YARAISAMDlVATO 7WEP/SHTSOMT/. WeW tow PRICES AMP Yar/2E ALWAYS WEIJCOMUMEREAT roUfZOWNPLACB. Ifev OWNEQAHDOPEUm) S^-m£SEAPAPBP& im.vNioN'Am-An. structions by them to do so." The captain didn't seiid the mes­ sage, the man said, and waited until Brody passed out and had to be carried into the hospital. "The captain then wired for medi­ cal advice," they say, "but by this time the man's legs were paralyzed and his breathing very labored." Got Aspirin After getting an answer, the captain gave Brody some aspirin and put sSme ice in his mouth to keep the throat clear for breath­ ing. Then the captain radioed Dahara Aii^Sea Rescue^Base, and the Army sent a seaplane to the ship. The plane arrived and Brody was transferred to the plane, via lifeboat. The plane then taxied around on the sea before taking off, and "the ship was standing by all this time," say the men. Thompson and Rustkay also report that, "The chief engineer was screaming all the while about all the steam and fuel that we were v/asting." The ship's searchlight was put on the plane, since it was fast getting dark, and then the plane started to take off "at about one and a half miles from our position, taking off across our bow," report Thompson and Rustkay. The plane crashed while taking off, but because of the darkness, "nohody knew exactly what hap­ pened. We heard a loud noise and then didn't hear the plane's en­ gines anymore." Wreckage In Water "It was 25 minutes later," they say, "that someone was heard hol­ lering in the water. Only then did the captain order two lifeboats over the side as the ship moved 'slow ahead.' We found what we expected. Wreckage was strewn all over the water. The boats picked up four survivors who were kept afloat by their life jackets." The men report, however, that "it is a known fact that at least one more of the men was alive after the crash. We searched all night and part of the next day with two lifeboats. The chief mate and second mate stayed out in the boats all of this time with no re­ lief, but the crews were relieved and rotated so we got i break aboard ship before going out again." States' Jobless Funds Increase Ooiaber 89, If53 CASH BENEFITS The fight to save the life of a crewmember of the SIUmanned Stony Creek ended in failure when an Army rescue plane itself crashed in the Gulf of Oman with the loss of four lives. Seafarers aboard the vessel He asked the captain to wire a certain polio foundation in the Writing to the SEAFARERS States as he had been given in­ LOG, were highly critical of the captain's behavior both in treating the crewmemher and in undertak­ ing rescue operations' when the plane crashed. According to Seafarers J. R. Thompson and R. G. Rustkay, the tanker was on her regular shuttle run between the Persian Gulf and Japan and picked up Maurice Brody in Kuri as a replacement. After leaving the Singapore Straits, Brody complained to the captain, Thompson and Rustkay re­ port, ,>of being ill. "He told the captain," the Seafarers report, "thht he believed he had polio. He had polio once before, apd he said that he had the same symptoms. LOG 6 - 6 SEAFARERS WELFARE, VACATION PLANS ^' REPORT ON BENEFITS P^D No. Seafarers ReceWina Benefits this Period 1 Arerage Benefits Paid Each Seafarer 1 Total Benefits Paid this Period y^S\ 1 1 WELFARE, VACATION BENEFITS PAID THIS PERIOD K L las oa Hosnital Benefirs Death Benefits Disabilicv Benefits Msternitv Benefits Vacation Benefits Total t Xoo Oo 44/3337 • ' 1' / , WELFARE, VACATION BENEFITS PAID PREVIOUSLY oo Hosnital Benefits Paid Since Tulv 1. 1950 • Death Benefits Paid Since Tulv 1. 1950 * Disability Benefits Paid Since May 1. 1952 * Maternity Benefits Paid Since Aoril 1. 1952 * Vacation Benefits Paid Since Feb. 11. 1952 • Total 1 * Dste Benefits Be sen nofSn 49 f / ' XAStAe OO nioo luL la iu 3/ K - 1 li - WELFARE, VACATION FLAN ASSETS Cash on Hand _ . .. Vacation ..... Vacation US Goyernment Bonds (Welfare) Real Estate (Welfare) Other Assets — Training Shi|> (Welfare) TOTAL ASSETS S39 f/d 43 4s'4Ar3i 7 A //ibx's oo /t>g^ )n4 oo\ i<r7ioa^n i JO499O 7 A Commentt ' I^p to and including the date of this repoft only four applications have been made for the scholarship benefits for the year 1954-. The deadline for all applicants is Feb* 20f 1954* By that datOy all applications must be in and fully processed so that the applicants can sit for the last examination which will make them eligible for the scholarshijp benefits of 1954• Therefore, all applicants are requested to have their applications in the office of the administrator. Seafarers Welfare Plan, 11 Broadway, Room 1060, N.Y. N.Y* by January 1, 1954 to allow the office sufficient time for processing*^ / The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that state unemployment insurance funds hit nearly $9 bil­ lion on August 31 and the number of workers covered rose to more than 36 million. High levels' of employment and a corresponding drop in unemployment claims ac­ counted for the figures. BLS reported wide variations in the ability of states to meet un­ Submitted Ai Kett, Assistapt-Aolmintstrator ^ , employment claims, with 11 states able to pay from the reserve funds " i? benefits at present rates for the next 15 years, while the reserves of seven other states would run dry in less than five years. e • '• In any case BLS indicates that the funds ars sound, provided em- All these are yowrs without contributing a sin^e nickel on your part T-T Collecting SIU bene­ eloyment continues at jiresent high fits is easyi whether it's for hospital, birth, disability or death>-Y(Rr get first rate personal iBvelfc , . and, remember this �v;: :fi,^i'i;i ;^'?-SSr -TTTFW ^ -a aife i -it' iOflt^ SI. MSt SEAFARERS LOG - Fare Nint Collision On Tho $t. Lawrenco UNION TALK By KEITH TERPf Today marks the beginning of the end of the SIU campaign in Atlantic. With voting of the first ship in the fleet to be polled slated for a few hours from now. the Union's confidence in a full and complete victory in the election Is unbroken. Although the final tally in the balloting will not be known until after the last ship is polled around December 1, the outcome has appeared inevitably SIU for some months now. After checking and rechecking every available record of our con­ tacts withthese men and their record of SIU support; we are confident of victory by at least 2-1 margin, and some individual estimates go even higher than that. The SIU has behind it a record of achievement that talks best on the issues concerning unorganized seamen. That is why we were able to jgo into Atlantic in the first place; that is why we will win this drive as we have every other one in the past. This was no wishy-washy campaign. The issues were clear and we hit hard on every one of them. Nothing was hidden; we're not ashamed of the way the SIU operates. We have no reason to be. Our Union" has trail-blazed every major gain in US maritime for the past,15 years. Comes At Good Time Indeed, this is a memorable year for the coming SIU victory in Atlantic. The Union is commemorating its fifteenth birthday right now The Italian freighter Carta Maria G. is shown aground in the St. Lawrence River with a gaping hole and we can think of no better way to top off our record of past suc­ • in her side, after colliding with the-Norwegian vessel Stutgard. The Carta Maria G. was beached after cesses than with this one. the collision off Port Neuf, Quebec, but later was refloated.. News of the vote, which came down from Washington last week, swept through the fleet like wilt-ru-e. The tankermen had been eager for it for many weeks now and we can't say we blame them. They've been living under the thumb of a company that has abso­ lutely no concern over their rights and as little or less concern for their welfare. True, they've had. a "union," but what a "union!" An The United States has fallen to third in the world shipbuilding nations, dropping be­ attorney, a non-seaman who knows nothing of the problem of the men hind the rehabilitated shipyards of Germany, according to Lloyd's Register of Shipping, he's supposed to represent, calls the shots. The chairman and secretary world authority for the shipbuilding industry. of this illustrious outfit are "leadermen" In the company's anchorage Meeting in Pittsburgh^ Pa., in Philadelphia; on the company and the "union" payroll at the same leaders of the CIO Industrial land continued to hold first place since the second quarter. Ger­ time. Union of Marine -and Ship­ with 36.6 per" cent of the world's many had 153 ships under con­ Anchorage—^What Is It? And this anchorage—what is it? Men relieved from the ships await­ building Workers said that "not a output in the yards, totaling 316 struction late in September for a ing reassignment or, those coming back off vacation go in there to single order for a seagoing mer­ vessels of more than two million total of 651,527 tons, an increase of wgit on the company-paid shipping master's pleasure. He may tap them chant ship has been placed with gross tons7 an increase of 66,764 106,198. on the shoulder the same day or a month later to go on a ship. He an American shipyard this year says "foreign run" and they go foreign. He says "coastwise" and they and only one vessel will be gd coastwise. There's none of this business of picking your job and launched in 1955,". warning the na­ run the way you want to take them; that's that "phoney rotary shipping tion that it faces the grave danger of losing its force of skilled ship­ set-lip" the SIU has is their answer. .'Besides that, they don't just sit around in this anchorage—^"the builders and thereby endangering hotel" they call it—twiddling their thumbs. They're turned to in the ,the strength of its merchant ma­ morning and afternoon by these "leadermen" to shift stores, load the rine and its economy. AFL Boiler­ SAN FRANCISCO—Proposals for a new high-speed park­ ships, do sanitary work, work in the messh^ll, or what have you. More makers, Machinists and other way through the down town area may. lead to the razing of often than not, some of them wind up getting the call an hour before metal trades unions also have the three-year old Marine Firemen, Oilers and Watertenders a ship sails from here to sail with her—after they've been lugging warned of the dispersal of ship­ Union headquarters in m San-*-" yard manpower into other fields. stores aboard her for hours on end. parkway, it would mean that This is the type of operation we've campaigned against—so the job's Maritime observers feel it will be Francisco. The newest SIU-AFL af­ MFOW members would be left been made easier right there. We've proposed many changes in the difficult to entice these men back filiate which received its charter without a parking lot. There is to the shipyard. Atlantic marine operation where it affects the men on the ships and The lUMSW attacked the Navy's October 8 after S referendum vote some question too, just how the their livelihoods. One of these proposals—and the company is already officially on notice that we'll demand it in our first contract when the offshore procurement program in favor of SIU ties, maintains a parkway will be routed, which may election is over and won—is to replace the present shape-up method under which French, Italian and modern headquarters building at mean that a piece of the building of passing out jobs with a rotary hiring system the same as we use right Dutch shipyards are building ves­ 150 Broadway in San Francisco. would have to go along with it. If necessary, the MFOW could sels for the United States. At the Present plans for the new park­ in all our halls up and down the coast. Atlantic tankermen have seen hOw men ship out of SIU halls and end of the third quarter, Lloyd's way call for a 40-foot width to be sell the building and construct a they've. agreed—like everybody else who's honest enough to study reported, there were only 55 ships taken off the frontage of the new headquarters elsewhere in town. However, the beginning "of the way it works—^that this is the method they want for themselves. in various stages of construction MFOW property. While the MFOW has a large parkway construction is at least We can't blame them on that. They're in agreement with public and in US yards for a total of 564,822 Government leaders of all types who have seen our rotary hiring sys­ gross tons, a-decrease of 93,264 parking area outside of the build­ two years off so Marine Firemen ing that could be sacrificed to pro­ members will have their old home tem in operation and agree to a man that it's the fairest, most demo­ tons from the June 30 figure. Great Britain and Northern Ire­ vide the necessary footage for the for some time to come. cratic way of manning ships yet advised. Shipbuilding Still Declining •• MFOW Hall Threatened By Highway Construction Cartoon History Of The SIU Victory By Aoh Action s| il ?! No. 49 •y| A The SIU, once again, led the way by winning a $12.50 to $25 increase from Mississippi SS Co. imd signing a two-year contract. The NMU, which had been willing to settle for half that amouqt, immedi­ ately began screaming and begging for "parity" with ! k Si«S'l IS U The other SlU-contracted companies did not want to follow the Mississippi pattern, and used every dodge in the book. The crew on these ships re­ sorted to job action, however, and the companies soon.signed. It proved that sometimes there's no t »£ortdiwct"«ctloni • Just as important as the wage increases and twoyear contract, was the winning of a clause that pre­ vented the companies from reducing the manning scale during the contract's life. This insured a high job ratio, and was Important at a time when .ships were, rgoiog the :bon(^ard.- ^ -p �) SEAFARERS 106 P4ee Tea 30, 195S pojtr jRjsiHMirs......... •Y<.. . , -,.j - tions to a Trial Committee. Ad­ Wilrnington: herence to shipping ntles will pre­ vent any such situation from arising. WUllam HaU Asst. Seo.-Treas. Shipping for the past two weeks In the.past two weeks only one Shipping has been a lot better has been a little bit below the Boston: than just good in this port during ship in this area, the Arizpa (Wa­ usual standard, but still pretty recent weeks. We shipped over terman), signed on. There were good. We paid off 15 ships, signed 250 men in the last two days. How­ fifteen in-transits. on seven and had 17 ships Inever, don't let this be a complete In-transit ships were the Schuy­ transit. During the same period Indication of ,the situation, since ler Bland, Hastings, Lafayette, we had five ships go into layup Shipping in the land of the bean John B. Waterman, Raphael the boom was caused by several and four ships come out of Jdle and the cod is on the good side. Semmes and the Arizpa (Water­ status and take full crews. ships that were idle calling for crews. Now that they've gone, Ships paying off were the Del In addition to the good shipping man); Alamar, Portmar and Cal­ shipping should return to its reg­ Aires (Mississippi); Alexandra we are having a wonderful Indian mar (Calmar); Salem Maritime and ular level. Of course, the members (Carras); 'Kathryn, Beatrice and summer in this port which almost French Creek (Cities Service); have never had any trouble ship­ Bitaghamton Victory (Bull); Steel makes us forget that winter is on Captain N. B. Palmer (Dolphiq}; Omega (Omega Waterways); Tro­ ping out of Baltimore, and we ex­ Chemist and Hoosier Mariner its way. Ships paying off were the W. E. jan Trader (Trojan); Frederic C. pect we'll be able to take care of (Isthmian); Azalea City and Gate­ any members who want to ship out way City (Waterman); Val Chem Downing (State Fuel); Winter Hill Collins (Drytrans) and the Sea(Cities Service) garden (Pen. Navig.). of here. (Valentine Tankers); San Mateo and the QueensWe had a few routine beefs. Victory (Eastern); Lone Jack We paid off the Ines, Evelyn and ton Heights (Sea- Before the Arizpa signed on, we (Cities Service); Seatrain Louisi­ Mae (Bull); the Steel Apprentice, trade). Sign ons were forced to take a position ana (Seatrain); Robin Kettering Steel Executive and Steel Worker .included the Bar- against having the bonus written (Seas), and Republic (Trafalgar). (Isthmian); The b a ra Fritchie into the articles. With this set-up, Feltore, Steelore, Ships signing on were the (Liberty N a v.); if someone fouled up, he could be Oremar, Bethore, Hoosier Mariner (Isthmian); Greece t t Strath port logged for the bonus. We felt that Santore, Baltore Norfolk: Victory (South Atlantic); Del Aires (Strathmore); Or­ Wate-man, which is operating the and Marore (Mississippi); Wacosta (Waterman); ion Comet ship privately and paying the (Ore); the Alex­ Seavictor (Bournemouth); Amer(Orion); W. E. bonus, was looking for some way Canty andra (Carras); ocean (Blackchester), and BingDowning to recover part of It. When Water­ the Government hamton Victory (Bull). Queenston Heights and Winter man's ships are chartered by « Camp and ChiIn-transit vessels were the Iber­ Hill. In-transit ships were the Lo­ Government agency, the company wawa (Cities Shipping remains on the slow ville, La Salle, GSeway City and gans Fort (Cities Service); Antin­ doesn't care if the bonus isn't Service); the Antinous (Waterman); Seatrains Lassister bell In the Port of Norfolk, but ous, Gateway City and Chickasaw written into the articles because, Massmar and New Jersey, New York, Texas and (Waterman); Steel Apprentice in a complete crew was furnished for cases, the Government Marj'mar (Calmar), and the Bien­ Georgia (Seatrain); Alcoa Runner (Isthmian) and the Robin Ketter­ paysthose the bonus. We took our stand ' the Lawrence Victory (Mississippi) ville and Morning Light (Water­ and Alcoa Pointer (Alcoa); Robin ing (Seas). to protect the men against the man). which was laid up temporarily in Mowbray and Robin Doncaster The men from the Queenston company's scheme to recover Sign-ons this town. She is headed for the (Seas); Edith, Elizabeth and Heights reported that the hall in money. The sign-ons included: the Fair- Gulf and the Far East, along with Frances (Bull); Steel Worker (Isth­ Venezuela was very good and they We were represented at the port, Morning Light and Bienville the Southern Cities of Southern. mian), and Marymar (Calmar). were glad to see Bob Matthews, Central Labor Council meeting, at (Waterman); the Feltore, Oremar, Members Volunteer assistant secretary treasurer, down which the Council went on record Things are quiet on the ILA Baltore, Santore, Marore and front in this port. The longshore­ Ships which went into layup in­ there. Two boxes of the Sea Chest unanimously to support the AFLSteelore (Ore); the Mae, Ines and men In Hampton Roads, Va., can cluded the Golden City and Hurri­ liBrary books were taken to the ILA. Evelyn (Bull); the Government be expected to fall in line with Blood Donations cane of Waterman; Alexandra of marine hospital down there for Camp and Chiwawa (Cities Serv­ their New York locals when the Carras, and Eastern's San Mateo the use of the hospitalized melT. ice); the Massmar (Calmar), and At the local meeting eight broth­ pattern is definitely established. Victory. Coming out of layup On the beach at the moment, ers volunteered to donate blood for the Steel Apprentice (Isthmian). were the Greece Victory of South, enjoying the good weather before brother Eugene Plahn, who is In Crossing Bar The in-transits were: the AfounAtlantic, Waterman's Wacosta and shipping, are W. Canty, E. Bayne, the hospital. The eight are: Wm. dria, De Soto aSd Topa Tbpa (Wa­ Two local members shipped out Bull's Marina and Binghamton Vic­ D. Gabriel, D. Sheehan, D. Daly, Parks, Geo. Reese, Bjorn Gran- • terman); the Robin Locksley (Rob­ on their last voyage recently. tory. and F. Bums, who is waiting for berg. Herb Armfield, Phil Robin­ in); the Alcoa Pointer and Alcoa Conrad Jensen was taken off his I would like to thank the mem­ the • Yarmouth to come out of son, Wm. Williams, Edw. Reed, and Roamer (Alcoa); the Suzanne ship in Japan and died enroute to bership for its cooperation on the temporary lay-up and set sail on Tex Sorenseii. (Bull), and the Steel Chemist the hospital in Sasebo, from pneu­ ILA beef. We have needed quite her- winter cruise. (Isthmian). Also In the hospital is Percy' monia and complications. At his a bit of voluntary work to be per­ Some Atlantic men from the The new building is coming wife's request his body was em­ formed and the membership has Atlantic Importer were up visiting Harrelson, Among the old timers along very well, and promises to balmed and enclosed in a glass pitched in and finished it up in the Union hall. They are just wait­ who are around the hall now are be the outstanding building in this front casket. It was flown back to fine SIU style. We never lacked ing for the day when they can Edison Shaffer, Eddy Lane, and city. Due to the fact that several Norfolk and interred in the Olive for anything because the boys pick their ships from the SIU Bill Parks. The younger s8t of changes have been made in the Branch cemetery, Portsmouth, Va., were right on the ball when ij; shipping board, as they are sure "SIU Old Timers"' Includes Dave plans and improvements added, with the Welfare Department of came to helping out in any situ­ the Union will win the election Barry. Walter Yerke* Alex Web­ the work has slowed up a little. the SIU making all the arrange­ ation. aboard the Atlantic ships. They ber, and Wilfred Moore. But as the membership knows, we ments. Another Seafarer, William Thinks Plan Tops I would like to call the member­ als^ seemed to be fascinated by want to get the best and now is Houston Bellows, was killed in an the new teletype machines and the ship's attention to the iact that Dave Bany, waiting for an Inthe time to make the changes. We automobile accident near Rich­ efficient manner in which lntei> know that when the building is mond. At his request he was buried some of the brothers have been port communications are handled. tercoastal ship, stopped long enough to say he thinks the SIU completed, it will be second to with full SIU honors, while flowers violating the shipping rules and Men still in the marine hospital have been brought up on charges none. from the Norfolk branch and his for these violations. The member­ include T. Mastaler, F. Mackey, Welfare Plan Is Enlist Paper's Aid new Union book was placed upon ship is on record that the shipping R. Peck, J. Penswick and E. Calla­ the best in the industry. AIhis chest. We met with the editor of the rules must be lived up to by every­ han. though Dave Ben Rees Afro-American, an influential Bal­ James Sheehan one, without exception, and if not, hasn't collected timore newspaper, and spoke to Norfolk Port Agent they will have to explain their ac­ Boston Port Agent a penny from the him about the proposed closing oi! Plan since It the USPHS hospitals and ending went into' effect of medical service for seamen. He —he hasn't been told us that he gave the whole sick or disabled, thing a big spread in last Sunday's and he doesn't Barry editions, and has said that he will plah to 'go to support the fight to save USPHS. Jeff Gmette. Agent EUIott 4334 FORT WILLIAM....IIB'A Syndicate Ave. college—he's relieved to know that SIU, A&G District TAMPA 1808-181] N. Franklin St. Ontario Phone: 3-3321 Seafarers were well represented North Gay St. Kay White, Agent Phone 2-1323 PORT COLBORNI 103 Durham St. he has the Plan behind him If he at the funeral of our late good Mulberry 4540 WILMINGTON. Call* 505 Marine Ave. Ontario' Phone: 5591 should get sick, be disabled, or BOSTON 276 State St. John Arabasz. Agent ' Terminal 4-3874 TORONTO. Ontario 372 King St. E. friend, Jeff Davis, who was second James Sheehan. Agent Richmond 2-0140 HEADQUARTEBS. .. 679 4th Ave., Bklyn. EMplre 4-5719 find himself too old to work, even 308V4 23rd St. vice-president of the old ILA. We GALVESTON SECRETARY-TREASURER ' VICTORIA, BC 81714 Cormorant St. if he Is only 50 or 55 years of Alsop, Agent Phone 2-8448 Paul HaU Empire 4931 had at least 50 men at the funeral Keith ASST. SECRETARY-TREASURERS LAKE CHARLES. La 1419 Ryan St. VANCOUVER. BC....~...085 HamUton St. age. He's curious to know if there's Joe Alglna and were thanked personally by Leroy Clarke. Agent Phone 6-S744 Robert Matthews Paclflc 7824 Joe VolpiaflT SYDNEY. NS MIAMI Dolphin Hotel Claude Simmons 304 Charlotte St. another Welfare Plan that will Mrs. Davis for the flowers sent by EdiUc WUllam HaU Parr. Agent Miami 9-4791 Phone 8348 support a disabled man with seven BAGOTVILLE. Quebec 20 Elgin St. St. the SIU. When Jeff Davis passed MOBILE Agent 1 South Lawrence Phone 2-1754 Phone: 549 years service, even if the man is SUP away, the longshoremen lost one THOROLD. Ontario S3 St. Davids St. only 30 years old. CAnal 7-3202 HONOLULU 18 Merchant St. of their greatest leaders. 113 Cote De La Montague Phone 8-8777 QUEBEC The other day we read about the NEW VOEK 675 4M". QOebec Phone: 2-7078 PORTLAND 528 N. W. Everett St. We have been attending the Bal­ 177 Prince WUllam St. Greek government's plans to lib­ STerling 8-4670 Beacon 4338 SAINT JOHN 127-129 Bank St. RICHMOND. CALIF...^ timore Federation of Labor meet­ NORFOLK NB Phone: 3-5232 ".257 5th St. eralize their maritime laws in the Phone 4-1083 Phone 2590 ings regularly, and keeping up to Pl^ADELpfaA 837 Market St. SAN FRANCISCO. 450 Harrison St. liopi^ that all the runaway Greek Great Lakes District Market 7-1635 date on what is happening on the PORT ARTHUR 411 Austin St. SEATTU. ?ssr."«'ss ALPENA. ..138 W. Fletcher ship owners will again register labor scene in this area. Don Hilton. Rep. Phone 4-2341 a Main 02M Phono: 1838W their ships under the Gre8k flag. SAN FRANCISCO 450 Harrison St WILMDIGTON ...........505 Marine Ave. BUFFALO. NY IgO Main St. r. Banning, Agent Douglas 2-5475 Terminal 4-3131 Phone; Cleveland 7391 If their plans work out they expect Jndian Summer Ooast Representative NEW YORK 875 4th Ave., Brooklyn CLEVELAND 734 UUceslde Ave.. NB Greece to have, the third largest PUEHTA de TIERRA. PR. .Pelayu 51—La 6 STei^g 8-4OT1 Phone; Blaln 1-0147 One of . the oldtimers thaf we Sal Coils. Agent Phone 2-5996 DETROIT 1038 3rd St. merchant fleet in the world. Caile Bollva? M Canadion District Headquarters Phone: Woodward. 1-8857 have on the beach here now, is PUERTA LA CRUZ ®®Ppending MONTREAD DULUTH 531 W. Michigan St. .884 Sb James S^. West i:;.-JollB ArabaSZ'J .,.-3 Abercorn St. .Tames "Smiley" Lassister; He's SAVANNAH .. Phsssi Melrose 2-4110 JeRjMOHriion. Agent Phone 3-1728 HALIFAX, N.S., ... 