http://seafarerslog.org/archives/files/original/b7f423725521627050e5274f5fba9329.PDF 0f3634ae621d4ff6c0962ebae6475586 PDF Text Text SEAFARERS LOG •A • O F F I C I Al O R GAN OP THE SgAFARERS I NTE R N ATI O N Al UNION • ATLANTIC AND GULF DISTRICT • AFL TANKER CO.YIELDS 7 SIGNS WITH UNION a .Story on Page 3 Plan Ship Transfer Hearings Story on Page 2 I, The fourth set of twins re­ ported born to an SIU family since the start of the maternity benefit, Elizabeth •Margaret and Mary Veronica M^er nestle comfort/ ably in the arms of their mother, Mrs, Thomas F. Maher of New York City. The girls, born February .27, 1953, toy with the $25 bonds and $200 checks V presented to each of them by the Union. Late appUf cation for the benefits delay^ payment up until now< Diaper Duo. ||___ Seafarers in Mobile take advantage of the location of the rUFUOC flOlffe. SIU branch hall here to get a look-see at the annual Mardi Gras parade, which is said to pre-date the similar New Orleans celebration. Right on the parade route, the hall provided a perfect vantage point for watching the many floats passing by. (Story, other photoa <m Page 9.) Ir ^ ^ VT W* MIA •; • •?; �' ( Face Two SEAFARERS LOG March 19, 1954 Congressman Demands Halt i To Transfers; Sets Hearings Acting after vigorous protests by the SIU Washington office in conjunction with other maritime unions, the House Merchant Marine Committee is planning to hold hearings on the recent ^laxation of sMp transfer rules. Pending the hearings, acting committee chair­ man Kep, Thor C. Tollefson-r' ^ — has asked the Department of friendly shelter of the tax-free, whether transfer of American Commerce to put a stop to all low-wage Panamanian or Liberian flag .merchant ships would "ma­ ? 1, pending transfers. flags. terially aid the US economy, The announcement of the com­ On another ship-transfer front, national defense and the merchant mittee chairman's «. decision fol­ the State and Commerce Depart­ marine" as required in the nation's lowed upon requests by the joint ments have approved long pending basic maritime policy. Pending re­ legislative committee of the Con­ proposals that would authorize the ceipts • of information as to how ference of American Maritime sale of 12 C-1 ships to Brazil as (Continued on page 17) Unions that these transfers be in­ well as four C-1 and two N-3 vestigated. The maritime union type ships to the Philippines for representatives objected strongly use in that country's inter-island to new- regulations issued by the trade. Maritime Administration permit­ All the ships Involved in the ting such transfers without the proposed sales would come out of owners haying to replace them the US reserve fleet and would be with equivalent tonnage under the used in the domestic trades of the American flag. Under these regu­ two countries involved. While none lations, eight Liberty-tankers have of them would compete with Amer­ gone to foreign flags, while seven ican flags, the opening of ship sales more ships have applications pend­ to foreign nations is considered a This paintinc of a flower arrancement was submitted by Seafarer GALVESTON—Prospects for an ing, including the SlU-manned dangerous precedent which might R. C. Kienast of Mount Pleasant Beach, Maryland. molasses carriers, the Catahoula renew pressures for more ship early solution to the housing prolilem for the SIU branch in this port and Carrabulle. transfers. faded suddenly, when plans to • Switch Yarmouth In a letter to the Department of lease one or more floors of a build­ In another ship transfer action, Commerce, which has jurisdiction ing owned by the Odd Fellows, a the Ea.stern Steamship Company over the Maritime Administration, fraternal order, fell through re­ announced that it had obtained Rep. Tollefson pointed out that ac­ cently. permission from the Maritime Ad­ cording to the Defense Depart­ SIU Galveston Port Agent Keith With six weeks left to the Art Contest deadline. Seafarers ministration to switch the passen­ ment, the US was lacking 165 dry Alsop and members of the Build­ interested in competing for 12 awards are sending in their ger ship Yarmouth to the Liberian cargo ships, six passenger ships ing Committee elected by the The vessel has run for a great and 43 tankers for minimum needs. branch membership reported that stuff to SIU headquarters. Deadline for entries in the 3rd flag. many years each summer with SIU "Also, they stated that our nation when plans to lease part of the annual contest run by the Un-'*^ crews' between Boston and Nova must place reliance upon Ameri­ ion is midnight, April 30. working, metalwork and other Scotia, with Eastern's home port can-flag merchant ships. Despite property were nearly completed, details for the desired lease Under the contest rules in craft skills. being Boston. this warning, the Maritime Admin­ couldn't be worked out at the last forre this year, each Seafarer can All entries sent in by mail should Tramp shipowners who operate istration has permitted freer trans­ submit up to five entries in each be addressed to the Art Editor, Liberty ships under the American fer of American ships to foreign moment. Accordingly, the search for suitable space for a new Gal­ of four contest classifications— SEAFARERS LOG, 675 Fourth flag have also indicated they flags." veston hall goes on. oils, watercolors, drawings and Avenue, Brooklyn 32, New York. would like to get under the Tollefson also questioned Long-Range Plan handicrafts. The best three entries - The quest for a new hall is part in each of the classifications will of the Union's long-range plan to be awarded valuable prizes. provide modern, up-to-date mem­ Two Displays bership facilities in all ports. The Judges of the contest will con­ present hall, located at 308Vi sist of a panel of art experts plus 23 Street, has long been felt to be the art editor of the SEAFARERS inadequate and unsuited to the LOG. All entries will be displayed needs of the membership in the in two places, at headquarters for port. one week following the prize Under present plans, an attempt As the National Labor Relations Board winds up its New York hearings on AFL charges of awards, and at the Labor Temple, will be made to lease space in an 242 East 14th Street, New York intimidation during the December longshore election, matters reached a new height of ten­ City, at an exhibition sponsored sion in the New York area. For the past two weelw, since a court order prohibited the old existing structure rather than build an entirely new building. by the New York Public Library. ILA from continuing its boy--tAlthough, at the time, the Odd Fel­ The work of other trade union cott of trucks driven by AFL whether or not to throw out the order against the old-ILA telling lows Building was felt to be a members will also be on exhibition teamsters, old ILA leaders December election. If the NLRB them to stop boycotting the Team­ suitable choice, several other pros­ at that time. have openly promoted a "wildcat" so decides, it is likely a new elec­ sters. The order was obtained by pective sites were under considera­ Particular attention Is usually tion. (Continued on page 17) paid by Seafarers to the handi­ strike on the docks. The strike, en­ tion will be ordered within 30 crafts section of the contest, be­ forced by roving gangs of profes­ days, with additional safeguards cause there is where shipboard sional hoods, has shut down most set up to see to it that illegal in­ terference is held down to a min­ skills can come into play with ex­ piers in the port. However, at weeks end the imum. hibitions of fancy-rope work, woodAFL-ILA was rallying its forces Meanwhile though, the fight on and reopening the piers one by one the docks was assuming everin such key areas as the Break­ larger proportions. It all began on water in Erie Basin and the Brook­ Pier 32 North River, when an March 19. 1954 Vol. XVI. No. 6 lyn Army Base. AFL-ILA shop steward was fired. The AFL immediately placed a Outports Break Away As 1 See It Page 4 Committees In Action Page 4 Meanwhile, the old ILA suffered picket-line on the pier, and truckCrossword Puzzle Page 12 a major setback in the outpprts drivers, members of Teamsters Lo­ Editorial Page 13 when leaders of eight locals in cal 807, respected the line and re­ Foc'sle Fotographer Page 19 the ports of Tampa and Jackson­ fused to deliver. The old ILA attempted to retal­ Galley Gleanings ........ Page 20 ville, Florida and Galveston, Tex­ Inquiring Seafarer Page 12 as, swung over to. the AFL. Other iate by boycotting Local 807 truckIn The Wake Page 12 leaders of old ILA locals else­ drivers on the upper West Side. Labor Round-Up Page 13 where in the Atlantic and Gulf As a counter measure, the Team­ Letters Pages 21, 22 District balked at an old ILA sug­ sters placed picketlines on all Maritime Page 16 gestion, that they transfer to the piers where the old ILA had boy­ Meet The Seafarer.......Page 12 United Mine Workers District 50 cotted them, effectively throttling the boycott. On The Job .......Page 16 and lose all their autonomy. Personals Page 25 At the NLRB hearings, a string The next step took place in the Quiz Page 19 of AFL witnesses testified as to courts with issuance of a court Seafarers In Action Page 16 how supervisors ordered men to Ships' Minutes Pages 24, 25 vote for the old ILA to keep their SIU History Cartoon Page 9 jobs, herded them into busses and Sports Line Page 20 sent them off to the polls where Ten Years Ago .Page 12 they were greeted by well-known Top Of The News........Page 7 professional enforcers and told With Congress now in ses­ Wash, News Letter....... Page 6 more of the same. Further, the sion, Seafarers are urged to Welfare Benefits . Pages 26, 27 witnesses testified to beatings and keep on writing their Senators Welfare Report Page 8 stabbings of AFL-ILA supporters and Representatives in favor Your Constitution Page 5 by these same enforcers, led by a of retaining the US Public Your Dollar's Worth Page 7 well-known waterfront operative, Attending the fifth session-of the Inland Transport Committee .df Health Service hospitals. The Albert Ackalitis. the International Labor Organization (ILO) at Geneva, Switzerland, flow of mail has been heavy fobtistnia WwMtdy at tti* tiaadqu quarters ta« Intarnational Unio The NLRB examiner, Arthur lion. Atas Canadian worker delegate, Hal C. Banks (left), secretary-treas­ up to now, but from now on in bRffe « District AFL, i7S I Ave^7 Hyacinth Leff, will now make his report to urer of the SIU Canadian District, discusses progress of the gather-. is the time that it really *«*<»• KofareA as sacenA class matter Washington headquarters which counts. Ing with Canadian government delegate Georfeii Currie. Delegatep •r Mw Fest Office in Breefclyh, NY., will then act on it and decide 'M A r at Awffust 34, 1*12. ______ ; fbbrt' a2'lnatiOl^ attended Arte MOdnt ITC sessibi Galveston Hunt For New Hall Strikes Snag BBliiliiilill Six Weeks Left For Art Contest Entries NLRB Finishing Dock Vote Hearings; Ontports in Mass Swing To API Canadian SIU Official At ILO IMeet SEAFARERS LOG Keep Those Letters Coming jivtri' jiwn s-'riiscoc' « 'TI! .* ''' mi.. �Manli 19, 1954 SEAFARERS LOG Par* Three SIU Wins Excello Bargaining Rights; Co. Union Dumped A complete victory in an SIU organizing drive was scored this week as the Ex^ cello Corporation signed an interim Union agreement recognizing the SIU as sole bargaining agent for its unlicensed personnel. Full-scale negotiations for a proto­ type agreement embracing the"* company^s specialized marine move. The company is also report­ operations are scheduled for edly dickering in Puerto Rico for another terminal, which would the near future. Signing of the interim mean additional ships to handle ^ agreement brought company the Island service. Stay As Is employees another step closer to Under the interim agreement, winning Union conditions, as Excello agreed to an NLRB stipulation wages and working conditions re­ throwing out its company-spon­ main as they are until the com­ sored "union" and will reinstate pletion of a formal vv^rbing con­ with back pay four men fired for tract. Since the company is en­ Union activity. A fifth man will be gaged in a highly - specialized reemployed by the company, with­ operation, the formal pact will be a prototype agreement; however, out back pay. The company is currently oper­ it will follow along the lines of ating one vessel, the Excello, a standard SIU agreements in re­ converted LST, which hauls car­ spect to most working conditions goes of formaldehyde between New and overtime rules. The SIU campaign among com­ Haven, Conn., where its main operations are located, and Corpus pany employees began in January, Christi, Texas, with side trips to 1953, with the result that within a Havana, Cuba, and Hopewell, Va. few short weeks virtually all of the It is presently outfitting a second unlicensed personnel were signed ship, a Cl-MAV-1, for operation with the SIU. But despite the an­ in the same trade, with the likeli­ nounced loyalties of the crew for hood that several more vessels will the SIU, the corporation decided be added to the service eventually. to embark on a campaign of intimi­ dation, threats and firings to dis­ New Haven Expansion courage pro-Union activity. It went so far as to set up a Facilities at the New Haven ter­ minal have already been greatly dummy union, "The Independent expanded in anticipation of this Union of the Motor Vessel Ex- cello," including both licensed and unlicensed personnel, and exert­ ing economic pressure among crewmembers to secure signed pledge cards for the lUMVE. All this went on, however, while the company Elected to the New Orleans City Council, Fred Ctosibry (left) was already on notice that the SIU addresses last New Orleans SIU branch meeting:, thanking: Sea­ jepresented most of its employees farers for their supiwrt. Cassibry was backed by SIU and other and while the SIU demands for local unions. Port Ag:ent Lindsey Williams is at right. recognition by the company went unanswered. Action By NLRB Eventually, in October, 1953, the NLRB acted on SIU charges of unfair labor practices by the com­ pany and issued a formal com­ plaint. Periodic hearings held through January of this year estab­ lished the fact that company ac­ NEW ORLEANS—Victory for the first labor-sponsored tivities against the SIU had been candidate to win election to a municipal office in New Or­ in total disregard of existing labor leans' history could not have been achieved without the aid law, and a trial examiner's report of the SIU, Fred J. Cassibry, ^— was expected to uphold all the the successful candidate, told been able to win this election," charges. The signing of the interim agreement by the company presi­ Seafarers at their membership Cassibry said. dent followed, when the company meeting here. SIU members volunteered to realized it was fighting a losing Cassibry, young labor lawyer and serve at the polls, processed cam­ battle. a newcomer to politics, upset the paign literature for mailing to The Excello Corporation is a poiitical dope by nosing out State thousands of voters and otherwise subsidiary of the T.A.D. Jones Senator Robert B. Richards in a turned to in traditional SIU fashion Corporation of New Haven, a large hotly-contested campaign. Rich­ to put over the campaign. distributor of fuel and chemicals ards was a top-heavy favorite to in the area. The four men due to win the council seat, newly-created be reinstated with back pay as a under a revised municipal charter. result of SIU efforts are Nelson All other winning candidates in Norwood, Raymond Morey, Frank the Democratic run-oft primary Richardson and Manuel CJarza, all March 9 had the endorsement of of whom had been sailing SIU the Cresent City Democratic As­ ships after they were fired from sociation headed by Mayor deLesthe company. seps S. Morrison. Democratic nom­ At one point, the lUMVE was ination is tantamount to election With the fourth quarterly distribution of SIU libraries aboard SlU-contracted vessels headed by the chief steward, with . in New Orleans. already begun, and the time fast approaching when plans will have to be made whether the bosun as treasurer. The bosun, Victory For Unions or not to continue the experimental program. Seafarers on ships and shore are asked to take thfe son of the Excello's captain, later swung to the SIU. Cassibry said he did not con­ part in a SEAFARERS LOG sider the outcome of the election poll on the merits of the idea, membership to the whole program. against continuing the program, to be a personal victory, but rather which will be open through If there is sufficient sentiment in then it will come to an end when favor of continuing the program present stocks of books are de­ an achievement of the New Or­ April 30, 1954. leans trade union movement. Launched in August, 1953, un­ as is, orders must be placed with pleted. "You have shown the politicians der the auspices of the LOG fund, Pocketbooks now to meet the quar. The opinion questionnaire, which here what can be accomplished, by the distribution of the 50-book li­ terly distribution dates in all ports appears elsewhere on this page, a united labor movement," X!as- braries has covered ships in all for outgoing and incoming ships. also is designed to get the Sea(Continued on page 17) sibry told SIU members. "I hope borts, through the coast-wide facili­ If the poll shows the membership note of it will be tajcep in Wash­ ties of the SIU Sea Chest, to fill ington and Baton Rouge." Arthur R. Lewis, Jr., president the long-felt need for decent read­ Official Form in SEAFARERS LOG Pol! on SIU Libraries of the Seas Shipping Company, There is greater need now than ing material aboard ship. In ad­ (Please put check or X-mark next to your choices.) died of a heart attack on March ever before, Cassibry added, for dition, libraries have been donated 16, 1954, just 10 days after his labor to take an active and effec­ to marine hospitals around the Editor, SEAFARERS LOG forty-fifth birthday. Lewis had tive interest in politics. Anti-labor country for use of hospitalized sea­ 675 Fourth Avenue been vacationing in Fort Lauder­ legislation of recent years is only men at these institutions. Brooklyn 32, New York dale, Florida. an indication of the lengths to New Books Every Quarter Here's my opinion on SIU libraries. Mr. Lewis was the son of the which the enemies of labor will go Fresh 50-book assortments have founder of the American and Cuban (A) I want them continued as is. ( ) to destroy unions unless labor or­ been placed aboard SIU ships at Stemship service in 1909, and later ganizes to defeat its enemies at three-month intervals and. In cases (B) I want them stopped. ( ) the Seas Shipping Company, which the polls, Cassibry warned. where ships were scheduled to be (C) I want them continued with the following changes: operates the Robin Line Steam­ "Of course, I appreciated all the out longer, additional 50-book se­ ship service from New York to There should he more: Westerns ( ), mysteries ( ), help I had, but I say without any lections were provided, all at no South and East Africa. In 1935, novels ( ), non-fiction ( ), humor ( ), sports ( ), reservations whatsoever if it had cost to the membership. All books under the direction of the young­ not been for the supp()[rt of you are in paperback editions, supplied There should he less: Westerns ( ), mysteries ( ), er Lewis, Seas Shipping began its Seafarers, labor would not have through an arrangement with Pocknovels ( ), non-fiction ( ), humor ( ), sports ( ). first regular service between this etbooks, one of the country's larg­ country and ports in British East (Note: The present breakdown of titles in each 50-book est distributors of small, paperAfrica, Kenya Colony and Tangan­ library is as follows: 15 Westerns, 15 mysteries, 10 novels, bound volumes. yika Territory. 4 non-fiction, 4 humorous books, 2 books on sports.) Efforts have been made to pro­ vide a wide assortment of popular Lewis vyas well known as a man I would recommend the following other changes in the reading material in each library who tried to make his ships com­ selections: Eegular membershi]|> meet­ package, with no repeats in any fortable for his crews. When Robin ings in SIU headquarters and 50-book selection. The breakdown Lines ships were being built at at all branches are held every of titles in each package'provides Sparrows Point in 1941, Lewis second Wednesday night at 15 Westerns, 15 mystery stories, 10 demonstrated a close personal in­ '7 PM. The schedule for the novels, 4 non-fiction,. 4 humorous terest in seeing that the crew's next few meetings is as follows: books and 2 on sports. quarters were adequate. His favor­ March 24, April 7, April 21. The present effort to poll Sea­ ite form of relaxation was to rid# All Seafarers registered on. farers on whether to continue or his own ships and on every trip h# the shipping- list are-required stop the library distribution stems spent a good deal of time with th# to attend the 'meeting^ frqtp^ t^e Unioii'a. desfr^.tO'-ge^ jas. crew at their work stations and in full « possible reaction 'from the' their quarters. SlU-Backed Candidate Wins NO Council Seat LOG Polls Seafarers On Ship Library Program Lewisr Robin Line Head^ Dies At 45 Meeting ^ight Everg 2 Weehs {••••••••••••••••••a ••••••••••••a �SEUFARERS race Four March 19, 1954 LOG -..See It Ak'* iR (hi r Oi'. l-K; £« i' • W'. 'i k.;. Under the watchful eye of Seafarer Pat Donahue (right). Bob Morgan works on the heavy bag. Look­ ing on is Tommy Doyle, Marine Allied Workers. Donahue, a former middleweight. Is Morgan's man­ ager. La, Boxer Seafarers' Favorite A PROPOSAL BY OUR BROTHER UNIONS ON THE WEST COAST that a new type of passenger ship service be established out there illus­ trates once again that it is the maritime unions who are taking the lead in attempting to solve the problems of the merchant marine under the American flag. While the shipowner licks his chops and gazes with long­ ing at the sight of the Panamanian flag, and many in official positions down in Washington are push­ ing them along in the same direction, the unions are making serious efforts to find a solution to the existing problem. The Marine Firemen's Union and the Sailors Un­ ion of the Pacific are considering the idea of a shortrun passenger service between San Francisco and Los Angeles, which would call for both sleeping quot^^rs and chair service for passengers. In other words they would offer'itfompetition to railroad day coach service that has cut so sharply into th'e coastwise shipping business in recent years. Of course, the proposal alone is not the answer to the industry's needs. But our West Coast brothers believe it'should be given a try and are willing to back it up, because they think it desirable to explore all possible means of giving a boost to shipping. It would be nice to see the shipowner, the Maritime Administration and other Government agencies show the same eager interest in ship­ ping under the American flag that your Union along with other mari­ time unions is showing. And one way the shipowner could prove his sincerity on the question is to transfer his ships back to the American flag where they belong. NEW ORLEANS—Seafarers who call this their home port have been avidly following the boxing career of a 17-year-old youngster whom they have high hopes for in the fight game. The young fellow, 17-year-old Bob Morgan, recently carried the best wishes of his BROTHER JOHN BRADY WILL HAVE AN INTERESTING Ex­ followers to the Chicago Gold-,'*' perience to relate to his shipmates for a while. It seems that six months nents locally, having whipped en Gloves. However, a badly the regional Golden Gloves tour­ everything ago the brother left the port just a short time before in sight in his weight neys at Memphis. . • bruised eye sustained in a first The promising lightweight is class. Of late, he has been travel­ a Western Union money order for $20 arrived for round victoi-y tripped him up, be­ cause he had to go into a second bout that same night with one eye nearly closed. As a result, he dropped a close decision to one of the finalists in the Golden Gloves. Morgan, who comes from Al­ giers, across the way from New Orleans, only recently won the mid-South lightweight title by kayoing two opponents and winning a clear-cut decision over a third in .• ' 11 !