12a^£on^Sb ' •'^9: SEATTt*.,................2700 1st Ave. Baltimore: Vessels Coming Qui Of Lay-Up Boesi Shipping we've been having, a resting up before he ships out again. He says he figures he'll be taking one of the long trips when he's ready to ship. A long-time member of the Union, Jimmy has always done a bang-up job, and has served as ship's delegate on many of his ships. Has always been a pleasure to pay off one of these vessels, since Jimmy manages to keep the be^fs down to a minimum. In the hospital here, we have Steve Kolina, Harry Muches, Hen­ ry Miller, Owen Herring, William Mellon, Broxton Conway, Jeremiah McNiece, Norman Tober, Samuel Drury, ..Robert Lambert, Jessie Clarke, Alex Presnell, Peter Losado, Thomas Ankerson, William Mays, Harry Smith, Jeff Davis, Robert Davis, Wayne Hartman and William Nesta. All these Seafarers would appreciate getting a card or a letter from any of their old friends. Earl Sheppard Baltimore Port Agent New York: Four Ships Come Out Of Lay-Up In New York Union Fi^is Bonus In Arlieies To Aid Grew Seafarers Pleased Wilh Puerto La Cruz Hail Two SiU Members Ship Oni On Final Voyage sm HALL DIRECTOR Y �SEAFARERS October 30, IMS Mobile; Eleelion la Atlantic, ILA Beef Chief Topics LOG T»et Elevea > POBT REPORTS riod. Thero are no boneyard ships due here at present. Paid off were the Del Norte, Del Oro and Del Santos (Mississippi); De Soto, Schuyler, Otis Bland and Iberville (Waterman); Anniston Victory (South Atlantic); Alice Brown (Bloomfield), and Catahou­ la (National Navigation). Signed on were the Del Norte and Del Sol (Mississippi), and Chickasaw (Waterman). In transit were the Alcoa Clip­ per, Patriot, Corsair, Planter and Polaris (Alcoa); Steel Navigator (Isthmian); Del Sol (Mississippi); Seatrains Savannah and New Jer­ sey (Seatrain); Alawai, La Salle, Claiborne and Monarch of the Seas (Waterman), and Bent's Fort (Cities Service). Labor Activity The labor front has been ex­ tremely active around this port. The AFL Ship Carpenters, Caulk­ ers and Joiners Union went on strike against the Higgins plant here. The company got an injunc­ tion and began to shout that a un­ ion contract was unconstitutional. These are the same babies who have their ships under foreign reg­ istry. The injunction was thrown out on appeal. Negotiations are going on now and if the ship car­ penters aren't happy, the picket line will go up again with SIU support. The Higgins plant is one of the most notoriously anti-union operations in the United Stales. Sugar Cane The sugar cane workers have been having a tough time at the hands of the planters, too. This is an old. rotten system that smacks of peonage. The National Agricul­ tural Workers Union has finally started to organize in earnest and a lot of headway is being made. The Godchaux interests and other planters have, of course, been fighting the attempt to organize the workers with everything in the book and some things not in the book. Hundreds of striking work­ ers have been evicted. Hundreds of others have had their utilities cut off. The Catholic Committee of the South has criticized the planters for "denying basic human rights." Again the SIU is standing by to help the cane workers in every way possible. Local Seafarers express thanks to Harry Goodwin who distributed circus tickets to hospitalized Union members for the second consecu­ tive year. Paul Berthiaume is recovering from a successful elbow operation. Bill MacGregor, A1 Baker and Jimmy Jones are recovering after being hospitalized. Lindsay Williams New Orleans Port Agent San Francisco: Company Ruse Fails As Union Fights For Men mercial and low grade meats that the port stewards have been puting on these ships. This motion was signed by 14 bookmembers. A few of the oiatimers on the beach at the time of Ciis report are W. W. Wells, E. Benson. M. Townsend. M. John and L. E. Meyer.s. Only one man is in the hospital, Bernard L. Royster. Brother Albert D. Smith, who has always sailed out of the East and Gulf ports, is trying the West Coast for the first time. He likes it here so well that he's thinking of moving to the West Coast for a long stay. Brother Smith has been going to Smith sea since 1919 and has belonged to the SIU since 1941. Before that he was a member of the old ISU. He sails as bos'n or AB. He's been in most of the Union beefs and believes that the prog­ ress made by this Union has been almost unbelievable. He's especially pleased with what it's done in the Welfare Department and in pro­ viding other benefits for the sea­ man. Jeff Gillette Seattle Fort Agent During the past two week period, Shipping in the port of I^obile has been holding its own. In the shipping has been good, and it is last two-week period over 100 men expected to remain so for the com­ shipped out from here to regular ing period. jobs and about that many went on Payoffs were on the Boulder Vic­ various i-elief Jobs. There were tory (Seas); Beauregard and Arizten payoffs, six sign-ons and three pa (Waterman), and The Cabins in-transits. (Cabins), with the Beauregard Paying off were the Corsair, signing on again. In-transit ships Polaris, Partner, were the John B. Waterman, Cavalier, Ranger Hastings and Raphael Semmes of and Pennant (AlWaterman and Calmar's Alamar coa); Claiborne and Calmar. and Monarch of It seems that Waterman tried to the Sea (Water­ pull a fast one concerning the Fairman); Maiden land in regard to discriminating Victory (Missis­ against our alien brothers. They sippi), and Steel did not want to take any D-2 aliens Navigator (Isth­ aboard their vessels, but when the mian). Tasgart vessel signed on it had a full quot.a Signing on of aliens after we wagged this back were the Alcoa Corsair, Polaris, and forth with them awhile and Partner, Ranger and Pennant (Al­ they saw the light of reason. coa), and Steel Navigator (Isth­ mian). The following men in the marine In-transit were the Chickasaw hospital would like to.hear from and De Soto (Waterman), and Law­ their shipmates: I. McCormick, J. rence Victory (Mississippi). L. Somyak, D. H. Boyce, A. F. Smith, J. Asavicuis, J. I. Perreira, In Boneyard R. R. White, W. Timmerman, D. So far, only the Maiden Victory Sorenen, Peter Smith, Olaf Gushas been sent to the boneyard tavsen and Ho Yee Choe. from tills port. This ship was on 4" 4" 4» Tom Banning charter to the Mississippi Line and Lake Charles: San Francisco Port Agent was laid up in the Mobile River, where it can be reactivated on 24 4- 4* hours' notice. Seattle We hope that the Steel Navi­ gator will be regularly paying off in .Mobile and that other Isthmian During the past two weeks ship­ ships , will follow that example. ping has really been booming here. There were no serious beefs and Thirteen ships and a tug passed all minor complaints were handled Shipping in this port has been through the port, taking on quite by the patrolmen at payoff. If patrolmen are notified beforehand, good during the past two weeks. a few men and giving the shoreside unions plenty of work. As a all beefs can be settled at the pay­ Two ships signed on, eight paid result, everybody is happy. off with a minimum of delay. off, and four were in transit. The vessels that put in here were Election Talk The ships signing on were the the Abiqua, Bradford Island. CanBiggest topics of conversation Sea Cloud (Sea Traders), and tlic tigny, Logans Fort. Winter Hill. among Seafarers here are the At­ Fairisle (Waterman). Those paying Government Camp, and Salem lantic election and the situation among the longshoremen. All off were the Heywood Broun" (Vic­ Maritime (all Cities Service); Val Union members on ships coming tory Carriers). Sea Cloud (Sea Chem (Valentine Tankers), Steel into port here are talking up the Traders); General Patton (Nat'l Ranger (Isthmian), Republic (Tra­ AFL-ILA with the longshoremen Waterways); Blue Star (Triton); falgar). Petrolite (Tanker Sag). in Mobile. We think that these Fairisle (Waterman); Stony Point W. E. Downing (State Fuel), and longshore locals will swing over to (U.S. Petroleum); Brightstar (Tri­ the tug Commodore. the new AFL union. Bang-Up Payoffs ton). and McKettriek Hills (West­ Brother Milton Robinson is in ern Tankers). Ships in transit were The Abiqua. Bradford Island the Providence Infirmary in Mo­ the Yorkmar (Calmar), Hastings Petrolite. and Salem Maritime bile, after being operated on for a (Waterman). Beauregard (Water­ (Cities Service), paid off. All were back injury. He would welcome man), and The Cabins (Cabins). a credit to the Union with bang-up letters or, if possible, visits from At the last SIU meeting on Octo. crews, clean ships, and no im­ old shipmates. her 21, a motion, was made by portant beefs. The payoff was On the beach here are Durwood Louis E. Meyers, M-259, and sec­ settled to the crew's satisfaction. Dees, R. L. Kelly, R. Sheffield, S. onded by Michael Haukland, H-164, Some of the veterans on the Turberville, E, D. Powell, G. T. that the membership go on record beach at the present time are J. Chandler, C. Carlson, G. Menento instruct the negotiations com­ Mitchell. J. F. Mapp, W. Pritchett, dez. C. Taggart and E. Gaines. mittee working out the new con­ and H. Durney. Dropping around the hall this tract to enter into negotiations to Leroy Clarke week was Brother Cliff Taggart. have Grade A meats placed aboard He usually sails as steward on Lake Charles Port Agent all SIU vessels instead of the com­ passenger ships, but has also sailed as chef, bartender and practically all ratings in the stewards depart­ ment. He is married and makes his home in Mobile. Cliff thinks one of the greatest advances on the part of the Union is the vaca­ tion plan now in effect. Prior to Shipping Figures October 7 to October 21 this plan, he says, very few sea­ SHIP. SHIP. TOTAL REG. REG. TOTAL SHIP. REG. men ever managed to accumulate REG. DECK ENG. STEW. SHIPPED STEW. PORT DECK ENGINE enough time with any single com­ 50 14 85 19 17 17 20 Boston 48 pany to collect vacation pay. He 402 102 likes the Gulf Coast and is a 550 163 137 New York 183 159 208 strong Union man. 108 30 193 43 S5 53 Philadelphia 80 60 Cat Tanner 301 75 330 127 99 98 83 Baltimore 149 Mobile Port Agent 49 13 63 20 16 14 Norfolk 28 21 J- 4" ife 38 9 52 14 15 18 13 Savannah 21 New Orleans: ' 10 4 " 44 3 3 11 14 19 Tampa .....;. 103 33 155 37 33 53 46 56 Mobile 298 95 278 111 92 78 90 110 New Orieahs 131 34 115 52 45 68 18 29 Galveston 85 28 104 34 23 33 28 38 Seattle \ Shipping has continued to be 143 47 192 52 44 64 53 75 San Francisco good in New Orleans and all indi­ 8 19 53 5 6 19 15 19 Wilmington ;,...»11...^ cations are that it will temain that way. There. wiU be at least eight p80; 1- : 565 .623 ^ 2,2141 ) W,.I Vlo^^.i«|?tfw<Preek Pe. Louisiana Port Busy Members Want Belter With Heavy Traffic Meats Aboard Ships Labor Froiil Aolivily in Porl Of New Orleans ISillUVI y,,"li - .ev^ Irl ncr*. Savannah: Stilpping Scone Brigiit in Future As in Past Shipping ended up fine in the past two-week period in this South Atlantic port. The future continues to look bright and we hope to have lots of ships coming in and out of port here. The Southstar (South Atlantic) paid off here and signed back on. Also signing on was the Trans­ atlantic (Pacific Waterways). Ships in transit were: the Seatrains New York and Savannah (Seatrain); Robin Locksley (Seas); Steel Navigator (Isthmian); Wacosta (Waterman); Barbara Fritchie .(Liberty Navigation); and Southern States (Southern). BaclT SIU On ILA Beef At the last meeting the Savan­ nah branch gave a 100 percent vots supporting Paul Hall in whatever he sees fit to do in the cuiTcnt longshoremen's reorganization. A typical Seafarer in this port is Brother Walter Brightwell. After putting in four years in the Navy he was dis­ charged in 1926. He went to sea that same year as an AB on the Coldwater of the South Atlantic Steamship Com­ pany. Conditions Brightwell were terrible and Brother Brightwell was fired off several ships for beefing about food and other things, since there was no Union to protect him in those daj'S. He was finally blackballed by South Atlantic and by the Ocean Steamship Company and called it quits in 1930. Future Hope When tire SIU was organized, Brightwell saw some hope and future for himself in a seagoing job and returned to sea to follow his chosen profession. He saw the Union force the companies to treat the seamen as decent human be­ ings and pi'otect the rights of Sea­ farers. He is one of our strongest Union men. He is particularly lav­ ish in his praise of the welfare services, which not only assist the seamen, but their families when the breadwinners are away at sea. In the marine hospital here are J. Littleton. John Duffy. J. B. Far. row, L. McDaniels, R. Huggins, N. L. Gardner. L. Love, R. A. Den­ mark, S. V. Kilpatrick, F. M. Han­ sen. C. Kent. K. L. Guthrie. M. MacDonald, John Daniels and Sam Jones. Oldtimers on the beach here «r» G. Smith. H. M. Bright. A. W. Mackin. J. R. MacDonald, R. Burnsed and W. Matthews. Be Sure to Get Dues Receipts Headquarters again wishes to remind all Seafarers that payments of funds, for what­ ever Union purpose, be made only to authorized A&G repre­ sentatives and that an official Union receipt be gotten at that time. If no receipt is offered, be sure to protect yourself by immediately bringing the mat­ ter to the attention of the sec­ retary-treasurer's office. The Union's word of advice is to insure that all monies paid are credited to your SIU record. Insistence on an offi­ cial receipt will prevent "can shakers" from soliciting funds for unauthorized purposes, and will bar any foul-ups later on. -(3 �litfwii liK SEAFARERS Pare Twelve IN THE WAKE LOG Oetober 30. 1058 MEET THE SEAFARER clouds of locusts descended upon ARNOLD REIBUS, AB the fields and began to devour Seafarer Arnold Reibus . at the mates were picked up and brought every leaf and blade. The people relatively young age of 38 has to safety. prayed, and a curious phenomenon Question: Have you ever con­ spent more than half his life going In 1044, his opportunity came took place. Thousands of gulls sidered settling down in a foreign to sea. The sea has always been a and he came to the US in that year. came from nowhere, flocking country? part of his family's life. There were This was the same year in which everywhere and gorged themselves • always sailors in the Reibus clan, he joined the SIU. His first Ameri­ on the insects, saving part of the Joseph Miles, AB: No, I've never who were all, like Arnold, native can ship was the Waterman Line's crop. In 1913, the Mormons erect­ Florence Crittenden. He got back ed a Sea Gull Monument honoring considered it, and I never will. Estonians. Brother Reibus was born in the to Europe in time to participate in I've seen just the miraculous visitation. about every port Estonian port of Tallin, where his the Normandy invasion. Since the 4" 4' 4' there is to see, father was on the management end end of the war he has shipped and I still like of the maritime industry, being from East Coast ports. His favorite Most famous of many swan the US better then a stockholder in a shipping run is from New York to England. superstitions is the one that they 4. 3. than any of the company. After high school, rather He has shipped in all deck ratings. always sing before they die. "A Whales once lived on land,and swan's song" is an expression places I've vis­ than attend the university or learn Bronx Resident millions of years elapsed before often used for the final work of a ited. I've got all his father's business, young Arnold After the war he applied for they changed from land animals to composer, artist, poet or other per­ my friends here, decided to go to sea. Shortly after marine animals. Whales, por­ former, originating m the Greek and know the his 17th birthday he caught his resident alien status, prior to ap­ poises and dolphins are the only legend that the soul of Apollo, the country here and first ship, an old four master carry­ plying for citizenship. His applica­ species of mammals that Jiear and god of Music, passed into a swan. feel at home, and that's important. ing a load of lumber from Estonia tion was approved and he has rear their young in the water. In Most species of swans, however, Here's where I want to stay, right and stopping at Finland, Denmark taken out his citizenship papers. Reibus was married a couple of 1935 a prehistoric whale skull have anything but melodious here in the States. and England. years ago and is the father of a te.n fossil estimated to be three million voices. Some are known as whoop­ Chosen Career 4" 4" 4" month old son. His wife is also a years old was discovered in solid ing or whistling swans. This initial voyage dispelled The Ahmed Beg, OS: Yes, I have. native Estonian. They met in New rock on Otter Rock Beach, Ore. trumpeter swans in North Amer­ I've thought about settling down whatever qualms he may have had York. Both are active in the Eston­ and he embarked upon his chosen it 4. ica have voices which are said to in Puerto Rico, career. For the next four years he ian Society. They live at 3232 Hull Since the greater part of Green­ be so deep-throated that their although that's sailed from his home port to other Avenue in the Bronx. land is covered with ice and snow sonorous calls can be heard two not exactly a for­ This Seafarer is thoroughly sold ports of Europe. His homeland a more appropriate name for the miles distant. eign country. I'd found itself in the unhappy role on the SIU. He has acted as ship's Island-continent would have been still be in the US 4" t t of pawn between the two giants of delegate and has always taken an "Whiteland." According to a actually, but the ' "Fisherman's luck" has come to Hitlerite Germany and Soviet Rus­ active part in Union affairs. He Scandanavian saga, in 985 AD, climate down sia. In 1939 Reibus decided to was particularly pleased with the Eric the Red named it Greenland be dependent upon many ancient there is really practices that stem from the primi­ leave Estonia. The Russo-Finnlsh maternity benefit. In the hope of inducing colonists wonderful and He and his wife are avid base­ war had broken out and it seemed from Iceland to settle in the new tive method of calling upon un­ the cost of living seen spirits who were believed to to him that it was only a matter of ball fans and often go out to country. Evidently the ruse was is a lot cheaper ^ successful for the Scandinavian be in charge of fishing activities. than it is here in the States. The time before Estonia would be swal­ Yankee Stadium to watch their fa­ For instance, the Forked River lowed up by one of the powers. vorite team. Needless to say both navigator had no difficulty in get­ dollar goes a long way there. Circumstances were to prove him were pleased over the outcome of ting followers to go with him when Tuna Club of New Jersey has a 4i ^ 4> fisherman's shrine, and no member the World Series. right. he made his next voyage. dares to neglect to follow the tra­ This Seafarer has seen, first Thomas Tomlin, chief cook: No Just about this time, the war 4" 4' 4> ditional lucky formula of hanging hand, the difference between sail­ sir. My home is in Mobile, Alain Europe broke out in earnest and It is common for light racing , < bama, ana I like Reibus got his baptism of fire on ing under foreign registry and vessels and ice boats to sail much a fish on a tree before starting out that place better convoy duty between England and sailing under SIU contract. He is: faster than a wind blowing more on a fishing trip. than any place European and North American in a better position to appreciate 4> or less at right angles to their else in the world. ports. It was in 1940 that Biother the advantages of real Union rep­ course. In actual practice light "South Sea" was the original I've seen a lot of Reibus made his first trip to the resentation. He was amazed at the racing sailboats sometimes travel name given to the body of water wages seamen received under the countries, but United States. about 50 percent faster than the that we today know as the Pacific war time risk bonuses and general­ I'm still always Twice Torpedoed breeze which propels them. Ice Ocean. In 1513 the Spanish gov­ glad to be able to Before he was able to fulfill this ly good Union wages. boats have been known to sail ernor of Darien, Balboa, first Brother Reibus would, of course, get home and ,wish, he was to have a couple of twice as fast as the wind driving named it "El mer del Sur," but take it easy In close shaves which made him pon­ like to'fevisit his homeland some them across the slippery surface. almost immediately, English-speak­ the old familiar der whether he would survive the day and find out what has hap­ ing people began calling the ocean 4" 4" 4" war. He was torpedoed on two suc­ pened to his family still there. He It is universally believed by the South Seas, referring to all the surroundings. cessive convoys. The first time was has not heard from them in some ^4 4" 4" superstitious that if seagulls are waters below the equator. Today, Jerry Pow, messraan: No, I never aboard the Swedi.sh ship Neva and time. International circumstances, killed, evil will follow, but the gull we still use the term South Seas is held in greatest esteem in Salt Islands, when we mean the small, think about moving away from the the second was while a crew mem­ however, make a visit in the near ber of the Norwegian vessel Aka- future unlikely. He and his family Lake City, Utah. If their first primitive islands in the region, but US. I just bought bara. Luckily, both of these at­ now consider themselves Ameri­ crop had failed, the Mormons few of us know that the vast a house in South tacks took place near the English cans and intend to stay in the would have been without seed for Pacific was once known by this Ozone Park, Long coast and he and most of his ship­ Bronx. Island, and I've another sowing. In May, 1848, name too. got a wife and a three- months-old son now, and this is my home. They can keep all their foreign countries Martial law was declared in Den­ ever," the Young Communist ACROSS DOWN 16. Period of 35. Audrey and I'll keep my fasting mark by the Germans . . . Pope League of the US was "dissolved" Hepburn role J. What delegate 1. Underwater 20. Pretty girl settlesnew house. I'm very comfortable Pius in a broadcast appealed for a at a special convention in New hazard 38. Rio de 21. Regret 5. Island, 2. Before where I am right now. 40. Italian money 22. Flying clouds worthy peace . . . Allied forces in­ York, "rhe delegates formed a new World V/ar I 3. Crew member 23. Ocean 42. Autocrats 4' ^ ^ vaded the mainland of Italy in the organization, the.American Youth Where Bandar (Ocean Trans) 45. Orchestra 4. Baby horse Abbas is 27. Native of early morning hours of Sept. 3 . . for Democracy, which, they said, Jose Carbone, OS: Yes, some­ 46. Isl. in GuU of 5. Exclamation Constanta 12. River, Italy Quarnero 6. Wind instru­ times I think about settling down The Japanese were reported as would also take in non-Communist Pacific 28. island 47. Sight on Sicily 13. Arab's coat ment 30. Stewing, then 48. Samoan port over in Italy. quitting their central Solomons youth. 7. Iron hooks for 14. Sea between baking, meat 49. Site of Bing's That country is base at Rekata Bay on Santa Isabel landing fish 4i 4^ t Philippines, and vegetables Nevada ranch 8. Port in Turkey o| Borneo Two US Navy blimps crashed off so beautiful and Island . . . The" SIU made public They're served 53. Mountain pass 9. Wreck 54. Summer: 15. Kingiy sunny and warm, a letter from Internal Revenue the Jersey Coast. One sank, taking 10. Mr. Guinness,. 30 by cook Consider French 17. Preposition actor there's no place Commissioner Guy T. Helvering eight men with it . . . The Red 18. Moored 11. Unclothed (Puzzle Answer On Page 25) else like it in the assuring Seafarers that transporta­ Army advanced 15 miles nearer 19. French ship, 44,356 tons whole world. My tion pay would not be subject to Kremenchug and said it was gain­ 1 9 lO II 22. Trip mother's family Victory tax. ing on all fronts . . . Tokyo said 24. Negative 12 is still over there, that since July its planes had shot 25. Large oil 4^ ' and I'd Uke to down between 100" and 125 Allied company 15 The Fifth Army made further planes; made 53 attacks on 17 air­ live near where 26. Vigilantly advances and announced that "the fields; sank seven vessels and dam­ they are in the south. Flowed out, as 119 20 21. tide battle for crossing the Volturno is aged 11 others, and lost 44 planes 4" 4" 4" 33. She sailed Nile 22 23 124 34. Fall behind Henry N. Grant, utility mess.: over." The Fifth Army also an­ . . , British planes staged mass 36. Encourage No, I've never been attracted to nounced that its battle lines now raids on Hanover and Berlin . . . 37. Norwegian Isl.. 26 27 30 31 32 stretched completely across Italy, The SIU's Savannah branch won a North Sea any of the for­ i 39. Rob openly from East to West coast . . . Lon­ fight to crew two new vessels eign countries. la l34 136 41. Hobby for don announced that British war­ named after Georgia AFL labor Seafarer I've got my home 43. US soldier 37 38 l39 ships off the coast of Norway sank leaders . . . The United States an­ 40 in Manhattan and 44. A belief an enemy ship loaded with cement, nounced the signing of a new lend45. Good port in have lived there 141 42 |43 SA 144 but allowed, one loaded with pota­ lease agreement in London with for most of my 50. One opposed toes to pass . . . The SIU an­ the Soviet Union, calling for more 51. News service life. I've got all 45 46 47 48 49 52. Wonderland nounced that it was planning an supplies to come from the US, my friends there girl organizing drive for Gulf fisher­ England and the Dqminions . . , and enjoy living 50 152 55. Columbus ship 53 54 56. SA port there. I can't men and towboatmen . . . London The US announced that its planes W. Bowline or 57 55 158 thing of any other announced , that a "very small nuih- had 'kcored direct hits on a Japa­ half-hitch 50. General freed I'd like to live, In even country ber". of German planes were lost nese troop transport near the is­ 59 by Reds I6l though I may enjoy visiting them during the last air raid ; on Hut land of; Massau, leaving the vessel: ( 50. — Pedro , OL PliM <;Jty . .. Chanting "Solidarity For­ slnWnas'ftBd^afMsii sd? i.o /lOiS .noHiifi iu</a^<r<.oi asoKc ; p tu n j t j .i .e -ei i t. Since the dawn of civilization, peoples who had access to waters devised many ways of catching fish, including how to spear them. Once upon a time men watched the birds who ate fish, and through them learned how to find schools of fish where they could do their own fishing. Later, whales were observed for the same purpose. More recently, submarine detec­ tion devices have been brought Into play to locate the hideaways of large schools of fish. rr in �October t9, l%59 SEAFARERS LOG SEAFARERS ^ LOG The Payoff!' Vol. XV. No. 22 October 30. 