§^' ( -•. I' • r." I 1 f'-• i- Three rank and file Seafarers in the port of Savannah took charge of the last port membership meet­ ing - nd ran everything smoothly. They were James M. Davis, chairmar.; James B. Christy, recording secretary, and Harry Henze, read­ ing clerk Davis, the meeting chairman, is a steward departn.ent member who has been with the SIU since June 4, 1952, joining fa the port of New York. The 34-year-old Sea­ farer is a native of Alabama and calls Birmingliam, Ala., his home town. Christy Christy, a deck department man, has been an SIU member since last June, getting his membership book in New York. The 30-year-old Seafarer was born in Texas but now makes Jackson­ ville, Florida, his home port of call. - Heading clerk Harry Henze is a veteran Seafarer from way bach, joining, the Union ip. Sayanpah on December 23, 1938. He is 61 years old and a native 6f Germany, al­ though he now makes Savannah his home town. He too kails in the deck department. coached by Seafarer Pat Donahue, who fought professionally as a middleweight and won local fame .several years back with victories ever Nick Guagliardo and Cosby Linson. He says Morgan is the best amateur fighter he has ever seen in action. On the basis of Morgan's record, there is ample reason for Donahue to be so "high" on the. boy. The young amateur, still in high school, has fought himself out of oppo- Gras festivities. Wallace is an Ala­ bama man all the way, having been born in the state in May, 1910; and still making his home in the port of Mobile. He joined the Union in that city on December 10, 1949, and sails regularly in the deck de­ partment. i t Over in the tanker port of Lake Charles, Louisiana, Seafarers Wil­ liam Walker and Seward L. Cantrell seiwed as chairman and re­ cording secretary for the port's last membership meeting. Walker, who sails in the steward depart­ ment, is 26 years old and a native of Tennessee. He Walker joined the Union in New York City on May 28, 1948. He's married, and makes his home in Lexington, Kentucky. Cantrell, a deck department man, joined the union in New York on August 12, 1947. He's a native of Georgia, 26 years of age and lives in Acworth, Ga. 4" 4" . San Francisco's recording secre­ tary at the last meeting* was Sea­ farer Roland E. Parody from Wor­ cester, Massachusetts. Parody, who •' Mobile's meeting chairman was sails on deck, was bom 32 years Seafarer William Wallace,'whO' like ago in the Bay State. He got .his many Seafarer's in that port, was SlU membership in New York'on ashore during <the recent' Matdl*; August -31;' im ... ling to Mobile, Shreveport and other cities in this area to find op­ ponents, whom he has knocked over with ease. Morgan packs a real wallop and has built up a sensational sti-ing of knockout victories. Idol of. Seafarers Needless to say, he is the idol of Seafarers and SlU-alfiliated towboatmen in the West Bank community where he lives. When he goes out of town to fight, he usually is accompanied by a big delegation of SIU supporters who first became interested in his ring career through Donahue. Morgan Intends to keep trying at Chicago and hopes to represent the South in the Chicago tourney again next year. It is likely he will be fighting as a welter by then, Imwever. He is finding it increas­ ingly difficult to make the light­ weight limit and he is still grow­ ing. Gov't Would Give Aliens Right Of Appeal To Court WASHINGTON — New legisla­ tion urged on Congress will enable aliens to promptly challenge depor­ tation orders fa a Federal district court, without waiting until they are actually taken into custody. The measure, recommended to Congress by the Justice Depart­ ment in the form of an amendment to the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952, would provide addi­ tional remedies to aliens facing de­ portation. Under existing laws, or­ ders of deportation can only be challenged in habeas corpus pro­ ceedings after the alien has been taken into custo^. Under the amendment, aliens would have to file a petition Tor court review of a final depertaiion orde?: fa the US district court ifor the judicial district within Which the deportation proceedings were conducted. Following the filing of the petition for court review of the deportation order, an automatic stay of deportation^ woiild result, jfendihg' tiifc of tlfd CiJurt. him, care of the Port C Call bar in headquarters. Brother Brady made a couple of trips on the trans­ atlantic run for Waterman in the meantime, going into the Gulf on one trip so that he couldn't get up here to town to pick up his dough. Finally, when he did make it to the big town, he found his money waiting for him in the Port O' Call cash register. Now we wouldn't want anybody to go on from here and figure that the Port O' Call is a good place to deposit their life savings, because the bar isn't set up to pay interest. It all goes to show though, that every facility at headquarters is geared for one purpose—^to service the Seafarer. t 4 4.' , AN ITEM OF INTEREST COMING OUT OF THE NATION'S capital is that the Treasury Department is recommending a stiffer law to deal with seamen who have anything to do with carrying narcotics into the US. Right now tne Coast Guard has the discretion to lift a seaman's papers if they should find him mixed lip with dope carrying or dope peddling, but the Treasury would make this kind of thing com­ pulsory. Membership On Record As far as your Union is concerned, the membership long ago went on record to give the quick boot to anybody found guilty of handling narcotics in any shape, form or fashion. Yoiur Union doesn't want any part of these goofballs and has so acted in.the past after evidence to that effect has been presented to membership-elected trial committees. •. In short the goofballs have been served fair and ample notice time and again to stay away from SIU ships, and the word has gotten around that it doesn't pay to try to pull this"kind of stuff Ivhile sailing SIU. Offhand, we might say that these kind of characters, who cannot be considered professional seamen because-they just use seamanship as a tool for their other enterprises, would more likely to be found elsewhere on the kind of ships where seamen's papers and maritime regulations don't count for very much. Your Union, is proud to say that as a result of this policy, cases of narcotics violations have been a pretty rare thing aboard SIU ships. And That's the way it should be, because the members of this Union have fought too long and too hard for the kind of conditions they, have to let any goofballs try to tear them down. : AS THE ALIEN BROTHERS OF THE' SIU KNOW, THE LAW$ make it pretty tough for an alien seaman to ship out. The result ha^ been that the shipowner would be just as happy not to ship the alieb and some haye tried in various ways to hard-timb the alien seamen." ' ' However, the SIU has always, hbld to the idea that the alien brother, having fought alongside the citizebrSeafarer on the picket-line and against the enemies of this nation during the last war, is entitled to the same consideration as any other member of this Union. Efforts are being made'in Washington to do the best that can be done for the alien seaman with­ in the'limits of the existing laws. As a result,.there has been some small improvement in conditions for. the alien- seaman. The latest was a ruling by the Imnrigration people that the 29-day leave provision js to apply from the time that the man completes bis'voybge, and not from the time the ship first touches a u§-Pprt.,^ , The .alien mbmbersHip in tiHe SItl can'l^st as$Hii^ that'tl^b UtUon will do everything possibl-*. r.ow and in the future^ to make thini^ b -'I': J �March 19^.1854 SEAFARERS LOG •J I Pare Fly* Sf U Has Aided Numetdus Unions Through The Years An SIU tradition and a long-standing mem­ bership policy of helping other unions in legit­ imate b'eefs is being applied once more in the current iftght of the AFL-ILA to organize East Coast longshoremen. The East Coast long­ While John Brady was at sea for six months, Scotty Aubusson (left), bartender at the Brooklyn SIU Hall, was holdinr a money, •rder for him. John made port and Scotty made payment. Port O'Call Safe PlaceTo Keep Dough A Seafarer who left a $20 money order behind him ii* the Port O' Call bar in headquarters six months ago, came back the other day to pick tip his dough. All that time the money order had been kept in safekeeping in the Port O' Call It was then that Aubusson told them he was still hanging on to cash register. Seafarer John Brady was in­ volved in the money order mix-up as a remit of the fact that hjs ship left town before the telegraphed order arrived. Brady had shipped aboard thie Warrior (Waterman) and was all ready to leave town on September 4. The night before, he was in the Port O'Call, and being a little low on funds, telephoned his home in Philadelphia to have the money order wired to him at headquarters. Before the money arrived, Brady had to get on board the ship. From New York the vessel went to Mo­ bile then over the Atlantic to Northern Europe. Finally, six months later, Brady got back to New York on the War­ rior. While he was still on the ship, a couple of his shipmates got over to the hall. Brady's money. Brady, who had long since given up on the money, figuring it had gone astray, got over to the bar in a jiffy and picked up his money order intact. Pnl Number On Meeting Excuses Seafarers sending telegrams or letters to the New York headquarters dispatcher asking to be excused from attending headquarters membership meetings must Include the reg­ istration number of their shipping card in the message. From now on. If the number is not included, the excuse can­ not be accepted by the dis­ patcher. •V YOU anif the flU COUSTITUTION From Artlcl* XX Sdctloii 2 ^Yoatf ANhfRivaKJes AS 51U ARE OUAfiANTEED BYYbt)R .CONSmofiON." Wig E?A^: • rURB' tS- DeSI£»JR! 70 ACOL«A»JT • YOU WHH JHESE: BiOMra. At(t>" BRiYILEOES . //>^f 'A shore beef is perhaps the biggest operation the Union has ever lent assistance to, but it is only one of ap­ proximately 75 such instances in which the SIU has helped unions in and out of maritime in the post­ war years. , As approved by the membership, the policy is a simple one. It reads as follows: "Wherever pos­ sible, -when the SIU, is asked to help another trade union in a legitimate beef, the membership of the SIU will assist those un­ ions in an appropriate manner." ' The reasons for this policy are clear. They date back to an old trade union maxim, "an injury to one is an injury to all." If anti-union forces can weaken or damage other trade unions, it will strengthen the hand of those who would weaken the SIU. And turning it the other way around, if the SIU can help other unions, the SIU is assured of widespread support on its own beefs. Such support. has paid off many times in the past. For example, the support of other unions was helpful in saving the SOSO law when some forces in the Government wanted it abolished. The recent Val Chem beef when CIO shipyard workers backed the SIU to the hilt is another instance of such support. In some of the beefs where the SIU has lent as­ sistance, the employers often spread the rumor that the SIU was involved only because it wished to take over the jobs. However, despite aiding 75 unions, not a single union job was ever sought or taken by an SIU man. The success of the striking union and its pledge of mutual support was the only reward sought by the SIU. Consequently, in the past Seafarers have been active in a variety of union fights, including the fa­ mous Wall Street strike, the strikes of shipyard workers in Baltimore and Brooklyn, the In­ ternational Ladies Garment Workers' drive on open shop dress manufacturers and many others. Other unions have re­ ceived financial assistance from the SIU when voted by the mem­ bership. Here is a partial list of some of the occa­ sions when other unions were helped by the SIU— a record every Seafarer and the SIU is proud of: Kailroad Patrolmen Local 23228 (AFL), Galves­ ton, April, 1946. SUP Coos Bay Beef fight on Communist-led Com­ mittee For Maritime Unity, July, 1946. ' Masters, Mates and Pilots strike, '28 days, Oc­ tober, 1946. CIO shipyard workers strike, Bushey shipyards, Brooklyn, February, 1947. tWe wilhoot ODw ^ •* Union raeailrtB raceip*.-- United Financial Employees organizing drive, brokerage houses, February, 1947. . Her* the conititution provides a double check on the individual membar't money. The Union re­ ceipt is proof positive that the member has paid his dues and assessments. At the same time, it makes the Union representative fully responsible to the Union and the membership for the money he has collected. United Financial Employees Cotton Exchange strike, March S, 1947. National Federation Telephone Workers' strike against AT&T, April, 1947. Canadian Seafarers'strike, April, 1947. ' Office Employees Local 1S3 strike against George H. Flinn Corp., Brooklyn. CIO shipyard workers 136-day strike, Bethlehem shipyards, June-November, 1947. Hotel & P.Estaurant Union" Local 301, strike at pli^lj 1^3 It^iitayraol^,,P|)U November, 1947. Int'l A.ssn. of Machinists strike against National Airline, Tampa, Florida, February, 1948. United Financial Employees strike. Stock Ex­ change, New York, 30 days, March-April, 1948. Railway Carmen Brotherhood strike, Alabama State Docks, Mo­ bile, Alabama, August, 1948. Air Line Pilots Association, AFL, National Airlines strike, Norfolk, Virginia, September, 1948. Ladies Garment Workers Un­ ion, AFL, organizing drive non­ union dress shops, October, 1948. Retail Clerks, AFL, organizing drive. New York department stores, 1947-1948. Marine Firemen's Union, 95-day strike, SeptemberDecember, 1948. International Typographical Union (AFL) strike at Griscom publications, Glen«Cove, Long Island, March, 1949. SIU Canadian District beef against Communist'led Canadian Seamen's Union, May, 1949. Restaurant Workers Local 16 (AFL), Howard John­ son strike, New York, March 24-31, 1950. Commercial Telegraphers Union (AFL) strike, Brooklyn, NY, May-June, 1950. V AFL Laundry Workers organ­ izing, Hahne's Laundry,- Savan­ nah, Georgia, April, 1951. AFL Teamsters Union strike, Dixie Dairy, Mobile, Alabama, May, 1951. AFL Office Employees Union, Local 153 at Personal Finance Co., New York. AFL Teamsters Union organizing drive. Garden City Taxi, Savannah, May, 1951. AFL LSundry Workers strike, E&W Laundry, Savannah, June, 1951. AFL Teamsters Union strike, Coca-Cola bottling company. Mobile, June, 1951. I Metal Workers Union (AFL) strike, Fein Tin Can Co., Brooklyn, November, 1951. 4 Grocery Clerks strike, Wilmington, California, December, 1951. AFL Retail Clerks strike, J. C. Penney Company, Lake* Charles, La., February, 1951. Insurance Agents Union, AFL, 82-day national strike against Prudential Insurance Company, December, 1951-March, 1952. Commercial .Teleg­ raphers, AFL, strike against Western Union Philadelphia, Balti­ more, May, 1952. •x ; N C ££^ A y: • ra . SEAFARERS: imtR.VATlON.-U.. ONJO.V, n-j E:SJCN (N •HME.'S OF - 'Operating Engineers (AFL), strike against build-_. ing contractors, Philadelphia, June-July, 1952. Impressive as this list is, it by no means repre­ sents all the occasions when Seafarers have pitched in to give brother and sister union members a hand. The estimate of 75 such cases was culled from the pages of the SEAFARERS LOG through the years and does not include a considerable number of in­ stances of such help in relatively minor beefs. And the plaques reproduced' on this page are but a feu of the many testimonials that have been presented ' to the SIU for assistance rendered in time of need. ' Whether a union is large or small, if it is in­ volved in a legitimate beef and'^needs help, it can call on the Seafarers.. Seafarers can truly say that no other union in the United States can boast of ' »o outstanding a record in this resp^t. t :1 -'1l .. "'^1 -'''I I 4^^I �•., ' ' . » !>:' • PW^^^F^ppiFapPFr'^'^ " • •^-m, SEAFjtttlBMS JLOa 0Mf Trounces liA Ijn Philm PHILADELPHIA — The SttJ^affiliated Brotherhood of Marine Bngiheers scored a victory over the Marine Division of.'the old ILA in this port, when tugboat engineers employed by six companies voted for bargain­ ing representation by the BME. The , results, announced follow­ ing a three-cornered election in­ volving the BME, old ILA and the Marine Engineers Beneficial Asso­ ciation (CIO) on March 6, gave the BMS 28 votes to S.for the old ILA. Eleven votes went to the MEBA, in addition to three ballots chal­ lenged. 'Ehginoers involved in the elec­ tion had been caught in the mid. die because of a two-year hassle between the old ILA and MEBA which wound up with a. court in­ junction barring both organiza­ tions from representing the engi­ A quartet of'Philadelphia tugboat engineers smiles happily after neers. As a result, the tug engi­ receiving word that the SlU-affiliated BME had licked the old ILA neers. were without a contract for and MEBA in the recent representation election. The men, em­ the two-year period, although en­ ployed by the Curtis Bay Towing Company, one of the six outfits gineers for several independent whose employees were involved in the poll, are (1-r): John Ewing, operators in the port were covered llou Acord, John Vickers and Gordon Spencer. by ILA contracts. When the BME entered the pic­ ture last fall, it wOrt immediate response from the men, who were weary of working without any union 4 •. represtfiitation of any kind. The defeat for the bid ILA rep­ resented a setback for the founder­ ing longshore union, Vvhose presi­ dent. Captain.-Willi^m ;V. Bradley, SAN FRANCISCO.—Ail ambitious idea to stimulate coast­ headed the ILA Marine Division before he succeeded to the post wise shipping is being put forward by tivo SlU affiliates and formerly held by Joseph P. Ryan. -.•>Ci-V"i-ji •• Mi mi SIU NEWSLETTER WASHINGTON The Navy Is giving high priority, together with other projects, to the problem of countering enemy potential in anti-shipping warfare. High officials in the Defense Department believe that equal priority must be given to the development of a merchant fleet composed of modern, high-speed ships to match the accelerated pace of future wars. In the tanker field, the Navy particularly has been busy.- Its recent study shows that the US has an initial requirement for tankers in the event of war in the amount of about 10 million deadweight tons. How­ ever, the US-flag tanker fleet, private and goverment-owned, built and building, falls short of meeting this requirement by more than a million and a quarter tons. Therefore, the Navy has proposed to Congress a program for the long-term chartering of about 20 tankers. These new tankers would be built in US yards and would be chartered by ?Javy for a 10-year pe­ riod. In return, Navy would lay up about 37 of its present T-2 tankers. The new tankers to be built would be 25,000 tons, would carry almost twice the cargo as the T-2's, wbuld operate with a,crew about the same size as that required for operation of a T-2 tanker, and would consume only about one-third fuel. The program is expected to receive Congressional approval. t. t. Reconstruction and modernization of shipbuilding facilities in 'west­ ern Europe seems to be at a very advanced stage. This is the report of a Congressional unit which recently returned to the US after a study in Europe. They report that the advanced stage of shipbuilding in Europe seems to be due in part to the direct and indirect effects of the Marshall (EGA) plan aid, and very directly to the heavy volume of shipbuilding orders which have been placed in all yards since the war. Western Europe has enjoyed the patronage of a number of American companies for many important units, especially in the tanker and ore carrier classes. In short there has been a real ..shipbuilding boom throughout Europe since 1946. " , Western Europe is in a position to see a continued high level of ship­ building activity beyond 195_6, . Most of the advances in the shipbuilding art made by the US during the war period have been- adapted to the greatest extent possible throughout Europe and many new techniques and methods have been a third AFL sea union, who are reported willing to-invest designed and developed. ., Coast Utrions Offer Low-Cost pp Plan Fill That Berth If a crewmember quits while a ship is in port, delegates are asked to contact the hall inirtiediately for a replace­ ment. Fast action on their part will keep all jobs aboard ship filled at all times,and elimi­ nate the chance of the ship sailinig .shorthanded. $1 million to set up a speciAH daily steamship service be­ with present bus and railroad The trend toward tankers larger than the T-2 (16,000 dwt) is readily apparent from the fact that of a total of 285 oil tankers constructed tween this port ahd Lois operations. The idea also has the support of or contracted for since 1945, about 65 per(!ent;havie a deadweight of Angeles.. the Sailors Union of the Pacific 20,000 tons or more. Vessels of 40,000 tons" are under construction, The proposed undertaking, as disclosed by Vincent Malone, presi­ dent of the SlU-aifiiiated Marine Firemen, Oilers and Watertenders, would involve the construction, of two specialized ships, at a probable cost of about $24 million, to pro­ vide inexpensive passenger serv­ ice which could compete favorably •I I I SlU COMMITTEES AT WOKK I A headquarters appeals commit­ tee elected by the New York port membership meeting last week heard an appeal by a Seafarer who had been found guilty in the port of Baltimore of drunk and disor­ derly behavior on several occasions aboard the Edith (Bull). After read­ ing the record and hearing the ap­ peal of the' Seafarer in question the committee upheld the findings but reducea the sentence. The case in question involved a messman who signed aboard the Edith' last September, In several instances where the ship hit port the Sea­ farer either failed to turn to or turned to badly gassed up. Such incidents took place at widely Cowdray •cattered points, and naturaiiy caused a * con­ siderable amount of dissension in the steward department and grumbling by crewmembers who bad to contend with poor service or lack of service. Found Guilty •'•"Accordingliy,. h# had been brought up on charges before a Saltinooio trial comiUittee on N'ovember I9/19j53. After all'testiiti- mony was in, the committec found him guilty and recommended a $50 fine and a six month's suspension from the SIU. The Seafarer subsequently ^iled an appeal with headquarters, and an appeals committee consisting of Norman West, Donald S. Gardner, Marinus Hauser, Robert G. Cow­ dray, Jakob Dietrich, Wilfred Schoenborn and Orris Payne was elected to hear his case. The Seafarer appeared before the commit­ tee and readily admitted he was guilty of the charges that had, been placed against him. However, he asked considera­ tion' in reduction of his sentence on the grounds of his previous record in thg SlUi The Appealx Committee agreed that his record was clean, this being his first offense. It decided to cut his suspen­ Gardner sion in half, from six to three months, which meant that he was now eligible to reg­ ister on the shipping list and Ship out through the SIU hall. The committee agreed, however, that the fine which had been imposed by the Baltimore trial cdmmittee ;«hould stand; and the Masters, Mates and Pilots and some even larger. who, with the MFOW, would sup­ Then again the opening of foreign ore sources has brought super-ore ply some of the necessary capital. carriers with large drafts into the US picture. '— Attempts are also being made • to Having this in mind. Congress is considering spending^,000,000 interest other investors. in the as a starter to provide adequate depths, widths and alignments for project, as well as the Navy De­ many US Atlantic-Gulf channels and" harbors. If Approved by Con­ partment, because of certain de­ gress, this work would be done at the New York and New Jersey chan­ fense features which cbuld be nels; Delaware River and Bay; Mystic River; .Wilmington Harbor; Port built into the ships. Aransas-Corpus Christi Waterway; Houston Ship ChanneJ; Portland Harbor, Maine; and replacement of the B & O Bridge, Arthurkill Passengers And Freight Channel, New York and New Jersey, Details of the operation, which According to recent testimony presented to the Senate Appropria­ could handle both passengers and tions Committee, the major tanker operators have over a billion dollars freight, are still being developed, invested in super-tankers and the full value Of these tankers is not -but the plan already calls for a now being realized under the loading handjjcaps imposed by channels minimum of 200 chairs, numbered of inadequate depth and width, and assigned to specific passen­ 4> 4" 4i gers, and costing, about $12 a trip, Members of Congress are becoming increasingly alarmed over the plus some 300 additional berth mounting number of requests from American-flag operators to transfer passengers divided between deluxe vessels to foreign registry. and medium or tourist quarters. A full scale investigation seems to be in the making by-the House The ships would include many Merchant' Marine Committee to determine why, in the face of an features of ocean luxury liners, admitted deficiency in the quality and quantity of American ships, such as several bars and restau­ tramp ship, owners and tanker companies are fOming to foreign flags rants, snack bars and perhaps a in greater numbers, • dance band, and are considered a As reported earlier in the LOG the Maritime Administration has natural for the football season. encouraged, through liberalizing its transfer policy, the transfer of Malone estimated that if the initial Liberty-type tartfters to foreign flag. No new construction is tied in service proved as successful as ex­ with such transfers. Now, the American tramp shipowners are at­ pected, the idea could be extended tempting to have a liberalized transfer policy applied to their Libertywith other ships providing quickie type vessels. It is this latter effort that members of Congress are par­ vacation travel to the popular ticularly watching. Pacific Northwest. Specially-deThe House Merchant Marine Committee has asked the Maritime signed freight-handling features Administration to halt the transfer of vessels, and submit a compre­ could probably tap a large poten­ hensive'report in the matter to the Committee fpr study. The Com­ tial freight market which existing mittee will study this report and is expectejl to hold public hearings coastwise carriers still haven't to determine whether the transfer policy should be tightened up. tackled, he added, ^ ^ The long-awaited report of Commerce Department'A-Maritime Admin­ The West Coast once had several coastwise passenger ships operat­ istration on future Government aid to the American merchant marine ing, but while the service has dis­ is expected to be sent to Congress within the next few days. The report appeared, the market for it is still is based on recommendations made late last year by representatives of growing, the MFOW president the maritime industry, who split three ways, on what is best for tho noted. The launching of the enter­ fourth arm of our national defense." prise in the foreseeable future, A close friend of the merchant marine in Congress,. Senator Butler would depend on how long it takes of Maryland, Chairman of the Senate Subcommittee on 'Water Transpor­ to interest others the idea and tation, has predicted that the report will be the niost authoritative obtain the necessary capital, plus and reliable single document compiled in recent yqgrs on the complex .^ , the time it would take to actually' question of subsidizing maritime interet.J'j. Senator Butler says the report will present to both the Congress build the vessels required. If the experiment should prove' and the general public an overall picture of the policies laid down a success, it could possibly be ex­ in maritime legislation now in effect, looking towards the establish­ tended to the-East Coast to oper­ ment and maintenance of a merchant marine and d shipbuilding in­ ate befwech m^jor Atlahtic ports. dustry adequate to setve the national interest in peace and lil war. , At one time passOnger ship serv­ ices sbetween such ports as New York 'and Bostoh 'enWod 'ii jUood l popularity. deal of popularity; ' bvpiS} ft'csoi'tq ••mm �• •V'< •wl^trsp Marcli 19;19S« SEAFAHE It S L (fC A/cod Pace Setea Plant I It Mobite HOUSE VOTES CUT IN EXCISE TAXES—Despite the formal op­ position of the Eisenhower Administration, the House of Representa­ tives voted a ten percent ceiling on Federal excise taxes, with the Senate expected to follow suit. The cuts would go into effect April Affected are such items as furs, jewelry, luggage, toilet articles, light bulbs, photographic equipment and cabaret and theatre admissions. A major fight on party lines is building up, however, on proposals to boost personal exemptions for Federal income tax purposes from $600 to it t MCCARTHY DISPUTE SIMMERS AND BOILS—Charges by 1952 Democratic Jfresidential c^nHidate Adlai < Stevenson yiat, despite its token opposition, the Republican Party had really embraced the tactics of Sen. Joseph McCarthy as an aid to keeping the (3oP in power, were branded "nonsense" by the Preside it. At the same time, he endorsed an. attack on McCarthy by another Republican Senator, Flanders of Vermont, which charged that McCarthy was "shattering" the unity of the GOP. The controversy reached a boil when both McCarthy and the GOP National Committee demanded free radio and TV time to answer Stevenson and the networks awarded it to the party committee. McCarthy immediately threatened CBS and NBC wilh legal and other action if they did not give him time also. i" t WAR IN INDO-CHINA GOES ON—The seven-year-old conflict be­ tween Communist rebels and pro-French forces continued, with fears growing in the US that a new campaign by the Reds of pin-pointihg attacks against bases where US Air Force technicians are stationed might lead to direct involvement of the US in the war. The technicians •re stationed at various bases in and or near the battle areas on loan to the anti-Red forces to assist in the training of airmen and mechanics. •'i: Completion of a $10 million expansion program at the Mobile plant of the Aluminum Company of America is expected to supply a .big boost to shipping In the port. Company officials estimated that 50 additional cargoes of bauxite ore annually would be needed to supply the expanded facilities at the Mobile plant. MOBILE—^An increase in shipping on the Alcoa bauxite run may be in the offing as a result of completion this month of an expansion of alumina producing facilities at the Mobile plant of the Aluminum Co. of America. 4" 5" t The $10,000,000 expansion POLITICS AND ECONOMICS AT CARACAS—Latin-American dele­ program makes the Mobile gates to the tenth Inter-American Conference at Caracas, Venezuela, plant the largest of^ its type cheered US Secretary of State John Foster Dulles' pledge that the US was interested not only in good political relations with the nations south of the border, but wanted to help them keep their economy on a sound basis as well. The Secretary extended an invitation to all to a hemisphere economic conference in Washington. He noted that the US Was not offended at complaints against US economic -practices, adding that solutions to economic problems were often not as simple as they seemed. J. 4> 4RACETRACK STOCKS PARLEYED INTO MILLIONS—New York State's probe of shady deals in the harness track industry brought sev­ eral major political figures in the state under Are, following exposure of stock transactions in which small blocs of stock bought for pennies eventually were parleyed Into fortunes. JJespite the many red faces and sensational headlines, the probers continued digging into all phases of the operation of the trotting tracks. The investigation was ordered following the murder last summer of a New York City union official whose members worked at the Yonkers Raceway, when some of the stock deals came to light. 4" 4' ^ 4" RED ROUND-UP FOLLOWS CONGRESS SHOOTINGS—Authorities in Puerto Rico and in US cities with large Puerto Rican populations launched a mass round-up of suspected subversives and Puerto Rican Nationalist Party members in the wake of the sensational shooting of five US Congressmen from the gallery of the House two weeks ago. Following a tightening of security regulations in Washington, and asserted tips, legitimate and otherwise, that other shootings were planned to dramatize the c^se of the Nationalists, special precautions were taken to assure the' safety of top Government officials. All five Congressmen, meanwhile, are expected- to recover. n America, company officials said. An additional 50 cargoes of bauxite, basic ore in the produc­ tion of aluminum, will be needed annually to supply the plant's in­ creased capacity, works manager Duncan U. Smith reported. The firm's alumina production capacity was increased about onethird to meet the constantly'in­ creasing demand for aluminum, a company spokesman said. ^ In the Mobile plant, bauxite transported 'here aboard SiUmanned ships is smelted into alum­ ina which is then shipped to other plants in the United States for final processing into metallic alum­ inum. Much of it goes to- the com­ pany's big plant at Alcoa, Tenn. The annual production capacity of the expanded facilities was esti­ mated to be in excess of 400,000 tons. Land for the plant is leased from the Alabama State Docks which also increased facilities for un­ loading bauxite ore in conjunction with Alcoa's expansion. West Coast Stewards' Vote Well Past Halfway Mark Voting in the election to determine representation for steward department men on West Coast ships has passed the half-way mark with over seven'weeks to go in the balloting. Thus far the election has gone ahead quietly with little or no up until now, came up in New interruption in the procedure. York when the Labor Board voted Contesting for the right to rep­ resent the men are the Marine Cooks and Stewards (AFD, affili­ ated with the SIU of North Amer­ ica and the National Union of Marine Cooks and Stewards, in­ dependent, the • sole remaining Communist - dominated sea - going union. Bridges Asks 'No-Unlon' A third element in the picture is Harry Bridges' West Coast long­ shore union which has been call­ ing for the steward department men to vote "no-union," a . step which would deprive them of any union representation. The only dispute over the voting YOUR DOLLAR'S SEAFARERS GUIDE TO RETTER BUYING the President Arthur (American President Lines) without an MCSAFL observer present. As a re­ sult, the MCS-AFL challenged all the votes on the ship. The chal­ lenge was upheld and the ship was voted a second time. The voting began on February 10 and will continue for a 90-day period. Men on the beach, but who were employed as of the start of the voting can vote at NLRB regional offices. ^ Since there are almost 6.000 eli­ gible to vote, the West Coast elec­ tion is sure to be the largest ever conducted by the Labor Board on sea-going merchant ships. Written exclusively for THE SEAFARERS LOG. by Sidney Margolius, Leading Expert on Buying couple living in a large city would require a minimum of fast as Government "E" bonds. For example, if you buy $45 a week ($210 a month) for even a modest standard of E bonds at the rate of $18.75 a month, by the end of 20 Even when we're comparatively young most of us are years you will have $6,000. But if you invest the same living. often badgered by. salesmen for different kinds of re­ amount*of money in an ordinary life insurance policy, Benefits. Need Raising tirement plans, and investment and savings plans. Congress may soon raise the benefits because of the at the end of that time> the cash value will be about What actually is the best way to put aside money for popular appeal of Social Security and pressure to increa.se $3,500. Admittedly, the bonds would not have supplied as much protection for your potential beneficiaries dur­ future retirement needs? It's difficult enough to save, these obviously inadequate payments. But the gap between ing that period as the insurance policy. But if you are the payments, even if increased, and today's living costs especially for a family man In these days of high living is so great a worker does need a separate savings plan. aiming at retirement sa\)ings rather than protection of costs and sometimes irregular employment. Any bucks you dependents, buying bonds does build that fund faster Various plans are being offered wage-earners to fill can put away ought to be put where they will work hardest the gap. Probably you have encountered insurance, sales­ than buying insurance. Even if you do want family pro­ for youl men selling insurance or retirement policies that will pay tection too, you can still do better by buying a low-cost A Seafarer already has two assets. One Is the Social Se­ monthly sums after age 65 to fill the gap. in Social Se­ decreasing term insurance policy to cover your depend­ curity he is entitled to as is any ;wage-earner. The other curity. Or you may have noticed advertisements for in­ ents while they are still dependents, while investing the is the disability protection in the SIU Welfare Plan. The vestment funds and stock-purchase -plans that can bring difference in bonds. If you did that you would have about disability benefit Is not based, on retirement need but Is in' extra income. At one time such savings plans as an­ $4,000 in bonds at the end of the 20 years compared to paid only when Seafarer is unable to work because of nuities and stock-ownership were aimed chiefly at well- the $3,500 of cash value in an insurance policy. disablement. But it can be considered a protection for to-do people. Now they are aiming at working people The insurance companies claim that one advantage of one's later years, when incapacitating disability is more too. ' saving through their policies is that it is a forced savings likely to occur. An individual annuity can be bought in instalments plan. Otherwise a man might spend his money as he earns This disability benefit is paid whether, or not i man bought by wage earners, is a lifetii ie income'obtained from it. But you can put yourself ort a compulsory bond-buying also collects Social Security. The Social SecUrity retire-; whatever age you previously determine, it will ktart pay­ plan too, either through authorizing your employer to de­ mertt, benefits are the keystoiteland tnalrt prop in any' ing you an income for the rest of your life. How much duct a certain amount of money from your pay for bonds, worker's retirement plan. A man 'wbfr averages $3,600.a that will be depends on the amount you originally invested. or through the bond-a-month plan offered by banks. year of earnings after 1950 cbtild geti the mtoimmh rie• Another • type of annuity. Which is more frequentl;>' Investment funds and stock brokers are now getting tirement benefit at age 65, which ^urreiltly is $85 a month. bought, by wi^earners; is a lifetime income obtained from after the small investor to buy shares in common stocks. His wife, when she reaches 65, would also be entitled to a a life insurance policy. The policy protects your depend­ A mutual investment fund sells you shares and then in­ . pension equal to. 50 per . cent of the man's, or a maximum ents 'or other beneficiaries if ybu should die". That is; they vests the money pooled by you and others^ in a group of • of 442.50., : . would, get the proceeds. But if yoti surv'ive to retirement stocks and bonds, and gives you a proportionate share : Unfortunately, at present living costk bveii the'prebht age, ybU' can choojse to convert the cash value in the policy of the diyidends receiv^. You do-earn more interest this max;imum for kjnan and wife of $127.50, would hot provide' to a retir(^ent income. . ' .w^ than .frongivbuying. Government £ bondis. Biiit .be v A healthfid standaiii of Uving. AA ji>reseht prices^a iretlred Actually, neither of these^'plahs will pile up eavings as wwned that it is a far riskier -InvestmenL >;, Bolstering Social Security M •1I �SEAFARIBRS LOG -nMEisM ^ Z'""' Maieh 19. IBS* """"^ ""^ •T* • ifr.'-. -j.yk-- '• CASH BENEFITS •" ' 1 - % " v'^-->'- iiiliiilSi •;-;|.sv;-r-:';x'>':'V.->;-';"" SEAFARERS WELFARE, VACATION PLANS ' r' . A REPORT ON BENEFITS PAID —V* "-r •< >, - - FfOni if li:iiii#3y " 'Z ' ,- . No. Seafarers Receiving Benefits this Period A ^ Anybody seen any shells lately? That's what the Navy would like to know. If you have", you probably spend your time walking around on the* bottom of Gravesend Bay in 4Brooklyn, New York. are in cylindrical metal con­ Naval authorities in New them, tainers 37 inches long and six York, like most normal people, inches in dia Meter. The great ma­ i'l. •k haven't seen any at all, and that's what's bothering them. As a mat­ ter of fact. Navy spokesmen warn­ ed it's better for you if you don't see any because the shells are three-inch rounds of live ammuni­ tion. The Navy said this is no shell game, nc»- sea shell, either. This is the real McCoy. It all started about two weeks ago when the carrier Bennington was unloading ammunition before heading into dn'dock. The unload­ ing took place in a restricted area about one-half mile offshore in Gravesend Bay. With a strong wind and ebb tide running a little after noon on Thursday, March 4, the barge onto which the shells were being loaded capsized, tum­ bling 219 tons of shells into the water. Shells Doubly Dangerous Since them the Navy has been drying to keep it quiet, but it gave up about a week ago and let the cat out of the bag along with the shells. The shells, it seems, are separately encased, each in its own canister, but that doubles the danger, experts say. In effect ther# are two loads that could go off— the propellent charge which is set off .in the percussion cap in the base of the canister if the round Is hit hard—or the fuse or detonator either in the nose or base if the projectile is tampered with by any but expert hands. The shells, 14,460 rounds of Be Sure to Get Mh§es Receipts Headquarters again wishe* t« remind all Seafarers that payments of funds, for wlhatever Onion putpose, be made enly 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-^reaaurec's office^ jority of the n are silver colored, but a few are painted blue. A Navy expert explained that the canisters have an air space in them and had a "negative buoy­ ancy" of six pounds. The Navy says they can be shifted easily by tides and currents and it is afraid that is exactly what has happened. The Navy has had more than a dozen divers combing the bottom of the bay for. two weeks now. They're going to keep it up in search of the shells, which they feel niay have drifted out to sea, but the divers are expected to walk gingerly for a while. Use Rags Fpr Paint Job On Ore Vessel Shipowners and their represent­ atives have been known to cry poor-mouth from time to time, but nobody carried it as far as the offi­ cers of the Vcnore (Ore Lines) re­ cently. Seafarers aboard the Venore found themselves painting the overhead with rags because, it was claimed, the company was economizing and couldn't put brushes aboard. Crewmembers didn't even have the services of manhelpers, those long wooden broomsticks to'which brushes are lashed for the pur­ pose of painting overhead areas. The men had to soak the rags in the paint cans and then smear the paint on by hand. By the time the crew got through with the job the paint was evei"ywhere. Chances are the painted areas didn't look like much either. When the ship got back to Balti­ more, the crew complained to the boarding patrolman. As a result the companip has been told that if it wants Seafarers to paint its ships from now on, they bad bet­ ter put some-brushes and rollers en beard. n v% •! ^ ^" Averaitc Benefits Paid Each Scafafcr Total Benefits Paid this Period A Navy diver comes up after an unsuccessful attempt to locate laree quantity of live ammunition that was inadvertently dumped Into waters of Gravesend Bay, Brooklyn. Hunt For Live Ammo In Brooklyn Waters ••«••••••• To ' iiiM I I _ • " ' I ^i' WELFARE, VACATION BENEFITS PAID THIS PERIOD 1 Hosoital Berigfits Death Benefits Disability Benefits Materaitv Benefits Vacation Benefits Total to H- a Z4 WELFARE/VACATION BENEFITS PAID PREVIOUSLY Hospital Benefits Paid Since Tulv 1. 1950 * | tf-srioa Death Benefits*Paid Since Tulv 1. 1950* Disability Benefits Paid Since May 1. 1952 * S <2»« Maternity Benefits Paid Since April I. 1952 * Vacation Benefits Paid Since Feb. 11. 1952 » ^CiS' Total 4 7^7£>-72 * D.te Beneflt«,Be..n WELFARE, VACATION PLAN ASSETS Cash on Hand Vacation Vacation Estimated Accounts Receiyable \yeifafc US Government Bonds (Welfare) Real Estate (Welfare) Other Assets — Training Ship (Welfare) TOTAL ASSETS u^oLc COMMENTS; To date, 11 applications have been received for the Scholar ships of the Plan® The breakdown on the number of appli­ cants is as follows: 3 seamen, 4 daughters of seamen and sons of seamen. All of these have qualified and have taken their examinations, or will take their exams.on the last examination date which is May 22, 1954Many members, when being released from the hospital, are failing to file for hospital benefits within the 14.-day period required by the Plan. Hospital benefits not received in the hospital should be applied for within I4. days of discharge from the hospital, directly to the Administrator. Submitted • • M Ken,'AsSistaut^^dminUtrator ~ . and, reineniber this... z .. All these are yours without contributing a single nickel on your part—Collecting SIU beneA Z fits ift easy, whether ifa for howitai birth^ disabihty or deathget persond- . A3 AAS service inoni^iote^ representatives. ' • ./ •• fc,.' : '• •' �. v' • Much 19, 1954 " ' ~ •'' / SEAFARERS Pace Nine LOG Seafarers Help Fete JilardI Gras In Mobile, Called Oldest In ITS At left, a Mardj Gras masker and his lady are all set for a big time at one of the traditional AThrdi Gras balls. Although membership in mys­ tic societies is secret, this celebrant could be a Seafarer, judging from the white cap. Above, the Mobile hall, located directly on the parade route, provides a good view of parade floats. MOBILE—The celebration of Mardi Gras in New Orleans is world-famous. A carnival that rivals it in size, color and riotous fun-making is held each year in this nearby Gulf port, but it is scarcely known out-"*^ ' side of Alabama. Yet the cele­ the first parade. The procession bration of Mardi Gras in the was organized among a band of sea­ The ladies have their own secret societies too. This one, known as the Spinsters, is shown preparing to open its annual ball, as a gronp of the ladies performs the traditional rite which kicks off the fes­ tivities. Mystic societies have been in existence in Mobile for more than a century. Cartoon History Of The SlU Whipped in Canada and repudiated by its mem­ bership, in May, 1949, the Commie-run Canadian Seamens Union carried its phoney contract beef to Eng­ land. Misrepresenting the issues. Commie agitators succeeded in getting British dockworkers in sonte ports to tie up a lew Canadian ships, now manned by the SIU. . . manner in which it is observed to­ day in New Orleans originated on Mobile's waterfi-ont. The first appearance of Mardi Gras on the Gulf Coast was in 1699 when the name was written on a French map by Iberville. French explorer, soldier and engineer. Iberville was journeying up the Mississippi when he stopped one night on the banks of a bayou on Mardi Gras. This prompted hiin to name the stream Mardi Gras Bayou. Parade floats and the first mys­ tic society originated in Alobile on New Year's Eve, 1830. It wasn't until 1857 that New Orleans began to have formal parades and Mo­ bil-ans still claim that actually the residents of this city organized New Orleans' formal Mardi .Gras cele­ bration as it is known today. Mobile's first secret carnival society was called the Cowbellion de Raking Society after the cow­ bells, rakes and hoes employed "by med and dockworkers in a small waterfront cafe by Michael Krafft, a young transplanted Pennsylvania Dutchman. Ten years later* 17 years before floats first appeared in a New Or­ leans Mardi Gras parade. Mobile's second mystic society was organ­ ized. It was known as the Strikers to identify its members with their waterfront occupation. They were "strikers" who marked bales of cotton before they were loaded aboard ships. The celebration in Mobile, known today as the "Mother of Mystics," continued as a New Year's Eve event until 1861 when the citizenry decided Shrove Tuesday, the day pre~ceding Ash Wednesday, the be­ ginning of the 40-day Lenten sea­ son, was more appropriate for the occasion. Since then Shrove (or Fat) Tues­ day is observed by the final parades and wild and joyous cele(Continued on page 17) Commies Rig Phoney Doeh Beet With the SIU Canadian District pledged to honor the contract which CSU men bad shown they wanted, SIU officials moved to counter CSU lies with the true story of the Canadian "beef." Armed with the facts for the first time, many' British dockers, imme­ diately voted to return to work. The "beef" they were I\ o. 59 As the tie-up of some Canadian ships continued, the SIU-warned of a general boycott of Britirii ship­ ping in A&G ports, unless action was taken. The Labor government branded the walkout "Commieinspired" and it soon ended, but not before the Com­ mies had fomented a wildcat stoppage right on the docks of London. �rj- . •...•• =-'f' Pace Ttm SEAFARERS toe March 19, 195#^ PORT MtEPORm......... tirety, we would still be able to New Orleans: Valle (Mississippi), the Frederic Seattle: take over and operate a hundred C. Collin (Dry Transportation) percent efficiently. The workers and the Pelican Mariner and Alice would continue to work for the Brown (Bloomfield) signed on.' completion without any interrup­ Ships calling in ttansit were the tion. So maybe with this informa­ Alcoa Cavalier, Alcoa Patriot and tion we will be able to beat the We don't hear niuch about It on Alcoa Polaris (Alcoa), the Steel ' Good was the word for shipping Shipping has been good in the heat after all. It is with a lot of past two weeks and it looks like it satisfaction that I noticed the kind the beach here when they come Rover,. Steel Flyer and Steel Age in the past period, but not so the' will continue. As I said in my last of workmanship and materials that off on the short end, but the boys (Isthmian), Del Rio and Del Valle outlook for the future. It does not report, we would have an Ore ship are being put into the building. As on. the Del Norte '(Mississippi) won (Mississippi). Seatrains New York look too good for the coming two practically every day in here and I have oft times stated before, this, a baseball game in. Buenos Aires and Savannah tSeatrain), the Clai­ weeks; - • It so happens this did occur. As will be more than a union hall, it during their last trip and proudly borne, Monarch of the Seas and' Paying off was the Ocean Cbtte you are well aware, there are al­ will be a memorial to the Seafarers paraded ashore here the other day Arizpa (Waterman) and the Marie of Ocean "Trans, while ships sign­ with bundles of press notices and Hamil (Bloomfield).* ways quite a few jobs available on International Union. ing on were the San Mateo Victory a lot of conversation about how Lindsey J. Williams these scows. This helped to take of Eastern and the John B. Kulugood they are. We have for our i-eport this New Orjeans Fort Agent up quite a bit of the slack. Also kundis of Martis. In-transit ves­ Playing as the "Del Norte Stars," due to the fact that we are getting week, Brother Clyde Carlson, who sels were the John B. 'Waterman » » « sails as bosun and AB., In his own they defeated the Gimnasia Y Esmore bookmen on these ships, it and the Hastings,^ both of Water­ New York: tends to make for better conditions words he says, "I have been a mem­ grima team, 15 man. ber of the SIU since 1948 and have to 7. This evened all around. The reading clerk for the last found it to be a very progressive We have had several ships .come and militant organization, fair to the series bemeeting was - Seafarer Richardout of the boneyard that were the membership and also the com­ tween the two ShSffner. Schaffner is. 46 years teams at one all. crewed up by bookmen. We are panies we have under contract, old, married and certain that when these ships come do not' know of.'any other vocation The Del Norte makes his home lineup was JoShipping has been staying on an In for the payoff, they will come in that a man can do where he will even keel here in New York, but in Chicago, lUlclean due to the interest being receive anywhere near the bienefits seph Suarez, Robert Callahan, is would be much better if it were nois. He Joined taken now by the membership to that we deriv'e from the Welfare James Connors, in 1943 in New do all they can to keep these ships and..Vacation Plans. The base pay Michael Sporick, mm not for the so-called wildcat strike York and sails in run by officials of the old ILA. operated as they realize that they tops any in the maritime industry. Ralph Boyd, the deck depart­ Sporick We have had 14 ships paying off, will have job security. Of course, all of this is due to the Abelardo Sosa, Johnny Blaylock, five ve£sei.