1953 Pare Thirtoea Published biweekly by the. Seafarers International Union, Atlantic & Gulf District, AFL, 675 Fourth Avenue. Brooklyn 32, NY. Tel. STerling 8-4670. PAut HALL, Secretary-Treasurer EdUor, HERREIIT BRAND: Managtng Editor, RAT DENISON; Art Editor. BERiiAaB SEAMAN; Photo Editor. DANIEL NILVA; Staff Writers. HERMAN ARTHUR. IRWIN SPIVACS. ART PEBFAI.I., JERRT REMER, AL MASKIN. NOEL PARMENTEL; Gulf Area Reporter, BILL Mnnsr. IM The Atlantic Issues I After fourteen months of SIU organizing, the National Labor Relations Board has started polling the crewmembers on Atlantic ships. It is now up to the tankermen themselves to decide, by secret ballot, how they want to be represented in their dealings with the Atlantic Refining Company. As in other tanker fleets, Atlantic Refining seamen up until now have been represented by a so-called "independent" union, whose independence only thinly veiled the control exercised by the company. And as in other "independent" unions, the intermediary between the company and the tankerman was a lawyer who had made himself a career of "rep­ resenting" seamen — a lawyer who held office which was not provided for in the "independent" union's own constitu­ tion and was in no way voted upon by any part of the membership. The key issue then, in this campaign, was whether or not Atlantic tankermen should be represented in their dealings with management by a union of their own choosing, run by seamen, or by a dummy organization which had been foisted upon them and in which they had no voice. All other issues are secondary and derive from this key issue. Because the "independent" union is not independent, but a creature of the company, the tankermen lack every right and privilege that normally would be theirs. They have no protection and security on the job, no voice in the opera­ tions of their union, nobody to take up their beefs, no union meetings, no halls or offices. They have an inferior contract with far less take-home pay than provided under the SIU agreement. It is because of these reasons, because the SIU can meet all the needs that they are now doing without, that SIU organizers are confident of the outcome of this election. It will prove that no paternalism, no matter how benevolent, can keep men from choosing to be represented by a real union of their brothers in dealing with employers. ^ X i- A Dangerous Industry Two recent incidents on SIU ships point up once again the difficulties and dangers of the maritime industry. In one instance an SIU crewmember was saved almost miraculously by the heads-up action of a doctor-passenger who performed an emergency operation using a grease gun. In the second instance a crewman died when a plane that was taking off the ship crashed a few minutes later with the loss of several lives. In the two instances described above, as in all other cases where seamen need, medical care, the desperate measures taken were dictated by a common fact not obvious to shoreside people—the distance of seamen fromi a place where they can get medical care. This fact of itself is one of the reasons why maritime is such a hazardous industry, on top of the other hazards of doing a day's work on a bucking, pitching and rolling platform in the middle of the restless ocean. These are just two of many cases that come up from time to time where men fall ill or are injured and desperate meas­ ures are necessary to try to save them. Seamen run these risks daily and take it as part of the normal course of going to sea. It's a condition that should be kept in mind by all those who would dispose of seamen's economic gains through the years. a. i. Legislative Hopes Hopes for legislative assistance to the maritime industry are on the upgrade again as the result of Senator Potter's recent statement in San Francisco. The Senator, who has been chairing a series of hearings around the country, has said that he will recommend important aid to the shipping industry including strict limitation of MSTS shipping on Government vessels, and aid for coastwise and intercoastal shipping. Of course it's a long haul between the recommendations of a subcommittee and Congressional action. The outcome of 1952's legislative decisions on maritime, resulting in the socalled Long Range Shipping Act, are proof of that. Although the law was argued back and forth for many months, it has had no real effect on the shipping iiidustry. Still it's encouraging to know that some positive proposals • will be placed before the next session of Congress. It certainly is time for a real shipping program to emerge from the discussion of the last Thanhs Lfnknown Sni Blood Donors To the Editor: I would like to thank Brother Tom Banning, agent here in San Francisco for getting me four blood donors. I have no idea who they are, but I want to say this for each and every one: their blood saved my life, as 1 had a piece of my lung removed. So, again, I say to these boys, whoever you may be, may God look out for you on each and every voyage. I had to write this letter as soon as pos­ sible. The night before my operation the doctor came and asked me if 1 was all prepared. When I said yes, he asked me if I knew where I could get some More than 20,000 members of blood donors, as I would need organized labor thronged the Bos­ plenty. I said no, ton Garden recently in a great but after he left tribute to Archbishop Richard J. I thought of the Gushing as a "friend of the work­ Boyce Union. I crawled ing man." A home for orphans of out of bed and got to the telephone all creeds, "Nazareth," was $15,000 and called Brother Banning, and richer when the reception ended. asked him if he could get some The money will be used for teach­ donors. He asked me how many ing a trade to youngsters in order I needed and when I said I didn't to keep a fresh influx of talent into the labor know he told me to get back to steadily flowing bed and not to worry as things field. would be straightened out. t 4" Union Fitches In Local 214 of the Fur and Leath­ An hour later a woman came er Workers has lost its bargaining over to my room, and told me she rights because one of its officers came from the hospital's blood lied to the FBI when he disclaimed bank. Tom Banning had called any Communist ties. As a result, and asked her how many blood the first such action in its history, donors would be needed and she the NLRB cancelled its certifica­ said at least four. Then she said tion of the local, which represents to me, "Mr. Boyce, you know I 125 workers at the Am-O-Krome couldn't baye gotten that many Company, Cincinnati, Ohio. The from the whole city of San Fran­ parent union was expelled from cisco." Then she went on to say the CIO four years ago as Com­ what a wonderful Union the Sea­ munist-dominated. farers International Union was, 4 4" 4where all brothers look out for Elbert Jackson Textiles, Inc., each other in emergencies. Montauk, LI, was fined $300 by US She hit the nail right on the Judge Galston recently for violat­ head with that statement. In the ing the Federal wage and hour law. SIU everyone is looking out for Federal investigators found several the welfare of his brother. It is a employees worked 12 hours a day, kind of "Three Musketeer" idea, seven days a week, at straight time all for one and one for all. I am rates, and one employee worked proud to be a member of such a 88 hours a week. The Government union, the best in the maritime found more thaa $2,000 was due industry. seven employees in back pay. It would be easy enough for me 4 4" 4" to find out who the fellows were Members of ay locals of the Los who helped me out if they did not Angeles Cloak Joint Board of the mind admitting that they did, but ILGWU gained a wage increase of that is not the point of this letter. $4 a week for all workers in the I would like to thank them per­ major crafts and $3 for miscella­ sonally, of course, and I may neous workers effective Nov. 2 un­ some day, but I want to thank the der an extension of a basic agree­ membership of the SIU and the ment with employers. They also Union itself for what they have won an increase in employer con­ done for me during this crisis. tributions to the vacation, health, Naturally I could not thank anyone welfare and retirement funds, to at all, nor would I be able to do bring the total to 7ii percent of anything else were it not for the payrolls. Miscellaneous workers blood those four men donated to won inclusion in the retirement me in my time of need. plan for the first time and shorten­ It is easy enough to be a militant ing of their work week. union and to fight for rights, both 4 4 4 in contract and fringe benefits, but Wage gains for nearly 4,000 it takes something special to fiave workers at plants organized by the a heart and really care for the CIO Furniture Workers through members. That's the way of the strike action, and for more than SIU. I'm doubly proud .to be a 1,000 others without resorting to member. walkouts, were announced by Thanks again to Brother Ban­ UFWA President Morris Pizer. The ning and my four unknown blood principal issue in all cases was the raising^ of wages,^ ig. .many cases donors. Daniel 'Vlackie" Beyce the first since the aboUtiom of wage I.ABOR " - •••••'• •• v.'/- .rw* • controls. Securing adequate griev­ ance and arbitration machinery was an additional issue in some in­ stances. 4 4 4 4 4 4 The American Federation of Government Employees has won reinstatement and back pay of $7,000 for Glenn L. Shadrick. A grader operator for the Alaska Road Commission, he was fired 15 months ago, accused of operating equipment in an unsafe manner. The union argued the equipment was faulty. It lost its appeal all the way up to the final board— the US Civil Service Commission— which reversed the regional board and awarded the payments and re­ instatement. The union also won a collective bargaining election for non-operating employees of the Alaska Railroad. Pay increases ranging from S2.50 to $11 a week for an average of slightly more than six percent ret­ roactive to May 1 were won by 225 members of the CIO News­ paper Guild on strike against the Seattle Times since July 16. Other contract improvements included upping of severance pay. also pay­ able on an employee's death, and increasing retirement pay. 4 4 4 The CIO United Steelworkers will demand a guaranteed annual wage clause in its 1954 contracts. Increasing layoffs because of pro­ duction cutbacks in the steel in­ dustry have made this clause a major demand, according to the union. 4 4 4 A reporter for a Detroit news­ paper, while covering City Kali, came up with an interesting item concerning the pensions paid to retired city employees. The story concerned the pension collected by a Detroit retired city laborer. Starling Thomas, who gets a city pension check of 33 cents per month. 4 4 4 Two of Britain's most powerful unions in the engineering and mining fields are pressing wage demands totaling roughly 40 mil­ lion dollars and are being met with opposition from employer groups on the grounds that the increase will affect the national economy and cause a sharp Increase, in. prices throughout the nation. �Pace Foarteen SEAT AKERS LOG Oetober 30, 1053 Ifi' IK- If \k 11^ l^t. • I & f ^•:. ^fi fy-. I&V; 1 \m a.: ti;:..- V- ..pf-y^.':" -' ' f' %'ii A heavy fur coat and a pipe are in order whe/« a Seafarer takes a stroll um on deck in the Korea area during, the winter months. Here,. Jasper, . , ABi on the Ocean Lotte, adds s^ ; white towel "sparf,'. just to keep a littler warmer as he stands on deck and studies the hie^k J^nr«.ayt hivi^. iw Kor^ winti^s m notorioHs foR severe cold weatherv sometin?^ The Steel Age gets e good scrubbing dpwtt from L. Ells, AH* and W. Shaw, EiMj, balwxcing tijeinselyeS; pn a^ string'^ > *' |dece hi this shot by A. v �October 30, lOSS^ SEAFARERS 10G Tage Fifteea iiillil' • • • */ The life of a chief steward isn't just giving orders, as Jimmy Telan, chief steward on the Steel Ranger, proves by sitting up on deck and peeling potatoes for the crew mess. Ray Noe, DM and deck delegate on the Albion, sits in his bosun's chair and slushes the shrouds out in the sun. It's part of a day's work, as well as his delegate's duties. (- Elliot, night cook and baker aboard tha Chickasaw, get^J his owii "fresh storesV.iii Tampa-by catching sc^e eatfish. Th#' boys probabliJf enjoyed tlfc» fish fify;' Blackie Bankston supplied thir shot of Seafarer Merkel' spending somd tini# asheow with the aebras Iii the id6> Hie' The' ' aehrav wrr^posirtg'iddt^'"--^'^-^'^ = •' ship's irCc^t trip there. li Walli^r'was the cameranaan ^ " �i •" "rrrw SEAFARERS P«e SiztMB IOC October tt. 19SS SEAFARERS John G. Pew, Jr., vice-presirent of the Sun Shipbuilding and Drydock Company, was elected to lead a slate of 60 new officers of the Marine Section of the National Safety Council at its convention in Chicago. Harry Kelly, president of the Delta Line, was named vice* chairman of the Marine Section, which is dedicated to reducing acci­ dents on ships of the ifS merchant marine and in shipyards. The other new officers represent shipping interests on all coasts, on the Great Lakes and on inland waters. Cleaning of shipboard tanks, a hazard second only to collision, members of the council's tanker safety panel were told, should not be done within one hundred miles of shore. It was reported that engine room personnel suffered 31 percent of shipboard injuries,, whixe the deck crews sustained 53 percent, mainly in the back, hand and head. Th« effectiv* operation of a ahlp's boilers depends In great extent on keeping scale, grease, and other foreign matter out of the boilers, 6nce such foreign matter enters the boiler it greatly reduces the efficiency of the operation and can do great damage to the boiler and auxiliary equipment. Boiler repairs are among the commonest causes of delay and break­ A great many Seafarers on vari­ downs on a ship. Even with the best of care, the boiler will tend to ous SIU ships have been taking accumulate a certain amount of scale, or there will be corrosion on action on the proposed closings of tubes which necessitate overhaul and replacement. the US Public Health Service hos­ While it is the prime responsibility of the engineers to see to it pitals. They have been sending in that boilers are kept as free of foreign matter as is humanly possible, quite a few reso­ it's up to the engine room unlicensed men to keep a weather eye peeled lutions on the for symptoms of foreign matter in the boilers. They should notify t> subject, both to the engineers of such symptoms before unnecessary damage takes place. West Germany replaced the US as the world's second ranking the Union and There are certain obvious things to watch for in a boiler room: water shipbuilding nation during the third quarter of 1953, Lloyd's Register to Congressmen glass, condensate observation tank, and otner indicators that will give of Shipping disclosed. The rehabilitated shipyards of Germany had from their home warning of trouble ahead in time to take care of matters before they 153 ships aggregating 651,527 tons in various stages of construction states. It looks cause serious damage, breakdown or in extreme cases, an explosion at the end of September, an increase of 106,198 tons over the June like their collec­ in the boiler room. 30 total. Britain and Northern In.:and, with 36.6 percent of the world tive effort is Occasionally grease and oil can get into the boilers, particularly output in their yards, continued to rank as the No. 1 shipbuilders. going to make in those power plants that use reciprocating main engines and auxili­ Countries chalking up gains in ship construction were France, Belgium, quite an impres­ aries. Here lubricating oil is supplied to lubricate pistons and cylinder Robinson Denmark and Canada, while the Netherlands, Italy, Sweden, Japan, sion when the walls. If too much oil is used, some of it travels with the steam into Norway, Spain and the US recorded decreases. The greatest decline was Congressmen get back to Wash­ the main condenser and gets into the condensate which is used in recorded by Japan. ington. the boilers. t i 4" Certainly, if the US Public Fuel Oil Heater Leak The development of barge transportation on the Columbia River, Health Service hospitals don't say Oil can also enter the feedwater through the fuel oil heaters. Some­ part of a natural boundarj' of the states of Washington and Oregon, open, it won't be the fault of the times a leak will take place between the oil and the steam side of the has saved farmers along its central stretch more than $16,500,000 on Seafarers who have been making heaters with the result that the fuel oil enters the steam side and re­ freight in the last 16 years . . . The heroine of many sea rescues on every effort on behalf of these in­ turns through the drain tine to the feed tank with condensed steam. the British Columbia coast, the $750,000 tug Salvage King settled stitutions which first began operat­ Where grease or oil gets into the boilers it can cause overheating. slowly to the boUom of the Victoria, EC, harbor recently after a fire. ing in John Adam's administration. A coating of oil in a water tube causes the steel to overheat and lose Only the superstructure showed above water One Seafarer who sponsored strength. It can cause collapse of furnaces and leaks in tubes and t i< 4" action on this score is Ed Robinson seams. Or at the worst, it could cause a boiler explosion. A small Italian fi^eighter. a German cargo ship and a transatlantic of the Binghamton Victory (Bull). Observation Tack liner were involved in marine accidents off Quebec last week, with no. Robinson, who sails in the en­ If grease or oil does get in the boiler, some of it will show up on loss of life involved. The liner was the Cunarder Samaria, bound for gine department, has been a mem­ the surface of the water in the water gauge glass. The engineer in Germany with 850 soldiers aboard, whose mooring lines twisted them­ ber of the Union for just nine selves about the propeller as she was being towed from her berth. years now, joining in New York on charge should be notified immediately. Also most systems will have In the other accident, the Italian freighter Carla Maria G and the October 21, 1944, He's a native an observation tank in the fuel oil heater condensate drain lines. German vessel Stuttgart, collided in a dense fog, with the Italian New Yorker, born in this city 46 The tank will be located between the heater and the filter tank. Con­ freighter suffering a gaping hole torn in her side. She reached port years ago, and has his home and densate entering the tank from the heaters can be observed through a glass opening and signs of fuel oil become visible. In this case the safely. family in Brooklyn. condensate is usually drained to the bilge. t> s. t4 4 4 Sea water can get into boilers through leakage in the condensers. A huge welded-steel plate sphere, which will become a bathtub labora­ Collecting for a ship's fund is That's because a vacuum is maintained on the fresh water side of tory for an atomic submarine power plant, has been completed after ten months of work. It stands higher than an 18-story building, is one chore which isn't appreciated the condenser, where a leak will be sucked into the fresh water. Sea 225 feet in diameter and is located in West Milton, NY, near Schenec­ by many. On the Hurricane, the water contains impurities such as chalk, common salt, sulphate of tady. In the atom engine, the splitting of uranium atoms will heat liquid job was taken on by Jimmy lime, magnesium and silicates. As the impurities pile up from additions sodium metal, which in turn will be used to convert water to steam. Williams, night cook and baker, of sea water, the water will start to foam and spurt possibly causing The steam-will drive turbines to turn the submarine's propeller shafts. who saw to it that there was damage to machinery. Foaming will be noticed by a jumpy water level enough money in the fund to meet in the gauge glass. Remaining impurities will form a hard scale on the . 4" 4" 4" steel surfaces of the boiler and eventually lead to overheating of the Admiral Lord Nelson's famous signal, "England expects every man the crew's needs. metal, . to do his duty," flew In Trafalgar Square last week as officers and Williams is a Newark native, It's common practice for each watch to take a sample of boiler men of the Royal Navy gathered to honor the memory of those who being born in that New Jersey fought the battle in 1805 for which the square is named. In the battle. metropolis on September 16, 1914. water and of condensate leaving the condenser to test for presence Nelson routed the French and Spanish fleets and ended Napoleon's He joined the SIU in New York of saltwater. Modern plants are equipped with salinity indicators which hopes of invading England, on May 5, 1943 and lives with his give warning in the form of a bell ringing or a light flashing where salts are present in the feed and filter tank. That's because salt water family here in New York City, i 4is a better conducter than fresh water and will close an electric circuit There were 1,253 px'ivately-owned ships in service in the American 4 4 4 giving the warning system. merchant fleet at the end of September, according to the Maritime It's a common thing to get raves Administration, including 39 passenger-cargo vessels, 770 freighters Fresh Water Has Impurities and 444 tankers. The active Government fleet consisted of 198 ships, from SIU ships about the kind of Even fresh water contains impurities and some fresh water is very among them 18 passenger vessels, 177 freighters and three tankers. chow that the steward depart­ bad for boiler use as it will be so-called "hard" water that is full of Private lines acting as general agents for the Government operate ment is putting out. Stuff like that minerals. There are several boiler compounds and chemicals on the 110 ships. Almost 70,000 seamen are sailing in the merchant marine. comes in regularly from the good market that can be injected into the boilers to counteract the impuri­ feeders that Seafarers sail. But ties in the fresh water. The engineers will analyze the water every 44" 4* The Queen Elizabeth, world's largest passenger liner, arrived in New John Burke, steward of the Del day to find out what type of impurity is present and take appropriate York this week with a 20-foot dent in her starboard hull, 15 feet above Mundo got an even stronger vote action to treat it. the wateriine. The damage was inflicted at Cherbourg, France, when of thanks than most. The crew These water softeners operate in much the same way as those used the 83,673-gross-ton vessel grazed a concrete pier ... A 26-foot house­ thanked him for feeding, serving boat tied up in the East River this week completing a 3,600-mile voyage and keeping a clean ship. Speak­ by housewives in "hard water" areas so as to enable them to do their from the Mexican border that began on June 1. It is said to be the ing of the department they said laundry. They, usually involve a variety of chemical reactions which longest outboard engine voyage on record. "they are tops" and consequently tend to absorb or otherwise change the impurities in the water so that they do not tend to form damaging scale on the inside of boilers. all hands aboard are happy. 4 4 4' Usually too, the engineer will rid the boiler of a small amount Representatives of 14 nations met in London to discuss activation The best way to keep any crew of an international maritime body through addition of seven more happy is to feed them some good of water each day through the bottom blow-off valve, so that impuri­ ties which tend to collect in the boiler will in part be drained out. members to the group which already has ratified the convention of chow. the Intergovernmental Maritime Consultative Organization (IMCO). The fresh water storage tanks themselves are sometimes subject to Burke started sailing with the Twenty-one members are required before the convention comes into SIU out of Mobile joining the SIU contamination. There have been instances where by accident sea force. Attending nations include Great Britain as host, and the United there in May, 1942. He's 31 years water has been admitted-to the tanks, or ships have left port to find States, Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Burma, Canada, the Dominican old and a native of Alabama, who out a few days later that most of the tanks are empty. This ia.a Republic, Ireland, France, Greece, Haiti, Israel and the Netherlands. still lives in the Alabama port city. commoner Accident than might seem possible. Burly ACTION A Bargain^M A Bargain By Bernard Seaman �October 70, 1958 SEAFARERS LOG Pave ScTentcea NLRB Vote Begins In Atlantic Fleet (Continued from page 3) done a terrific job which guaran­ tees you an overwhelming SIU vic­ tory in Atlantic," the wire read. "The credit for this goes to eacn and every SIU supporter on all Atlantic ships and we congratulate you on a job well done." SIU organizers, who have been working steadily in Atlantic for the past 14-months, are still keep­ ing- the pressure on the companydominated Atlantic Maritime Em­ ployees Union. Pledges are still being received from men in the fleet as well as withdrawals from the company union. The key issues of tive Atlantic Refining Campaign have been from the beginning company domina­ tion of the AMEU, which is run by an attorney who has never had any connection with seafaring, in the traditional company union style. The lack of democracy in the company union, complete absence of job security and inferior take home pay have also been brought home with telling effect by both shoreside and shipboard organizers. MldTdopNeedfA delegation of Seafarers marches in the War Day Parade in New York City in 1942. Shown above is part of the contingent of SIU members who survived enemy torpedoes In the early days of the war. More Seafarers were to he added to their ranks in the war days which were stiii to come. SIU 15 Years Old November 1st (Continued from page 2) has brought in hundreds of new were started, marking the first time control of the NMU, was also anx­ ships and has not yet finished. In that many seamen had ever col­ the few years following the adoi> lected vacation money. A maternity ious to smash the young SIU. Today, the SIU is the recognized tion of this program over 60 com­ benefit of $200 was started. Men leader in the industry. It has its panies have been signed, including who are disabled now collect $25 own buildings in Boston, Norfolk, major outfits like Isthmian and per week. Those in the hospital collect $15 per week for as long as Tampa, Mobile, New Orleans and Cities Service. new headquarters in New York. Shortly after moving to the new they're hospitalized. A $2,500 death Work is now under way on a new headquarters two years ago, the benefit is now paid, and four $6,000 building in Baltimore. Its assets Union's Welfare Plan began ex­ scholarships are awarded each year are impressive, but only reflect the- panding, too. Vacation payments to Seafarers or their children. strength of the Union and its mem­ bership. LOG Began Overcoming heavy odds, the young SIU made progress in the Gulf and later all along the East Coast. Companies were signed. Strikes were won. In February, (Continued from page 3) said, "and such relationships be­ 1939, the SEAFARERS LOG began publication as a bi-weekly news­ Health Service hospitals, invest­ tween seamen's organizations are paper. A~ constitution was drafted ments by Aniei'ican shipowuei's in to be encouraged. We hope they and accepted by the membership. foreign-flag vessels, the activities will continue so that seamen every Shortly after the SIU came into of Panamanian and Liberian-flag where can benefit thereby." existence, the war broke out. The new Union met its obligations to ships, foreign shipowner attacks on provide men for its ships through the 50-50 law, and the prospects of the hiring hall, and fought Gov­ shipping in the post-Korean armis­ ernment attempts to pressure and tice period. Shore Leave Restrictions to control the Union and the sea­ men. Other items such as the restric­ In 1944, the Union, which origi­ tions imposed on seamen in for­ nally had headquarters at 2 Stone eign ports by the Armed Forces, Street, New York, moved to Wash­ have been suggested as proper such ington, DC. It then returned to a meeting. Stone Street, later moved to Summing it up for the A&G Dis­ Beaver Street, and then moved to trict, the new headquarters in Brooklyn. clared:Secretary-Treasurer Hall de­ (Continued from page 3) In each case, the move provided "Lundeberg's - approach to the modest warehouse of a few hun­ enlarged facilities and services for the membership as the Union grew. problem is a sound one, in that it dred square feet which the Sea Some 1,200 Seafarers lost their will promote a greater degree of Chest began with, and from the lives during the war. This included cooperation between non-Commu­ kind of storage space maintained a large number of the original nist maritime unions. It is the best by the average waterfront ship members, and the SIU pushed on \vay to handle seamen's problems chandler. Wide Selection with its comparatively new mem­ and matters affecting the industry. "Efforts such as these lead to bership. With plenty of space available, A far-reaching organizing pro­ the betterment of all seamen—re- the Sea Chest can stock the widest gram was launched, one that iardless of their affiliation," Hall possible selection of merchandise, with a full range of branded items in any one category. The largescale merchandising operation makes possible a low percentage mark-up and the low costs that are typical of SIU"^ slopchests. On the Calmar and Ore Line longshoremen have suffered long (Continued from page 2) ships, the skippers have held fast been victims of too many of these enough under the old ILA mob. against crew requests that SIU In every case where the men have sell-out contracts that the old ILA had a chance to vote in an honest slopchests be put aboard on a mob 'negotiated.' The law pro­ secret ballot, the men have voted competitive basis. The crews have hibits any negotiations to take overwhelmingly for the new AFL gained in one respect, since the private slopchest dealers supply­ place while ah NLRB election is union. pending." "The mob is afraid of a secret ing these ships have marked down "The AFL-ILA has the pledge NLRB election, conducted by the their prices considerably with con­ cards from the thousands of New Government. They know that they sequent saving for the crew. York longshoremen to prove that can't phony up the results of an Howeyer, most merchandise sup­ it represents the longshoremen, election like t|iat, and they also plied is sti^ of 'an inferior, noand the NLRB, election will prove know that the longshoremen will branded variety so that shopping that ;^e .Iphgshbremen want , the vote ov^-whblmingly in favor , of these slopchests remains' pretty hmbbi'bf.'8 blind- bpesatienr':-*« the^cliean AFL-ilA."^; Conference Of Sea Unions Is Proposed By Lundeberg Sea Chest Expanding Its Service AFL-ILA Organizing Drive Forging Ahead On Docks D • • a Q • • a • • • • a n • • • a • a • a a O a a a n a a • suits SftKRT COATS SMCKS TOPCCArs DRSSSSHC^ WORK SHOES VONGAS^SES KHAKI PANTS KHAKI SHIRTS eUlE WORKSHIRtS FRISKOOEEHS HICKORV SHIRTS C.PO. SHIRTS WHITE DRESS SHIRTS SPOPT SHIRTS PRESS BELTS KHAKI WEB BELTS TIES SWEATSHIRTS ATHLETIC SHIRTS T-SHIRTS SHORTS BRIEFS SWEATERS UXSGAGE WORK SOCKS DRESS SOCKS LEATHER JACKETS WRITINS RDRIR5LIO Sou'WESIERS RAIN SEAR ALLVOUR HEEPS CAN BE FILLED -FROM A SOU'WESTERTD AM ELECTRIC RAZOR . WHATEVER ybu Buy FROM THE SEA CHE©r/ you CAM BE SURE yDufeeOETTINS TDP QUAUTT SBAR AT SUBSTAN­ TIAL SAVlMeS. ^SeaCkesh UNlOH-OWNeOANO UMtON-OPERATCP... 4%>K -IHE BENEm OF nHE AAEMBERSHlP* �Psre Eirhteea SEAFARERS LOG Foul Ball Seaman Bats Himself Out Of Shipping League Lineup Seafarers have come across some foul balls in their time, writes Seafarer William J. Sniith, ship's delegate on the Shinnecock Bay (Veritas), but hardly one to match the troublemaker who shipped aboard the vessel's last trip to the Far East. The character, says Smith, was not a member of the Union, but was an inde­ mer's wishes to the contrary, the the rescue. The only trouble was, pendent foul ball who had captain ordered a boat lowered to there was no rescue to take place fouled himself out of a rival union search for this clown-gone-Flor- because the ace No. 1 foul ball by missing the brotherhood pitch. ence-Chadwick. channel swimmer was churning up The FWT in question, who the seas in another direction. To The Rescu^ •hipped out in an emergency to Smith and the Shinnecock Bay Down went the lifeboat into the crew thought they had heard the crew up the ship, didn't cause any glowing darkness. Commanded by last of their ship-jumper, but foul trouble until the the second mate, the would-be res­ balls always turn up, like collars ship reached Na- cuers had to pull hard to make any in the wintertime. When the ves­ goya, Japan, Af­ headway against the swirling seas. sel arrived at Otaru, three-andter getting gassed In addition to the lifeboat. Smith, one-half days later, the crew got up on saki and the chief mate and the steward word that the foul ball was found oriental spices, commandeered a liberty motor alive on the inside breakwater, a the foul ball be­ launch from ashore and searched bit water-logged but not much gan to compound for two hours to no avail. The more the worse for wear. He had the crime by channel swimmer, it appeared, had swum a distance of three-and-oneSmith taking weekend taken to the sub-marine life, for half miles to reach it. At last re­ port, the foul ball had been taken watches oif without as much as a he was nowhere to be seen. by your leave. He was amused by The Captain would not give up under observation at the nearby his own boldness and told a few so easily, however. After signal­ US Army hospital and declared of the Seafarers aboard the vessel ing for an hour and a half by sane. Seafarers aboard the Shin­ that they "ain't seen nothing yet" blinker light and ship's whistle, necock Bay found it hard to be­ in the way of fouling up. Smith the Japanese Coast Guard came to lieve. warned him off, but this nuisance from another maritime union took no heed of this smart pitch. LOG-A-RHYTHM: Takes To Sea When the ship reached Yoko­ hama, the foul ball pulled out all the stops and took the final cut at breaking the rules. As night had By M. Dwyer fallen and while the last of the deck cargo was being stored in the No. 2 hatch, all hands were startled to I've seen many sailors Does a job well done hear a splash coming from the From here to Japan, He doesn't intend general direction of the gangway. But none can compare To impress anyone. Racing over to the source of the With the merchant man. noise, the men peered into the So let them brag murky blackness and made out a They live fast and work hard These Navy boys. figure treading water in the chop­ This gallant crew, Some act as if they py seas. None better you'll find Still played with toys. "Grab hold of the life ring," went In all Timbuctu. up the shout from those on deck, The merchant man ivears but the clown in seaman's clothes Now take these sailors No fancy dress. tossed back a taunt in place of the With golden braid. And calls for no Uncji life ring and headed for the dis­ They'd never admit Napkins at mess. tant shore, about five or six miles To being afraid. from the vessel which was an­ He's rugged and steady chored outside the second break­ It's human to fear And straight down the line. water. Despite the channel swimAt certain times, Just give me a merchant man Anytime. But if you listen to them They'll hand you a line Yes, give me a Of how straight they stood Merchant man, anytime If a crewmember quits while Where the spray is thick While under fire. your ship is in port, delegates You'll almost feel And the sea's but brine. are asked to contact the hall Like shouting, "Liar." immediately for a replace­ Where the wind whips 'cross They talk of their ships The silent booms. ment. Fast action on your part So neat and trim. And threats of danger will keep all jobs aboard ship All painted and polished In the night air looms. filled at all times and elimiAnd rigged to the brim. hate the chance of your ship Oh, give me that hardy clan. But the merchant man The doughty merchant man. sailing shorthanded. The Merchant Seaman Oatober I*. IMS That the ciutom of "scaliHiic" was mainly acquired by Indians from the original white settlers? With the exception of a handful of tribes, this grisly business was started by white settlers who used the scalps as evidence to collect bounties (where these were of­ fered) or to show off as trophies. As early as 1725 the public treas­ ury of Massachusetts offered 100 pounds for any Indian scalp. This was a sizable amount of money in those days and many of the lowertype colonials began- to make a business of taking scalps, slaugh­ tering Indians in wholesale lots and showing no mercy to women or children. This legalized murder had become so widespread by 1750 that the Commonwealth reduced the bounty to 40 pounds, while stipulating that the scalps must be taken from males above 12 years old. X. t, i. That Seafarers in the Gulf area have all the advantages of SIU slopchest service that is offered In New York? Arrangements have been completed to supply ships sailing from Gulf ports with the same high quality, low price mer­ chandise now being sold on ships sailing out of New York. The Union is gradually expanding this service to all ports that SIU crews sail from. This service will help to keep the seaman from being vic­ timized by the unscrupulous ship chandler, and represents another area in which the Union protects Its memberi from thoio who would •xploit them. t » * That In a recent survey it was revealed that men gossip moro than women? "This Week" maga­ zine sent out reporters to bars, buses, bleachers, backyards and other spots conducive to gossiping. They found that women did gossip about sex, children, clothes and personal appearance, but that of their total conversation only 13 percent was actual gossip. Their husbands, on the other hand, sup­ posedly tight-lipped, devoted 17 percent of their chitchat to the same subject. In sterner times gossips were publicly silenced. Colonial Virginians, for instance, dunked their gossips in the James River. 4" t That the Klondike is not located In Alaska? The Klondike is ac­ tually located in the Canadian Yukon territory, south of the Klondike River. The most impor­ tant town in the area Is Dawson City, which most Americans be­ lieve to be an Alaskan city. The first gold in this area was discov­ ered on Bonanza Creek by Kate Carmack and two of her kinsmen, "Skookum Jim" and "Tagfish Charlie." Robert Henderson, known as "Klondike Bob," is often cred­ ited as the first to pan gold in the area. The Alaskan-Canadian boun­ dary was finally determined during the administration of Theodore Roosevelt. On Shore Leave In Germany Fill That Berth Seafarer Rags—Many A Slip 'Twixt The Cup And The Pic Seafarers Paoll Pringi, oiler, left, and Jo« McLaren, electrician, take time out for a little relaxation in Germany on shore leave from the Del Aires (Mississippi). Lady friends are local fraulelns joining in a toast of good cheer to the visiting Seafarers. ly f. R«y«s tu' • nil �Octdb^r 30, 1953 By SEAFARERS LOG Photo Editor For Its 65th anniversary of eamera manufacturing, the Eastman Kodak Company has introduced three new cameras with several new features. Each camera is aimed at a diiferent price and photographic level — the Brownie Holiday at $4.25 for beginners; the Bantam RF camera priced at $78.50, with flash and case for amateurs; the Chevron camera priced at $215 for professionals and advanced amateurs. (Through the Sea Chest, you can get a break on these prices.) The Bantam RF has a superimposed image type range-finder, a 50 mm Kodak Ektanon f-3.9 lens with click stop apertu(:e settings to f-22 and a flash 300 click stop shutter with speeds from 1/25 to 1/300 second and B. It takes 828 roll film,-making 8 exposures. The shutter is synchronized for both types of bulbs. It has automatic film stop, double exposure prevention and a release for 'intentional double ex­ posure. The viewfinder for eye level viewing i^ combined with the rangefinder. To simplify matters the Bantam RF has shutter and aperture setting scales marked with a red dot and red and black numbers. A red 1/50 second marking next to the red dot between f-5.6 and f-8 gives the correct exposure outdoors for an average subject in bright sunlight with Kodachrome film. A red reference mark &t f-11 indicates correct exposure under the same conditions for Kodacolor film. Outstanding feature of the Chevron 620 roll-film camera is tbe fast­ est between-the-lens-shutter available, the Kodak Synchro-Rapid 800. It has 10 shutter speeds from 1 to 1/800 second, and Bulb. It is syn­ chronized for both -class F and M bulbs and electronic flash at all speeds. The lens on the Chevron is the 78 mm Ektar f-3.5 lens. Other features are a split-field viewfinder-rangefinder with built-in eye piece suitable for use with glasses; built-in rangefinder pointer for centering on subject; lever-opferated film advance system; film type dial indicator; and automatic film stop and counter. The camera with an adapter can be used with 828 black and white or color films. The Brownie Holiday uses 127 roll film and produces 8 photos on a roll. The single action s'hutter gives an exposure of about 1/45 second. It Jias a relatively long basS eye-level viewfinder which makes for extreme accuracy in centering on subjects. Margins are clearly defined in viewing. Accessories available for the Holiday are a close-up at­ tachment, no. 13; Kodak cloud filter; and field case. Here are three good cameras to fit any Seafarer's pocket, ability and taste. SEAFARERS LOG Pare Nineteea - Seafdrer Reports Smooth Sailing Through Sea Of Books On Campus Riding up on the train from New York City to Ithaca, New York, where Cornell is located, writes Seafarer Ed Larkin, I was a bit leery and felt out of place with the thou= sands of students on the train. Freshmen took me for a professor when I was seen in the Club Car. However, I braved — it and continued on. After all seamen go to sofne unusual places and this was a challenge. ^ Arriving at the train station, vvc were met by a band and the offi­ cial welcoming committees. Five minutes later I was wearing, to my dismay, a freshman hat, a little red beanie with the class of '57 printed on it. During the evening, I was hounded by all sorts of ac­ tivities, freshman bon-fires, pa­ rades, dances, games, sports, and a mad life in general. Mistaken Identity My school gave a tea and lunch­ eon for the parents, students, and professors so they could get to­ gether and meet one another. Well by this time I unfortunately lost my frosh ha,t and was in a corner with some young gal telling a few sea stories, when a professor walked over and asked me if I Shown above is air view of portion of the campus of Cornell Uni­ thought that my daughter would versity .where Seafarer Ed Larkin is studying on a tuition scholar­ be happy here in Cornell. Need­ ship from the institution. Top left is view of part of Lake Cayuga, less to say, a crew cut, sport coat one of the Finger Lakes in New York State. and saddle shoes were in order for me the next day. union officials conduct evening age and experience. However, the week of filling but lectures; also' scheduled are a few The university has a co-op where mountains of questionnaires, regis­ men from Government such as one receives a 10% return on any­ tering, tests, exams, speeches, in­ Sen. Irving M. Ives who will speak thing that he may purchase from doctrinations and campaigning on the "Role of the US in the school books to spovt shirts. Beer ceased and hard work was the International Labor Organization." is sold in the local bars by the main topic. Since I was classified Then there are University lec­ pitcher, bus tickets by the discount as a Merchant Marine Veteran, it tures, which are conducted in and dates by the dutch treatment. made me exempt from ROTO and large auditoriums for the entire Laundromats, student dry clean­ physical training but the Navy population of 9,000 students. To ers and co-op restaurants are the flirted with me trying to woo my date we have had a Member of way of life up here. Then we have license into their clutches. Parliament from England and a the student employment agencies Informal Classes Professor of History from Colum­ that will find you a part-time job Classes have been very informal bia University, Messrs. Austin to fill that dent in the pocket. To up here. We wear anything we Alvu and Dr. Commager, respec­ get around room rent, many of the please, smoke anytime and call on tively. The many libraries up here, older students live in the local the professors whenever we feel to those of you who like books, firehouses in exchange for volun­ it is necessary. Every student is will be a sight to see. Books on teer fire duty. There it is com­ assigned one professor as a coun­ every subject imaginable, fi'om the fortable, pool tables and TV, but sellor, and he helps you get on "Construction of the Great Wall kind of distracting once in awhile. the track to settle down and will of China" to the latest doings of Just like our fire and boat drills. answer any of your questions. the "Fijis." Joins Club Carrying six courses subjects me Dates No Problem In the school of Industrial and to 18 hours a week of actual class­ Dating up here is no problem. Labor Relations there is an "Old room lectures and. discussion groups. I am allowed to miss three There are gals from every state in Man's Club" which I have been in­ hours from each, then after the union and every country in the vited to join. We meet every two that it is probably the Log Book. world. The average gal up here weeks and have the secretary re­ We also have the advantage of will go easy on your allowance and quest a professor to lead an infor­ going on local tours of varioust^ will spring back. For instance, 1 mal discussion group on trade am taking an ^unsuspecting young unionism, social security, organiz­ industries, mines, special field trips and numerous directors from damsel to hear the Boston Sym­ ing or labor relations. Most of the both industry and labor have phony Orchestra on Sunday, and, profs have accepted and the ses­ On his many trips to the Far East, Seafarer Evaristo Rosa snaps given us the opportunity in class in turn, she has invited me to the sions last until midnight. The SIU pictures of many activities. Here is one of the Yokohama market to discuss their problems and messhall at her dormitory for a is very much respected up here by place. plans. Occasionally, we had trade free supper. Of course there will the students and faculty. They think be a few thousand gals present to that we are tops, a bit rugged and make the desert go down that militant but nevertheless tops in much sweeter. A sailor on the honesty, democracy, planning and campus certainly has a good time welfare. In the class-rooms I have with the .gals. At last I have found seen many union and management Seafarers aboard the Steel lnventor (Isthmian) know what it means to be stranded on a a group that will believe my sea movies, and just as when I was in Here I am practically re­ Great Britain, I hope to show the desert island; stuck in the middle of a prairie, or holed-up^for the winter in a mountain stories. garded as a hero because of my gang up here the SIU movies. Seafarer Trips Shutter On Trips Crew At Sea Over Smokes Situation cabin, writes Seafarer Charles Bedell, all without proper provision for the days ahead. It all began peacefully enough with the ship leaving Cape Henry. It was not an unusual sight for Baltimore, and bound for Houston, half a dozen men to be seen in tlie Texas, There was no • foreboding wake of a seaman smoking a cigaof trouble, for the men were given ret in the hopes of getting one last a draw in port and all stocked up drag out of the dregs before it on cigarets, but not for the full went the way of all ash. Those ten-day trip. seamen who were farsighted , Meai^ures notwithstanding, the enough to provide-smokes for the supply of cigarets gave out and full trip were usually seen with a the ship took on the look of one bevy of sailors in tow, passing the great treasure cigaret around as caJjefully as if it were the last payoff. It was quite hunt for a butt. Casting aside an event aboard ship to find a butt pride in favor of more than fin inch long, calling for dire necessity,something of a celebration. Lengths the driven-to-the ofbigarets which often Were looked upon with disdain in the past, now wall seamen sniped at any were held in high fqvor by the al­ most tobacco-less crew. snipes that were left sn^oldering Tribal Smoke In ash trays. To­ Bedell bacco Road, they, About mid-way through the voy­ felt,' never like' tJlla. At least age some Seafarer struck upon the. it wbs bh land near that favorite _ idea ott a communal cigaret,vmuch fruit"" T "iw the order of the tribal pipe'of peace. Every available butt was stripped in a common pool, with burnt ends cast off until a respect­ able pile of tobacco built its way up from the messroom table. Add­ 1. What son of a former President was an unsuccessful candidate ing a piece of brown paper to the against California Governor Earl Warren, newly-appointed Supreme brown heap, a fe^ rapid twists Court Chief Justice? around the grains brought forth a 2. What former Ivy League coach and All American now have their cigaret measuring eight inches own television football commentaries? long. It was a happy crew that 3. Who was named non-playing captain of the United States Davis spent the next half hour passing Cup tennis team? the giant cigaret around to eager 4. Who pre-dated Mickey Spillane in the "hard-boiled" school of detective story writing? and waiting hands. However, the Seafarers were 5. Which of the following cities is located on the Japanese island of gayer still when the ship reached Hokkaido: Sapporu, Nagasaki, Darien, Otaru, Hakodate? Houston. Once on the heach they 6. Which branch of the Armed Forces has banned showings of movies headed for the nearest sign of "From Here to Eternity" and "The Moon Is Blue?" civilization, a cigaret vending ma­ 7. What United States Senator, who headed the Senate Subcommittee ' ' chine. Happy inde^ was the ciew on Maritime Affairs, recently died? which queued up in front of the 8. What former Brooklyn pitcher, how in the Army, was sorely missed cigaret dispenser, with quarter fpl- by the Dodgers in this World Series? lowing quarter down the ways and 9. What, former Secretary of State recently received the Woodrow whole cigarets, for; a change; issu­ Wilson award for outstanding service? 10. Who is PoUx Adler? . ing forth from the maw of the chanidSl 'vmdor;? ^ ••-'••Wj I �Pare Twenty ' -" SEAFARERS LOG ^Strange Things Are Happening' Aboard Waterman Ship At Sea wummrn Oetojber S0. l»5t By Spike Martin To nobody's particular surprise None of these was a mediocre' Cari "Bobo" Olson, the tattooed fighter, except Graziano. Some of man from Hawaii, beat a sound course^ like Robinson and LaMotta, tattoo of his own on the head and were really tops when theyJiad it. middle of Randy Turpin to win the A fight between Gavilan and Ol­ world's middleweight crown. The. son should be a .veiy interesting contest climaxed a dreary elimina­ affair, |irovided Gaviian is up to tion tournament which should scratch. He looked pretty sick his never have taken place because last time, out against an obscure Olson and Turpin were clearly the club fighter. Carmen Basllio. More class of the division long before of a line on his shape should come the whole thing started. when he meets Johnny Bratton for Now the question remains just the second time. how long Olson will keep his new­ If Gavilan is in good shape when ly-won title. Judging from past he meets Olson he is going ta history in the middleweight divi­ prove a hard one to shave. Olson sion it won't be a lengthy span. does his best fighting up in close. And the shadow of Kid Gavilan al­ He likes to snuggle his head in on ready looms up in Olson's path as the' other guy's chest and hook, a dangerous challenger. u^percut and club him from all Comin' And Goin' angles. Since the end of the war, mid­ A well-conditioned Gavilan is dleweight champions have been not likely to get pinned in a cor­ coming and going -like a Times ner like Turpin was. With his Square shuttle train.