« signed on and 20 ships ment. He says he Ships paying off were the Edith unceasing efforts of our officials. Nathan J. Benenate and Joe prefers sailing in transit. The Wacosta (Water­ from the East and Mae of Bull; Calmar's Seamar, I wish to personally thank all of Collins. man) was laid up temporarily, but and Gulf Coasts. Massmar and Oremar; Gulfwater them because I know that they will An English-language newspaper Schaffner of Metro; Chilore, Feltore, Baltore continue to strive to the best of account of the game said "Sporick will come out next week. All beefs His last ship was were handled satisfactorily. and Venore of Ore; Waterman's their ability for more and better gave the many spectators their the Transatlantic of Pacific Water­ Ships l aying off ..wefe the Evelyn ways. Fairport, Steel Voyager of Isth­ gains for the membership in the money's worth when in the first mian; Jefferson City Victory of future." of^rth^ third he. demonstrated tho and Francis of Bull; Seatrains Oldtimers on the beach include Victory Carriers, and the Winter Earl Sheppardease with which a^home run could Louisiana and Savannah of Sea A. Gurskie, C. A. Gadner and R. Hill of Cities Service. Baltimore Fort Agent be scored by placing the ball in train; Seanan of Stratford; Robin D. Eisengraeber. Men in the ma­ Kettering of Seas; Alexandra of rine hospital include G. G. C. Farthe adjacent waterworks." SiiTniiig on were the Seamar and Carras; Steel Age and Steel Vendor num, W. K. Gulley, Sverre Johan$ « ^ "Twirling Joe" Collins, accord­ Oremar of Calmar; Isthmian's Steel ing to this account, "played con­ of Isthmiar^^acosta, Warrior and nessen, V. K. Ming, Vincent Rodri­ Flyer, Steel Navigator and Steel Savannah: siderable Havoc among the local Golden City of Waterman; and guez and E. L. Woods. Voyager. Chilore, Feltore, Cubore batters as since his last perform­ Chiwawa and Abiqua of Cities and Venore of Or«^ Troy's Trojan No good comment on the weather ance he seems to have put in a lot Service. Seaman; Ocean Nimet of Ocean this time. In other words, we wish Signing on were the Robin it would warm up! We have had a of work in getting ball control." Trans; Fairport of Waterman, and An important local news item Locksley and Robin Sherwood of considerable amount of rain and Strathbay of Strathmore. since our latest report was word Seas, and the Golden City, Fair- snow flurries in the. past few days! In-Transits Shipping has been fair for the from Washington that plans finally land and Warrior of Waterman. In transits were the Robin Ket­ past two weeks and it looks like it have been approved for a second The membership would like to In-transit vessels ^were the John tering • Seas>; Bethcoaster (Calmar); will continue along those lines for Mississippi River Bridge between C. of Atlantic Carriers; Bethcoaster give a vote of thanks ifor the good Alcoa Ranger (Alcoa); Iberville the coming. period. Wish I could New Orleans and the West Banl^ food served b^ Effie, the cook at (Waterman); iClizabeth (Bull), and say the same for the weather re­ Construction of the proposed new and Marymar of Calmar; Suzaiine the Kilowatt Restaurant, located in and Kathryn of Bull; Seatrains the Cantigny (Cities Service). cently, fair, that is, but It certainly bridge has been held up by a con­ New Jersey, Texas, Georgia . and the building occupied by the Sea­ There was a contest on just re­ wasn't. It was pretty cold, but it's troversy over location of a pier New York of Seatrain; Jefferson farers hall. Most of the boys pa­ for the bridge. This apparently has City Victory of Victory Carriers! tronize this restaurant and keep cently between the Seafarers Sea warming up a bit now. Chest, Weil Brothers, Aaron Cohen The Southport of South Atlantic been cleared up to the satisfaction Wacosta, Iberville, Alawai and coming back, so we assume they and Dan Christen to see who could was the lone ship to pay off, and of shipping interests and engi­ Chickasaw of Waterman; Steel enjoy the good food E'ffiff puts -out,' sell the most cigarettes aboard the it signed on again the same day. neers, and it how appears likely Voyager and Steel Navigator of including "grits." ships. I am very pleased to state In-transit vessels were the S^a- that work on the project will com­ Isthmian; Alcoa Partner Of Alcoa; Jeff Gillette that the Seafarers Sea Chest won train Savannah, Seatrain New mence-this year. Seattle Fort Agent Abiqua and Bradford Island of Shipping Flcked Up first prize. I don't know whether York, both of Seatrain Lines and J, J, J, Cities Service and the Val Chem this was caused by the crew mem­ both in twice. Others were- the Meanwhile, shipping picked up of Valentine. bers smoking more cigarettes or Steel Age of Isthmian; the Robin slightly in the last two weeks, but Galveston: At this time I'd like to thank the because the Sea Chest stored the Sherwood of Seas, and thd South­ still was off a little compared to ships with fresher cigarettes. But ern States of Southern. tbis season a year ago. The Del membership for their cooperation whatever happened, the Sea Chest Aires returned from a Far East- in this waterfront beef. As you Oldtimers on the beach are F. em voyage and will be turned know, the old ILA is rather des­ came out on top. G. Wesley, T. H. Nongezer and E. back to Mississippi Shipping Co. perate and went on a wildcat strike, Thanks to the men who run the J. Jordan. Men in the marine hos­ from MSTS charter. The ship was which cannot last more than a few Shipping has been very slow and Sea Chest and pital are J. W. Sweat, J. B. Christy, sent to drydock and will be in days. Because of the strike, several it does not look too promising for also the crew- P. Bland, J. Littleton, J. B. Setters, temporary lay-up until sometime of our MSTS ships were-^Verted the coming weeks. to Baltimore,. Md. members on W. C. Bedgbod, C. O. Corbett, P. in May. The Marie Hamil of- Bloomfleld I am sure that the ships will be During the last two weeks the board these re­ Jakubcsak, J. T. Wilson, G. W. paid off and signed on the same Wilson, R. B. McCorkel, and J. Del Mar and Del Norte (Missis­ coming into Ne\v York in thejiext spective ships. day, while in-transits were the Kramer. week. sippi) and the Chickasaw and De We had a ineetClaude Simmons Frederic C. Collin of Drytrans; Jeff Morrison ing Wednesday Soto (Watetinan) paid off here. Asst. Sec.-Treas. Cantigny and Council Grove of Savannah Fort Agent The Del Mar, Del Rio and Del' morning at the Carlson Cities Service; Arizpa and^Fairland Baltimore Fed­ of Waterman; Val Chem of Valen­ eration of Labor by the Political tine; Southern States of Southern Action Committee. We have sub­ Trading; Michael of Carras and. mitted names of the various poli­ the Seatrains New Jersey, Louistical parties and tried io analyze ana,. Te^t and Georgia of Sea-! the respective candidates thor­ :raih. ' \ oughly so that when it comes time WILMINGTON, Calif 505 Marine Ave. FORT WILLI AM.... 11814 Syndicate Ave. SIU, A&G District ^ Ontario • Phone; 3-3231 Ernest TUIey, Agent Terminal 4-2874 Men on the' beach include W. to vote, we will be certain that we BA1.T1MORE 103 Durham St. Gay St. HEADQUARTERS. . 675 4th Av«.. Bklyn. PORT COLBORNK 'Jones, S. Miller, E. LaSoya, G. will have a slate set up that will Earl Sheppard. Agent 14 North Ontario Phone: 5391 Mulberry 4540 SECRETARY-TREASURER TORONTO, OnUrio.. 372 King St. E. Bales, R. IVIeadows,; R. Armstrong, Paul HaU . be favorable to labor as a whole. BOSTON 376 State St. EMplre 4-5710 A3ST SECRETARY-TREASURERS ' VICTORIA, BC 617t4 Cormqrant St. T. Bowers, A. Sistrunk,.J. Rawlins, All of the committeemen are work­ James Sheehan, Agent Richmond 2-0140 Robert'Matthews Joe Alglna Empire 4531 GALVESTON * 308'/4 SSrd St. Claude Simmons Joe Volpian ing hard to see that the candidates Keith Aleop. Agent VANCOUVER. BC.......86S Hamilton St. W. Hightower, F. Nigro, H. PrUitt Phone 2-8448 WUllam Hall Pacific 7824 and S. Evans. . •re favorable to all concerned. LAKE CHARLES, La 1419 Ryan St. SYDNEY, NS ...304 Charlotte St. Phone 6-5744 SUP Phone 6346 It was with a lojt of satisfaction Leroy Clarke, Agent Men in the marine hospital are .20 Elgin St. 1 South Lawrence St. HONOLULU ...16 Merchant St. BAGOTVILLE. Qucbee that I noted several of* the larger MOBILE Cal Tanner, Agent Phone 2-17M 545 R. Lyle, A. Schevlng, H. E. Horn, Phone 5-8777 THOROLD. Ontario......83 St. Phone; Davids St. D. O. Skousas, E. R. Hall, J., R. locals in the Gulf in the longshore­ NEW ORLEANS 523 BlenviUe St. PORTLAND 823 N. W. Everett St. CAnal 7-3202 Beacon 4338 QUEBEC men's beef, v/ent AFL and am cer­ Lindsey Williams. Agent ..113 Cote^ La Montague Markopolo, M. Degallado, C. - L. MagnoUa 6112-6113 Quebec Phone; 3-7078 Davis. RICHMOND, CALIF. 357 «h St. tain that before long, everything NEW YORK 675"'4th Ave., Brooklyn Phone 2599 SAINT.JOHN...... 177 Prince WUllam St. HYacinth 9-6600 NB Phone; 2-5333 will be worked out the way it was SAN FRANCISCO 450 Harrison St. Our plans for moving to a new NORFOLK ....... .127-129 Bank St. Douglas 3-8363 planned at the beginning and all Sen Rees. Agent Phone 4-1083 location did not materialize; but SEATTLE 3700 1st Ave. Grffat Lakes District PHILADELPHIA .. ..337 Market St. will be quiet and serene on the wa­ S. Cardullo, Agent we plan to keep on looking. The Main 0290 ALPENA Market 7-1635 133 W. Fletcher terfront in the very near future. SAN FRANCISCO . 505 Marine Ave. . 450 Harrison St. WILMINGTON weather is spring-like, so every­ Phone; 1238W T. Banning, _ Agent. , • • Douglas 2-5475 4-3131 BUFFALO, NY.... 180 Main St. I talked to. Mr. Liebman, the Marty Breitholl. West Coast Representative NEW YORK;.... 575 4tb Terminal Ave., Brooklyn Phone: Cleveland 7391 one has spring fever. We have a •rcbi'cect, the other day and he was PUERTA de TIERRA, PR Pelayo 51—La 5 734 Lakeside Ave., NE new comniissioner in charge of the STerUng 8-4671 CLEVELAND. 2-5996 Phone; Main 1-0147 of the opinion that we would be in SAVANNAH ... 2 Abercorn St. DETROIT ....... 1038 3rd St. whRTves, so maybe things will get .Canadion District Jeff Morrison, Agent Phone 3-1728 Headquarters Phqnc: Woodward 1-6857 to moving soon. the new hall not later than June • ''CO '«* Ave MONTREAL.. .OM St. James St. West DULUTH ^531 W. Michigan St. Elliott 4334 and that even though the building Jeff GlUette, Agent PLateau 8161 . Phone;' Melrose 3-4110 Keith Alsop TAMPA 1809-1811 N. Franklin St HALIFAK. N.S...........128^1 HoUls St. SOUTH CHICAGO.. 3361 E. 82nd St may not . be^ pompleted,. iU its en- Ray fl^te. Agent Phone 3-1323 .../ V -^Phone: 8-8911 ' . Galveston Port Agent '. Phoni; Esses 5-34U Baltimore: Bel Noria Seafarers Win Bnenes Aires Till Ore Ships Keep Port Of Baltimore Bezzing Effie's Cooking Gels Vote Of Confldonco Longshore Boof Sends Ships To Other Ports Shipping Fairly Warm, Weather Snappy New Wharf Head May Pap Up Things In Perl DmEcmm t �SE AFAR E-R:S Mareb 19, M54 .. LOG Pace Eleirai ^ j PORT HEPORTS make Mobile a fairly consistent Norfolk: cerned. We have had ten ships in Bosfon; port. here but the boys are sticking to Our .Marine Allied Workers Di­ the jobs. vision is also in good shape with Shipping all contracts settled and the dif; i Calling into this area were as ferent divisions of the Marine follows": Tlie Govt. Camp, Bents Shipping has been fair for the Allied Workers all working. These • Shipping in the port has been Fort, Lone Jack, Fort Hoskins, Shipping was again slow for the divisions are the Alcoa shore gang, past two weeks. One hundred men storing gang, bar pilots, towboats, very poor in the past two weeks Bradford Island, Winter Hill, and past two weeks. Ships . paying off were shipped on regular jobs and Waterman repair yards and dust and does not look any brighter in the Govt. Camp back again. All of were the Council Grove, Bents Fort the coming week. No ships paid these run for Cities Service. and Fort Hoskins (Cities Service), the same amount worked in various gangs. There are quite a few job off or signed on. Vessels in transit Then we had two of the Miss. Queenston Heights (Seatrade) and opportunities for members of the jobs around the Shipping Co. wagons, the Del Michael (J. M. Carras). The same MAW divisions, plus a few left were Isthmian's Steel Age, Steel Valle and Del Rio, the Alexandra ships signed on. In-transit vessels harbor. Ships Vendor and Steel Executive and over for the deep sea brothers to include the Ann Marie (Bull), Re­ paying off were get a stake when shipping does Waterman'is Fairport and Mobilian. of J. Carras, and the Bull Run of public (Trafalgar), Steel "Vendor Mathiascn. The latter paid off here There were no beefs. the Alcoa Pat­ slow down a little bit. from an intercoastal trip and it (Isthmian), AntiIn Hospital riot, Alcoa eiipnous, W a c 0 s t a Seafarer Of Week Men in the marine hospitals are was a pleasure to Tiandle her. per, Alcoa Polar­ We have listed in quite a few and Chickasaw In port this week is brother J. L. Griffin, Charles E. Carniel, (Waterman). A is, Alcoa Puritan, David Zuniga, better known to his Otis C. Bailey, W. Keiswetter, ships for the next two weeks but, delayed sailing Alcoa Corsai,r friends and shipmates as Mexican W. H. Mason, Manuel Martins and of course, we have no way of tell­ beef on the Fort and Alcoa Run-; ing what will be on them. How­ Joe. Brother Zuniga has been John R. Henchey. ner (Alcoa) and Ben Rees ever we have enough men in all Hoskins was sent shipping out of this port for some Zunica Norfolk Port Agent Waterman ships, rates to man seven or eight ships. to headquarters. years, although hailing originally The delay was Lafayette and t> i> t> Labor from Mexico City. His favorite in­ due to engine Beauregard. Alcoa's Patriot, Polar­ door sport is buying old automo­ On the labor front, the Building failure an^ the is, Puritan and Runner, and Water­ biles and after wearing them out, Wilmington: Rugguero & Construction Trades Council is beef was that the man's Monarch of the Sea and tries to peddle them for the same making a lot of headway and as of sailing board had not been Beauregard signed on. Ships in amount he paid. Needless to say, right now only two unions are left changed. transit were the Alice Brown he hasn't sold many of them. that haven't signed a new contract On Beach (Bloomfield) and Waterman ships, Gal Tanner and we expect anytime to get the Men on the beach include R. Chickasaw, Fairlannd and DeSoto. 'The last two weeks have still word they are signed up. Of Johnston, L. Rugguero, E. MonaMobile Port Agent All payoffs were smooth. Prospects been oh the slow bell. We had course, the unions that have signed han, E. Gerace, K. Goldman and for the coming two weeks are good only one payoff, the Kyska (Water­ are still waiting for the others to V. Siso. with more than a dozen ships ex­ Philadelphia: man), which also r ^ ' sign before going back to work. Mrs. Miller, the sister of Edward pected. signed on for her The men got just about all they Cooley, who died in Wilmington Men In Hospital next trip back to asked for. last week, called the Hall to ex­ the Far East. We Politics A couple of our brothers who press her gratitude for the manner have the Pelican are in the Marine hospitals in this On the political front, there will in which both the Boston and Wil­ Mariner (Bloomarea include Johnnie Koen, who be an election this coming summer mington Port Agents handled her Shipping is definitely on the up­ field) in our port for several posts and labor here brother's funeral arrangements. in the Mobile Infirmary and swing here, due to the changing for bunkers and brother Charles E. Wells, who is waiting to see just who will James Sheehaii in a local hospital for a checkup conditions on the New York water­ a little engine come out for the various offices. Boston Port Agent after an accident aboard his last front caused by the current AFL work. We put one So far, the incumbents are all go­ 4> 4- 4» ship, the Alcoa Runner. Both of longshore campaign. The result is man aboard in ing to run again and they have al­ Cohen the steward de­ Son Francisco: causing diversion and rerouting of these brothers will appreciate ways given labor a decent break word from their shipmates, as will many ships into Philadelphia, partment. This ship is making her so we expect that we will go alpng brother Willie Reynolds -over in which is giving shipping in the port first trip and she is bound for the with them again. Far East. Her payoff will probably the New Orleans Public Health a big boost. We attended the last meeting of One ship, the Compass (Com­ be at the end of April, in San the Central Trades and Labor Service hospital. pass). coining in for payoff from Francisco. Council. "vVonderful progress is be­ On Beach Shipping is slow and the future In-transit vessels included the ing made in that body. The vari­ the Mediterranean, was due to A few of the oldtimers on the take practically a full crew and, Citrus Packer, Yaka, Hastings, ous locals around here, that have looks poor. Only one ship paid beach in Mobile include the fol­ with the in-transit traffic, is help­ Choctaw, Gateway City and An­ been out of the council for several off, the Seamonitor (Orion). Three lowing: Bill Wallace, D, Dicken­ ing our situation considerably. The drew Jackson (Waterman); Port- years, are now coming back and ships signed on: Alcoa Planter son, L. Anderson, T. Melton, T, shipping figures also indicate we mar and Alamar (Calmar); Sea- a progressive program is taking (Alcoa), Ocean Ulla (Ocean) and Seamonitor (Orion). In-transit ves­ Massey, R. Sullivan, A. Howard have hit about an even keel for the monitor (Excelsior); Ocean Ulla shape in the council. sels include the Topa Topa, Choc­ H. Nichols, H. Gray, R. Devine ,.pa.st two weeks, as the Arlyn (Bull) (Ocean); Pelican Mariner (BloomWe have no members in any of W. Randall, W. Gale, R. Spencer. took an entirely new crew. field); Steel Maker and Steel Ex­ the local hospitals at present, al­ taw, Andrew Jackson and Kyska ecutive (Isthmian). The body of brother Joseph Four Payoffs though we have a couple who are (Waterman), Portmar. and Alamar The chairman of our last meet­ out-patients from the Galveston (Calmar) and Steel Maker (Isth­ Walters, who died recently aboard Our, payoffs and sign-ons totaled ing was Sarn Cohen, who's now mian). the Warrior of the Waterman line four, with the Republic (Trafalgar), shipping after holding down this hospital. The SIU received an invitation has arrived back in this country On Beach Lone Jack (Cities Service),-Dor­ spot' for. quite awhile. Everybody from Harry Lundeberg, secretaryaboard the Warrior and present othy and Hilton Bull), paying off Among the men on the beach treasurer of the SUP, to attend wishes.him the best of luck. funeral plans are a little indefinite and signing on again. are C. W. Gann, S. Sikes, J. - . . E. B. Tilley but we will keep the members in­ Rodder (who just got his full citi­ the memorial services honorin.g The list. of in-transits included Wilmington Port Agent formed so that they might attend the following: Robin Sherwood, zenship papers this week), R. Lyle, the 100th anniversary of Andrew Furuseth. his funeral. A lot of his friends Robin Kettering (Seas); Azalea 4" i $• J. Zuzov, S. Cantrell, H. E. Grant, On Beach aboard the Warrior are* back in City, Iberville, Fairport (Water­ Lake Charles: W. Sirkoski, P. Rubis, W. F. Oldtimers on the beach include, port now and would like to apt as man); Steel Flyer, Steel Chemist, Walker, A. Alleman, P. Hammel, C. Harper, S. Mavromichalis, F. pall bearers for this funeral. A Steel Age, Steel Voyager (Isth­ Karl "Swede" Hellman, L. "Wahoo" Curtis, B. Gapse, W. Bause, J. collection was taken up aboard mian); Southern Districts (South­ Boren, and many others. Parks, A. Smith, W. Pennington, ship for flowers which will be or­ ern Trading); Jpez, Elizabeth (Bull) The fishing weather is fine and W. Kramer, C. McKee, T. Malone, dered and delivered as soon pis.the and Government Camp (Cities. reports reaching us are that the M. Pappadakis, J. Callaghan, A. U. body arrives in this port. Service). . Things have really been on the boys are really pulling them in. Suites, A. Anderson and W. Hiiiit. The Azalea Trail has opened in A. S. Cardullo Leroy Clarke slow bell here for the past two Men in the mai-ine hospitals in­ Mobile and Seafarers who tyere on Philadelphia Port Agent Lake Charles Port Agent weeks so far as shipping is con­ clude O. Gustavesen, D. Yuzon, J. the beach last Sunday ^ had the Childs, W. Singleton, H. Choe, V. chance to see Miss America of Sorensen, M. Wilson, J. Perrira 1954,-who was Queen of the Azalea and H. Keller. Trail, open up this floral route Tom Banning through Mobile and nearby terri­ San Francisco Port Agent tory. Miss Aye officially opened 4 4 i* the season Sunday and led a large number , of tourists oyer the 27Tampa: Shipping Figures February 25 to March 10 mile route (Of blooming azaleas and REG. REG. REG. TOTAL SHIP. SHIP. SHIP. TOTAL japonicas which are a big tourist attraction in this area. DECK PORT DECK ENGINE STEW. REG. ENG. STEW. SHIPPED 8 Boston ........ 26 8 9 43 : 7 10 25 Good Shipping 108 New York .158 149 132 439 95 77 280 Affairs of the port are in good Shipping for the past two weeks 23 27 Philadelphia 26 27 25 ~ 78 15 65 has Jjeen very slow, in a good part ghape with Mobile having pretty good shipping for the last several 56 76 Baltimore J . 106 77 54 237 84 196 due to the olcT ILA tie-up in New months compared with the Test of • 2 Norfolk 9 13 ^ 8 30 2 2 6 York, where many coastwise ships the country. We consistently have 13 , Savannah ...v.... ..• - 14 ;• 14- • 11 39 ':',2i: \ 15 49. are docked. 'The prospects for the fair shipping and bookmen on the next two weeks also look slow. ^ j. i'.. Tampa r 16 . 11 55 •4 8 3 beach, unless they are waiting-for No ships paid off or signed on 44 Mobile 47 : "ST; 122 31 ' 100 and only two ships were in transit. .25 / a particular ship, never have too much trouble getting out. Part of 60 40 New Orlegns] • B4" 82 241 -. "45/ 145 Waterman's Wild Ranger and De our continued good-shipping is due Soto. Galveston :.. i 30 , ' ^7^ " 28 85 14 9 34 11 to the .fact that practically all - of The meeting's chairman was T. 17 18 22 , Seattle . . . .'.y., .. .vV% . 55 5033 138 57 the Alcoa ships pay off here and Kern. W. Warmack was recording 13 San Francisco 29 , 10 , 23 . 62 15" , 22 50 secretary and G. Hammock served a good number, of the Waterman ships from offshore pay off in this 11 12 ' 30 Wilmington . , .v. , 20 , , 23 ,16 59 , as reading clerk. port. These, plus. the. passenger Raj) White ' ships an<^ l^e Puertp Ri!can, .pup. 377 338 330 '1,045Tampa Port Agent Mobile: Miss America, 1954 In Transit Al Port Shipping Slays Slow In Bean-Town Port in Transit Sbi|is Only Action In Slow Period Poiican Mariner Sots Out For Far East Run $1 New York Dock Bool Brings Shipping Spurt Seamen AHend Service In Memory Of Furuseih Poiiticsi Fishing And Shipping Make News Nothing Bnl Sun Visits Florida Port -•m ti 'r .^11 �Fare Twelve SEAFARERS m THE WAKE r ti? Mireh M, 1954 LOG MEET THE SEAFARER BERT H. DAWSON, cook Due to its whltenera and softness, colonies in southern Africa in the and because it was often cast up 19th century, and was widely used This week's Seafarer has been dumped iii any port without transAlong the shares of the sea, the in World War II. sailing ships since World War I portatioU money back home. The ancients thought that the light, soft if Question: Do you . have any 'A member of Columbus' first ex­ when he served in the US Navy. average pay was $40 to $45 a miheral called meerschaum was Ideas for changes in the way the month. Coastwise was a ten or actually the foam of the sea turned pedition to the New World, Rodrigo Headquarters cafeteria is run? Bert went merchant marine in twelve day trip on which you would de Jerez, a native of Ayamonte, into stone. Little practical use was 1919, in the days before unions had earn 'hbout $12 to $14. Out of that, • found for the mineral, which was Spain, is said to have been the first any headway on the seas, you had to pay $10 to the headRichard Wendell, AB: Not a made named "sea foam" in all languages, European to smoke tobacco. Legend and his stories of those pre-union waiter, unless you participated in until German artisans began to has it that de Jerez learned to single change. I think the cafe­ days are hard to believe in the teria is being run light of current conditions in mari­ a continuous poker game, which cSive it into pipe bowls and cigar smoke from the natives of the West was the way stewards received pretty well. The time. holders, seeing that it readily ab­ Indies, after the expedition arrived their paypffs." food is good and sorbed nicotine from the tobacco there in 1492. When he returned Seafarer Dawson described the Other conditions on .those preplentiful and and eventually acquired a beauti­ to his village in Sp^n he took some they are fairly method by which jobs us^ to be union shops were bad 'also. Bert ful, warm brown color. The scien­ tobacco leaves with him, and his priced to meet given out in the early days of the stated that the companies didn't tific name for it, however, is fellow townsmen were greatly the men's pocket- twenties. "I would go down to the give the men any linen for the ta­ "sepiolite," from the Greek sepia, astonished when they saw smoke books. There Is docks and wait for a steward's boy bles and that bedding consisted of emerging from his mouth and nose. cuttlefish, and lithos, stone, because to come off a ship and give me a blue tick pillows and a mattress also a very con- pass the mineral resembled the bone His own wife is supposed to have to go aboard. Then, I'd see cover. At night, men had to fight 'genial atmos­ denounced him to the Holy Inquisi­ obtained from those animals. the second steward and he would with roaches and other pests in phere in the cafe­ make it clear tion as a man who "swallows fire, that I would have to order to get some sleep. teria which makes It pleasant to exhales smoke and is surely pos­ 'mule before I could grab the bear' Convicted of attempting to or­ sessed by the Devil." e^at there. Despite these conditions, Bert's (work before I ate)." ganize a mutiny on the USS Somfondness for sailing life has kept ^ ers, Philip Spencer, a midshipman Meals Harry Earley, FWT: I eat there him on ships for more than twentyOne of the greatest handicaps in in the US Navy, was hanged at sea long-distance cruising by ships in every tiAie I am In the hall be­ In those days, Bert said, there five years. He's typical of many while Jjis father, John C. Spencer the 17th, 18th and even part of cause I think it is was no such thing as wanting bacon seamen who endured company of New York, was Secretary of War the 19th century was the use of tops in every, and eggs in the morning. "You got abuses for years until unions came In the Cabinet of President Tyler. hemp cables, although chain cables thing. The food scrambled eggs every day, hot, along to changg conditions. The mutiny charges against the were known at the time of the is good and rea­ cold, or in the middle. And if you Other Ports young midshipman were upheld on ancient Romans. In a small man- sonably priced, didn't make the 7 AM boat drill, Bert, who-is and hearty the ground that he had sought