- Thpre' was speed and his solid footwork he Tony Zale, then Rocky Graziano, could back off Olson ail night and then Zale again, then Marcel Cer- drive him crazy with left hooks. dan, then Jake LaMotta, then Ray Where Olson might have an ad­ Robinson, Turpin, Robinson again vantage is in the fact that he's and now Olson. The average cham­ pressing ail the time. Gavilan's pion, it appears, didn't hold his habit of resting two minutes and title for more than a couple of fighting one minute of each round months. just won't do. He will have to That's understandable in a way keep moving and punching if he because the division, usually has wants to become champion No. 10 more class fighters than any other. in the post-war picture. Strange things happen on the .sea, but the strangest of all marine occurrences is when a bird, a seaman's best friend and a symbol of good luck since man first- started sailing, attacks a sailor. Just such an event took place aboard the Waterman's Yaka recently as re^ L_ ported by Seafarers aboard 4 the vessel. While the ship was cruising at sea on a clear night, mixed re­ ports assert, a marine flyer of un­ Oriental spices, wines and condiments flavoring his fare­ determined origin,, either an alba­ well, Seafarer Ernest H. Ibarra recently left Yokohama, tross or a gull, Japan, by air on a return trip to the States after getting off caused all the the Jean Lafitte (Water-.f excitement whicli man). Not, however, before she glides into her berth. A good set the ship reminiscing on his latest trip crew and a good ship, manned buzzing with to the Far East. noise and. set the by experts and led by a captain fur flying. It was "Say, boysan," said the Sea­ who goes to sleep wearing his cap just another rou­ farer in his reveries, "bring ihe a and gold braid. tine watch ac­ pencil and paper and another "Oh, there you are, boysan. What, cording to the re­ cocktail with a lot of ice and a no lemon! Well,. I shall have saki ports, with the slice of lemon. Just one more instead and a side order of octopus Lowe wind blowing for the road before heading home. tentacles. Hurry now, for the hour and the stars shining down on "1 can't help but stare out of is growing late and I must be off." Tom Lowe, AB, on the wheel. The the window as I sit here in the third mate was on the wing of the maritime club bridge and all seemed right with and look down the world. at the mysterious and fascinating Strange Sounds Just then, all Hades broke loose port of Yoko­ as the thij'd mate started flailing hama with its his arms madly through the air narrow streets Like the celebrated fictional and emitting strange sounds un­ decorated with character who jumped on his large China common to human and marine life. horse and rode madly off in Lowe, on the wheel, thought the lamps swinging all directions. Seafarer Lou Cirigmate had a bit too much sun dnd gently in the soft Ibarranano, now retired, finds his inter­ oriental breeze. was done in. directed toward many fields. Of course, the rumor ran the Rickshaws, pulled by their ener­ ests At the present time, Cirignano getic owners, race back and forth length of the ship that the mate is dh*ecting his efforts to the always seemed that way. The alle­ looking for a fare. The girls stroll separate fields of imder the cherry blossom trees in gation was not proven. business and mu­ As matters developed, the mate, their kimonos of Ibeautiful, rich sic. Enrolled as walking on the bridge, had inad­ colors, blending with their exotic a sophomore at perfumes. They are no less than vertently kicked the bird in the the Montclair the walking gardens of the East. part of his anatomy which ordin­ Teachers arily goes over the fence last. The "And over there to one side of State bird, irate over this kind of treat­ the vessel, covered with snow as a College, Upper Montclair, NJ, ment, took matters into its own queen is covered with ermine, is the on-again, offclaws, so to speak, and lashed out the girl friend of all the ships at the retreating mate. After about which drop their rusty anchors in again Seafarer is Cirlgnano the third dive-bombing attempt this port after a tired voyage. majoring in busiupon the mate's head, the battle Sweetheart to the ships and to the ness education drew to an end. The mate Seafarers who sail them is this while tootling the saxophone for emerged from the melee thorough­ stately Mount Fujiama, which wel­ his own and friends' pleasure. ly scratched but undaunted, while comes the sailors back from the Cirignano retired his book when the bird came up minus a head, Korea shuttle run to the shores he went back to school, but takes it out periodically each summer knocked galley west by a belaying of Japan. Three Seafarer crewmembers aboard the Greece Victory take time "Neither binoculars nor imagina­ to keep his hand in the trade, his pain in the hands of the startled foot on the sea and his pocket out from fishing in Greenland to pose for the photographer. They tion is needed to see the Jean La­ and defending mate. , are, left to right. Gamer, MM; Tonney, third cook, and Hail, MM. Which goes to prove that some fitte cuting through the waters, full of dough. Sailed With SIU birds belong on bridges and others her angry propeller slicing up the A vetet-an of merchant marine behind bars. surf and kicking back the wake as duty with the SIU before and after the war, Cirignano made two trips - y,-". W/ Vii last summer between classes. He signed on for a European run as The LOG opens this column as an exchange for stewards, cooks, engine utility man and made the bakers and others who'd like to share favored food recipes, little-known ports of Bremerhaven, Germany, cooking and baking hints, dishes with a national flavor and the like, and Antwerp, Belgium, among his suitable for shipboard and/or home use. Here's Solomon Harb's ports-of-call. It was old home week recipe for curried lamb. • for him, for he had been there Although Seafarer Solomon Harb has not set foot in his many times before aboard SlUnative Egypt in over ten years, his culinary preferences reflect^ contracted vessels. Returning to the US, Cirignano a middle eastern influence. He generally favors lamb over shipped out once again after a beef and delights in fixing short time, heading for the Gulf an SIU manned ship, joined the aboard a Cities Service scow. He shjsh. kebabs, stuffed grape Union and has been sailing SIU reported that the weather was leaves, baclawa and the like. since. " murderous," but the food aboard He concedes that crew preferences One of his favorite recipes is ship was delectable, making up in are often a restraining influence, that for iamb curry. To feed a part for'the hot and sunny south. but When practicing his art unfet­ crew of 38 you use the following Next year, Cirignano has plans tered he returns to the gastronomi- ingredients: eight pounds of lamb, of making a Mediterranean run. cal delights of the desert area. one-half head of celery, one .dozen He likes to. put a change of pace medium size onions, one head of His adventures in getting to the in his studies once in a while, mix­ United States and Into the SIU garlic, four apples, six peeled to­ ing classwork with world travel. make an interesting story in matoes, six carrots, one can of & themselves. One day in 1942 a green peas, four b'ayleaves, two friend importuned him into and one-half tablespoons of curry, going down to a Swedish freight­ and two tablespoons of fiour. er tied up in port at his native First, dice the lamb and blanch. city of Alexandria. The friend pro­ Then drain off water and wash in Seafarers sending ^telegrams posed that they both make a short cold water. Dice onions into quar­ or letters to the New York trip to Tripoli. Harb was unwill­ ters and add to iamK Add garlic headquarters dispatcher asking ing to make a trip, as he had a and allow to braise over a slow, to -be excused frbm attending good job as chef in a private club flame, phop up celeiy and carrots headquarters membership in Alexandria. He agreed,; how­ and add separately. Add tomatoes, meetings must include the regr ever, to go along with his friend bayleaves and salt and pepper to: istration number ' of their as interpreter. Once aboard ship, taste. Add watey to about one inch shipping card in the message. he reports, the gangway went up above Ingredients. Allow to sim-; From now on, if the-number and the ship sailed away with Harb mer for forty-five, minutes. Add is not included, the excuse can­ and his friend aboard. It was not curry and flour .aijd • stir to thicken.;-; not be accepted by the disuntil the ship reached St, Johns, Dice apples :an.ff a^. Cook for fif­ •patcher. Newfoundland, that he was able to teen minutes. The curried lamb is! get peid off. At j§VJ!?l^|k^^9ined •then iieady^fp- sexye^ s.,., f:.;- Seafarer Bids Ship Farewell Learns At Sea And In School Seafarer Trio Poses In Greenland m I £;*V oME COMPANIES ASK cmimws -0 SUSNMEDICAUREI-BA^ AfliHS WOFf. IP YPIAARP/N WCSTAS -0 YONR PHYSICAL cohtDmoMpoN'r Smi THe PtORM . PRCT$(yfYOV/i' IN CASE MAIA)" AND coPe Put Number On Meeting Excuses �'••t: -' r-.t 'OeM>«r'ld^ mt "• - ^ -"• ;••• ^ ICajpitaln W'oreem iBoRun To Leave. To the Editon There hash't beeh much going on In Pusan since I wrote, to you last, but the Seacliff pulled out last night with a bunch of mourn­ ful boys; they had to leave their brother and bosun behind because of a rlgged-up deal by the skipper, Captain Klngspolnt Bounty Metzger. No name Is available for this kind of character. He put pressure on the bosun; Jack Stough, so that he either had to get off or go to the Korean jail. He got off, as he has a fam­ ily in the States to feed. You can' bet your bottom dollar that' he Stough had aU of the SlU brothers' support In this forsaken port. Brothers who have been here are Frenchie Mlchelet, Kirk (Andy) Anderson, Joe Joe Stuart, McBrlde, the bosun of the Seacoral; McNeal, chief . cook on the Purplestar; Chuck Parady, Ray Queen and many others, a good many of whom I met for the first time. They all make me feel glad to have been an SIU man and to know that I will be one again. I've taken sev­ eral of them to my club for parties. This Is the only way that I can show my appreciation for what the fellows have done for me in this hellhole of a Korea, and I'm hoping to be able to do some more for them In the near future. Ships I've recently seen Include the Seamonltor, Seacoral, Seacliff, Purplestar, Citrus Packer, City of Alma, Keystone Mariner, Ocean Ulla and Choctaw. Jimmle James Ji J, J, LOGMsLikeA Letter From Home To the Editor: Today I had the good fortune to find an October 2 Issue of the LOG, and it was like sC letter from home. John Delllnger, who lives here In Kannapolls, NC, and is insured by my company, gets it regularly. To^y, on my collection route I asked* if I might borrow it. I've consumed it, even to the ships', minutes and am forwarding a request that It be sent to me Recently I was transferred here, and have handed my resignation in. I'm out of patience, mainly because the local scratch is antilabor from the word go. Today there's an article running down unions and I must admit they do write of some that the LOG men­ tion once In a while. But they're not just against the bad ones; they like to work a man 35 years and tap him on the shoulder with a simple, "We don't need you any more." One of my associates was a victim of that. It gets under my skin to see and come In contact with such practices, so please send me the LOG so I can keep my mind off it. Please say hello to all my old shipmates and to the fellows around the Baltimore hall. John Adams (Ed. note: The LOG will be sent to you regularly, as you re­ quested. ) Good..Union Men Are Aboard Ship To the Editor: In my opinion it sure makes a change when a couple of good, men come aboard a ship, especially Brothers Carl E. (Red) Glbbs and Charlie Kellogg. Since boarding this ship last trip in the port of ' Baltimore it has been a pleasure to sail with these good brothers. There has been such a change b>r having someone on a ship to take the lead itf affain^^hemeficial to mie Pa(« Twenty-«n« SEAFARERS tOG L E T T E R S young brothers who are just start­ ing out on Ore ships, especially since, it la hard to get any good bookmen aboard. Several joined this ship in Baltimore last trip, which is a good thing, in my esti­ mation. I have belonged to. the Train­ men for the' past 38 years and have been past president of Seaside Lodge No. 514 for 10 years. It sure is a big pleasure to have a man like Brothel' Gibbs address a meet­ ing aboard a vessel, pointing out various things that, are beneficial to everybody concerned. I hope in the future to have the opportunity to sail with a lot more good Union brothers who are a dredit to the Union and to the ship. Also on board are several more good Union men, like Murphy, the deck engi­ neer from Norfolk and one of f-he oldtimers. Joe Wqodfin 4" 4" 4" Navy Hardtimea Merchant Seamen To the Editor: I am enclosing my subscription blank for the LOG. The first thing I do when getting back from a trip is to try and hunt up all the back LOGS I can lay my hands on and read up on- everything that I've missed. If I have them sent to my home it will make things a lot easier. I am also enclosing some pic­ tures that I took on my last trip aboard the Robin Mowbray, around the world—^Yokohama, Inchon, Pu­ san, Madagascar, Beira, Lorenco Marques, Mozambique and Cape­ town. Looting on Comhusker We were in Pusan when the Comhusker went On the rocks.- One of the officers aboard our ship had a small runabout and outboard motor with him. He brought the captain, chief mate and chief en­ gineer aboard for dinner several times, and what they said about the alleged looting the Navy fellows did aboard the Comhusker, didn't sound too good for the Navy. The Navy port commander told our skipper to be careful of Koreans slipping aboard at night and steal­ ing our mooring lines. They even caught a Navy man stealing the few tools they had in the runabout when they went over to get the old man from the Com­ husker. Also, the Navy made it so mean, as far as shore leave went at Inchon, that, hardly anyone had a chance to get ashore there. It seems the Navy sure has it in for the merchant seamen. AU in all, we had a fine trip with a good bunch of SIU shipmates, and I am proud to be one of them. Jacob Malenke 4' 41 4 Thanhs SIU For Maternity Douyh To the Editor: Many thanks to the SIU for its generous gifts of a $25 war bond and $200 in cash as a matemity benefit, all for the birth of my son Miguel Reyes Maldonado. Thank you also for the letter to my son. You catt-never know how much happiness you have brought to us. I am indeed grateful to the SIU and its members for all of these benefits anS feel highly fortunate to havfe the privilege of being a member of this splendid organiza­ tion. •W^en my son grows up and can read this letter, I know he will feel proud that he is a part of the Sea­ farers as I am how. May the Hnion have continued success in the good work it is doing for us seamen and our families. My wife, Miguel and I again Join in saying many thanks. > '- Franli Maidta Sweil Crew On Steel Advocate To the Editor: I have been aboard the Steel Advocate as chief cook for the past four months, and have found one of the best crews in my 13 years of going to sea. A good crew can make a ship mn real smooth and take it from me, if any of you fellows ever ride a ship with a crew like ours you would never regret the day you threw in your shipping card. Our steward department is onq of the best I have ever worked with in my years of shipping with the SIU. We stayed in Djkarta for 14 days, where most of the boys hung out at the Radio Bar. While v;e were there a few other Isthmian ships came in, including the Steel Age, with Leon Odum and Louis Cruz, whom I was glad to see, and the Steel Seafarer, with Rico, Bobby, Bill and Freddie Aron. I hope that our Union will progress in years to come as we have in the past 17 years. I hope to see Marty, our old dispatcher, back in New York again, and best of luck to all the boys. I hope to see the big city some time soon, even though it isn't so badniere in Colombo, Ceylon, if you like these four-month trips. Joe E. Thomas iilSilliiiiiliBiiiiW that do not have the democratic and honest management that ours has. If the members of these unions were to read our consti­ tution, shipping rules and working agreements, they would be better informed to improve conditions m their industries. No Mail We haven't received any mail in over a month, due to sudden changes in our itinerary. Operat­ ing under MSTS orders has its drawbacks. The item most missed is our copies of the LOG. All of us are impatient to leam of our negotiating committee's results which, we are confident, will be advantageous. This is a good time to express our confidence in them. The crew of this ship presents a good example of SIU seamanship. It's one of the finest crews I've ever sailed with. Notable examples are Johnny Reilly, the steward, who deserves more praise than I can deliver. Through his efforts we have received fresh vegetables, milk, meats and jce cream in the Orient. Also, his menus show fine planning and variety. Most of us have added to our waistlines this trip. Backing up such a good stew­ ard is chief cook Henry Harz, an artist in the galley, and baker Mel Ketola. Clean Ship Now the trip is nearly ended. We return from Okinawa to a West Coast port, most likely Seattle, for a smooth four-and-a-half-month payoff. The only item that could afford much argument is whether or not we get any bonus for the time we spent in Haiphong, French Indo-China. I forgot to mention bosun Bob Eisengraeber, Chips L. B. Knicker­ bocker and the bosun's boys, who have also been doing a bang-up .job. This- is one of the bestlooking, cleanest Victorys on the seven seas, s J. T. Otto 4 Having a great time aboard the Steel Advoeate in the Far East are, left to right, Toben, Joe Thomas and Campfield. 4. 4 4 Good Steward Is Addiny Poundage To the Editor: We the crew of the North Platte Victory, would like to add our voice to the clamor of praRe no doubt evoked by the article in the Reader's Digest commending the SIU and our leader, Paul Hall. The benefits received by us as members and the improvements in maritime conditions brought about largely through the militant efforts of the SIU, are accepted by us as the normal course of events. Few of us realize that there are unions 4 4 Brother Sails In Blach Gang To the Editor: I am very much interested in the SEAFARERS LOG and the great volume of facts on labor that appear in each issue. I have been informed that you will mail me your paper if I write to your office. I have a brother who is a mem­ ber of your Union, and I have often heard him praise it, so I de­ cided to get your newspaper, after reading several copies. I believe my brother has been a member of your Union since 1939 or 1940; his name is James T. Lassiter and he sails in the e \gine department. Mrs. M. -C. Lassiter (Ed note: We have added your name to our mailing list; from now on you will receive a copy of the SEAFARERS LOG every two weeks, as published.) Taxi Service 'Round The Worid A Durban., So. Afirica, rickshaw driver, right, hustles for his next fare in front of a sign of western culture, a Woolworth store, while, at left a "taad'* ia Karachi, Pakistan, waits to make the long; voy­ age home. Left pic hy Kionmei,zi|^ by Rosa. I.... Old Pals Meet In New Orleans To the Editor: It seems as if " I will be an out­ patient for quite some time, ac­ cording to the doctors. I am still unfit for duty, back on main­ tenance and cure again. I have been in and out of the hospital for about four months, ever since I was pulled off the Golden City. The doctors say that the pleurisy tijat I contracted on my last Far East voyage will - eventually go away, but that there is no known cure. I see where Vic Miorana, Jr., is following in , his father's footsteps. Belly robber, jr., is on the Alcoa Clipper. After being away from New Orleans for quite some time; it was a pleasure to run across three oldtimers that I knew in my boyhood — all on the beach at the same time. These are Percy Boyer, Bob Bur­ ton and Moon Kouns. Some Koroiia other oldtimers that I met' in the hospital here in the Crescent City include Tedd Terrington, Red Cobb, A1 Sylera, Jack Bater, Glen Curl. Before closing I would like to ask all the brothers to get the ball rolling and write to Congress for enough money to keep the USPHS hospitals operating. Let's also ask our families and friends to write in before the next session of Con- gress. Spider Korolia 4 4 4 Company Warns ^ Ships^ Officers •f •'-.1.1• • 1 I ••wl "il To the Editor: ;3l Although I took out my retire­ ment card two years ago, I want to thank you for the LOG, because even though it is so long since I have been out it is great reading about the progress being made. Keep it up. During the summer of 1952 for about four months I was sailing on the Great Lakes while between shore jobs. Since we had just had a son, my wife didn't want me to go to the Coast. I only wish I could make you understand what it was like. Just to give you some idea, I went through two Pitts­ burgh Steamship Company ships in this time and after the last one my nerves were in such a condi­ tion that my wife said, "Next time, you go to the coast." All working conditions were so bad you wouldn't believe it. Dur­ ing this time the Pittsburgh fleet was voting on a union. I never hid the fact that I was a union man, and this didn't endear me to the company stiffs. The young, unli- . censed men used to ask me about the Union and, of course, being an SIU man before getting a license, I told them how it worked. No Union—Or Else On one of my last trips down to Lorrain, Potts, the company presi­ dent, came aboard and got the deck officers together, and then he came aft to talk to the. engineers. He informed the officers that if the crew voted for the union the company would hold the ship's officers responsible, and make the officers wish they were ashore, in­ asmuch as they didn't have a union to protect them. I am enclosing a change of ad­ dress for my LOG subscription. Also, since I have moved several times since taking out my retire­ ment card, I seem to have mis­ placed it, and would like to know how to get another copy of it. Robert B. Anderson (Ed. note: We have noted your I change of address and passed your inquiry about replacing your re­ tirement card to the proper depart- v. ment.) ...I - �Pagre Twenty-two SIU Wriier Sees NY Headqnarters To the Editor: In a recent issue of the LOG I wrote a letter concerning an in­ valuable book entitled "Ob! For the Life of a Stewardess," written by Rosalie Rodrigue, a retired bookmember of the SIU. Now, brothers, this former stew­ ardess has been in New York on business -and pleasure and during this time I escorted her to see our ball here in Brooklyn. She was amazed anc delighted to see all the modern conveniences and comfort we now enjoy. At the same time, she was very grateful to the officials Farrell for the courtesy shown her during this time. Would Return To Sea This author lost her husband and only son on an SIU ship during the war and, having great courage, followed the sea herself for many years to stave off the loneliness ashore. However, brother, she has now written a book chock-full of interest to the Seafarer and his friends and relatives. I'm sure you will be able to procure this book through our new ship's library project, to remind you of your travels in later years. During our talk Rosalie told me that she would be willing to return to the "salt" in any emergency in her capacity as a steward. She also had the highest praise for the delicious food and the good service in our cafeteria. Incidentally, I noticed in the last issue of the LOG that there were trucks for transportation to and from our ships in port. Would it be feasible to have one of these trucks pick up the brothers from the Institute in the morning, about nine, and return them after the last ship's call at four o'clock? Perhaps something along these lines could be worked out. Paddy Farrell Captain Hates OT And Draws .f- .. October SO, 195S SEAFARERS £ o C - L B T it B B S To the Editor: Before we on the General Patradio operator was untiring in his attempts to contact aid. In fact, ton left Stateside for our trip over to Korea, we had a change the whole crew cooperated. Sparks finally made contact with of captains, and the old captain To the Editor: I joined the SIU in 1938, but an MSTS hospital ship and a ren­ put out a $10 draw—^no more. in my experiences on ships before dezvous was made for the next Everybody was mad, for we had the Union was orgabized, the going day, to-transfer the wounded man. more coming, and some of us have We were .at the appointed spot 8 families to whom we wanted to was really rough. few minutes before the hospital send money. We worked like We had a nice trip over, and it ship. A very fine job of launching blazes all day the boat and rowing was done by only took us about 23 days. One long and then of the boys was the crew selected to take the in­ some. I remem­ sick going over, jured men over to" the hospital ber especially the and when we ship. A fine job of seamanship old Cities Service reached Pusan he was also displayed by the third tanker. Waterasked the new mate in handling the boat. The town. In those skipper for a transfer itself was accomplished in days there was hospital slip. The very heavy seas and the captain one man on Gibbs old man refused, did a fine job of maneuvering the watch and the saying, "We are rest on day work—chipping, paint­ ship. The men in the lifeboat had all going to see a terrible sea to battle all the way. ing and other general upkeep. the doctor to­ Yow There was coffeetime only if the The return trip was even worse morrow, for the bosun felt like "it and you workec and on reaching the ship's side it like all get out. Then he would took every knowledge of seaman­ company didn't give us our shots probably give you 10 minutes. ship to keep the lifeboat from cap­ before we left Stateside." From Pusan we went to Inchon But, of "course, that all depended sizing and throwing the men' into and one of the engine boys fell, the sea, with a possible loss of life. on the way he felt. or slipped and broke his wrist; he It was quite some time before I am the whip on the Oremar, as the boys on the old Calmar everyone reached the vessel's deck was sent to the hospital and then right. ship, Alamar called me. I was on safely. Seeing that the boat could was all Poor Mail Service the Alamar with Captain Nystrom not be secured so as to raise" it, We were in Inchon for a week the captain then sank the boat by who, in my opinion, was one of and during that tinw we asked the fairest men I have ever sailed pumping several shots into it. We of the Marven wish God­ the' old man to get us some stamps. under.' He was lost at sea during speed and good luck to our injured He just got a few, for he claimed the last world war. wiper, George Black, on his road that he could not get $20 worth, Food Is Better to recovery. We hope this will be as he wanted to, so he rationed Since I boarded this ship, I very soon as he is a fine Union then). He said that if we had any would like to point out a couple man. mail we wanted mailed,^ we could of things to the brothers. The give it to anyone going ashore— George Meltzer Ore ships are not so bad. They for. he himself was not going • , 4" 4» t> are feeding much better than they ashore again. The'MSTS gave us were two years ago, when I was very poor mail service. In fact, on one. The officers are much it was rotten. better to the crew, but there is To the Editor: Just as we were going into the still room for improvement. Mr. Just a few words to let you know harbor at Kunsan the old man Collins, the chief engineer, has how things are here on the Steel sent word down that there would improved, although he still keeps Rover. We read in the last issue be no draw, for there was no all the tools in his room or safe. of the LOG, on October 16, that agent in Kunsan. But after we got For example, when the deck engi­ this was supposed to be a swell in, he changed his mind and put neer wants an Alsmite fitting, he feeding ship, in an article writ­ one out. has to turn in the old one to get ten by the third cook, Lucos. We have a pretty poor steward a replacement for it, and then only Now, we of the entire deck depart­ aboard, and the crew was after if it leaks too badly. ment would sure like to disagree; him about the menus and the We have a good captain and in fact, we would like to say in the chow, so he promised to change chief mate also and according to LOG that she is a real bum feeder. and he did for a while, but then what the gang from^below Jells We hope that all is smooth at he drifted bapk into his old rou­ me, the first assistant is pretty headquarters. tine so we had to tell him about good. So, if any jobs on the Ore it again. Ame "Whitey" Larson ships come up on the board, don't After leaving Kunsan we went 4' 4 4^ be afraid to take them. Come on to Kure, Japan, for bunkers. We out and take a trip. had a night and a day ashore and Carl E. (Red) Gibbs were back in civilization, after our Korean run with all the restric­ 4" t "4 To the Editor: tions we had to put up with, . I wish to thank you for the won­ The old man is hell on oveN derful assistance your organization gave"^to me when I arrived in time. He. is cutting corners ev'e^; way he can, and trying to be A America on September 4. To the Editor: ! We signed • on the Marven in I have-acute neuritis and walk one-man crew. " C. A. Yow Philadelphia this past August 25th, with the aid of Crutches. When I 4 4 4 with as good a bunch of SIU men landed at Idlewild Airport in the as can be found anywhere. After terrible heat I felt that I would loading cargo for the Army with never manage to battle my way no time wasted, we left Philadel­ through the crowds. You cannot imagine how wonderful it was To the Editor: phia on the 26th. / After a pleasant and somewhat when your welfare representative I have been active in the SIU hot voyage to Panama, we passed met me and took control of the since 1946, and have sailed with through the locks and so into situation from that point on. He most of our contracted companies. the Pacific. We was most kind, considerate and At present I am aboard the Steel stopped briefly helpful. Worker bound for the Persian I would like everyone in the Gulf. I would like to state my at Pedro for bunkers and Union to know how much I appre­ views on our v\rorking agreement, stores and a look ciate your thoughtful service.* I which, I think, is the pacemaker to see the to^n. have asked my husband to forward for the maritime, industry. After stretching this letter to you. However, to make for better la­ Mary Gontarski our legs and re­ bor relations and to. facilitate the trieving a couple work of the men l^ound by this ,44 4 of guys from the agreement, I would like to see clarlocal gendarmes, iifications written into the present Meltzer agreement since, as it sCaqds now, we continued on our way with a full crew. the agreement sometimes can be To the Editor: Wiper Hurt , The relatives of the late Warner misconstrued, with resulting dis­ On Tuesday, September 15 we W. Allred, my brother, wish to sension and misunderstanding. John'Bowdeii left Pedro and on Thurs(jay one of thank ^he SHJ for all the kind­ the wipers, George Black, had' an nesses shown Mr. Allred during $ "4 $ . unfortunate accident. It would his 18-month confinement-to bed in have been much more, serious if ijt the USPHS hospital in Savbimah, hadn't been for Captain and Mrs. Ga. , Brennan. Mrs. ,Brennah is signed The SIU office of Savannah was To the Editor: on aijticles as nurse and she gave cooperative and helpful at all I would like to take .this oppor­ unstintingly of her time and, en­ times. The, doctors, nurses and tunity to thank Mr. Bill Fredericks ergy to the injured man's care; orderlies at the hospital were un­ and the men of the New" Orleans She sat up most of the night tak­ tiring in their efforts to ease Mr. hall for the blood they donated for • ing care of- him and Captain Bren­ Alfred's pain and make him happy. me recently. I am proud that my nan immediately radioed for aid They were lovely to him at all husband, belongs to such a wondeirwhen he was told of the serious­ times./ f\il prganization, \ ness of the man^s injuries. The /J Mrs. C. SU Pittman noise that he finally put one out, and said that was all. We stayed there eight days but no more money. All in all we have a good crew on here, and the night cook and baker, Fred Lanierr-has kept them happy with his good Old southern home baking. He has done a very good Job. The chief cook was laid up for ten days and Lanier took over his duties too, and also did a fine job. Other than the old man, it has been a nice trip. One more word to the brothers of the sea: If you happen to go aboard a ship and the captain is named Hanke, and if he is wearing a pair of khakis that have never been washed, my advice is to call the Union right away and come to some understanding before you leave the States. Clyde Laseter $• $> Coe Crew Tops To Liverpool Man To the Editor: Just a few lines to let you know how happy I was this week to meet Luis A. Ramirez, here for his third visit to England this year. What made me even happier was that he handed me some back numbers of your paper, and I was surprised to find pictures taken by Luis in one of them, of some of my old friends on the Coe Victory. Incidentally, of all of the SIU crews who have been here, that was the one I'll never forget. It was the bdst crew to hit this port that I know about and I should know, for I make my living selling papers on the waterfront here in Liver­ pool, and don't miss visiting very many US ships that dock here. Pic on Ship Luis took my picture aboard the Northwestern Victory this time, and I sure would like to have the paper if he manages to get it printed, as he told me he was going to try. If it is not too much to ask, I would like to have you send me the paper, I don't know when I'll be able to send you a donation in return, but I'll ask Luis to do so for me, for -when he's in England, I'm his boy. Ramirez is very well liked here by many of the working people. We all love to read his writing and we like him more when we meet him in person, for he is a man who mingles with everyone'with no air of superiority, although this is ex­ pected from people who have their names-in print so often. John Kelly (Ed note: We have^ddded your name to our subscription list; the LOG will be sent regularly every two weeks as issued.) To the Editor: As deck delegate I thought I would write a line or two-about the General Patton. Most of us caught it in Savannah on the 7th of July and went from there to Portland, Me., to load grain. From there the trouble started. We got a new captain named Hanke, and what a captain he is. He doesn't believe there is such a thing as overtime. He has -dis­ rupted a lot of the OT in all three" departments—overtime that we all know is good—and has even called some of the guys up and tried to get them to scratch it off, but we ^ 4- • 4" just told him we will let the Union straighten it out. This captain also doesn't believe In putting out a draw. We stopped off in Pedro for bunkers, and To the Editor: after 21 days at sea he got bigA friend of mine, a former sea­ hearted and put out a $10 draw. man, would greatly appreciate hav­ Then we went from Pedro to ing the SEAFARERS LOG mailed Pusan, Korea—23 days. When we to his address in Mainland. Due to got there we were restricted to his present confinement he has no ship becahse we hadn't gotten our way of keeping track of old friends shots in the States. After three except through a first-class sea­ hours, Captcpn Hanke took us to man's paper. the Army base, about two miles On the Atlantic Importer we re­ away, and we got shots, but since we still had no passes we had to go ceive quite a few copies of the at every port. We look for­ right back to the ship and mess LOG ward to getting our copies and they around for about three or four are read before the day is hours more before we got passes ov^,well It is needless to compliment —with a $10 draw. yofrbn such a grand layout of news jEight Days, One Draw as your paper is a testimonial to We stayed in Pusan for two days the fine work you are doing. ^ then went to Inchon with another I thank you for your kind atten­ $10 draw. We wer^ther'e for eight days and then went to Kunsan. On tion and expenditure of effort re­ arrival In Kunsan the captain put garding my request. Raoul Cabrera a notice on the bulletin board stat­ (Ed. note: The LOG will be ing that there Wasn't any agent there and that there would be no sent regularly to your friend, as ' draw. However, we raised isp much you asked.) . LOG Well Head On AHCO Ships Pdtton^s Captain Hoards Stamps Sees Ore Ships Much Improved Hover Food Haves Not Unanimous Gives Thanks To Union For Aid All Hands Help injured Member Wants Agreement To He Clarified Thank Union For Its Helpfulness Thanks Hrothers Who Gave Blood i'vV'.V �•- October »9, i95t V • ;-''^ .V:-'t. ^..;V••v• •!; ^•'f^' •' ^-. SEAFAkERS ton •;?•:" w'.lift >••-•: Pafe Twentr-threo Is Fishing Industry Due For A Revolution? ^ more and more people populate this earth of ours, and must be fed, new techno-1logical advances come along to try to take up the,slack, and sometimes these new methods or inventions can cause a major revolution within a given industry. Many sources feel that the-* great fishing industry of our plant for processing and canning me suggest that if only 10 fish, nation faces the possibility of the fish, for extracting plankton weighing a pound each, arc cap­ « major, revolution within the from sea water, snd perhaps a tured per second, we would take in years to come—a revolution so plant for extracting minerals from 432 tons of fish in a 24-hour day." great that it may do away with sea water, including the small Big Strides the need for the key figure In the amounts of gold contained by the While there have been big industry today—^the fisherman. sea. strides made in some of the meth­ A battery of colored lights would It may sound strange to talk about a fishing industry without run all around the edge of the ods of netting fish, particularly by fishermen, but that's just what a funnel to attract the fish to it. A the trawlers and draggers, for the man named Hugo Gernsback is do­ strong suction pump would con­ most part the fishing industry is ing these days. He claims to have tinually suck water through the stUl using methods that, in some an invention that would do away funnel, through the pipeline and to cases, are as much as thousands of with the commercial fisherman, the plant on shore. As it sucked years old. For that matter, even and says it operates on the idea in the water, it would also. Gems- the method of netting fish is of bringing the fish to the process­ back says, suck in the fish swim­ something that was used long be­ fore the fall of the Roman Empire, ing plant instead of having the ming near the lights. The fish, along with the water, and long before the birth of Christ, men go out to where the fish are. Fishing has always been one of And Gernsback has so much faith would be sucked through the pipe­ in his idea that he has patents line, and then at the plant, the the occupations that have beck­ fish would be mechanically taken oned to men who lived near vjater, pending on the entire operation. and it has always been a means of out of the water. Suck In Fish This method is Gemsback's way providing food for the human race, Basically, the idea is to suck in of suggesting a complete revolu­ no matter how primitive the soci­ the fish mechanically and then tion in the fishing industry. How­ ety might have been. pump them into the processing ever, sources within the fishing Spears are no longer used, for station. According to Gemsback's industry itself are quick to point catching fish, except by the sport idea, a large pipeline would be laid out that this is "just an idea. It fisherman, but the hook and line out from the coast about 10 to 25 may work, and it may not, but and the net are still the major miles, and this line would end in right now it's just an idea." methods of, supplying fish to the world. a large steel funnel that would 'Weaknesses' have its open end a short distance One fisherman put it aptly when Professional fishermen are quick below the surface. to point out what they consider to he said, "There may be new meth­ On the shoreside end of Gems- be one weakness in Gernsbaojc's- ods of catching fish, but I don't back's pipeline would be a large idea, and that is that, "you don't think things are going to change always find fish in one spot. That for a long time, and until they do, funnel might never suck in any I'll be out there going to where fish, and then, too, even if there the fish are, and bringing them are fish in that area, it may clean back." them out, and no more fish might For obvious reasons the LOG enter the area, and a pipeline like cannot print any letter or that costs a lot of money." other communications sent in Another fisherman had pretty by Seafarers unless the author much^ the same observation when signs his name. Unsigned, he said, "The only way we get fish anonymous letters will only is by following them and going to wind up in the waste-basket. the places where they are feeding. If circumstances; justify, the They are always moving. If we LOG will withhold a signature fished in one spot all the time, the on request, but if you want it way this funnel would have to, printed in the LOG, put your we'd never get enouglr fish." name on it. Gernsback, In a copyrighted ar­ ticle describing his idea, says, "Let Sign "Same On liOG Wjetters m Tuna fishermen, using the line and hook method, hit Into a school of tuna.. These men range out from the West Coast In the tuna clippers to foUow the schools of fish as they travel. ^ ='*'1 i The work of the girls in the cannerfes, such as these SIU cannery workers on the West Coast, pres^ably would be the same under the proposed new system, since the fish would be taken out of the water mechanically and then piped right Into ttie cannery. Even sport flsfitng, such as^ia In the surf, may be out if the suggOsted giant sUotldn lines suck in all the fltii la the area. This pretty Fompaho was taken on a light line at Bermuda. SIU fisherman Ton Johnson looks pver a couple of oysters that he got the usual way, by going to where the oystera ere and digging them up by hand, wHh a long-handled rake that was designed for the operation. Men have taken oysters this way for generations. ••m �SEAFARERS Pafe Twentr-four <iet«w sty list L0G ... DIGEST of SHIPS' MEETINGS... HASTINGS IWATERMAN), Jon* SI — placed In the pantry. AH requested re Chairman, NIckle; Secretary, Berry. pairs wili be made during the voyage and Union will be notified about the man who Jumped ship seve^a^ hours before sail Ing when the Union hall was not open Patrolman will be asked about getting fresh milk in Puerto Rico. Discussion was held on getting fresh fruit in sea­ son. There is a shortage of towels; steward is to requisition more linen. Patrolman will be asked about innerspring mattresses for all crewmembers. July 12—-Chairman, NIckle; Secretary R. Perry. Ray Brown was elected ship's delegate. Laundry and washing machine should be kept clean. Motion was passed to donate 50c to the ship's fund. Chief steward will take care of this. August 30—Chairman, W. L. Hammock; Secretary, Ray Brown. ' Matches and cigarette butts should not be put in the coffee cups. Ship's fund. $17, will be put in the ship's safe. Ship's delegate will speak to tlie company and the patrol man about getting new innerspring mat tresses for aU hands. ^C\ In San Francisco. New mattresses will come aboard in San Francisco. July 7—Chairman, John Fisher; Secre­ tary, JImmIe D. Coker. John Fisher was elected ship's delegate; William Welcher was elected engine delegate. All hands will help keep the mcssroom clean at all times. Shelves will be built in the library. Each department will help paint the library. Washing machine will be MADAKET (Waterman), July U — Chairman, B. Prevas; Secretary, A. M Branconl. There is $30.15 in the ship's fund; A. M. Branconi is ship's treasurer. After repairing the phonograph there is a b.nlance of $27.15. B. Prevas was eleeted ship's delegate. Heads back aft are in bad shape. Washing machine is to be repaired. September 13—Chairman, P. C. Adklns; Secretary, M. Oschltzkl. There is a bal anee of $27.15 in the ship's fund. Four men missed ship and two rejoined. The other two will be reported to the patrol­ man. Engineers are not cooperating on repairing heads. Extra linen is to be turned in to the steward for inventory. There is no sanitary equipment for deck and engine departments. Washin.g ma­ chine motor is burned out and will be repaired. Donations for the ship's fund will be accepted by the ship's delegate. ^VaU'ShaherR^ Have iVo OK The membership is" again cautioned 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 received 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 CAMAS MEADOWS (US Petroleum) August 30—Chairman, Paul Arthefcr; Secretary, Pefer Patrick. One man has been creating dicsension in his department. He refuses to obey direct orders, disobeys order. This man should be taken off the ship. Suggestion was made that a crewmember who speaks fluent June 7—Chairman, Groseclose; Secretary Italian should check in Naples where the RUEENSTON HEIOHTS (Saatrade), Oc­ Salas. .Washing machine should be captain can obtain US currency for tober 5—Chairman, E. Dakin; Secretary, S. turned off after use. Men should be draws. Cieslak. Motion was passed to buy a properly dressed in the messhaU. Wash­ timer for the washing- machine. Tenderer ing machine should be cleaned after use. STEEL CHEMIST (Isthmian), September stdaks are wanted. Cctobar 6—Chairman, R. Groseclose; 4—Chairman, M. Keeffer; Secretary, Secretary, J. A. Massicot. Slopchest Frank Pascuccl. Burner tips in the fire STEEL DIRECTOR (Isthmian), Septem­ prices will be checked. Disputed OT and room are not in good order. Patrolman ber 5—Chairman, Jack Procell; Secretary repair list will be taken care of by the will see the chief engineer about this. E. Hughart. Brother Tampal was elected agent. Innerspring mattresses will be treasurer; there is a balance of $23.50. instaUed in the ship's hospital instead of Eggs are going bad: steward will order donkey food. Piastic agitator should be fresh ones in New Orleans. A few replaced by an aluminum one. Agent or additions will be made to the "repair list. patrolman should speak to the captain Discussion was. held on buying ball regarding his attitude toward sick men. equipment or a record player out of the Agent should check on medical supplies. ship's fund. List for cleaning the laundry and recreation room wiil be TAINARON (Actium). October 4—Chair­ made up. man, Edward Mooney; Secretary, WJIIIam Captain ordered ail brothers to stay off October 4—Chairman, Jack Procell; Oswinkle. A letter was sent to head­ the deck going up the river to Saigon, Secretary, Chester Hughart. Repairs regarding the wiper who- paid for one unfortunate brother was shot were not aii taken care of—especiaUy quarters in St. Thomas. Vote of thanks went aboard this vessel on July 22nd. Ship's fans and vents for heads and showers. off to the steward for a Job weU delegate gave a word of thanks to the Brother Hughart was elected ship's dele­ done, although department one man short. All linen men who were on the gangways for they gate. Laundry has not been kept too is to be turned in before the payoff. did a wonderful Job of keeping unau- clean. AU were asked to cooperate and thorUed persons out of the passageways. clean the laundry after washing. Stew­ ALAMAR (Calmar), October 4—Chair­ Shower water was too- hot in the tropics. ard is to put out a little more night Chief mate in Singapore was asked by lunch. Vote of confidence went to the man, Thurston Lewis; Secretary, Jehn A. the ship's delegate to get a launch for steward department for doing a fine Sullivan. Charles Taylor was elected steward department members. He said job so far. Laundry is to be kept ship's delegate by acclamation. One man that the schedule could not be changed locked in port. There is a limited sup-' missed ship. AU men are to be properly so six members of this department paid ply of cigarettes aboard. There is a bal­ dressed in the messroom at all times. their own way back to the ship. ance of $11.50 in the ship's fund. BaU BINGHAMTON VICTORY (Bull), Sep­ equipment was purchased. CAMP NAMANU (US Petroleum), Sep­ tember 27—Chairman, Daniel Gemerner; tember e—Chairman, Alex James; Secre­ LONE JACK (Cities Sarvlcs), October Secretary, Robert Penman. Captain wiU tary, ne name. Awnings were promised 7—Chairman, R. Davis; Secretary, D. be contacted about cleaning toilets, messfor the next trip. Water tanks will be Fisher. AU repairs possible wiU be rooms, alleyways and rooms. One man cleaned and repairs taken care of. One done before arrival in port. Malcolm missed ship in Newark; one man was man missed ship, one man went to the Launey was elected ship's treasurer; hospitalized in St. Johns. Newfoundland. hospital and one replacement came $35.45 in the ship's fund was turned over Letter wUl be written to the Department aboard. Broken tanks should be brought to him. Coffee cups should be returnecT of Health, Education and Welfare pro­ to the linen room. Magazines should be to the messroom. Repairs needed on testing efforts to close the marine hos­ returned to the recreation room. Rec­ wiper's foc'sle door, washing machine pitals. New wringer is needed for the ommendation was made that aU ships, parts, painting of deck department washing machine. Toilets in fantail will particularly tankers, provide men with heads and showers, doors, were discussed. be used by the longshoremen. Steward flashlights for emergency use. Radio in the recreation room needs a department was complimented by vaiivolume tube and this should be pur­ ALCOA PIONEER (Alcoa), September IS chased from the ship's fnud. fi —Chairman, S, Manclna; Secretary, L. P. Hagi.isnn. One man missed the ship In OREMAR (Ore), September 24—Chair­ New Jersey. Repairing of the port pas­ man, Carl B. Cibbs; Secretary, Arthur E. sageway main will be referred to the Sanders. Arthur E. Sanders was elected patrolman. Officers, especially the en­ ship's delegate by acclamation. Discus­ gineers. will be asked to clean the wash­ sion was held on the SlU seachest. ing machine and tub after using It. October 4—Chairman, Carl E, Clbbs; Linen locker door should be repaired. Secretary, Arthur E. Sanders. Gear of ous brothers for good food and baking. Door leading from the recreation room the man who missed ship in Baltimore to the passageway should be kept closed, was Usted. Incidental repairs were taken ALCOA PATRIOT (Alcoa) September « as the noise disturbs the cooks when they care of. More cooperation is needed in —Chairman, Robert D. Schwors; Secre­ are resting. The deck gang should be keeping the recereation room clean. Each tary, C. H. Coker. There is $10.64 on ready to turn to when securing the ship man wlU donate not more than $1 at the hand; New victrola needle will be bought. for sea. and not let the responsibility payoff. A vote of Ship's delegate wUl see the New pUlows are needed. rest on a few men. Each delegate should patrolman about work done without OT thanks went to the steward department make out a repair list for the department and about clarification on gome work. and to the baker for the hot bre^d and heads, so that all repairs can be taken Washing machine should be kept clean good service. Men getting off should care of at sea. and not overloaded. ' Recreation room clean quarters before leaving and turn in keys. , night pantry should be kept clean. WESTERN TRADER (Western Navlge- and October 4—Chairman, E. A. Grady; Steward invited suggestions on food and •len), August 7—Chairman, W. Melton; menus and said that there was no Secretary, Robert D. Schwartz. Motion Secretary, O. P. Oakley. Price list of the pastry at coffee time anl little ham be­ was passed to paint out the galley and slopchest will be forwarded to the Sea cause the stores put aboard by the port haye the ship sprayed for roaches. Crew Chest for them to check and approve. steward are inadequate. Vote of thanks gave a vote of thanks to the Union for Everyone is to stop running to the ship's went to the- steward department for serv­ the ship's library. Brother Trawick was delegate with petty beefs. Go to depart­ ice and effort. asked to look after the records in port. ment delegates. Men should cooperate In There is a balance of $10.64 in the ship's keeping toilets and showers clean. Every­ MAE (Bull), October 4—Chairman, E. 6. treasury. one should take care of soap and Juice. Teskc; Secretary, E. Jamison. There is No date—Chairman, D. W. Trawick; $22.05 in the ship's fund. Engine room Secretary, D. B. Jordan. There have been POTRERO HILLS (Mar-Trade), Septem' drfors will be kept open. Letter wiU be too many cold suppers in port and no ber 15—Chairman, J. Van Dyk; Secre­ sent to the patrolman about getting a cold juices when listed on the menu, or tary, J. D. Warmack. Two men misted new coffee urn when the ship -reaches hot milk for dinner. Ship's delegate wili ship in Yokohama. This was referred to see the agent about shore gang eating headquarters. Company will be asked If during the crew's regular meal hours. replacements can be obtained In Japan. GaUey should be painted out. Trash should not be thrown on the messhall deck. More cups are needed. HEY WOOD BROUN (Victory), October ROBIN HOOD (Seas Shipping), August 1*—Chairman, Louis D. Cuellnltz; Sec­ retary, Edward F. Leahy. Motion was passed to clean and paint the hospital room and steward department rooms and showers. Motion was passed to strike the notation from the last ship's minute* about charges against one man. His work has become very good. Meeting wili be held in the messhall before the payoff to confer with the patrolman on beefs. CUBORR (Ore), September 13—Chair­ man, not listed; Secretary, Chuck Hostet- tsr. One man missed ship in Sparrows Eoint. Men are trying to get a slopchest from the Sea Chest but the captain re­ fuses to have one. All brothers are to refuse to deal with the captain and hi* slopche;. and only buy cigarettes. George Mattair was elected ship's delegate. Bet­ ter food should be obtained. MOTHER (Eagle Ocean), June 3»—Chair­ man; H. O. Mesford; Secretary, JImmIe D. Coker. Refrigerator bell will be re­ paired and crew's quarters painted out. All fans win be repaired when necessary, and fans will be placed in the recreation room and the messhall. Galley and pan­ try sinks will be repaired. H. O. Mesford was elected ship's delegate. Repair list wiU be given to the ship's delegate be­ fore arrival in San Frahclsco. Each man will donate $1 to buy magazines and an Ironing ^flL, Used cup|, gbould be 4—Chairman, D. Ramsey; Secretary, E. Baltimore. Steward's requisition was cut down by the port steward; parolman will be notified. Passageways and crew quar­ ters will be painted. Garbage cans with lids are needed for the gaUey. E. Tesko was elected ship's delegate. FAIRPORT (Waterman), Septembar 27 —Chairman, T. M. Hankie; Secretary, W. E. Morse. One man paid off in Miami and one in Jacksonville. One man should be brought up on charges. Slopchest should be checked by the ship's delegate before the ship sails. GATEWAY CITY (Waterman), Septem­ ber 4—Chairman, Bob White; Secretary) Frank Monte. One man missed ship at Moji. Motion was passed to have the water situation investigated in Korea and see if more water can be prepared. Re­ frigerators and ice machine should be repaired before the ship saUs; dry stores should be painted. Day men's room should be turned into a hospital and the hospital into the day men's room. Un­ safe launch service in Korea should be tovestigated, as well as mail service. Fireman and delegate should discuss overtime beef with the patrolman; pa­ trolman should Investigate the engineers' attitude