to of-war designed for long-distance well within easy you didn't get anything. For dinner 53 years of age,a hale sails from New convert the naval vessel into a cruising at least a quarter of her range of the Sea­ or supper, we had continuous York and makes his home in Pe­ pirate ship. Thus, on December 1, service space was occupied by farers pocket. As stew." That was a stew started the oria, Illinois. He isn't fussy about 1842, Spencer, the bosun's mate cables, thus cutting down her sup­ far as the por­ first day of the week, and added which port he sails out of though and a seaman were hanged on the ply of water and stores to a danger­ tions of food are to as the days went along. as he will grab a ship in Philadel­ yardarm of the brig-of-war while ous degree. Not only did they take concerned, they Foreign Flags phia, Baltimore, New Orleans, she was on her way from Liberia up a lot of space, but hemp cables are abundant. Tampa and other East coast and In addition to the American to NY via St. Thomas, Virgin Is­ had to be constantly watched for 4^ » Gulf ports. His last ship was the merchant marine, Bert has sailed lands. Despite the incident, his chafing Prime Fernandez, ABi Well, 1 when in use, or for rotting father remained in the Cabinet when stowed away. It is not sur­ can only see one change necessary on many foreign-flag ships, Eng­ Ocean Nimit (Ocean). That ship quite a contrast to his first until 1844. in the food situ­ lish, Norwegian, Spanish, Cana­ was prising, then, that a great many berth at the age of nineteen. Bert dian, Panama, etc., and he says that ation in the cafe­ i, t. anchors and cables were lost in the on as a scullion on the teria. Although conditions on their ships are very signed Although it was the Portuguese least bad weather, and this, in part, United Fruit ship, Surrunama, in bad, even today. Bert once sailed the food is pretty who were first to colonize South led to the popularization of the New Orleans. He's been sailing in on a windjammer in 1924 when he good and the Africa, no extensive development chain cable in modern times. the galley gang ever since. was shipping under the Canadian prices are all of the region took place until the t 4. flag. He describes that trip rue­ SIU right, I think the Dutch East India Company founded The oldest known man is a Bab­ His trip before the mast was . Dawson got his SIU book in 1943 coffee could fully. Capetown in the late 17th century. ylonian clay tablet dating from stand some sort from Halifax, Nova Scotia, to Tam­ and he says, "I'm 100 percent for Dutch settlers immediately began about 2,500 BC, but the only place of improvement. pa, Florida, and British Honduras. the SIU. Sailing with our outfit to have difficulties with the natives, which was represented with any . fi Although it is Sailing as cook, Bert also had to is certainly a tremendous contrast especially the hostile and warlike accuracy on early maps was the take a turn at the wheel and he Bushmen. Adopting a strategy of Mediterranean world. Although only a small thing, good coffee is was responsible for the ship's to what it was like sailing in the old days." Bert was very enthusi­ the Portuguese, the Dutch organ­ modern maps and charts are made a big help to a Seafarer. lights. astic about the gains made by the ized their forces into small units with north at the top, this was not .4 4" % Pre-Union Emiliano Acadeo, OS: I like SIU and the type of seamen who or commands capable of carrying always the case. Many of the Dawson's description of ship­ make up the membership. In the the cafeteria very much. Just the out quick raids against native ancient Greek and Roman mapboard conditions form a terrific light of his experiences sailing in villages. Each military unit was makers placed' east at the top of way it is, withcontrast to life aboard an SIU ves­ the pre-union days, and for foreign called a commando, which was also their maps, that being the direction out any changes. sel now. "There was no union to flags, he is one Seaifarer who knows borrowed from the Portuguese and of rising sun. A map published at Except one, that look after you, in case you were Just how much the SIU meant to meant a party commanded. The Rome in 1546 was made with west is. Although I fired," Bert said, "and there was men who work the ships and to the word first came into English usage at the top, while • still another, find the prices no one to appeal to. You could be American maritime industry. when the British began to establish dated 1492, had south at the top. and service just about the best I have met any­ where, '1 think «1, f I « S Ct 9 the food could be improved as far ACROSS DOWN 20. Diamond Where PesPrime Minister Churchill told Valley . . . Berlin was bombed by as quality of the dishes Is con­ 1. Selfishnesa. 22. Sloppy women cara is Weeping 2. SmeU 23. Away the House of Commons that "the approximately 800 Flying Fortress­ cerned as well as varying the 42. Industrial re­ sounds 3. Island E of 24. French king gion, Europe s. Possess Anglo-American air attack on Ger. es from Britain accompanied by menus offered. Java 25. M.^ke error 43. City, Peru West. 4. Smoky fogi a. 27. Alabama: many must be regarded as our 800 fighter planes. Two thousand 44. Good joke 4" 4 5. Veterans ship Abbr. 45. Old style of Frank Natale, bosun: I think it chief offensive effort at the pres­ or more tons of explosives were 6. Existed 28. Steal ship 12. Port in W. 7. No 29. Barnyard 46. Maple or elm is being run beautifully. The prices ent time ... US planes bombed the dropped ... A unique decision was Netherlands 8. A 7 or 11 sound 47. Thin 13. Meadow are cheap and the Japanese base of Saipan in the won for an SIU man, an alien sea­ 9. Always 30. The heavens 48. Hearing 10. Cast a ballot 14. Swear to 32. Adopt organs quality of the Marianas, 1,300 miles from Tokyo man, when a shipping company re­ 11. Filled with 36. Open a keg 50. Former price 15. Race o£ food is high. . . . SIU opposition blocked an at­ versed its former policy and agreed wonder f'tir 37. Period oftime fixer Chinese 19. Aviation store­ Where else in tempt by the Recruitment and to pay hospital expenses for a Trans 16. (Puzzle Answer. On Page 25) keepers: Abbr. this country can Manning Organization (RMO) of crewmember without deducting the 17. Head: Fr. 1 2 3 you get a cup of the War Shipping Administration costs from his wages. The ship 18. Anil-sub 9 10 II escort vessel coffee for a nick, to gain jurisdiction on the Great operators previously were with­ 12 20. Enticed el? We've got Lakes. holding wages to set off the 21. Snow runner those Brazilian $ ^ 4> amount of any hospital bill in­ 22. Title of 15 respect Russian Forces crossed the Dnie­ curred on behalf of alien seamen. coffee bean grow­ S3. Cargo from ers beaten in the per River on a 31-mile front and Duluth 16. 4" 4^ i 26. Portable fire­ SIU cafeteria. I wouldn't change retook 20 towns in Bessarabia, bor­ The rejection by the Irish -Gov­ arms a thing at the present time. der province in Rumania . . . The ernment of a US appeal that Ire-, deck 81. 83. High note Allied Control Commission abol­ land remove German and Japanese 4^ 4^ 34. Observe Allen Bell^ chief cook: I think ished the Fascist system of govern­ consular and diplomatic represen­ 35. Best quality 38. Cabin some effort could be made to bring ment for towns and provinces tatives from the country because de deux, 86. the prices on tliroughout the Naples area of of their espionage activities a dance step 40. Three: Prefix some items down southern Italy. Meanwhile, the worsened already-poor relations 42. One-masted little, especial­ battle for Cassino s|lll raged . . . between Washington, London and vessel 45. Port, Puget ly on some of the Congress passed a soldier vote bill Dublin . . . Less than three weeks Sound main dishes. If under which service people had to after SIU officials and representa­ Primitive map 46. 6t Japan 42 43 44 prices were a lit­ file applications themselves for tives of other sea unions were as­ 46 47 48 BO. It cows a boat tle more reason­ state absentee ballots. sured that the Maritime War ei. Region 4? able, it would 82. City in Iowa Emergency Board was contemplat­ 4)' <4 4" 83. Belaying benefit both the The US Army went into action ing no cuts in war and bonus rates, M- Shakespearean 62 . king seamen and the on the continent of Asia for the the MW£^.reversed Itself and or­ 35. Unusual public. The food first time and captured the town dered cuts anyway , . . Pope, Pius I6f Jolson and . . 55 Smithitself is delicious though, and the of Walawbum in an encircling XII appealed to the Allies to sp.are Jap moneytvl^ s service is really the best. movement fn Burma's Hukawng TEN §0' mm, rL ^i"i •V/A r' rr • t iiii'joju fciU' 3f4V:U • �Marich 19. 1954 SEAFARERS its* Pare Thirteen LOG 'Service Record' SEAi'ARERSi^LOG Vol. XVI. No. 4 March 19. 19S4 Published biweekly by the Seafarers International Union, Atlantic & Gulf District. AFL. 675 Fourth Avenue, Brooklyn 32, NY, Tel Hyacinth 9-6600, Cable Address: SEAFARERS NEW YORK. PAUL HAIL. Secretary-Treasurer Editor, HEmERT BRAND, Managing Editor, RAY DENISON; Art Editor, BERNARD SEAMAN; Photb Editor. DAtnn. NILVA; Staff Writers, HERMAN ARTHUR, IRWIN SPIVACK, JERRY REMER. AL MASKIN, RICHARD HELLER: Gulf Area Reporter, BILL MOODY; StajJ Assistants, LYMAN GAYLORD, MILTON HOROWITZ. IJniqne Record On page 5 of this issue, Seafarers can read a brief review of a proud SIU record. It is a partial listing of some of the approximately 75 instances in which the SIU gave invalu­ able aid and assistance to other unions. In many cases, such aid meant the difference between a victory and a defeat, or even more than that, the difference between survival and destruction. Seafarers can justly claim, without contradiction, that no other union in the United States can boast of such a rec­ ord. The Seafarer has seen more picket lines- in more places than any other union man anywhere. This kind of action is the outcome of a long-established membership policy. Its reasons are simple. Helping other unions strengthens unions everywhere and weakens those who are anti-labor. And in turn, the unions that have been helped by the SIU will pitch in and give the Seafarer a hand when he has a beef of his own to take care of. The current campaign on the waterfront then, in which the SIU is. helping the AFL-ILA is just another in a long series of similar instances. It is this kind of activity that has made the'SIU one of the nation's most respected trade unions. tr Wants Husbands Protected^ Too To the Editor; In recent issues of the LOG I have read several letters sent in by the wives of seamen. The idea came to me that I should wn-ite, which is just what I am doing and on a subject' which I think is a very good one in regard to helping the membership. Has the thought ever occurred to anyone that while the Seafar­ ers are doing so much for the membership, that there is still one thing more that the SIU can do with comparatively little expense to the organization? I'm sure that there are quite a few seamen in what we will call the low-pay bracket, such as firemen, oilers and ordinary seamen. Now, say The United Automobile Workers, thirds of all increases provided these men are man-ied and are AFL, won bargaining rights in an seven cents or more per hour. fathers of a brood, to some extent, NLRB election at the Michigan Moreover, about 38 percent anyway. It is more than probable Tanning Company, Boyne City, amounted to fully 10 cents or that they have plenty of bills with Michigan, The UAW-AFL won a more. the cost of living what it is, no whopping majority of the votes 4 4 4 matter how careful they maj' be over the CIO Stone Cutters and AFL affiliates won tliree Im­ in the matter of economy. Just tlie independent Fur and Leather Seafarers who have been reading the SIU library assort­ what would their positions be if Workers, The victory followed an portant elections conducted in ments for the past nine months now have an opportunity to there were sudden expenses, such intensive campaign during which Texas by the NLRB. Victories were pass judgement on the kind of books put aboard ships. A as death, in the family? conditions secured by UAW-AFL won in El Paso, Victoi'ia and poll of the membership through the pages of the LOG be­ locals elsewhere in Michigan Beaumont. No Rainy Day Fund made a significant impression upon 4 4 4 ginning now, is designed to determined whether Seafarers I imagine few of these men the plant employees. are fully-satisfied with the books they now have, and what would New York City and the State have the money laid aside Transit authority reached agree­ changes they would like to make, if any. 4 4 3^ to give their loved ones a decent Fewer work stoppages due to ment to process pay differentials When the LOG began to put packaged libraries aboard burial without going into debt. for injured transit workers "at tiie the ships, it was the first time that any organized attempt had This ijiatter, in itself and apart labor-management disputes oc­ earliest practicable date." The curred in January 1954 than in any been made to supply ship's crews with fresh, up-to-date read­ from the death, would prey heav­ agreement calls for the city to January since 1950, the Depart­ ily on their minds and affect their ing matter. Before that, crews had to depend on the ef­ make up the difference between ment of Labor reported. forts of volunteer services who usually dredged up a variety work and earning capacity. Workmen's Compensation Insur­ Si 3» 3i' Now, let us say, couldn't the of old and battered volumes for their pains. ance payments of about $2 a week SIU, for a minimum payment from of 33,000 Detroit workers and an injured employees regular Consequently, the SIU libraries were welcomed as a great each member who endorsed and lostA total their jobs between January pay in connection with accidents improvement over what had been available previously. came under the plan, insure the 15 and February 15, the Michigan prior to last June 15 when the Further improvements will be made as the men on the ships lives of each member of the fam­ Employment Security Commission transportation lines were leased to dictate in this poll, ily under the same group insur­ reported, with a further increase the state-created authority. In ad­ ance plan which protects the Sea­ of 15,000 dismissals expected over dition the city will contribute SlOO,3. 3^ t farers themselves? Even to cover the next 60 days. Jobless insur­ 000 to the authority's cost of such only the burial expenses, if nec­ ance payments by the commission differentials growing out of acci­ essary. This would give the men totaled $8.5 million in January and dents since June 15. A welcom^voice in the wilderness of Congressional apathy a little piece of mind about what $12.9 million in February through­ 44 4 over the fact that operators of a large portion of the US-flag would happen in a time of crisis. out the state. No break yet has been reported 1 think it is an idea worth inves­ merchant fleet are being allowed to transfer their vessels tigating, but I leave that to the 3« 4 4» in the eight-mmith old strike of the to foreign flags is that of Representative Thor C. Tolleison discretion of the men themselves. The NLRB upheld craft sever­ United Hatters (AFL) against the of Washington, ance in a sweeping decision, it was Hat Corporation of Norwaik, Con­ Worth Discussing announced by the board recently." necticut. The strike has been Acting chairman of the House Merchant Marine Commit­ I may be wholly out of line in Under the new rules, the board fought over the issue of company's tee, Rep. Tollefson has called on the Maritime Administration will permit craft plans to move part of its opera­ to halt what appears to be wholesale transfers of American writing this, but it was just a automatically groups to be separated from the tions to a runaway plant in a lowthought. I believe it to be a good vessels, until Congress has had an opportunity to study the one and worth discussion by the main group of production workers cost labor area. Now the compa' y situation and determine how it is to the Advantage of this membership. where a true craft group wants it has confirmed the Union's charges country to allow a part of its already-dwindling merchant It's something that could be and the union is one that tradi­ by announcing it may move its fleet to go imder foreign flags in open competition with US taken up at the Union meetings or tionally represents that craft. It entire operation out of Connecticut. bottoms. perhaps the seamen could write applies to all industries save basic 4 4 4 One burning question the MA will have to answer is how into the LOG how they felt about steel, set milling, logging and A new labor agreement covering aluminum. siich transfers can be considered to be in the national inter­ it. recruitment of Mexicans for work 4 4 4 , on US farms has been reached be­ est when an active US merchant -fleet is vital to national de­ It stands to reason in my mind Wage increases of 28 cents an tween the US and Mexico. It will fense and no new ships are built to replace the lost tonnage. that if the wife should receive a death benefit in case of her hus­ hour were won for 300 members run for two years. The agreement The answer should provide interesting reading. band's death, the husband should of Machinists Lodge 737 employed provides for operation of three re­ t 4" t have something to help him along by 21 over-the-road trucking com­ cruiting centers near the border. the way in a parallel situation. panies operating out of St. Paul It also calls for a joint US-Mcxican Nine times out of ten a man is and Minneapolis, Minn, In addi­ commission to study the problem completely lost, wandering around tion, the 2V&-year agreement pro­ of the "wetbacks" or illegal immi­ The traditional rivalry between the populace, SIU and other­ in a quandary, if his wife has vides for nearly doubling welfare grants who have been hired for benefits. Of the raise, 21 cents was farm work at very low wages. wise, of Ney Orleans and Mobile, lenows no bounds. Par­ passed away, tisans for each side are always quick to claim credit-as to I think our boys need and would retroactive to November 15, two 4 4 4 who did what first—and better—than its rival, with the re­ appreciate such a plan. It would to January 16 and five will become A new union pension program modeled on the Federal Social Se­ sult that the competition has ripened over the years into a not be so difficult to set it up, effective May 16, since the nucleus.is there in the curity system, is being set up by 4 4-4 real contest. form of the. men's own insurance Collective bargaining in 1953 the Bakery and Confectionary Thus, the disclosure in this issue of the LOG that the cele­ through the Union. I'm sure there produced general wage increases Workers International (AFL). The bration of Mardi Gras had its beginnings in Mobile rather are many Seafarers wives who averaging eight nine cents union intends to establish a single than the Crescent City, which has gotten all the publicity on would b^ckme hi tliis plan and en­ hourly, usually tdgether with lib­ fund to cover its members all over the subj^t until hoAv, will add new fuel .to the fire. We dorse it wholeheartedly. eralization of benefits mr other the country andli standai'd sched­ Just hope this doesn't meitui a shooting war. Mrt. Yirgliila Teean eontract provisions. About two- ule throughout the industry. library Poll $64 4|nestlon Mobile Scores J �%-^'-V' |:J-;y, • • ••-" •" ' • '••" ^ 9ate Fourteen • • . SEAFARERS March 19, 1954 LOG Tv 5 '• March 19. 1954 \, / />| SEAFARERS ]?are Fiftcea LOG <<:L' •" " '*• , Mi /. 1 •fi- * > 1 - ^ C-A£^^m' MC'' - ' % > i - •? t . ^ i'u • - y Designed to carry 6,500 yards of sail, the wonder ship is shown under full power of paddlewheels, propeller and sail. She was longer than any US merchant ship now in service with the exception of the United States, and had a 120-foot beam, a bigger beam than any other merchant ship before or since. ":• ' V Nearly a century ago, in 1858, a group of Englishmen who let their imagination outrun their times launched the Great East­ ern, a ship which surely ranks as one of the all-time man-made f., •; 'S^-, . ? 5i-.: IS'--: I- ??• wonders. Her story of repeated fail­ ure, the result of bad luck and bad management and the fact that she was 50 years ahead of her time is handled knowingly and entertainingly in a new book, "The Great Iron Ship" by James Dugan. Seafaring men espe­ cially should find her misadventures fascinating reading. . Vital Statistics Consider a few vital statistics of the wonder ship. She was the larg­ est ever built up to her day, 692 feet long, displaced 22,500 tons and had a 120-foot beam—a bigger beam than any other merchant ship before or since. By comparison, the Queen Elizabeth, the largest merchant ship afloat, carries a not-so-girlish waist­ line of 118.6 feet. The ship was designed to carry 6.500 yards Of sail in addition to five funnels. It was the first ship ever built without ribs and had such mod­ ern innovations as a double hull and "Oxford Street," the port promenade deck of the Great Eastern, during night cable-laying in 1866. The first real success enjoyed by the huge ship was its use in connection with the laying of the first Atlantic cable, which was completed in July of that year after several mishaps. In one major accident, the ship put out 1,200 miles of cable, only to have the cable part and disappear to the ocean bottom, forcing the whole task to be started all over again. In the photo above, cablemen are shown on watch on the cable trough, right. • t:1 &; ;f;| ; m. rt '.'- ci ". S-.:' '' -i.',-' "'f.' : The ^and saloon as isketched by one of the passengers during the storm of September, 1861, in the North Atlantic. The giant paddle wheel was chewed up and swept away, life­ boats were destroyed and the rudder post ripped away. Twenty-seven, major cases of fractures were suffered on the first day of the blow, as the ship rolled 45 degrees. The position of th6 chandeliers shows the violence of her rolls. Captain John Vine Hall, who took the Great Eastern out on her maid­ en voyage, in 1860, and came back with a neryous breakdown. Her first skipper had drowned. •. ' • 12 watertight bulkheads. Her direct-acting screw engine had four cylinders, each seven feet in diameter, with a four-foot strokeand a shaft 150 feet long. Her 36-ton propeller was the largest ever made, exceeding the propeiljers on the Eliza­ beth and the Mary. She also had the world's largest sidewheeler paddles. Iron Power Plant While far inferior to today's power plants, the Great Eastern's was a marvel, considering the fact it was made of iron. There were no hard­ ened alloy steels in those days. She rated only 25 pounds per square inch of pressure in her boilers. A Liberty ship, today rates as low pressure with 220 pounds per square inch and 4,000 shaft horsepower. At her best the Great Eastern delivered about 5,000 horsepower, yet she made an ocean crossing of eight days, six hours to Canada in 1801. It was 41 years be­ fore a longer ship was launched, and 47 years before a larger one in terms of tonnage, the Lusitania,, hit the water. Pioneer Designer The daring mind that conceived this monster of a ship belonged to Isambard Brunei, an engineer who built railroads, underwater tunnels, and large steamers and had pioneered in use of double bottoms and water­ tight compartments. There was noth­ ing wrong with his engineering, as the ship demonstrated subsequently. As a technological experiment the ship was a great success, but commer­ cially it rated with the all-time white elephants. From the very beginning, trouble dogged the ship. There were no drydocks big enough so she was built on a muddy riverbahk on the Thames and launched sidewise. Launching the ship took almost three months and chewed up endless amounts of equip­ ment. After many delays the ship sailed September, 1859, only to have its forward funnel blow out because of an engine room error. Before the ve^el made a trip it put the owners $5 million in the hole—a tremendous amount in the 1850's. Few Paying Customers On her maiden voyage, June 17, 1860, the monster ship designed for 4,000 passengers attracted only 35 paying customers because of repeated delays. It became a great sightsee­ ing attraction in New York as else­ where where the ship entertained 143,000 visitors in four weeks. The ship's worst time came on a trip in September, 1861, when it ran into a North Atlantic hurricane. Its paddle wheel was chewed up and swept away, its lifeboats destroyed and its rudder post shorn off. There were 27 major fracture eases aboard as the ship rolled 45 degrees. An Ameiv ican engineer who was a passenger jury-rigged her rudder enabling her to limp back into port, where repairs cost her owners $300,000. Another major misfortune occurred on a voyage the following year in August, 1862. En route to Flushing Bay through Long Island Sound a mild jar was felt which was thought to be a shifting sand-bar. A diver who inspected the bottom subse­ quently found a rip in the bottom 83 feet long and nine feet wide. Thanks to the double-bottom, the inner hull didn't admit any water. No Drydock Big Enough Since there was no drydock big enough to take her a cofferdam was built, 102 feet long by 16 feet wide, sunk and sealed to her bottom. Riv­ eters descended through a shaft and made necessary repairs, leaving an­ other whopping bill of $350,000. The Great Eastern's only real suc­ cesses were in connection with lay­ ing of the first Atlantic cable. A new company formed in conjunction with Cyrus Field in 1865 tore out her insides and adapted her for cable lay-: ing. After putting out 1,200 miles of cable, the cable parted and it was lost. In 1866 a third company was or­ ganized and the Great Eastern com­ pleted the transatlantic cable cross­ ing in July, 1866. She was then chartered to the French Government to carry visitors from New York to the Paris Exposition but after an­ other half-million was sunk into re­ converting her, the ship attracted only 191 passengers. The crew had to sue for their $25 a month back pay and she was again put into cable service. Laid Up In 1874 The ship was finally laid up in 1874. After rusting and accumulating un­ told tons of barnacles she was auc­ tioned off in October, 1885, towed to Liverpool and her sides used to dis­ play local advertising. She was sold for scrap in 1887, putting an end to a fabulous, but notably unsuccessful career. A stage from the Western Hotel brings sight­ seers to the great ship at the foot of Bank Street on her maiden visit to NY in 1860. .m Illustration from Harper's Weekly (1860) commenting on the deluge of visitors when the ship reached NY. They played in the rigging and removed everything loose. m II Originally built for service to Ceylon, the ship got as close as Bombay, India, on one of her last cable-laying voyages. She was a great tourist attraction wherever she went. (The Great Iron Ship, by James Dugan. Harper and Brothers. $3.50.) iiilBiit if] : The Great Eastern's officers were very unpopular in NY, possibly because of their treatment of the visiting local populace. Harper's Weekly spared nothing in its caricatures of them. Ready for launching in 1857, the ship rests on the mudflats of the Thames. The launching eventually took three months, as the original launching-cables split. The man in the stovepipe hat (far right) was the Great Eastern's builder^ John Scott Russell. , , �SE 2, A Pace Sixteen MARITIME ••* •> •, ''H'^.-T <* A ERS IOC March 19, 1954 SEAFARERS lee breakers cleared Montreal Harbor of ice at the end of the second week in March, A clear channel now reaches from the Gulf of St. Lawrence to the Montreal fresh water harbor.. More Canadian mari­ Kitchens are ordinarily considered fairly dangerous places to work time news was made when the Canadian Pacific Steamship Co. ordered in with the shoreside kitchen in home or restaurant being a source of a second passenger liner from Great Britain. The ship will be a 22,500many a mishap. Transfer the situation ashore to the confines of a ship ton passenger and cargo liner. As yet unnamed, the vessel will be a where men have to work in the galley sometimes under extremely dif­ sister to the Empress of Britain, building now in Great Britain... In Back from another trip to the ficult conditions with the vessel pitching and rolling, and it's easy to Turkey, authorities released the American freighter Volunteer State, Orient the SlU-manned Seacliff see why men can and do get hiirt while performing routine dutie.s in after holding it three days in connection with a hit-and-run collision galley, pantiy, messroom and storerooms. which killed four Turkish seamen. The small Turkish ship Yayla sank arrived on the West Coast with no These things range from such accidents as getting locked in iceboxes, furore and excitement this time in the Sea of Marmara after a crackup. slipping on a wet or .greasy deck, burns from hot stoves or hot utensils, thanks to a new captain and cuts from sharp implements or broken glass—in other words all the heads-up SIU crew. Last trip The United States Maritime Service Institute at Sheepshead Bay will be remembered, ended with common hazards multiplied by the additional difficulty of uncertain will close on April 30. The school's enrollment list and correspondence sensational charges before the footing. course material has been offered for sale, according to Maritime Ad­ Coast Guard and the removal of -Leave It To Engineer ministrator Louis S. Rothschild. The winning bidder must agree to the captain from the ship. Galley ranges themselves can be a source of considerable trouble complete the approximately 7,000 uncompleted courses without further This time the story was different, payments by the students.. .Japanese ship building companies have and crewmembers aboard were unless dealt with properly. When the ship is at sea, storm bars should be in place on all ranges at all times. If the range is an electric one applied to their government for approval to build up to $50,000,000 quick to give and goes out of kilter, the proper department to handle the matter is worth of oil tankers and other ships for export. Some of the ships credit to ship's the engine department. Electric stoveS, like any electric heating unit, would be sold to Greece, Liberia, Brazil, Chile and Thailand.. .A com­ delegate Ed Wal­ draw lots of amperes, and are especially dangerous to tinker with. Let pletely revised edition of Nautical Chart 280, covering the Philadelphia lace for helping the chief engineer take care of the repairs. and Camden waterfronts is now being distributed (price, one dollar) by Oil ranges pose the problem of knowing how to light off burners. As the Coast and Geodetic Survey's Washington and other district offices. to make harmonious in lighting any other burner, a torch should always be used to light Wallace the fire. Fires should never be lit off the fire box wall at any time. The Ampac Washington, a 10,448-ton surplus wartime tanker, was thanked If the fire is out in the range, the fire box should be checked for the put up for sale at auction by the Federal Government and the highest h i s "wonderful presence of accumulated gas before attempting to light fires. bid received, $305,000, came from the Security First National Bank of achievement in Coal burning ranges, still in business on some ships, need a little Los Angeles. The Government seized the ship in September, 1953, keeping everyWallace more attention than the more modern cooking unit. The coke has to charging that it had been obtained fraudulently by alien interests. The body happy." Government said that one of the vessel's true owners was Greek ship­ Wallace, who has been with the be broken up and stirred around every hour or so, and cleaned out ping magnate, Stavros Niarchos, who was recently indicted by the US SIU for nine years now, is a native every day for safe and efficient operation. Under no circumstances Justice Department for his part in the alleged fraudulent action... of Illinois. He joined the SIU in should kerosene or any other highly-inflammable material be used to The bidding on the Ampac Washington raises a problem for the Gov­ New York and sails regularly in start a fire in a coal burning stove. Generally speaking, careful maintenance of stoves is an A-1 require­ ernment. Liens on the ship amount to $450,000, and brokers say that the deck department. He is 26 ment in the galley, particularly on oil ranges where careless handling for this T-2 type ship, the current purchasing price should be about years old. of oil, loose burners, careless filling and cracks between the combustion $300,000. As a result, it is believed that the Government will seek to li. X ichamber and the oven all create additional hazards. have the bidding rejected, and then call for a new sale. Another ship's delegate, Spur4 4" Reefer Doors geon L. Woodruff of the Young A docking mishap in Australia cau.sed one of that Bi'itish Dominion's America, outlined to the crew the A second source of trouble for men in the galley gang is the cold destroyers, the Bataan, to stove a big hole in the ship. The destroyer procedure to be followed in han­ storage area. The he'avy doors on reefer boxes are often tlie cause of tried to dock in Melbourne without the aid of tugs, which had been dling shipboard beefs which makes serious shipboard Injury. Swing-doors are especially dangerous. They idle because of a strike... At the end of the first week in March, the things' smoother for all hands. should be secured properly to avoid trouble. Getting locked in a reefer Brazilian Government announced that they had ordered the National Woodruff pointed out that individ­ box is no fun either. But if a man goes in the box and leaves a padlock Bank of Development to study means of rehabilitating the country's ual beefs about the work in any open on the door outside, somebody might come along and snap it shut merchant marine, which is in severe financial shape. department should be taken up with unfortunate consequences. So take the padlock inside with you. C it t 4< Of course, in case a man should get locked in the reefer box, there with the department delegate. Israel is fast becoming a major merchant marine nation and now When the beef concerns the crew is always an alarm to fall back on. An alarm is a good thing to have— has the second largest merchant fleet in the Near East. Israel's fleet provided it works. Alarm bells and emergency lights should be checked numbers 31 ships, grossing 160,000 tons. Only Turkey's fleet is larger. at large, then it's the job of the occasionally for that reason. ship's delegate to take up matters The upsurge in Israeli shipping has taken place in the short xpan of Another danger in reefer boxes is grease or fat that might accumu­ six years. One of the major reasons for the little country's interest in and followv.them through. In any case. Woodruff empha­ late on ladders or on the deck which could lead to a painful or injuri­ the seas, is the boycott enforced by Arab nations. Israel has also been ous fall. Meat hooks in reefer boxes can also be unpleasant things to forced to build a fleet in order to conserve currency paid to foreign sized, there's one thing that a crewmember shouldn't do. That is come in contact with unexpectedly. lines.. A new cargo liner, the Bawean sailed from New York for the to by-pass his representative in the Um Boil-overa Mediterranean and Middle East last week. The vessel is an 11,000-ton crew and take up beefs personally Steam uriis are obvious danger spots because of the presence of boil­ motorship operated by the Nedloyld Line.. St. Elmo's Fire, that in­ ing water. One of the commonest accidents in any kitchen is permitting teresting marine phenomenon, was very much in' evidence on the with the officers. Woodruff, who has been sailing steam urn to squirt hot water because somebody turned on an intake African Rainbow on its last outbound voyage to Capetown. A severe electrical storm north of the equator resulted in phosphorescent seas, as an SIU member for nearly 11 valve and then turned his attention to some other task. The solution years, joined the Union in New Or­ is to take the time out to stand by the urn while it is filling and turn off and large balls of electricity were seen hovering over the masts for leans on June 16, 1943. He is 43 about an hour. the water before it reaches the top of the guage. years old and a native of Texas. A less common, but equally dangerous situation arises when the 4" 4" 4" t 4 The Cunard luxury-liner Caronia has scheduled a 106-day cruise of pantryman loses his balance while pouring hot water intb the coffee the South Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Ocean at 'a minimum fare of There's still plenty of action bag with the gallon measure. Chairs or other makeshift platforms $2,950. The ship will stop at 24 ports in Latin America, the Far East among ships' crews on the US Pub­ should be avoided like the plague. Since the pantryman is going to be and Southeast Asia...The West German Government has decided to lic Health Service issue, judging at this task regularly, a safe platform should be provided for this cut down on financial aid to shipowners, claiming that the German from reports that keep coming in purpose. fleet has now been rebuilt to a considerable extent . . . The new Greek to headquarters. Another cahse of trouble can be the dumbwaiter. Cables on dumb­ Aboard the liner Oiympia suffered a breakdown in her engine room in the Medi­ Bienville, Seafarer Stanley Kukow- waiters should be renewed regularly before they wear out and cause terranean and has had to return to New York for overhaul and repairs. ski prepared a letter to be sent to trouble. Every dumbwaiter should carry a safety latch so that it can As a result, the ship has had to cancel a special March of Dimes week­ Senators and Representatives in be locked in place while items are being placed in or removed from end cruise that had been set for March 13. Washington asking their support the dumbwaiter. Otherwise, the dumbwaiter can start moving with a man's arm still inside. for the USPHS hospitals. 4" 4" 4" Lloyd's of London is being sued for over $1.5 million in an unusual Under no circumstances should a man stick his head in the shaft Kukowski's letter has been read case before the New York State Supreme Court, with a Panamanian and approved by^the crew and has while the dumbwaiter is in operation. company claiming a ship they own, the Armar, is a "constructive total been sent on to Washington in Other precautions in the galley include such obvious ones as pro­ loss" because its market value is less than the cost of repairing all their behalf, adding still more viding racks for knives and other cutlery, keeping one hand free at damages. The company is trying to turn the ship over-to the insurers weight to the campaign for the hos- all times while going up and down ladders and stairways, and keeping claiming the ship is not worth repairing after U ran aground. pitals. the deck clean and dry on all occasions. Safe Operation In The Galley i.1 t Sr. m ^;•"< f: •A-i- ''i- • • 11: ¥i-' *• Burly A Ray Ot Sunghine 'I-./ By Bernard Seaman �Mansh 19; 1954 SEAFARERS Page Seventeen LOG Great Lakes Ships Lay Idle In Wiiltry Berths NLRB Closing Dock Vote Hearings; Outpgrfs (Continued from page 2) action of the National Labor Re­ lations Board. Old ILA leaders then started their undercover violation of the order. A so-called "wildcat strike" was begun in which the hands of old ILA leaders like Harold Bow­ ers, and Willie Ackalitis were clearly evident. While Captain Wil­ liam Bradley, pre'sidefit and front man of the old ILA, issued state­ ments calling on the longshoremen to "return to work," the water­ front enforcers maintained by Bowers, Tony Anastasia and others of the old ILA were busy going from pier to pier and "persuad­ ing" the men to stop work. Despite the pressure, some piers held out, notably, the United Fruit piers on the West Side where longshoremen defied all pressure. The battleground shift­ ed to Brooklyn where the AFL-ILA again penetrated the heart of Anastasia's empire by working the Erie Basin Breakwater. Pending receipt of the NLRB Washington decision, the AFL is counter-attacking with the object of restoring service in the port. " .''I ; '^! Five Great Lakes freighters lie in winter berths along- Buffalo Creek, Buffalo, NY, early this month, four of them still "without engineering crews despite approaching navigation season. Declining car­ goes may force some ships to remain idle all season. Baltimore Has Optical Service Seafarers in the port of Baltimore who are in need of eyeglasses and other eye care have found it to their advantage to make use of the Union Eye Health Plan in the city. The Plan, which is formally endorsed by several AFL and CIO unions in the city, offers low-cost optical and optometrical services to-*^ its customers. factory and he did not have to get including the Brotherhood of Rail­ road Trainmen and the Interna­ The SIU "Welfare Services them changed. The plan includes for its mem­ tional Ladies Garment Workers representative in the port, John Arahasz, has checked the service bers free eye examinations and Union. and was permitted to examine all periodic check-ups as well as low- The Union Eye Health Plan is records and other details of its op­ cost frames and glasses. While the conducted by the Maryland Opti­ eration. Several instances in the SIU has made no formal endorse­ cal Co. with offices at 202 Clay files showed cases that people were ment of the plan, several other Street, downtown, and 3718 East­ given examinations and advised unions in Baltimore have done so. ern Avenue, Highlandtown. that they did not need to invest in eyeglasses. Seafarers who have already made use of the service have reported that they were fully satisfied. In one instance a Sea­ (Continued from page 9) Traditionally this is the season of farer was told after an examination that his present lenses were satis- Miration of Mardi Gras day. Cele­ the year when they "hit the beach" bration of the carnival season to participate in carnival festivities. begins weeks before Shrove Tues­ day. In the 1954 season just ended, 21 separate day and night street parades were held in the weeks preceding Mardi Gras Day and 35 mystic groups, whose membership includes many Mobile Seafarers, held colorful carnival balls. (Continued from page 3) In Mobile, the Mardi Gras cele­ fargrs' ideas on the quality of the bration is ruled by King Felix, books, the proportions of types of whereas in New Orleans, Rex is books in each assortment and any WASHINGTON — Seeking to king for the day. other suggestions for changes, pro­ put into law practices already fol­ The day and season is one of viding they are in favor of contin­ lowed by the Coast Guard in many great portent for Seafarers who uing the library program alto­ instances, the Treasury Depart­ live here and in New Orleans. gether. Seafarers can either register ment has come out in favor of leg­ their own individual opinions on islation permitting the revocation separate questionnaires or ships' or denial of seamen's documents to Ship Transfer crews can be polled at ships' meet­ persons addicted to narcotics or ings and the results indicated on convicted of narcotics offenses. Halt Urged one or more poli forms. In cases A Treasury official asserted that where sufficient copies of the ac­ t Continued from page 2) "the presence of narcotic drug tual form may not be available, the users or traffickers aboard mer­ such transfers would help the US questionnaire can be copied as chant ships is not only dangerous 1 trust you will not permit any closely as possible and filled out to the safety of life and property in the regular manner. at sea but constitutes a potential transfers . . . until our Committee In order to get a wide response, has had the opportunity to gather danger to the security of the na­ the poll will be open through and analyze all pertinent informa­ April 30, 1954, wjien all question­ tion." Present laws do not permit the tion . naires must reach the LOG office revocation of a seaman!s document The legislator then went on to at headquarters, so that results can for a narcotic drug offense, except review the experiences of the US be tabulated and announced in a where the offense is committed subsequent issue of the LOG. The aboard ship while the offender is in World War II and in Korea forms may be signed or not, as the acting in the course of his duties. where the need for a strong mer­ individual chooses. In order to The proposed bill/ with amend­ chant marine was demonstrated keep the polling accurate, however. ments urged by the Treasury, many times over. Seafarers are urged'to submit not would authorize the denial of docu­ more than one filled-out question­ Turning tq^the question of Lib­ ments as well as. their revocation naire. •They can be submitted by erty ships, Tollefson pointed out to narcotics users and addicts, as mail or in person. well as those convicted of offenses that the Maritime Administration's under Federal or local laws. The reasoning that obsolete ships should How to Apply bill before the House committee^ be -transferred would open the now only with violations of gates for "wholesale transfer of For Birth Pay our merchant marine" particularly #e4eral law. Applications for the mater­ : Mdanwhile, the Commerce De­ those sections of it consisting of nity benefit must be supported partment has urged passage of Liberty-types. by the following documents: Senate and Hous^e bills Which re. - Tollefson also questioned the • Your marriage certificate. quire merchant seamen employed Maritime Administration's policy • Baby's birth certificate dat­ oh Us-flag^vessels to be able to of jpermitting transfers without ing birth after April 1, 1952. iinderstand"~ orders given in the holding public hearings on the ap­ • The discharge from the last English language. These bills origi­ plications, a point that has been ship you sailed un before the nated In recommendations by the stressed in the past by the union baby was born. legislative committee. Treasury. Mobile Celebrates Mardi Gras Law Would Lift Sea Papers In Narcotics Case Poll Opens On SIU Libraries D • • Q a sums SFt>Rr COATS SMCKS -XCPCCATS Vt^SGSSHOBS> • a • • • a n • VOHGAPSES KfiAKI PANTS KHAKI SHIRTS gUJEV^KSHlRTS FRlSKOOEEHS HICKORY SHIRTS C.PO. SHIRTS WHrtETJRBSS SHIRTS / • spofsrr SHIRTS • PRESS BELTS • KHAKI WEB BELTS • TIES • SWEATSHIRTS a ATHLETIC SHIRTS • T-SHIRTS a SHORTS a BRIERS O SWEATERS a UX?^A6E a WORK SOCKS a PRESS SOCKS O LEATHER JACKETS a . WRITTNS RDRTHOLIO • eou'WESTERS D RAIN SEAR >ZEi. ( •I' r.H ALL YOUR NEEPS CAN BE FILLEP -T=ROM A SOU'WESTER"p AN , ELECTRIC RAZOR . WHATEVER BUY FROM THE SEACMEGT/ >(t>U CAN BE SURE YDuiSE GETTING TOP QUALITY SEAR AT SUBSTAN­ TIAL SAVINGS. UMIOH-OWM6DAND OM»ON-OPEOATCP ... 40IZ -THE BENEPrr OF IHC MEMBERSHIP* : �•i- • f; ^ ;rr •' • stArAKEMs xoG, ^ : • nge jBisiitera Stee Fun With 600 Monkeys Aboard The Steel Navigator went an old proverb more than one better on a trip to the Far East last year; The maxim, "More fun, than a barrel of monkeys," was mere child's play to the Seafarers aboard the ship, reported Seafarer Tom Collins, because they had to deal, with an entire shipment of> some 600 simpering simians. The monkeys came from a f ,f. •, t; V.-' 200 in Calcutta, India, arid were destined for cancer research in New York, via the Isthmian vessel. However, before the little beasts reached their destination, the boys aboard the ship had a shipload of fun with the monkeys, especially one of them. Crated as they were for shipment, the monkeys were little trouble to the crew except for their constant chattering at all hours of the day and night. Collins reported that it sounded like a convention of American University Women in the Windy City. Charlie Aboard, Too One of the little beasties, how­ ever, proved to be a shipboard de­ light as well as a pain in the foc'sle at other times. For want of his pedigree, the Seafarers called him Charlie. Charlie, so it seems, brought along plenty of his aunts, and uncles, too, for that matter, as well a.s brothers, sisters, cousins and assorted friends, relatives and neighbors of varying sizes. Charlie, it seems, was the lone simian of the entire shipload who was not afraid of people. The bosun, taken by his winning ways, gave Charlie the run of the ship for the entire vo.vage. When it came time to unload some cargo at Savannah, Georgia, the monk was unceremoniously i-eturned to his cage. At tliis point Charlie raised such a howl he was heard clear to Ireland, where the banshees were frightened out of their wits. It was Charlie, above, in one of his rare moments of inactivity, sits quietly all to no avail, however, as the aboard the Steel Navigator near one of its fire stations. Below, some bosun was a man of indomitable of the 600 monkeys which were loaded aboard the ship roll along spirit and iron will and would not in their cages under the watchful eyes of native keepers in Calcutta, be swayed from his purpose. Charlie was placed in durance vile cook took up a knife to defend galley to find Charlie wearing his and the ship settled down to nor­ himself the first time he saw the hat and chattering about as if giv­ mal routine once the monkey was monkey, probably believing it was ing orders. It tickled everyone. • reincarcerated. Gargantua. Calmed down later, he Nobody had as much fun .as Men Miss Monkey. claimed he didn't have his glasses Charlie did aboard that vessel, Charlie wasn't the only one un­ oh and he couldn't tell what it was with the monkey making the most happy about the situation. Many that was coming at him lumbering of every conceivable moment of freedom by swinging up, down and of the boys missed the monk down the passageway. The monkey had a pretty good around the railings and gangways perching on their shoulder when they shaved in the morning, or time aboard the vessel, too, espe­ on deck. The boys aboard the ship looking airound the corner of The cially with the cook. One morriing had more laughs than a shipload . messhall at mealtimes. The chief the cook wandered down to the of monkeys. General Dean Visits Seafarer In Hospital I Ti If. Seafarer Clyde Camel, while a patient at Tokyo, Japan, Army hospital late last year, was visited by Major General William' P. Dean before the latter returned to the United States after being released in Korea. Gattiel hails from Little jRock> Arkansas, arid had something to talk about when he got home. Dean was visiting j^fSonn(sl at Tokyo hospital at the tima, i.. -"t I?'-'• •• ^ '• y-"-..:';: y y-f ' Marci^.w. ' Thai Scotland Yard iii London was really named after a palace used by Scottish kings when they visited England in the 11th and 12th centuries? The site becaine Headquarters for the metropolitan police in 1829. New. headquarters, known as New Scotland Yard, the present name, was established in 1890 on the Thames. That brand-new 50-book ship's; libraries are provided on every ' SIU ship every three iponths? The libraries contain a broad variety of titles supplied by a nationallyfamous distributor of* pocket-size volumes, including Westerns,- de- ' tective mysteries, novels and sev-^: eral works of non-fiction. That the six-penny nail got its name because it originally cost ex­ actly sixpence a hundred? Until about the 15th century nails were sold by the hundred in England, with the price determined by the size of the nails, and even when the prices changed the old names survived as a designation of size. The six-penny nail is still just two inches long today, just as it was hundreds of years ago. That the heart of a normal man beats about 38,000,000 times in a -year? The rate of heartbeat varies ' with the age, sex and health of the individual, but generally, for men, the rate is 72 times a minute. The extreme range of thq human heart­ beat is from 16 to 200. In 1939 an electrocardiograph film taken of a man who was being executed by a firing squad in Utah showed that his heartbeat increased from 72 to 180 a minute during the few min­ utes before the shots were fired. 