to the men under them. WILLIAM R. DOWLING (State, ,fuel),. V ; . . . ia - .SA,,*,#;*'* a ... "- W. Auer. Most repairs were done, ex­ cept for those that must be done in the shipyard. Rooms should be cleaned be­ fore arrival in port, and repair list com­ pleted; New washing machine will be ordered. Mushroom ventilators will be repaired; four new fans are needed. A vote of thanks went to the steward de­ partment for work weU done. STEEL ROVER (Isthmian). October 5— Chairman, Francisco J. Natole; Secretary, James M. Baxter. One replacement came aboard in New Orleans. Vote of thanks went to the steward department for ex­ cellent performance of their duties to crewmembers. Garbage should not be dumped around midship housing, but from the stern. Repair lists should be made up before the ship arrives at Hawaii, so prompt action can Be taken. Steward department delegate volunteered to contact the Honolulu newspaper office library to find out the names and ad­ dresses of congressmen. FAIRPORT (Waterman), August 3t— Chairman, Charles T. Scott; Secretary, W. E. Morse. Men should change their linen promptly on linen day and turn over used linen to the steward. Without this cooperation laundry caniiot be counted and bagged and sent ashore to the laundry, and there cannot be clean laundry. No favoritism should be shown hpjfld to take care of this promptly. All hands should donate money to buy an auto­ matic timer for the washing machine, so the motor is not burned up. Machine should be turned off after use and should not be over-loaded. September 4—Chairmen, T. M. Hen'kle; Secretary, W. E. Morse. Curry was elected ship's delegate. Cook's room should be rearranged and innerspring mattresses should be obtained for bosun and deck maintenance rooms. This will be taken up with the patrolman in Balti­ more. Cups, glasses, etc. should be re­ turned to the pantry after use. STEELORE (Ore), September 27—Chair­ man, Albert Schwartz; Secretary, Ken­ neth McLeob. Bucket used for cold drinks had been used for sougee work. Steward hotly denied charge that dish towels were formerly used on saloon tables. Steward was told not to use the bucket again for cold drinks. There was a shortage of fresh milk on sailing day. Steward was told there should be 40 gallons aboard. STEEL ADMIRAL "(Isthmian), October 4—^Chairman, A. Rivera; Secretary, C. Hartmsn. After seeing the chief engi­ neer the water tanks were cleaned. Ship's delegate wiU take care of the ship's fund and make collections. There is a balance of $69.32. DEL VALLE (Mississippi), September 27—Chairman, Henry J. Principe; Secre­ tary, Ramon Irlzarry. Henry J. Principe was elected ship's delegate by acclama­ tion. Previous voyage^ repair list will be posted. Each man. should clean water from the passageway after using the washing machine, sines man who is on sanitary duty must bail water every day; there is a leak in the washing machine and no proper drainage for water.' Ma­ chine should also be turned off after use. Messroom 'and pantry should be kept clean at all times. Library should be kept locked in port. Discussion was held on closing the USPHS hospitals; each man should write a letter to his congressman. Repair' list wiU be made out so it can be mailed-in from South America, so that when the ship reaches the states, repairs can be made promptly. FAIRLAND (Waterman), October 4— Chairman, Kaznowsky; Secretary, George Gibbon. Captain will be given a copy of the repair Hst. A few items were taken care of at sea. Ship's minutes and repair list WiU be posted. Motion was passed to donate the unused ship's fund to the LOG. Laundry has been left in a poor condition several times. Men playin.g cards in the recreation room should be as quiet as possible. Since the men have been getting colds, the men at the wheel claim, that there is a bad draft in the wheel house, and one of the doors should be kept closed or els* a windbreaker should be instaUed. CHRISTOS M. (Marine Shipping), Sep­ tember 27—Chairman, Ben Grice; Sec­ retary, l|ocanovskl. Some repairs have been done: others are pending until the repair list is drawn up. One man was turned over to the patrolman for leaving the ship at the last minute. Kocanovski was elected ship's delegate. Steward de­ partment was commended for their efforts, in doing a good Job and turning out sweU food. All hands are to cooper­ ate ill-keeping the messhaU and recrea­ tion room cleaner and. tidier: aU dishes are to be returned to the pantry. Repair list was mads up and wiU be turned over to the captain so that work can be started on repairs Immediately. All three departments wiU rotate the cleaning of the recreation room. , Chief engineer asked aU hands to cooperate In saving water, so that it wiU not be necessary to ration it. Captain promised to coop­ erate in .getting the repairs done. Ship Is already short of a few articles In the slopchest. CAMP NAMANU (US Petroleum), Ocfooer -3—Chairman, Alex James; Secretary, Reynolds Bescombe. Captain was noti­ fied of repairs needed and replacements. Vote of thanks wUI Jie sent to headquar­ ters for their repUes to previous letters. Steam should be regulated in the pantry sink to prevent burns. Chief engineer has been notified. Discussion was held on fans for the crew messroom. Radio will be repaired If possible in Yokosuka and -games aqd magazines wiU be pur­ chased. LIBERTY BELL (Tramp ^argo), Sep­ tember 24—Chairman, O. K. Jones; Sec- it retary, Richard Palmer. Cliff Prevatt was elected ship's delegate. Each mem­ ber should help keep the laundry and recreation room clean. $20 was donated to the ship's fund. A vote of thanks went to the steward department for a lob weU done. at the payoff' for the ship's fund. Door on the dayman's foc'sle needs fixQig: new wind chutes are needed. HURRICANE (Watermen), Septembar 27—Chairmen, N. Richie; Secretary, D. B. Patterson. One man failed to Join the vessel lu San Pedro. His book and papers have been sent to Wilmington. There is a total of $12.46 in the ship's fund. The crew has been commended by the cap­ tain and chief engineer. Suggestion was made that men contribute jto the ship's fund at the payoff. One man volunteered to take the donations. HOOSIER MARINER (Isthmian), Sep­ tember 8—Chairman, N. J. Wuchina; Sec­ retary, William Janlsch. Slopchest Is in.sufficlent; SIU will be contacted on the West Coast. All hands were cautioned to take care of the ship's gear. New steward denartmcnt will be given a chance to get souared away. The steward told the crew he will personaUy be in the pantry to help the new hands. ,Soao situation was discussed. Laundry will be cleaned by a different department each week. Overhead lights should be secured bet­ ter. Crew requested duckboards for shewers. Seotember 24—Chairman, Nick Wuchi­ na; Secretary, William Janlsch. There . .should be more variety in the hieht lunch. The laundry machine was dis­ cussed. as well as the lack of mall deliv­ ery and the closing of the USPHS hospi­ tals. Keys are to be returned. DEL AIRES (Mississippi). September 27 —Ctralrmen, Ernest Mosley; Secretary, Jehn W. Plcou. There Is $8.45 in the ship's fund. Motion was passed to give the repair list to the shoreside patrolman instead of the chief engineer, as he was too smart last trip and no repairs were made. Suggestion was made to get the ship fumigated. Donation should be made to the ship's fund at the payoff. The second cook wHI get more records for the record' player as he did a good Job last trip. Suggestion was made to have an arrival pool, with the winner giving $20 to the 'ship's fund. BEATRICE (Bull), October 12—Chair­ man, R. Santos; Secretary, J. R. Smith. Repair Ust was not fully made out. It will be checked in port and minor re­ pairs WiU be brought to the patrolman's attention. There will be no discussion on the strike untU the ship reaches port and we talk to the patrolman. ELIZABETH (Bull), October 13—Chair­ man, Clark Inman; Secretary, Herman Plummer. Discussion was held on having a secret vote on keeping the steward aboard. The legality of this wUl be dis­ cussed with the New York patrolman. Chief engineer bomplained about the amount of time spent at the hospital by men with hospital slips. This was re­ ferred to the patrolman. List of discrep­ ancies of the saloon night lunch was made out and read. Complaints and dis­ cussions on the menu were heard, as w.ell as the question of why this ship doesn't feed as weU as other ships in this Union. Agreement on the quality of mUk required was read. MUk was not ordered in New York and Puerto Rico. List of complaints against the steward was made out. , ROBIN KETTERING (Sees Shipping), July 12—Chairman, J. Howard; SecrMary, Pearce. John Novack was elected ship's delegate by acclamation. Every­ one Is to donate SI to the ship's fund. Discussion was held on the cleanUness of the foc'sles. Noises in the passageways should be stopped so the watchstanders can get proper rest. New man who Just started going to sea should read the agreement and see what is expected. No one but ship's personnel is to be aUowed in the passageways. August 15—Chairman, J. C. Howardi Secretary, D. Whittaker. Special meeting was caUed on one member who has been performing in every port, drunk and dis­ orderly, waking up men off watch and making a general nuisance of himself aU arouhd. He has been warned. As he was only making one trip he was given another chance to improve but got worse Instead. It was suggested and approved that this man's trip card be taken away and he never be allowed to saU SIU ships, as he WiU never make a Union man. October 4—Chairman, Frank Youngr Secretary, J. C. Howard. Brother Kuchinskl was left behind in Beira to have an operation performed. Brother FondiUer was picked up in Lourenco Marques to take his place. Ship's delegate wiU see the mate about painting the messhaUs and foc'sles. Washing machine should be repaired or replaced. Vote of thanks went to the second electrician for show­ ing movies. A locker should be InstaUed for cleaning gear. SBATRAIN NEW JERSEY (Seatreln), October 18—Chairman, Mathews; Secre­ tary, Sir Charles. There Is $42.09 on hand. Chief engineer wiU make all necessary repairs. Heads should be kept clean. Steward WiU requisition mattresses, tvast* baskets and plUowa. Electric iron has been fixed. Delegates should give the shipping registration and Union standing of aU members to the" ship's delegate. Request was made for apple Juice for JSreakfast. Men ore not to ask for tea or coffee for men below after, messroom WINTER HILL (Cities Service), October hour*.'•—Chairman, A. G. Ale)cander; Secre­ BINGHAMTON VICTORY (Bull), Sep­ tary, W. Dunliam. B. W. Spears, the newly elected ship's delegate. wUl take tember 27—Chalrmen.v Daniel Oemelneri charge of the ship's fund. Discussion Secretary; Robert P. Relman. Ship's delwas held on the engine department head egaie wUl continue to work on the prob­ and shower, which Iq, not being left clean. lem of securing overtime for no Shore Better grade of night lunch should be leave and for cleaning, and painting the put out. The television antenna is no messhall. dayThom apd£ corridors. .On* Johns.. Mewgood, and the old -one in good condition man was bipsipltaUzed that the captain know* of wjll be-inves­ foundlat)d;,:A' nfi.7f VHIMIW 1* needed for be tigated. Delegates from each department. ^e DEL NORTE (Mississippi), October 4— Chairman; Eddie Stough; Secretary, John P. Zimmer. A few brothers were injured and one got off in St. Thomas. Any re­ pairs not already taken care of will be "I?''® '"P drydock after the next voyage. Motion was passed to purchase two punching bags from the ship's fund. There is a balance of $283.73 In the ship's fund. Suggestion was made .to hold an Inter-departmental basebaU game In St. Thomas. eljlnesjcjpjppjsed WiU collect Chang* from their ntehihers �^ ''.-Jii SEAFARERS OotdWft* ii^ss Pa^er Twenty-five LOG .. . DIGEST of SHIPS' MEETINGS ... (Continued from page 24) locked to keep ehoreside people from using them and dirtying them. One wlU be left for their use. Bread Is crumbling because the knives are duU. Entire crew agreed that the steward department is doing a bang-up job. rank*. One man missed ship; this wlU be taken up with the patrolman on ar­ rival. > One performer and gashound missed ship In Korea. Crew's radio wUl be given to the patrolman If the ship is laid up and wUl be returned when the ship goes back Into service, or given to another ship. There was a discussion on the night cook and baker, since the men cannot eat his baking, pudding, eggs and burnt black bacon the whole trip long. Steward says the baker won't listen to him. Baker was asked to explain his mysterious baking. He wUi be brought up on charges. SEATRAIN NEW YORK (Seatrain), October 14—Chairman/ WInbarn; Secre­ tary, A. Goncafves. Ship's fund stands at •74.05. Television set will be fixed ^In New York, and If the cost exceeds the amount In the ship's fund a new collec­ tion will be Uken up at the next payoff. Company puts 40 gallons of milk aboard SEAMAR (Calmar), October 11—Chair­ at each end of the trip. New Orleans and man, J. Barnett; Secretary, J. Straha. New York. Washing machine should be Repairs wUl be taken care of. There Is turned off after, use. $10 In the ship's fund. Bill Lee was elected ship's delegate. Washing machine DEL ALBA (Mississippi); August 33— should be turned oFC after use. Soiled Chairman, JImmla Tucker; Secretary, M. or torn linen should be turned over to C. Duet. AU repairs were taken care of the steward. Ship's delegate should see in New Orleans. Patrolman was aboard about painting the steward department and all beefs were squared away. Patrol­ showers and toUets, as was promised. man said if any more beefs came up There should be more water pressure In about officers, bring them In next voy­ the steward department faucets In the age. Steward received 40 gallons of fresh washroom. The skipper refuses to get milk for the voyage. Condemned eggs Union slopchest aboard. Mate is now were thrown over the side. Shoreslde running the slopchest. and promises to personnel should be kept out of passage­ cut dotvn on prices. We stUl want a ways In foreign ports. Mate agreed to Union slopchest on board. cooperate on this. Ship's carpenter made • shelf for the books purchased by the TROJAN TRADER (Trolan), October 10 crew. All portholes and doors should be —Chairman, E. D. SImi; Secretary, Pete kept closed In the recreation room when Platclk. Messman utility was asked to It Is not occupied. AU books purchased help serve the meals. The ship needs by the crew wlU be coUected from the fumigation. Toilets are being left in an officers' rooms. Ship's delegate reported unsanitary condition. Pumps are not to the patrolman that officers have been working properly and the ship's delegate using the crew's washing machine. All will speak to the chief engineer about hands should cooperate In keeping non- them. Discussion was held on buying a crewmembers out of the messroom. Deck record player for the recreation room. Majority of the crewmembers agreed to contribute and buy the machine at SanPedro. Get New Books Through Agents 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 agent. Under no circmnstances however, will the books be sent through the mails to any private addresses. tribute to get the television fixed. Stew­ ard is to get a better brand of soap powder. Recreation room needs cleaning. William Dunham wag elected ship's dele­ gate. DE SCro (Waterman), September 13— Chairman, A. L. Danne; Secretary, Gor­ don D. Marbury. Motion was passed to see about getting innerspring mattresses for all crewmemliers. Discussion was held on the stores ordered and received. Crew should take care of mattresses and linen and not leave them on the deck. Cots should be' taken care of. Secretary, Lee E. Brown. E. R. Buckley was elected ship's delegate. October 4—Chairman, E. R. Buckiey; Secretary, Frank M. Stone. Logs were lifted and repairs made out. Salon mess­ man thanked the crew and agents for cooperation on the trip from Japan. Fire­ man who boarded the ship in Japan com­ plimented the crew for conditions on board. FAIRiSLE (Waterman), October 4— Chairman, Vic Vickerman; Secretary, George B. Dunn. Captain said he would take care of the repair list right away. Ship's fund wiU be set up: treasurer was elected. Crew is to wait for the patrol­ man to settle OT disputed before paying off. Repair list wUl be rewritten more clearly. Patrolman will be seen about fixing port dogs, which the mate refused to do. JULESBURG (Terminal Tankers), Octo­ ber 4—Chairman, J. S. McRae; Secretary, Edward J. Wright. There is $13 in the ship's fund. In Singapore, Straits Settle­ ment no doctor was present for exam­ ination of the sick men. There have been complaints about the food; some of the meat had to be thrown overboard. There was no launch service in Ras Tanura, Saudi Arabia. Steward put in a requisition for ice. yeast and fresh veg­ etables. but only received yeast. There was no lookout posted, on many occa­ sions. Captain breaks watches at wUi and hardtimes the crew, particularly the deck department. Charges will be pre­ ferred against him and the chief engineer by one member for abusive treatment in Kure. One man was hospitalized. Hos­ pital instruments disappeared from the ship after it was in drydock in Balti­ more. Steward should serve a cold sup­ per once a week. Eggs are bad. There was no launch service in Yokohama. ship's delegate. GaUey fan has not been fixed. There were many comments on the attitude of the first assistant. Wash­ ing maebine and sink are not being turned off. Everyone is to do his part in cleaning the washroom. Light should be installed back aft. STEEL INVENTOR (Isthmian), October 11—Chairman, Vincent Kuhl; Secretary, Bob Brown. Washing machine was re­ paired. One man missed ship and the Galveston haU was notified. No one is to turn to befqre 8 AM without putting in for penalty hour in the future: the Union acts as sole bargaining agent for all unlicensed personnel. Wednesday will be linen day. There should be more vari­ ety in the food. All men are to be prop­ erly dressed in the messhaU. Steward was asked to bring on the cold drinks. LAWRENCE VICTORY (Mississippi), October 18—Chairman, Robert C. Morrlssette; Secretary, Vernon L. Porter. Cecil Saunders was elected ship's dele­ gate. Repair list should be made out as soon as possible so necessary repairs can be made In loading port. New washing machine has been promised and new ice box has been ordered. Steward has $15.20 balance of the sliip's fund and the ship's iron in tiis possession. DEL CAMPO (Mississippi), September i—Chairman, W. G. Heater; Secretary, W. W. Christian. Robert Brown was elected ship's delegate. Suggestion was made 'to try and get another room for the chief cook or the night cook and .baker. ALCOA PENNANT (Alcoa), September 30 —Chelrman, E. Kelley; Secretary, ROBIN HOOD (Seat Shipping), October THE CABINS (Cabins), Octeber 7— Chairman, H. Pedersan; Secretary. J. ANGELINA (Bull), Octeber , 1—Chair­ 4—Chairman, William V. Glick; Secre­ being taken man, William Davlcs; Secretary, J. Dolan. tary, D. Marcaly. Everything is in good department should clean the showers: wipers, the laundry and steward depart­ ment the recreation room. DEL RIO (Mississippi), Sepltmber 37— Chairman, C. Fray; Secretary, A. 6. Dumas. Some repairs were not taken care of. Jack Gardner was elected ship's delegate. Men are to be properly dressed in the messroom at aU times. Everyone Is to cooperate in cleaning the laundry. No shoresldes persons are to be aUowed In quarters, messroom and passtweways. GEORGE A. LAWSON (Pan-Oceanic), September 13—Chairman, Sanchex; Sec­ retary, J. O'Hare. Washing machine was temporarUy repaired by the engineer. If It breaks down again the captain prom­ ised to get a new one on Pedro. Each man Is to donate $3 to the ship's fund. If the ship Is laid up the money wlU be donated to some charity. Ship's delegate WlU take care of the money. New faucet Is needed In the steward department toUet. ' DEL MUNDO (Mississippi), October 4— Chairman, John S. Burks; Secretary, Wil­ liam 'Robinson, Patrolman wlU be coittacted about seeing the purser about draws in foreign ports. Men want to know in advance of these wUl be In VS or local currency. Chief mate was asked to have aU deck department foc'sles. passageways sougeed before arrival In port. AU hands gave a vote of thanks to the steward and his department for the nice job they did on this ship. In feeding and service, and keeping a clean ship. They are tops and aU hands are happy. Steward asked all brothers to turn In soUed or spare linen in their foc'sles. so the ship can go In clean. Walker. AU repairs are care of. Bosun complimented the splen­ did crew we are sailing with. Every­ thing Is going smooth. October IS—Chairman Frank Smith; Secretary, H. Pedersan. Mate was doing seaman's work. After a talk with him he said ha would not do It again. More milk will be ordered, and It wlU be served three times a day. If necessary, patrolman will be contacted. Omlets should be served Friday nights, as fish Is quite poor. Meat Is very poor, and should be varied more on menus. Steward's orders caU for prime mbats. Inside painting started last month should be finished. Milk and ice cream are in a bad condition. ALCOA PEGASUS (Alcoa), October 15 —Chairman, Leon M. Kyier; Secretary, H. Sterling. Mattresses were not ordered and the ship was not painted out. Patrol­ man will be contacted on this. lEach de­ partment WlU make up a repair Ust to turn over to the ship's delegate. Steward will order a greater variety of cookies. One man failed to join the ship in MobUe. STEEL DESIGNER (Isthmian), October 4—Chairmen, Stevo Thayer; Secretary, Fidel G. Lukban.' Tarpaulin wiU be rigged topside next week. Engine delegate asked the first -assistant for goggles but didn't get them. 'AU engine department rooms need sougeelng. More cleaning fluid should be Issued, Thomas Snow was elected ship's delegate. LUCILLE BLOOMFIELD (Bloomfleld), September 30—Chairman, A. G. Brown; Secretary, Lyman W. Ange. OT will be settled In port and action will be taken on the chief engineer. Discussion was held on painting engine department quar­ ters. Ship's delegate will contact the •LUESTAR (Traders), Ocfober 10— captain again. . Milk and fruit aren't avaUablc. Messman wUl bring up aU con­ Chairman, C. Rllter; Secretary, H. Murdiments before the next meal. Delegates will turn the repair list over to the ship's delegate. Qutx Answers 1. James Roosevelt, son of FDR. 2. Herman Hickman, former coach at Yale, and Dick Kazmaier, former Princeton All American halfback. 3. Bill Talbert. 4. Dashiell Hammet in "The Mal­ tese Falcon" and Raymond Chand­ ler in "The Big Sleep." 5. Sapporu, Otaru and Hokodate. 6. The Navy, 7. Charles A. Tobey, Republican of New Hampshire. 8. Don Newcombe. 9. Dean G. Acheson, Secretary of ;State under Harry S., Truman. 10. Proprietress of what was New York's most famous bordello and authoress of the best-selling book, "A House Is Not a Home." Puzzle Answer shape with a very good crew. There are no beefs and no disputed OT. As SlU men, everyone should cooperate with the crew messman in keeping the pantry clean and tidy at all times. Electrician will fix the washing machine light. The crewmembers of this ship go on record as backing the strike committee 100 per­ VAKA (Waterman), October 15—Chair­ cent and are willing to give anything needed and to help in any way. shape man, Walter Cousins; Secretary, Bert Shannon. Chief mate said the laundry or form. would be painted before reaching Balti­ more. Discussion was )mld on starting a TOPA TOFA (Waterman), October 17— ship's fund for emergencies. All hands Chairman, Sam Carlisle; Secretary, Jo­ WiU help keep the messhaU clean. seph M. LIttcral. There is $11.60 in the ship's fund. Everyone is to clean up the EVELYN (Bull), September 34—Chair­ messhaU. J. . J. Markman was elected man, Charles Hensley; Secretary, W. Wesley Etty. There is a $26 balance in the ship's fund. Harry Renolds was elected ship's delegate. October 5—Chairman, Harry Renolds; Secretary, W. Wesley Etty. Negotiating committee should see if the deck gang could be called a half hour before turn­ RIRES Found ing to. instead of 15 minutes. NOTICES ALAWAI (Waterman), October 3— Chairman, Al Jackson; Secretary, R. Thelss. Curtains will be put up in the messhaU. More night lunch is to be put out. Cool drinks will be served at meal times. Pastry and baking is not up to standard. Steward promised to attend to this. Linen wiU be issued piece by piece. FAIRLAND (Waterman), October 4— Chairman, Kaznowsky; Secretary, George Gibbons. Captain was given a repair list; a few items were taken care of at sea. Unused ship's funds will be donated to the LOG. Laundry is being left dirty, especially the washing machine. Men playing cards in the recreation room are to cut down the noise, as men are sleep­ ing. There have been many colds aboard this vessel and the men at the wheel be­ lieve that there is too much of a draft timre. Captain wiU be asked to have one of the doors in the wheelhouse closed or instaU a windbreaker. Officers and crew­ members donated flowers for the funeral of the mother of George Gibbons, one of the members. WINTER HILL (Cities Service), Sep­ tember 30—Chairman, William Dunkam; Secretary, Andrew Kusch. ^Quarters should be cleaned before the crew leaves BOULDER VICTORY (Seas Shipping), the ship, foc'sles and heads should be painted. Patrolman wlU be told about October %—Chairman, Joseph Saez; Sec­ retary, William Jenkins. AU crewmem­ this. Each delegate wUl coUect money for the ship's fund. Each man wlU con- bers are to be sober at the payoff. All deck department rooms and passageways should be sougeed; mate will be con­ tacted on this. All disputed OT has been typed up for a quick payoff. .TiiisONiii: Ross Hebert Ray Brown Please contact Walter "Speedy" ^Daspit, in care of Sparling School of Diving, PO Box 965, Wilming­ ton, Calif. t - s. Warren E. Frye Urgient. Contact your family im­ mediately or else phone Sheriff F. M. Cahoon, Manteo, NC, collect, as soon as possible. Phone num­ ber is Manteo 42. assH rasa DBQIS ss onss nSBSSBBQISaS sfflB Gas sfflca Joseph W. O'Neil Please contact your sister, Mrs. Schmidt at 22 Glendal Street, Dor­ chester, Mass: Your uncle died on Oct. 20, and was buried on Oct. 24. aBSS BQS BBSS OQB!I]3 BDBBQSS HBQ aa nsEi EifflacjsaanBBB Sidney L. Wilson - Contact your mother. You can write to her in care of General De­ livery, Tucson, Ariz. BUS BSiaiil W. Davies was elected ship's delegate. Repair lists wUl be turned In as soon as possible, New wringer wiU be ordered for the washing machine. Steward de­ partment foc'sles. messhall and recrea­ tion room win be painted this ti'ip. Laun­ dry should be kept clean. ^ t Albert H. Schwartz Please" conthct Pauline;. F. i^chwartz in CorBicaha, Texas; ARIZPA (Waterman), September 37— Chairman, Carl Scott; Secretary, Don Collins. A few minor repairs will be taken up at the payoff. Repair list will be turned in before reaching Kure. so it can he maUed to San Francisco. Any additions for the repair list should be given to department delegates. New mat­ tresses should be ordered for those who need them. Report on one man who is fouUng up will be given at the next meeting, and action wlU be discussed. October 11—Chairman, Pat Ryan; Sec­ retary, Don Collins. Minor beefs wUl be taken up at the payoff. A report on gashounds and foul-ups will be turned over to the boarding patrolman. Water has been dirty; larger hot water heater should be installed in quarters aft. Re­ pair Ust was mailed in from Kure. Mat­ tresses should be ordered where needed. Rings have been found belong­ ing to the FWT on the 12 to 4 watch on the Catawaba Victory (Bull) which paid o.T in San Fran­ cisco in June. The rings are being held in the LOG office at head­ quarters. t t 4« Samuel Curtis Your discharge from the Cantigny has been found and is being held for you in the LOG office in headquarters. t 4 3. t 3« t E. Mendoza Contact the patrolmen in head­ quarters. Frederick Carroll Contact the Welfare Services Department at headquarters as soon as possible. 3< 3' Drew Gay Sal Lanza left your radio in the baggage room at headquarters. The baggage check has been left for you in the mail room at headquar­ ters. James Pursell. Delegates reported no beefs. Discussion was held on sanitary work leaving bauxite docks. Shoreslde personnel should be kept out of crew's quarters in Trinidad. Captain wUI be asked to post a notice two hours before the draw. Vote of thanks went to the steward department. J. F. Kelley was elected ship's delegate. October 1$—Chairman, Edward Kelley; Secretary, Jemes Pursell. There is a smaU amount of disputed OT. Ship's delegate and engine delegate wiU see about getting another room for the black gang, so each watch can have a separate foc'sle. Library should be kept locked up. Washing machine should be placed on the repair list. Hasp should be put on the recreation room door. FRANCES (Bull), October <—Chairman, Raymond Torres; Secretary, L. Capitane. Beef between a man and the engineer wUi be taken up with the patrolman. MASSMAR (Calmar), September 13— Chairman, James Chew; Secretary, ne name. Ship's delegate consulted with the master about a letter from the SIU slop­ chest and the master agreed with him and is in favor of SIU quality and prices. Three men paid off on the West Coast. No one is to sign on untU the coffee urn is instaUed. AU quarters, are to be sougeelng. Washing machine should be moved, to keep the laundry from loeing flooded. Seattle wiU contact New York about having a Sea Chest representative meet the ship. Rejects were found in the present slopchest. BALTORE (Ore), man, Jim Morin; October 10—Chair­ Secratary, Charles Henschke. Laundry should be kept clean and scupper should not be plugged up with refuse. Cots should be taken care of. Crew was asked not to buy from the captain's phony slopchest but to buy ashore untU an SIU slopchest comes aboard. CANTIGNY (Cities Service), October 1$ —Chairman, James A. Phillips; Secretary, Thomas J. Moore. Ship's delegate con­ tacted the steward about the poor feed­ ing. Steward said he would do better, however, there is general dissatisfaction with the food, second entrees, repetition of some vegetables. Coffee urn should be. cleaned oftener. Steward should come to the crew messhaU once in a while and look things over. One man missed ship, in Lake Charles. Charles F. Connors was elected ship's delegate. Quarters and messhaU need fumigation due to roaches, whieh are plentiful. Edifor, SEAFARERS LOG. 675 Fourth Ave., Brooklyn 32, NY I would like to receive the SEAFARERS LOG—please put my name on your mailing list. (Print Information) NAME CLARKSBURG VICTORY (Eastern), July 35—Chairman, J. E. Wiliiams; Sec­ retary, Moncie "Punk" Danieis. Kenneth Roberts was elected ship's delegate. AU members were asked to be on the alert for hazardous conditions. Discussion was held on windscoops and on more coop­ eration from the steward department. Ship's treasury needs reorganization. Sanitary men of each department should show more cooperation. August 4—Chairman, Harry Frankiin; Secretary. Monde Daniels, J. E. Williams was unanimously elected ship's delegate. Broken glass was left lying in the aUey- TO AVOID DUPLICATION: If you are an old tubscriber ond hava a changa way due to someone's carelessness and of addraii, plaast givo your former address balowt lack of consideration of his shipmates. Entire steward department' was thanked ADDRESS I* ••<»44 I agj ••••*•*•••********' .•••«**iie$aaaMa$e«ta M$«a$M4a letaeeaaeeaaeea••$•••••• for an outstanding'menu. STREET ADDRESS CITY .ZONE STATE . Signed $$w4»Mt$t«$tae laaaiMMaiMAM ..I �Pac« Tirent7-siz SEAfARERS October SO, 1953 LOG Mother, Baby Receive Union Benefit in the HOSFTTAIM The following list contains the names of .^ospitalizcd Seafarers who are being taken care of by cash benefits from the SIU Welfare Plan. 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 and weeks in a hospital bed. USPHS 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. Shown here are Mrs. George F. Mahoney, Jr., and her son, Clyde Leroy Mahoney. The Mahoneys live at 89 Broadway in San Francisco, Californw. Mrs. Mahoney is shown holding the Union check for the $200 maternity benefit and the $25 defense bond. All o/ the following SIU families September 14, 1953. Parents, Mr. toill collect the $200 maternity and Mra. Robert R. Brown, Route benefit plus a $25 bond from the 2, Box 68, Independence, La. Union in the baby's name. t t t Robert Frank Mayo, born Oc­ Kent Arthur Terpe, born Sep­ tober 10, 1953. Parents, Mr. and tember 19, 1953. Parents, Mr. and Mrs. "Vernon Mayo, 6910 34th Mrs. Keith A. Terpe, 527 Cherry Avenue SW, Seattle, Wash. Street, Elizabeth, NJ. 3> 3> t Sylvia Ann Massicot, bom Au­ i Gloria Louise Drawdy, born Sep­ gust 10, 1953. Parents, Mr. and tember 18, 1953. Parents, Mr. and Mrs. Jules A. Massicot, 700 North Mrs. Herbert L. Drawdy, 1511 East Main Street, Marksville, La. 4" 4' 4» Anderson Street, Savannah, Ga, Neil Guy Morgavi, born October t l" 4" 4, 1953. Parents, Mr. and Mrs. James Edward Afford, born June Isador W. Morgavi, 903 St. Mary 22, 1953. Parents, Mr. and Mrs. Aleck L. Alford, 315 East 47th Street, Pensacola, Fla. 3> 4" Kathryn Margaret Hargesheimer, born September 17, 1953. Parents, Mr. and „ Mrs, Lpnnie V. Hargesheimer, 7461^ Louisiana Avenue, New Orleans, La. a. i. a. George Ray Peteusky, bom Au­ gust 13,- 1953. Patents, Mr. and Mrs. George Peteusky, 1441 DeHaro Street, San Francisco, Cal. i t 3^ Dawn Patricia Dillon, born Au­ gust 8, 1953. Parents, Mr. and Mrs. WiUie E. Dillon, Andrews Lake, Frederica, Del. 3> 3> 3> Robert Niels Nielsen, born Sep­ tember, 18, 1953. Parents, Mr. and Mrs. Niels Nielsen, 120-42 131st Street, South Ozone Park, Queens, NY. 3> 3^ 4i Darlene Carol Dawson, born Oc­ tober 1, 1953. Parents, Mr. and Mrs. James M. Dawson, 2164 Grand Avenue, Bronx, NY. t Crystal Fern Naylor, born Au­ gust 25, 1953. Parents, Mr. and Mrs. George Naylor, 10 Fairmont Terrace, Atlantic City, NJ. 4- 3> 4- Sherry Ann Cox, born Septem­ ber 13, 1953. Parents, Mr. and Mrs. Milton P. Cox, 229 St. Paul Avenue, Pass Christian, Miss. 3JI 3^ 3> Charles Joseph Crane, born Sep­ tember 5, 1953. Parents, Mr. and Mrs. Harold E. Crane, 16 West Park Place, New Orleans, La. l.-V-.f 4" I d* 3^ 3^ Urban Matthew Craddock, born September 28, 1953. Parents, Mr. and Mrs. Douglas C. Craddock, Box 8, Pearl River," La. 3> 3^ it Suzanne Christine Roberts, born August 1, 1953. Parents, Mr. and IVfrs. Richard F. Roberts, 2626 East Mure Street, Baltirpore 13, Md. » 3> 3> EUn^ll^J>lg^e , >>rp Street, New Orleans, La. 3^ 4' 3>. Jose Enrique Wiscovitch, born September 29, 1953. Parents, Mr. and Mrs. Jose F. Wiscovitch, 236 Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn, NY. 3^ 4' 4" Dianne Carrion, born September 1, 1953. Parents, Mr. and Mrs. Al­ berto Carrion, 711 West 179th Street, New York, NY. 3^ 3> 3> Elaine Marie Armstrong, born October 4, 1953. Parents, Mr. and Mrs. Paul Armstrong, 305 "Vine Street, Liverpool, NY. Patients Aid Hospital Fight; Seafarer Circulates Petition The Welfare Services Department and individual Seafarers are going all out in an effort to save the USPHS hospitals for seamen. This is part of the growing protest against the closing of these hospitals in a so-called "economy" move by the ad­ a United States citizen. Gaylord and his wife take an active part in ministration. So far. many individual seamen civic and political affairs in the have written to their Congressmen Borough of Manhattan. and Senators protesting the pro­ The plan, as Gaylord and his posed action and many ship's del­ wife have worked it out so far, is egates and SIU port agents have to circulate the petitions through­ attempted concerted action on the out the New York area and even­ part of ships' crews and SlU men tually in other sections of the on the beach. The protest is now country where Seafarers reside. Gaylord thinks it possible to reach going into high every member of Congress with gear and the Un­ the protest petitions. In addition ion is appealing Mrs. Gaylord proposes to organize to its member­ protest committees of wives and ship and their families of Seafarers to call per­ families and sonally on members of Congress to friends to write halt the propo.sed action. to their representatives in Washington. One of the Gaylord most effective protests is that coming from pa­ tients in the hospitals themselves. Applications tor the mater­ Letters from hospitalized Seafar­ nity benefit must be supported ers dramatize the situation more by the following documents: graphically than any other appeal. The Welfare Services Department • Your marriage certificate. has asked all hospitalized Union members and other patients at the • Baby's birth certificate dat­ USPHS hospitals to write and pro­ ing birth after AprU 1, 1952. test. • The discharge from the laijt As always the hospital represen­ ship you sailed on before the tative is happy to get patients sta­ baby was born. tionery and other needs for letter Processing of all applica­ writing. tions can be speeded up by at In another move to halt the clos­ least three days if photostatic ing, a New York Seafarer and his wife are preparing to circulate copies of the three documents mass petitions among families and are sent in. Applications friends of seamen and business should be made to Union Wel­ men patronized by these men arid fare Trustees, c/o SIU head­ their families. The Seafarer at­ tempting this commendable under­ quarters, 675 Fourth Avenue, taking is Brother Nick Gaylord. Brooklyn 32, NY. > Bom, iQ Athen/}, Gre^jBp^ ho. is flow USPHS HOSPITAI. NEW ORLEANS, LA. E. L. Bates E. C. Knapp Tobe Beams D. Korolia Alfred Beiig Leo H. Lang C, Bennett A. J. Laperouse P. Berthiaume Michele Liuzza E. Bracewell WiUiam MacGregor S. CampbeU Samuel J. Martin Herman H. Casas Vincent W. Mercon Clarence W. Cobb James L. Morrison George T. Coleman C. R. Nicholson S. Cope W. E. Reynolds Adion Cox Luther C. Seidle RogeUo Cruz O. Slmoncioni Thomas J. Dawson J. J. Spellman Joseph L. Dionne L. M. Steed N. W. Gardiner Richard R. Suttle Jack H. Gleason WUey W. Tait J. A. Gomez T. R. Terrington John Hane L. Thibodeaux C. M. Hawkins J. D. Thomas John L. Hinton Lonnie R. Tickle J. H. Jones Norman West Leonard Kay Virgil E. Wilmoth Thomas F. KeUer Charles E. Wells John D. Kelley BALTIMORE CITY HOSPITAL \ BALTIMORE, MD. Hinrick Wiese USPHS HOSPITAL SAVANNAH. GA. W. W. Allred Roger E. Huggins John Daniels Samuel Jonas R. A. Denmark C. Kent John B. Duffy S. V. KUpatrick Joe B. Farrow Jimmie Littleton N. L. Gardner L. J. Love K. L. Guthrie M. McDonald Floyd M. Hansen L. P. McDaniel USPHS HOSPITAL MANHATTAN BEACH, BROOKLYN, NY Percy D. Allred Frederick Landry Claude F. Blanks James J. Lawlor Julian CuthreU James R. Lewis C. M. Davison Francis F. Lynch Emilio Delgado Harry F. McDonald Antonio M. Diaz A. McGuigan John J. DriscoU David McIIreath John T. Edwards Vic Milazzo Jose G. Espinoza Lloyd MUler Robert E. GUbert Jack D. Morrison Eugene T. Nelson Bart E. Guranick Peter Gvozdich Montford Owens John B. Haas G. E. Shumaker Thomas Isaksen E. R. Smallwood Henry E. Smith John W. Keenan Ludwig Kristiansen VA HOSPITAL BALTIMORE, MD. WUbert Hughes USPHS HOSPITAL BALTIMORE, MD. T. L. Ankerson • WUliam - H. Mays Jessie A. Clarke WUUam Mellon Braxton S. Conway Henry T. Miller Robert Cooper Thomas Mungo Jeff Davis Harry W. Muches Robert S. Davis Ralph R. Nay Samuel Drury WUliam L. Nesta Wayne Hartman Thomas Nicholas Owen H. Herring Remus Perkinson McConnley JarreU John J. Pierce Steve Kolina Alexander Presnell Robert Lambert Harry A. Smith Antonio B. Lores Norman D. Tober Peter Losado Linus E. Twite Jeremiah McNieca John Yuknas USPHS HOSPITAL BOSTON, MASS. Edwin T. Callahan Norman E. Napier Frank Mackey Robert E. Peck Theodore Mastaler J. H. Penswick CITY HOSPITAL MOBILE, ALA. Harvls C. Dyas USPHS HOSPITAL GALVESTON. TEX. Anthony Adomaitis Howard E. Leles George Bales James M. MacCrea T. P. Barbour J. E. Markopolo C. Barboza Raymond L. Perry L. A. Dean Charles Sherman W. W. Fassett Charles E. Veach Howard W. Forbes Charles YQung G. R. Gonzales Jr. USPHS HOSPITAL NORFOLK, VA. Joe F. Baer Charles V. Horton W. R. Hardin Jr. H. D. MUliner JEFFERSON HOSPITAL PHILADELPHIA, PA. Robert Kennedy USPHS HOSPITAL SAN FRANCISCO, CAL. Jim Corsa Peter Smith Leo Dwyer Joseph Somyak M. Eurasia D. K. T. Sorensen I. McCormick W. Timmerman C. McLeUan O. R. Williams Joe Perreira D. H. Boyce J. Sampson USPHS HOSPITAL SEATTLE. WASH. Bruno Barthel Stanley Lesko Harry A. Bishop John McStravidk M. E Newman Fillip Madsen Joseph Newbauer John B. Molini John M. Thompson Jerry J. Palmer N. M.. Dorpmans Richard PaneraU John Beckmann Robert D. Phifer S. BeU John Quinn Marcie Boyles George Rice John E. Brady C. R. Robertson WUliam H. Brady G. H. Robinson Cleo Brown Virgii Sandberg James K. Cann W. Schoenborn Joseph Caruso Roberf Sizemore Gerado Chao John Slaman Clifford Dammeyer Roy C. Stern Jusus Fernandez John I. Tarkov H. Galantis MUton Trotman Charles Gallagher B. F. Trottie Frank Gibbs Harry S. Tuttle EsteU Godfrey George Vickery Edward Goodenow Frank Walaska Anthony Gregoire Albert I. WiUlams John HamUton C. Mc'Brien Thomas J. Henry James Martin Paul Jokubcsak Agustin Diaz John Johnson Earl Bink G. W. Johnson Bomas R. Cheeley SEASIDE GENERAL HOSPITAL WILMINGTON, CAL. Percy L. Harrelson Arthur F. Lindsey LOS ANGELES COUNTY GENERAL HOSPITAL LOS ANGELES, CAL. Sidney Malin BEEKMAN DOWNTOWN HOSPITAL NEW YORK, NY WiUiam F, Dor^n John Mclnemey VA HOSPITAL CORAL GABLES, FLA. George C. Murphy J. C. VUas New Resident Of California How to Apply For Birth Pay Here is one of the newest residents of the Golden State, The hew Californian is Mr. Loyal Lafayette Piker, Jr. He is shown here with his mother, Mrs, Loyal Piker. This family just received the walernity heneflt Icom the Siealarei^, �"SSI October JO, 105S SEAFARERS LOG Page Twenty^seven Vfandering Laundry Refurns Seafarer John 8. Bragg can't be blamed if he blows his top any one of these days. Nor can his shipmates be blamed if they give him a wide berth in the messroom and other close quarters—thanks to a certain inefficient laundry in New York. Not that there's anything^ wrong with John personally, of laundry service that these it's just that shirt of his. shoresidc outfits regularly give to Through no fault of John's, it's the seai/icn. INewa about men In the hospitals and Seafarers receiving SIV VfeV only one he has, thanks to the kind It seems that Bragg gave three fare Benefits will be carried in this column. It is* written by Seafarer shirts to a laundry representative Walter Siekmann based on items of interest turned up while he makes who came aboard the Southwind his rounds in his post as Director of Welfare Services.) while the ship was berthed in New York. He promised faithfully to The hospital representatives haye reported a lot of interest and en­ have the shirts ready the following thusiasm on the part of both patients and staff for the SIU program morning since the ship was sched­ to keep the USFHS hospitals open. The Union has received praise uled to pull out for Mediterranean from many interested parties for efforts to save the Public Health ports the next afternoon. Service. The action on the part of the SIU has goaded the NMU and Well, as the morning wore on, other interested organizations into action. We have already contacted with no laundry truck in sight many Congressmen and other elected officials and we think we are Bragg got a little nervous about going to bring enough pressure to bear to save free medical care Recently heard from was Brother the whole tiling. With just two for seamen. This is the, chief topic of conversation around the hospitals. Al­ W. E. Swilley from Bogalusa, hours to go to sailing time, he gave though the Union Itself is acting, we want to urge all ship's delegates Louisiana. Pictured here is his the laundry a call to find out what to discuss this business at meetings and we would little girl, Mary Ann. He writes was going on. "Oh sure," he was told, "you'll like to have all SIU members get in touch with their to thank the Welfare Services for have thc,;e shirts in a jiffy, long Congressmen and Senators and urge them to sup­ before you sail." port legislation which would keep the hospitals open. Well, sailing time came. The Seamen should also ask their families and friends ship got up steam and cast off her to take similar action. If we all act together we can lines. No laundry truck in sight. nip this "economy" plan in the bud. She took in her gangplank and feels bitter about the whole thing. With the Atlantic organizing campaign speeding took off for the high seas with "Here I am at sea," he writes, up, one of the most 'enthusiastic SIU partisans is Bragg looking wistfully shoreward 'with one shirt to my name for a former AMEU member John Quinn. Although trip to the Mediterranean. where his three shirts were. Quinn never shipped out on an SIU ship, he has Gregolre The only thing left to do vias to "I'm going to spread the word collected full Union benefits after being hospitalized see to it that the shirts arrived around this ship about that laun­ with an injured leg. He is still in the Staten Island USFHS hospital someplace safe and sound. So at dry. They won't get on this ship, and intends to cast a "wheelchair vote" for the SIU when the election his first opportunity, Bragg wrote or any other SIU ship." is held. Quinn is one of the many Seafarers who give the lie to smears SIU Welfare Services in New York by the company union that the SIU is not playing square with Atlantic Here's hoping anyway, that asking them wouldn't they please Brother Bragg's one surviving shirt men. pick up his shirts and keep them, is one of those nylon or dacron Quite a few of the boys were in the Staten Island hospital. John that is, if they were ready? Molini, whose last vessel was the Longview Victory, was in. So was jobs that he can rinse out at night Welfare Services could and did. like the ladies soap their stockings. Mary Ann Swilley Seafarer Anthony bregoire, off the Wild Ranger. We are glad to hear His errant laundry has been lo­ that these'brothers are improving and hope to be shipping out again One of the consumer organiza­ some quick help in an emergency. cated and is now awaiting him in in the near future. We wish them both quick recoveries. tions tested "miracle fiber" shirts Seafarer Swilley has had some the Union's baggage room at on the market. The Sea Chest, Injured On Great Lakes tough luck. His little girl was headquarters. Brother Broyg has shirts of this Christopher McBrien, last trip on the good ship Stony Point was suddenly stricken with polio, crip­ It's imderstandable that Bragg kind. marred by an injury. He had been treated as an out-patient but was pling her left hip. Swilley appealed finally hospitalized at Staten Island.- Brother Earl to the Union for help at this crit­ Bink, late of the Sea Comet, was also injured aboard ical time and it was quickly forth­ ship while in the Great Lakes. He was first hospi­ coming. Writing from New Orleans, talized in Chicago and then transferred to the where his daughter is being treat­ Staten Island hospital. ed, he reports that she is much Another Seafarer who was taken from his ship improved and doing fine. to the hospital is Brother Marcie Boyles, who is do­ The Welfare Services Depart­ ing fine. One of the oldtimers we visited with is ment was established to meet such Brother George Vickery. He had been treated emergencies as that of Brother earlier and was readmitted a few weeks ago. He Swilley. The SIU is more than Is raring to get out to sea again and we hope to see Vickery happy to be of service in such a him sailing again soon. case. All Seafarers join in wishing The Union has received additional compliments from the Staten Island hospital staff on the way the SIU Welfare's hospital representa­ little Mary Ann Swilley a quick recovery. tives look after Seafarers in the hospital. This praise has come from other All Seafarers having business or hospitals throughout the country. Union members who have the mis­ personal matters in which they fortune to be hospitalized should feel free to call on the Welfare rep­ desire advice or assistance are resentatives for any services we can render. urged to get in touch with Welfare. If you are at sea, just write and your problems will be taken care of. All you have to do is notify the office and we will take care of it from there on in. Welfare Aids Seafarer And III Daughter |V li' Beneficiary Receives Check DonH Send Your Baggage COD SIU WELFARE SERnCES DBrUTHEn VOUR PROBLEM IS OUR BUSINESS III I II- liUr Seafarers have again been warned not to send their bag­ gage COD to any Union hall. No Union hall can accept de­ livery of any baggage where express charges have not been prepaid. Men who send baggage COD to Union halls face the pros­ pect of having to go to a lot of trouble and red tape with the Railway Express Co. All COD baggage—regardless of the port—goes to the local ex­ press office, where it is held by the express company until claimed. Seafarers who want to be sure of getting their baggage when they want it, can send it to any Union hall provided they^ prepay the shipping charges. Miami Fort Agent Eddie Farr is shown presenting an SIU bene­ ficiary check to Joe Cruz, beneficiary of Juan Santalla, ex-crewmember of the Florida. tlNAL DISPATCH The deaths of the following Seafarers have been reported to the Seafarers Welfare Plan and ^,500 deoth benefits are being paid to beneficiaries. Cemetery, North Arlington, NJ. Brother Fardo leaves his wife, Loretta Fardo, 120 Orchard Street, West New York, NJ. Robert A. Jones, 20: During an accident aboard the Bennington, Brother Jones was fatally burned on April 27, 1953, while the ship was in New York. A member of the engine depai'tment, he sailed as OS, messman and wiper, having joined the Union in New York in 1951. He leaves his mother, Mrs. Loretta Jones, 15 Hopkins Avenue. Jersey City 6, NJ. Willard Francis Parks, 32: On October 2, 1953 Brother Parks died of a brain injury at Cuyahoga, O, and was buried at Highland Memorial Park Cemetery, John­ ston, RI. He had joined the Union in New York in 1949 and sailed as a member of the deck department. t 4» t Joseph Pardo, 49: Brother Fardo died of a liver ailment on Sep­ tember 23, 1953 at St. Agnes Hos­ pital, Philadelphia, Fa. An oiler in the engine department, he had sailed SIU since December, 1938. Biiridl tbbk? placf'at "Htfiy'Cross 3» 4« 4" Harry T. Dunlop: A fatal hem­ orrhage was suffered by Brother Dunlop, a member of the deck de­ partment, on September 11, 1953 at Britcom General Hospital, Kure, Japan. He joined the SIU in New York two years ago. He leaves his mother, Mrs. Florine May Leith, 15 Flayter Boulevard, Torohtdr,*Ontari6.' Caiiaida: ' �SEAFARERS Vol. XV No. 22 • OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE SEAFARERS INTERNATIONAL UNION • LOG ATLANTIC AND GULP DISTRICT • APL. • Each successful candidate will receive $1,500 o year for the four year college term. In most instances this will be sufficient to take care of both tuition and living expenses. Under the SlU Scholarship Plan, students are free to choose any course of study at any recogo nized college or university in the US. The Plan imposes no limitations on them other than that they follov/ through faithfully on their studies and main­ tain a satisfactory overage. In other words, the Plan is designed to do just one thing, to give Seafarers or their children a chance at a career of their own choosing that they might not hove otherwise. •¥\:y' SlU Welfare Plan 675 4th Ave., Brooklyn. NY I am interested in the Seafarers Scholarship Plan. I am a Seafarer I am the son (daughter) of a Seafarer (check one) Please send me all information on the requirements. Name ........a... •• • • • Address To quolify for an SlU scholar^ship each applicant must submit the following: • Proof of three years' seotime on SlU-contracted ships, his own in the cose of d Seafarerapplicant, or the seatime' of the applicant's father. • A transcript of the candidate's high school record. ^ Three letters of reference from citizens of the applicant's home community, one from the prin­ cipal of the high school. Candidates must be in the upper third of their high school gradu­ ating class. Seafarers International Union • A&C District • AFL r V » * »> F F.f.S-.F,* . t t lit M ) » ' i ? S » j i 5 . V,'.'<'.1". , .'..VaO,'. � 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 October 30, 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. 22 Description An account of the resource Headlines: AFL DOCK GAINS MOUNT; NLRB SETS VOTE HEARING YARMOUTH HEADS SOUTH FOR WINTER SIU CELEBRATES 15TH YEAR ATLANTIC FLEET VOTING BEGINS A&G BACKS LUNDEBERG'S BID FOR SEA UNION CONFERENCE SEA CHEST EXPANSION BOON TO SHIP SERVICE MFOW GETS CHARTER, MALONE ON SIU BOARD LARGEST PROP IS DELIVERED BY SEA ROUTE SUGGEST GOV'T PROGRAM FOR 18-KNOT LIBERTYS SENATOR PROPOSES NEW MSTS CURB, SUBSIDIES SCHOLARSHIP EXAMS NEARING, CAN APPLY FOR '54 GRANT NOW AFL ASKS CURBS ON TV DECEPTION BADGER MARINER CREWS UP, FIFTH ASSIGNED TO UNION EAST COAST HIT BY HIGH TIDES US RECOVERS OVER HALF ON SHIP SUBSIDY PASSENGER USES GREASE GUN, SAVES HURT SEAFARER'S LIFE MERCY PLANE CRASHES, SEAFARER, 3 OTHERS DIE MD FEE-SPLITS FOUND COMMON STATES' JOBLESS FUNDS INCREASE SHIPBUILDING STILL DECLINING MFOW HALL THREATENED BY HIGHWAY CONSTRUCTION THE ATLANTIC ISSUES A DANGEROUS INDUSTRY LEGISLATIVE HOPES SEAFARER SHUTTERBUGS FOUL BALL SEAMAN BATS HIMSELF OUT OF SHIPPING LEAGUE LINEUP SEAFARER REPORTS SMOOTH SAILING THROUGH SEA OF BOOKS ON CAMPUS CREW AT SEA OVERSMOKES SITUATION 'STRANGE THINGS ARE HAPPENING' ABOARD WATERMAN SHIP AT SEA SEAFARER BIDS SHIP FAREWELL LEARNS AT SEA AND IN SCHOOL IS FISHING INDUSTRY DUE FOR A REVOLUTION WANDERING LAUNDRY RETURNS WELFARE AIDS SEAFARER AND ILL DAUGHTER Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 10/30/1953 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Seafarers International Union of North America 1953 Periodicals Seafarers Log