4 4" t That William Howard Taft was the first President of the US to make regular use of an automobile when he was Chief Executive? A car was bought for the White House at the beginning of Taft's administration in 1909. There had been an automobile provided by the Secret Service at the White House in the preceding adminis­ tration, but President Theodoi-e Roosevelt did not care much for it and seldom rode in it. That the smallest state in the Union has the largest name? Of­ ficially it is "the State of Rhode Island and Providence Planta­ tions," but in popular usage the last part of the name is seldom used. The full name is still used in official documents. I JSJ SI 4" if That the SIU was the first sea­ men's Union to pay you benefits no matter how long you're sick? While most unions cut off bene­ fits after a specified period of weeks. Seafarers who are ill col­ lect them indefinitely, whether for weeks or years. if if if That the weight of suits of armor worn in the Middle Ages ranged from 25 to more than 100 pounds? One NY collection con­ tains a specimen of 15th century Gothic armor weighing 39 pounds, while a specimen in Paris weighs 53, and another in Vienna 85. The heaviest plate armor was worn dur­ ing the 16th and 17th centunes, when firearms were ah'eady pretty well developed. Kyska Crew. Has Xmas Spirit; Mate Obliges Seafarer Red Campbell's contrary opinions notwithstand­ ing, men aboard Waterman Line ships seem to be getting along fine with the captain and other officers. At least it is that way aboard the Kyska, according to a report submit- of the deathless poesy written aboard it. The poom runs thusly: ;ed on its Christmas meeting minutes, where Cecil Gates acted as meeting chah'man. In the past (and possibly again in the future) Campbell has loudly decried the con­ ditions and treatment he and others ^have re­ ceived at the hands of Water­ man '.s licensed f u n c t i o naries. Not that the treatment has been of the worst Gates degree, Icind and order, but. the boys haven't been too happy with these officers who have failed to serve them break­ fast in bed and sing lullabys. in their pretty, shell-like ears at night. On the other hand, Kyska cor­ respondents report that all is well with- topside,, especially around the holidays. Take last Christmas, for example. Not only did the captain and chief mate show undue con­ sideration for the men and fill the larder fuller with added refresh­ ments for the holiday season, but the mate went so far as to con­ tribute sotne liquid potations for the added enjoyment of the Sea­ farers aboard the^cow. In addition to this largesse, the mate offered a poem in honor of his generosity. Its succinct lines carried a mes­ sage dear to every Seafarer's heart; its timeless prosody will never be forgotten by Seafarer and officer alike aboard the Kyska, which, no doubt, will live forever, enshrined in the heaiTs of Seafarers becarise I,;. .,<j Another -Chirstmas comes And the Kyska is at sea And here's a little drink Of Xmas sheer for thee. It isn't very much But it's the best I can do. And if you get drunk, I'll throw the book at you. Marginal notes report that the "little drink" was a bottle of scotch, and mighty good scotch it was, too. Gates said he wanted this bit of shipboard life recorded for posterity and Campbell, even though neither is going to believe it anyway. Speak Your Mind At SiV Meetings • f-. Under the Union constitu­ • . »f tion every member attending a Union meeting is entitled to " ..' nominate himself for the elected posts to be filled at the meeting—chairman, read- , ing clerk and recording secre: tary. Your Union urges you" to take an active part in meet­ ings by taking these post^ of ' . service. And, of course, all members have the right to take the floor and express their opinions on any officer's report or issue under discussion. .Seafarers are urged to . hit the , deck at these meetings and let their shipmates know what's on their mind. • !*. �SEAP'ARERS 'i^oc Muelk I9. i98l Pare NlnefecH Waterman Ship Has More Oil Than Wafer On Board For Far East Run By SEAFARERS LOG Photo Editor Someone once said that if you want a Job well done, do it yourself. He might have been a photographer talking about processing negatives, since no one has as great an interest in seeing that negatives are de­ veloped, washed and stored correctly as the person who took him. The trick of perfect processing is to establish a routine, for yourself to fol­ low rigidly. If you use Kodak Verichrome, Plus X or Super XX in roll film, de­ velop in D-76 for 16 minutes. For Ansco Plenachrome, Supreme or Superpan Press in rolls, develop 16 minutes in Ansco 17. In 35mm or Bantam size, develop Plus X for 16 minutes and* &uper XX for 20 min­ utes in Kodak Microdot. Supreme and Ultra Speed Pan get 15 min­ utes in Ansco Finex-L. , « 68 Degrees Temperature These times are for developing at 68 degrees, using fresh developer with agitation for about five seconds each minute. The developing time must be lengthened with each succeeding roll developed in the same solution unless you add replenisher after each roll. Let's- assume that you have your film correctly loaded into the tank. Pour from your storage bottle into a glass or enamel graduate the proper volume of developer. Use a filter funnel to strain out any dirt or sediment. Now, get the developer in the graduate to that 68 degree mark. More often than not, the temperature of the solution will be a few degrees away from 68. If we get the developer to within one half of 68, we'll be doing pretty well. If your solution is above 68, place the graduate in a pan of cold water and check the temperature carefully so your developer won't get too cold. Make sure you stir it before reading the thermometer. If the developer's temperature is too low instead of too high, the same pro­ cedure should be followed with warm water. Once you have settled the developer at 68 degrees, pour it quickly into the tank. Filling will be swifter, if you tilt the tank from the vertical position. Transfer the entire contents of the graduate to the tank and make note of the time. During the time o£ development, agitate the film for a few seconds each minute. This will break any air bubbles clinging to the surface of the film. While the film is developing, you'll have a chance to pre­ pare your acid hardening hypo and bring it to 68 degrees in the same manner as the developer. With but 10 seconds of the developing time to go, pour the developer back into the storage bottle^ Refill'the tank Immediately with hypo, pouring it in as you did the developer. Then start agitating again. After ten minutes you can pour the hypo back into its bottle. A quart of nypo will harden and fix about eight rolls of film. Don't underestimate the importance of proper washing and drying. If possible regulate the wash water to 68-70 degrees. Film, if you want to preserve it for a good many years, should be washed for about 30 minutes. When washing is complete hang up the film to dry. Surplus water may be removed by passing a viscose sponge over each surface of the film. If you find that your film has water marks and drying streaks after drying, try soaking the film in Kodak Photo-Flo. The cap of the four ounce bottle will hold enough wetting agent to make 20 ounces of working solution. iDon't add more than the directions rec­ ommend "for good measure" since too much wetting agent is as bad as none at all. LOG-A-RHYTHM: No two ships anywhere in the world, reported Seafarer Charles Mazur, had as much misfortune or unscheduled events aboard on any single voyage as did the Waterman vessel, Bienville, on a recent run to the Far East. Mazur should have expected it though, he noted himself, being an avid reader | of Red Campbell's chronicling ing time, and it is all accumulated only 60 men aboard. There was of Waterman's troubles in in that forepeak. Coils of old, only one question he wanted an­ rusty wire, rotting lines, buckets, swered: What happened to those kegs of old, rusty bolts, nuts and four extra pieces of pie? nails and thousands of scrap items Knots To Them are. just laying there. The only The heavy seas encountered by thing the mate missed saving, and the Bienville made going pretty he would if he could, is the smoke rough, with the ship making little from the stack. Mazur's few words headway against the seas. To prove on the tool situation aboard the the point, Mazur asked the second vessel consists of "there ain't mate what kind of speed they had none." He had a few other choice been making. Not bad, replied the epithets to voice about the tools, latter, we passed our yesterday's which, he said, looked like a col­ noon position at coffee time this lection of old relics from the "Gold afternoon. Mazur looked over the Rush Days," or "Better Days side to corroborate the statement Ahead In Death Valley." The paint and saw, much to his dismay, a brushes, he said, looked as if they flock of seagulls setting on a load were left to dry around a clothes of garbage, all of which was float­ wringer. He hadn't seen such ing past the vessel in the direction curved lines since Marilyn Monroe of the bow. The vessel was under decided to keep it under cover. a full head of steam and so was Mazur, who promised to get on a Stocks Up On Fuel Oil Those aren't the only problems ship the next time out. aboard the ship, Mazur noted. He thinks the Bienville is the only ship afloat that has fuel oil in the hot and cold water system as well as five feet of it in that same forepeak. That mate sure has saving The telephone numbers of ways. Waterman,, said Mazur, all New York headquarters must have gotten a bargain the phones were changed recently last time the company bought fuel by the telephone company. All oil, with the chief engineer filling Seafarers calling headquarters up every available space except the are asked to use the new num­ empty ketchup bottles. I hope he bers to get faster service. doesn't see this or he's liable to The new headquarters tele­ get ideas. phone number is HYacinth 9-6600. Oil In Showers One day Mazur saw the cook com­ ing out of the shower, looking much the worse for wear. Accost­ ing him on the spot, the corres­ pondent queried him as to whether or not he had been on deck rolling around in an oil slick. The cook answered in the negative, declaring that it should be obvious to all that he had just come from the shower, since he was covered with oil from head to foot. He said he felt like a tossed salad with all that oil on him. Upon inspection-of the show­ er rpom, Mazur thought, it looked like the ship took on bunkers through the shower head. Speaking of the cook, Mazur complained, the food situation aboard the scow was not so hot. Of life's consistent values, It appeared as if the food was be­ of priceless jewels ungrimed. ing rationed. One brother wanted And in your heart there'll be a second piece of sweet potato pie, The joys of the sea enshrined. when the baker went into the realm of higher . mathematics to Take up the gauntlet, then. prove that he couldn'f have any Let nothing you dismay. because there was none left oyer. Toss off the chains of terra firma Upon closer inspection, the man Aiaxing -crew nappy aooara On this self-same day proved that there should be four Seatrain Savannah with culi­ Of liberation of your soul pieces left over if the baker baked nary arts are, left to right, When the sea's call you hear eight pies and cut those pies into Warfield, Thiemonge, GrizReverberating in your heart eight pieces each, as he claimed zard, Dewitt, Libby, Aldridge And, your pelagic ear. to have done, because there were and Johnson. Pie by Smith. Toss far away the key To hom'e and domicile Heed not the consequences Of shedding land's durance vile For better things More richer wrought (1) Britain's weather is usually mild in the winter, but recently Than' anything ^ ' ' . it had a cold wave. Britain's latitude is between 50 and 60 degrees You had to ought. . north. Is it the same as Cape Cod, Labrador, or Iceland? (2) Recently, Theodor Heuss celebrated his 70th birthday. He is Follow me down to the sea again president of what country? To the lovely sea and the foam (3) Five times a number plus three times the number plus three Which many a sailing man has left equals half the number plus 48. What is the number? For delights of a shorcside home (4) What is the name of the new atomic submarine? And wife and child py firelight (5) What major league baseball club now has on its roster the To soothe his weary hedd pitcher Bobby Thomson homered off in the 1951 pennant playoff? Fain would I be cold as stone (6) Whpt is the name, political party and state of the Senator who And stretched out, long since dead! recently introduced a Congressional bill to increase the minimum wage Follow me down to the sea again tQ $1.25 an hour? (7) The Republican party has had only one Presi^pnt who served With never q backward glance, two full terms. Who was it? Lest the sight of loved ones (8) The popular Latin d.'>nce, the mambo is a cross between what Cut you like a lance two Ranees? (a) tango-conga; vxhumba-swing; samba-rhumba? Aimed at your heart and vitals (9) "Papa" is the nickname of what famous American writer? To sever you from your first love (10) What was the most recent amendment to the US Constitution? Of roaming from shore to shore. (Quiz Answers on Pagg 25) On earth and heaven above. other issues of the LOG. However, Mazur doesn't ^ish on anybody those things which happened aboard his latest ship. • In a parenthetical section of his report, Mazur noted that Japan, the Bienville's first port of call, was just about the only country Seafarers could hope to visit on Waterman's West Coast ferries. Waterman has so many ships on the run to Japan, he said, that the company ought to put the word "Maru" on the sides of their ships. The first misfortune to strike the good ship Bienville did not tarry _1 o n g in coming; it was a flooded forepeak on the first night at sea. At this point the mate took charge of the fluid situ­ ation. With no ^sand to mix with cement for ceMazur menting the hawsepipes, the mate ordered the men to mix sawdust into the con­ coction and stand aside for reper­ cussions. ^he ship was taking sprays over the bow at this time, so before the cement-and-sawdust solution could harden, it was washed down into the chain locker \vhen the first sea came over. The Bienville has some pretty stiff chains at the moment. By the time the seas stopped running, the next morning, the forepeak was inun­ dated. Listening to the water gur­ gling against the bulkheads sound­ ed like a man wallowing around in wet galoshes. Getting back to the mate, Mazur said, he believed in saving every­ thing he ever came across, includ- New Numbers For Hq, Phones Culinary Artists Follow Me Down To The Sea Again By Sam Seafarer Follow me down to the sea again The sea of bygone year Where many a sailing ship has gone And many a salty tear Has been shed for lads by lassies Who wait upon the shore Ergerly watching horizon's line For sight of him once more. And roused us from our slumber In every waterfront haH From whence we sped 'o dockside To sign for foreign coasts Which memories still haunt us. Sweet, lingering ghosts. Look not behind you, sailor lad. Lest you waver and fall. But hear the clear-cut clarion Voice of the sea's endless call To search her boiindleis reaches For treasures yet untold For rubiyats and madrigals And verse of purest gold. Follow me down to the sea again To watch the breakers roll We'll toast the ocean's crest With port, or lime or skoal For the hardy sailorman Who braves the wind's sharp lash Sail before the mast, you gobs. Fo. fame, glory, brotherhood And keep your one true love And a pocketful of cash. Let nothing come between you Follow me down, I say And those sails fluttering above Leave nary a thought behind, Your wizened heads and gleaming Care not for life itself eyes. But to the sea be kind Your broad-beamed back and Of remorseful and contrite thighs. For the years we have lost Let nothing take you from the sea 'Neath starry skies To cause you endless sighs And latitudes uncrossed. Oh, listen to me now. Swing your eyes this way, my lads, To what I have to say. And let your hearts follow step. Stick by the sea, my lads. Toss off your land-locked chains And you'll never rue the day And fill your loins with pep That you chose the briny deep Which once flowed thru sinewy As a way of life arms Upon which adventure is And braced once-stout hearts More plentiful than rife. From here to Okeefenokee Never forswear the sea, my boys. And in-between parts. But keep it close to you And in your fondest memories Come, hear the roaring surf You'll perceive the clearest view Which once beckoned to us all Quiz Corner •'%] i •- w I �Face Ihnmtr SEAFARERS LOG Miinh 19, 19S4 Stevedores And Native Girl Pose For Seafarer Seafarer Harry Kronmel, left, is seen in Fort Dauphin, Mada­ gascar, with two stevedores in nativp costume, both of whom travel light. Top picture shows native housegirl posing .for Seafarer's camera while her charge seems unconcerned. r, 'H US'. liV ' "• •••• li LOG-A-RHYTHM: m Courageous Kyska Carries On By Nicholas Bonsangue We've spent many a day 'Neath that "W" stack, We took her out, Now we're bringing her back. • The look in his eyes Made it clear to me He'd rather be ashore Than in a rough sea. Just about then We met a wave And it seemed every joirtt Within her gave. Her hulls all rusted From stem to stern, She's been through hell. But she'll return. "You should have been Out here in '32, This scurvy old tub Would have split in twd." But the good ship Kyska Showed her stuff Father Neptune's punishment Was not enough. A picture of the Kyska Hung on the wall. As the ship lurched It began to fall. So now we enter This Golden Gate, Many ashore . For the Kyska wait. For days she met the elements And bravely fought it out "Cut her down to Sifrevs," Was the third mate's shout. Straight for the bucket That held the trash. There it landed with A tinkling crash. We've spent many a day 'Neath that "W" stack, We took her out And we're bringing her back. The second assistant Turned valves madly. She pitched ancj rolled But never so badly. .."It ain't so rough," Was one old salt's boast, I looked at his face. He looked like a ghost. I picked it up And wiped it clean. The glass was shattered But the image was s,een. On Last Voyage When lue left Frisco^ _ The weather was clear ' Hours later the sea Was a glass of^beer. .1 looked at her picture And then I knew His so-called "Tub," Would have pulled ilirough. F VOU ARE SlCk OR INJURED AND ENTER A PRIVATE HOSPITAL NOTIFY THE UNION ANP THE^ u.s.p.H.s. -PROMPTLY/ Wi-Be By Spika Marlin Spring reaches us officially next body, including the Browns, would week which means that outdoor just as well forget about them, sports will bloom again with the even though it does a great dis­ crocuses. Some queer doings thus service to such ex-Brownies as far this spring indicate that it is George Sisler and Bobo Newsome. Plenty Of Cooks liable to be a wacky season. Of course, the Orioles open the Consider these surprises in the following order: The -Canadians, season with another oddity—^they who invented hockey, were shel­ have three managers on the pay­ lacked by the Russians in the roll. Rogers Hornsby, who was world's amateur championship. So fired in mid-season last year,. far nobody has called for an in­ Marty Marion who was fired at vestigation of the Canadian hockey end of season and Dykes who is team. Ted Williams opened spring still officially hired and will have training for his first full season to do all the work. Too bad the • since returning from Korea and club couldn't be three-deep in propiptly broke his collarbone ballplayers of the same calibre.. The biggest oddity of course, within ten minutes. The citizens • of St. Petersburg would be if somebody else besides were shocked and horrified when New York and Brooklyn won the a drenching downpour washed out title in their respective leagues. the season's opener between the Even ardent fans are beginning to Yankees and the Cardinals, And yawn at the monotony of it all as the National League Green Book shown by attendance declines. It's solemnly announced on Page 33 up to I,ou Boudreau and the Bos­ that the Pittsburgh Pirates were ton Red Sox to do the upsetting in the 1953 champions of the Grape­ the American League this year if anybody is to do it. Chicago and fruit League. Cleveland rate merely outside Forget It All chances. In the, National League of The American League Red Book did its opposite number one better. course, everybody rates Milwaukee With the St. Louis Browns moving as the A-1 challenger although on to Baltimore, the Red Book that depends on how the Thom­ 4}Iandly wiped all Brownie team son trade works out. St. Louis marks, including season won-lost could be pesty too. The Giants records out of the book and sub­ and Philadelphia are figured as stituted those of the old Baltimore challengers only by optimists and Orioles instead. No doubt every­ perennial long-shot plungers. Setting Type in Messiiall Setting ^ •Signing up for his final voy­ age not so long ago was the late Seafarer John L. Cobb, All hands join in fiin of "setting type" when it comes time to post the LOG was informed by his sis­ the menu aboard the De Soto tWaterman). Shown above at coffeeter, Sophie Cobb Emerson. Mrs. time diversion while in Tampa, Florida, are, left to right, Robert Emerson wrote the LOG, inclosing McNatt, Earl McKendree, Phil Reyes, George Meaden and Francis a prayer by William De Witt Hyde, Andrade. ^ which she feels exemplifies her brother's life, as it does so many other Seafarers. To wit: "Give me -clean hands, clean words and clean thoughts: * Help me to stand for the hard The LOG opens this column as an exchange for stewards, cooks, right against the easy wrpng; bakers and others who'd like to share favored food recipes, little-known Save me from habits that harm; Teach me to work as hard and cooking and baking hints, dishes with a national flavor and the like,, plan as far In Thy sight alone .suitable for shipboard and/or home use. Here's Peter Loleas' recipe as if the whole world saw; for veal scallopini, •' Forgive me when I am unkind and This week's recipe brings Sea­ large size peppers and two large help me to forgive those who are farers an extremely popular Italian onions. Put onion and pepper unkind to me; ' slices in frying delicacy, veal scallopini. The au­ Keep me ready to help others at thor of the tasty recipe is chief pan and braise. some cost to myself; Place braised cook Peter Loleas, who has been Send me chances to do a little good sailing SIU vessels since December, mixture in pan every day, and so grow more 1944, when he first shipped out with meat. Add like Christ." two cans of size as chief cook of the Liberty ship, 2V2 tomatoes and Cobb, a graduate of Cecils Col­ .Charles Brandley Aker, during four cans of size lege, served in World War II. Pete's first trip took 6 mushrooms, the Navy In him to the Medit^erranean shores plus a dash of World War I be­ of France and Africa, but he was soya sauce, dash fore entering the no stranger to that area. Soon after Loleas of Worcestershire , maritime service war broke out, Pete went to Persia, for his life's where he worked in the Allied war sauce,, salt and pepper. Place pan work. Deceased effort for two years on a construc­ in oven and bake at low tempera- at the age of 54, tion job. Prior to that, he worked ture -for 20 minutes. Take out..;, ' in South Amer­ in restaurants from 1929 to' 1941 and serve with steamed rice. ica. Cobb is sur­ and from 1937 until the war, he After finishing his job in Persia, vived by his wife managed his own restaurant in Pete took another construction job Cobb and daughter, as Mount Vernon, New York. in the Aleutian Islands. Pete says' well as by three sisters and three Pete's recipe calls for 15 pounds that as a result of these ^two boat ' brothers. One brother lives in leg of veal cut into 70 pieces, cut­ trips to Persia and Alaska, "I liked New Jersey, while the other mem­ let size. Roll the pieces in flour the life aboard ship and the way bers of the Cobb family reside in and brown on both sides. Place the seamen lived, so I decided to South Caroling pieces .in deep " pan. .Sitce 'flftepn join the merchant itiarine." ft i I itqqBii Ji; , sma?. aaotft �Mareh 19, 1954 H ill SaU Alter i-Year UUeh 1*0 the Editor: Just a few lines to say I milst retire my book because I've been inducted into the ,Army. I would appreciate it if Sonny Simmons was informed of this. I have been an active Union^ember for nine years. I paid off the Steel Rover in Norfolk, Va., on February 3 and was inducted on February 9. There Is plenty of OT in the Army, and if I was getting j)aid our Union wages, I could retire in two years. I in­ tend to return to sea after my Webber two - year vaca­ tion is over. Meanwhile, I would like to hear from some of my old buddies. I would also like to re­ ceive the LOG regularly. Pvt. Herman F. Webber US 52363557 Co. D 37th Armd. Inf. Bn. 3rd Armd. Dlv. Fort Kyox, Ky. (Ed. note: We have added your name to our mailing list; from now on you will receive the LOG every two weeks as issued.) & ^ ^ Runaway Boy is Safe Home Ayain To the Editor: Words cannot express my ap­ preciation and gratitude to the many people who have given their help and prayers to find our son. Tom was found in Bed Bluff, Cal., on February 16th, on his way from town to town. He could give no reason for leaving home, and said that the morning he left he hadn't felt well. He had a head­ ache, and all of a sudden he got the idea to go somewhere. He boarded a bus to Los Angeles. When he arrived there, he real­ ized how wrong he had been and wanted to return, but a bag that he had with him was stolen, and to him this seemed very important. He was desperate, and now too ashamed to call home. He got vari­ ous jobs washing dishes from town to town. He wanted to telephone home many times, but each time lost his nerve. He felt that by this time no one would care to hear from him. He was emotionally up­ set, and when he was picked up he was very happy to have it done, with and be home again. Publicity Helps Tom might not have been noticed if it had not been for the SEAFARERS LOG Pace Tweaty-ene • L E T IE R S ' publicity he had received. "The sheriff at Red Bluff said he real­ ized the boy was- troubled about something, and when he' asked him if.he would like to tell hiin about it, Tom was anxious to get it off his chest. Once again I wish to thank you and your staff for helping us. It has indeed been a consolation dur­ ing these past four months to know there are still people who will give time and effort to help others when they need it. You have no idea the amount of mail we re­ ceived from various parts of the nation, with people offering their help and prayers that Tom would be safe. A debt such as this I can never repay. Mrs. J. Mounter ^ ^ Warns Brothers Of Clothiny Store tea parties? 'Not on your life. Strikes and tie-ups won the day, not union-management teas. The truth is that Atlantic has always followed the union's gains, some­ times adding to them to shout "leaders in maritime." Now think! How does the AMEU stand up on these issues? This union, whose very representatives work for the company on the com­ pany payroll, cannot do much for the rank-and-filer. Are they really able to speak freely? Make de­ mands? Give proper represen­ tation? No, they cannot! I am still for being represented by the SIU, a free and independent union. Eddie Burke Future Brighter To Bisabled Man 'To the Editor: I wish to thank the officials and the rank-and-file members for making it possible for me to re­ ceive the disabiiity benefit as I am unable to work any more. I have multiple sclerosis and hyper­ tensive vascular disease in my right leg, and am unable to stand on it for any length of time. I wish to say that our Union, the SIU, has come to the front fast since it was start­ ed, because to­ day it is the best Union in the world for any seaman. I appre­ ciate the fact that I am receiving the disability benefit, because it allows me to Frazer lead a normal and respectable life. • When I started to go to sea in 1916 all a seaman had to look for­ ward to if he was disabled and unfit for duty was a flop house and eating from a greasy spoon. Best Set-up We now have the best welfare set-up of any Union, and are treated with respect when we visit the Union for help in any form. Your Union book is better than any bank book, so brothers, keep your dues paid up-to-date, as your Union book will give you more se­ curity than any bank book. When I started going to sea you had to sleep on a donkey's break­ fast. You got one blue mattress cover and one blanket and that was all, no matter how long you stayed on the ship, and you had to wash them yourself. You were given a bucket to wash clothes with and take a bath. You had to furnish your pwn towels and soap and matches, and given one small sandwich for night lunch. We received $30 a month. The Union has changed all that, as the ships of our Union feed like hotels and have all the modern conven­ iences. All the officials are on the ball, bettering your working con­ ditions, food, etc. I say again, it is the best Union in the world, so let's all keep it that way and keep our dues paid up, because it takes a lot of money to run the best seamen's union in the world. Burton J. Frazer To the Editor: I have been a •member of the SIU since December 1, 1938, and would like to say a few words about Wohlmuth Company, a cloth­ ing store at 206 East Baltimore Street, Baltimore, Md. About three years ago I went there and ordered a suit V made. As they are a chain store and have a big store here, I did not hesitate to put a deposit on the suit. The next time I came in, I went to get the suit, but it was so small it was impossible to wear, and I re­ jected it. They said a mistake had been made and that they would 4" 4> i" njake me another. The next suit was not much better, so I told the salesmen to return my deposit and let it go. He said To the Editor: he could not do We, the undersigned, feel it our that, but if I To the Editor: duty to warn the membership conwould pay the cerning the men patronizing We, the crewmembers aboard balance and, as I "John's Bar" in Edgewater, New the John B. Kulukundis, would was going to be Jersey. like to call the attention of our gone for some While contending to be a great time, take the Union brothers to the foresight friend of the seamen, especially off «uit and come in the Seatrains, there have been the SIU had in installing the tele­ when I got back, numerous occasions in the past type machines in all branch halls. they would make Costlow when, without the slightest provo­ Twenty of us on board this vessel it good. This cation, he has had crewmembers owe our jobs to that machine. they have never done, although I of various Seatrains arrested. One man was in Philadelphia, fought with them for quite some The most recent case concerned Pa., without a job in sight when time whenever I was in town. I , even had the Better Business a crewmember off the Seatrain a teletype came in telling of the Louisiana who became involved in need for men in Seattle, Wash. He Bureau after them, all to no avail. an argument with the proprietor flew out there and had a night The Better Business Bureau agreed cook and baker's job within three with me that the suit was impossi­ regarding a 75-cent check. The days. That was the case with other ble, and suggested that I take it seaman was with a group from the brothers in the steward depart­ to people's court, but like most ship which had spent a consider­ able amount of money during the ment as well as in the other de­ seamen I don't have the time. course of the afternoon they had partments. BBB Helps Customers spent in the bar. The owner had When you are in port and in the man arrested, but, after arriv­ Notified Ports doubt as to what concern to buy ing at the police station, said he We also would like to give a from, call the Better Business vote of thanks to Jeff Gillette, our Bureau. I have found them very would drop the charges if the man Seattle agent, for being on the ball nnxious to help and a very fine or­ apologized. In the Wrong and notifying all other ports of the ganization. A call may save you No apology, of course, was forth­ shipping situation in the port of from paying for something you can­ Seattle by the use of teletype. not use. I have found out that a coming, since the owner was in the There were other cases where big concern is not necessarily reli­ wrong, as any fool could plainly brothers -came out from other able, since I wound up with a suit see. The upshot was that the man ports and got ships the day they that I have never worn and would was locked up in the bucket for arrived. Once again thanks to the be ashamed to ever wear. Had I the night and has to appear in court the next time the ship ar­ SIU and Gillette. taken the sanra amount of money rives in port. Crew of Kulukundis and gone to a reliable concern, I We feel this establishment does would have had a good suit. not deserve the patronage of the t t t The mon^ is not so important SIU membership. There are nu­ but I think the membership should merous places in the vicinity know whenever a concern proves where the men can be assured of unreliable. If the brothers will a good time and be appreciated 4' i 4> To the E.ditor; write to the LOG whenever they without ending up in the bucket. Here I am in Mexico, on busi­ are taken, regardless of what type Crew of Seatrain Louisiana ness, and I must say that being of merchandise is involved, we can 4. 4. 4. _ here beats being on the Steel Ran­ put a stop to some of this sharp To the Editor: ger. I will write a longer letter dealing where the seaman is con­ I would like to thank not only later, but meanwhile, regards to all. cerned. the crew of the Bradford Island C. G. Costlow To the Editor: Al.Whitmer for their thoughtfiilness and gen­ t 4" Recently our allotment was erosity to my daughter, who was quite a bit overdue,- so with the severely burned, but also all the needs of two chiidren and house­ men in the Boston hall who so hold expenses currently due, it willingly donated their blood when To the Editor: caused worry. » it was needed so urgently. Remembering what my husband I have just finished reading the It is a wonderful feeling to know AMEU victory edition of The had told me, I contacted Sam that although you may not be Fieet. Of course, this is only the Cohen of the Wilmington Hall. In 'home when such an emergency first inning victory over the organ­ his usual efficient and amiable arises, there are men who wili help manner he explained the delay and in every way possible. Just to be izing forces of the Union. In this issue, the AMEU chair­ assured me that the check would associated and working with such man, Tiny Alcott, while speaking arrive sOOn., It eaiiie tlie next day. a wuiidefful bunch of men and an We are always thankful that we organization like the SIU, gives of the subject of contract negotia­ tions between unions and com­ are protected by the great SIU, any man such a feeling of secur­ panies, and in a tone detrimental to an always-present help in time of ity, not only for himself but for his family, that woi'ds cannot e.xfree, independent unions, states: trouble. Evelynne Siebert press what he-feels. "We don't pound our fists on con­ Thomas Cummings 4i $ $> ference tables; we. never threaten strike." He goes on" to say, "We deal with management on equal terms—like gentlemen." I would like to point out that it To the Editor: AfteVi dud consideration and in­ is the very power and threat of a possible strike that puts .a union vestigation I have found that the Seafarers overseas who want up on a level with management; library books, pamphlets, etc., be­ to get in touch with headquar­ then, and then only, is the union ing issued are of the poorest vari­ ters in a hurry can do so by able to deal on equal terms with ety and*do not do justice to the cabling the Union at its cable the company. Down through the membership. address, SEAFARERS NEW I therefore request that better years unions have been struggling YORK. with the shipping com^nies for books be issued or do you think Use of this address- will as­ the top conditions and contracts that the membership has not sure speedy ^transmission on we have today. ' Are we to believe passed the stage of iiivenile incu•U messages and faster servthat Atlantic was handing but. bation? tee-fbr the men involved. those, sanw mbnies at happy litl!*,< AtfrodoAm Ask Men Stop Going To Bar Port Ayent Gets Praise From Men Mexieo^s Better Than Steel Banyer Wilmington Hail Gets Action Thanks Brothers Who Gave Blood Speaks Out For Free Unionism Finds Libraries Very inferior Union Has Cable Address •4 �•i?.^ • Old SaU Sotted For $40 MootMy To the Editor: I am an old sailor and an old Union man; I got my ISU book in 1916. As you know, we lost the strike in 1921 and for a long time after that our Union was not rec­ ognized. It was hard sailing during that time—I started sailing out of New York in 1931. ,To get a job then you had to pay the shipping master $3 to $5 for a job that paid you $40 per month, and no over­ time. During that time I knew sailors who had to take a woekaway job on a coastwise ship before they could get on the pay­ roll, and I know ship companies that used this, like Moore - McCormack. - Some compa­ nies installed the two - watch sys­ Roll tem, but that was not practiced by 1933. Since then, ship's companies started to pay $45 a month. These companies used the shipping board and could not pay less than $62.50, but I could not get on any of them because such jobs were more or less homesteaded. When a sailor left one of these jobs he told a.friend of his, so he could get the job. Things are different nowadays. We have a Union that we all are proud of, and we have the best officials to run our Union. Bernard Roll $ $ ? Drafted^ Wants To Read LOG To the Editor: Just a line from another unfor­ tunate asking that the LOG be sent him as a lifeline to civiliza­ tion. I also would like my address published in the paper so. that my buddies can write to me and know where I am stationed. I was bosun on the Robin Gray when I was drafted. It's a hell of a note to me. Go to sea since 1944 and then get drafted. I'll WTite you a Red Campbell article on the Army soon. Lots of brothers would enjoy it, I'm sure. Pvt. Paul L. Witthaus, Jr, US 55464483 Co. A 15th AIB 5th Armd. Div. Camp Chaffee, Ark. (Ed. note: You will receive the LOG as published, every two weeks.) t J" t Warns Brothers About Laundry •t ?. niaroh 19, 19$< SEAFAnE:RSLd& Pare Twenty-tnw' llv To the Editor: I've got a beef here that I think should be brought to the attention of the entire membership. It's about a certain dry cleaning estab­ lishment in Brooklyn which deals in 24-hour service. You get it in 24 hours, but you don't get any service. Recently I was aboard the Jef­ ferson City Victory (Victory Car­ riers) when a representative of the cleaning firm came aboard to solicit business while we were at Port Newark. He got mine and I really got the business. If I can prevent the same thing from hap­ pening to any of the other brother;^, this letter will have served its purpose. Poor Workmanship Workmanship on the laundered and cleaned articles is of the poor­ est quality, but that doesn't make any difference tp the prices. They're sky-high. For example: ,I gave him a suit with two pairs of pants and a topcoat to dry clean. When they came back in horrible condition I was the one who was cleaned out because the bill come to $4.47. He also charged me $2.45 for a laundry list containing three White shirts, pne sport Pblrt (flan^ Ml), one pair of jeailsV blie' unitez^ X E I T E R S Will Sail Again in IS Months To the Editor:. I, retired my book when I was ana. He has a chance to read the shirt, three handkerchiefs and two LOG aboard the ship. If mine gets drafted in April, 1953 and am writ­ pairs of socks. The shirts came home in time, then we can discuss ing to j'ou hoping you will put me back unwearable, with the collars things together, which gives us a on your SEAFARERS LOG mail-' mashed beyond recognition. To the Editor: ing list, I only have 13 months to I had the same trouble with the I am typing you these few lines mutual basis of conversation. go in the Army and then I hope to outfit once before, about a year from out this way here in Makes Happier Borne start shipping agSln, I naturally ago, but I didn't recall it at the London, Ohio, to notify you of my Believe me, I'm very interested would like to keep up with the time I consigned my clothes to its change, of address. The LOG has in the doings of the Seafarers and manglers. I am much the worse off been forwarded to' hie here. It has the SIU. I think all Seafarei's who Union news as I am sure it will affect me when I get out. because of that lapse of memory. been coming regularly and I enjoy have wives who are interested in I've read almost every* issue of It won't happen again, I've heard it and its articles very much. their husbands' work and welfare, the LOG, ever since I joined the other men complain about the really Ynean to make a better, happier home for SIU in 1945. I used to enjoy sit­ same company and I'd like to warn go back to sea the men in their lives. Congratu­ the membership to keep away from again this time lations to your Tiny Wallace, wish­ ting in the hall and reading all the old bound volumes of the LOG. I the outfit. It's just no good. The LOG is ing him many happy years of mar­ am in the 501st Harbor Craft out­ I've saved the name for last so something- to look ried life. He comes from my old fit here in Pusan and I try to make none will forget it. It's Atlantic forward to read­ town of Pascagoula, Miss. every SIU Ship that comes in, hop­ Marine Laundry and Dry Gleaning, ing. It just'seems Since I want to be the big wheel ing to find some old shipmates and 373-57th Street, Brooklyn. I cannot wait (next to the SIU) in my wonderful Roy Lundquist until mail call husband's life, please don't let the some LOGs. E. P.-Moran ^ when it arrives steward aboard the Seatrain Loui­ (Ed. note: Wc have added your I am always anx­ Kellar siana beat the next issue home. name to the LOG's mailing list. ious to read Carry on the good work, but don't You will receive a copy regularly about the shipping world. forget me, too. every two weeks, as published.) To the Editor: That is about all for now,;and I am writing to tell you how thank you for your kindness. Will Mrs. Vicki Szymanski 4> 41 4' much I enjoy reading the LOG. I you please put this letter in the (£cl. note: Your change of ad­ have been receiving the LOG since LOG so some of my friends may dress has been noted. The LOG 1947 and it gets better and better. see it and write to me. will be coming your way every two I would like to put in a word about To the Editor: weeks, as published.) Louis Kellar hospitalization. We the crew of the Steel Ad­ Box 69 ^ 4^ 4^ It would be so good if there was miral take pleasure in statmg that London, O. some way for the members to join while in Bombay, India, we visited 4) t 4. a group hospital plan. As the wife a store called Cheriy and Com­ of an SIU bookman, I have tired pany, owned by an elderly lady, To the Editor: to get contracts with the Blue Mrs. D. Parkes, whom we found to Cross and the White Cross com­ It's raining cats and dogs at this be remarkably courteous, sympa­ panies, but the premiums for an To the Editor: writing and thp window pane is thetic and well disposed to us. "Tho My husband mailed you a change getting a natural bath. Perhaps we prices . of all the articles—brass, individual enrollment are so high of address. Somehow our LOG can see a clearer view of the har­ ivory, wood, souvenirs—were defi­ it just doesn't pay. has not been coming to this ad­ bor tomdrrow—watching the ships nitely much cheaper than in many Low Group Cost come and go on their respective other shops. The A man could ensure his wife and dress, as yet. itinerary, coastal, intercoastal, for­ prices are fixed So here goes. I'm trying my luck children for hospital and surgical eign. and the proprie­ care for about M a month in a for I really do enjoy reading the However, there is a bright side tress does not exgroup hospitalization plan. it LOG very much, line by line. So, to the situation, too, and that is . ert any pressure how about putting my new address needn't be compulsorj', since many when you have a direct represen­ on the client to of the members are single men and in your file? purchase a n y Since I am a working girl as well tative of the Union paying you a might not want the plan for their thing, as is the as a housewife, the paper helps me call at the sick bay. For, while own protection. common, usual I'm sure if a man is at sea and keep up with things maritime. ipany fellows who are laid up may practice among knows his family Is taken care of However, if it is as late as the last have. many friends and relations many shopkeep­ Collins at home, he will be happier. So, one was, I can get all the news visit them, there are many others ers in India. from my husband when he gets in who come from various parts of how about it? During our stay, Mrs. Parkes Mrs. Jack Procell off his run on the Seatrain Louisi- the country, as well as the world, who have no visitors at all, with was good enough to arrange for an the exception of the. visiting excellent excursion for us to visit; patrolman. the Kanehri Caves, which are ah This is not only gratifying, it Is ancient monument and an interest­ a welcome sight. To those who are ing. relic of ancient civilizations. confined or bedridden for a long She supplied us with home-cooked, spell, it is like a ray of sunshine delicious Indian food and made that comes through that window our picnic remarkably happy and we spoke of after the downpour of plea^nt. rain on- a cloudy day. So, once We strongly recommend a visit again, the SIU is giving a lift to to this establishment whenever its membership. you visit Bombay. The address is: Sir Charles S. Cherry and Company, 2, Anees 4^ 4!' t Chambers, 3, Carnac Road, Mistry Estate, Bombay 1, India,., Charles Collins Loohs Forward To Getting LOG Wants Hosyital Plan For Men Praises Service Of Bombay Store Wants To Beat Hubby To LOG Patrolman is Ray Of Snnshine Seaman's Center Serves' Music, Food Sees Hospital Fight Not Over Dance band plays It hot. for seamch and |tuests, above, at the Sea.man's Club In 3eaUle,' iVashington. Listeners, whose feet can be seen at lower leftt decided to sit this one out. At bottom, visiting French Mile Y aval! themselves of refreshments and fair. com- ; ir TiVi'Jo To the Editor: I was realljf glad to learn recently that the Government apparently doesn't plan to shut down the ma­ rine hospitals after all. You can go a long way to look for good medical care and treatment, but when you're a seamen, you've got the best at the US Public Health Service Hospitals. One thing is sure though. If the SIU and other maritime unions hadn't gone to bat for these hos­ pitals, we might find the story ending a, lot differently. It's hard to figure how the people in Wash­ ington can consider closing down these hospitals, which have been in business over .150 -yeara and, have contributed so much to the development of research Snd treat­ ment in many diseases. Now that the budget figures in­ dicate that the Goyemment wants to keep them open; we still. have the job of keeping, this economyminded Congress from lopping off a couple of million from the dough requested to rqn the hospitals. Let's make sure every Seafarer writes his Senator and Represen" tatiye urging the full Appropria­ tion for the hospitals for the comjtog yeah" ' 4 4 4^ Sees Boeh Union Change Overdue To the Editor: I have not been A waterfront worker nor do I live in New York City, but I take an interest, natu­ rally, in- all things that concern longshore workers. For years I have read the LOO when I have visited the home of a Seafarer-friend of mine. I think I am pretty well acquainted with the waterfront situation in thh Port of New York and I would liko to say - that the members of the old ILA are getting a raw deal by the people who run that outfit.' George Eggers Sign Name On EjQGLetters For obvious reasons the LOG cannot prtnt any letter or other communications sent in rSeafarers unless the author gns his name. Unsigned, anonymous letters will only wind up in the waste-basket. If circumstances Jhstify, the LOG will Withhold a signature on request, but if you want it printed , in the LOG, put ybuf v ' name'on It - S • •::'f : svj-V �rr^-^.r:^t SEAFARSnS l&G Faf• IVm^-thrc^ Early ill 1918, 74 vessels of the German Imperial Fleet ended lip at the bottom of the British harbor at Scapa Flow, scuttled by their own crews. The events leading up to this, and what amounted to a revolution inside Germany was touched off by a food beef on five battleships of Squadron IV of the fleet in June of 1917. In that month, Squadroil fleet to organize the union, each IV, which contained the pride wearing a small red thread woven of the German Fleet—^five through their collar. Kaiser Class battlewagons— Due to the unrest, Squadron IV was in the fleet anchorage in the Jade River between Wilhelmshaven and the sea. For 34 months since the Battle of Jutland, the German fleet—which at that time ranked second in the world in size—had been inactive and had remained in hiding from the Allied fleets, relying only upon submarine activity. The men in the fleet were rest­ less and'unhappy. The food was bad, and was becoming worse. In June, thq stokers on the five bat­ tleships, after making numerous con)plaintS( went on a hunger strike. Committees A few weeks later, the Secretary of. the Navy issued an order that "A committee will be chosen from the lower deck personnel of each ship to represent the crew in mat­ ters concerning food." However, a controversy immediately came up about who was to choose the committees, the captains or the' men. In most cases, the order was ignored by the captains. A later order proclaimed that "no socialist publications or litera­ ture was to be brought aboard any vessel.? This brought a rulib of protest. The seamen, led ,by the stokers, held meetings ashore.and decided to form a Sailor's Union. The men spread throughout the was ordered to the Naval Colony at Kiel, a naval base and colony which was governed by a naval governor. There were more meet­ ings at Kiel. The battleship Prinzregent Luitpold tried to sail from Kiel, but had trouble coaling as stokers threw blocks and falls over the side. When finally coaled, the crew forced her to anchor when one day out of Kiel by pulling a hunger strij^e. Men.Walk Oil Toward the end of July, the stokers on the Pillau, l)erthed in Kiel, were told they were re­ stricted to ship instead of having their usual 24 hours off. Some 240 men swarmed off the ship and re­ turned over five hours later. The next week, the captain of tlie bat­ tleship konig Albert was stabbed as he returned to his vessel and dumped over, the side. The entire watch on deck was arrested. Then the stokers of the Prinzr regent Luitpold were ordered to infantry drill for their day off. They posted a warning, and then .^0 of them walked off the. ship, stormed out of the gate and held a mass meeting. When they re­ turned, 11 of. their leaders were broken to the lowest rating. Things were quiet for almost a month, and then some 600 men went over the side of the Prinz- Although today's sailors often apply the term to whatever ship they happen to be on at the time, regardless of condition, the Jiulk actually was the name of a type of ship in olden times, particularly during the early years of the 16th century. One of the larger-sized vessels of the times, the hulk was round-stemed. square-tucked, high-pooped, and covered with weak" and Ineffeetual clench work or skids. At its prime, th% hulk .constituted one of the principal classes of cargo carriers for the northern and western European countries. It ranged in size from 100 to goo tons. . ' . (^om "The Book of Old.Staiiw" (Double day), by Grant and CulverJ •3 J Part of the remains of the German imperial fleet sits in shallow water in Scapa Fiow, Scotland, after being scuttled on orders from officers. Scuttling came after the surrender of Germany to the Ailies on November 11, 1918. regent Luitpold, marched out the gate and held a mass meeting in town. By this time, the rest of the fleet was pretty well organized, and when the Prinzregent Luitpold was, oidered to sail out of Kiel to iso­ late the "troublemakers" aboard, half of the men in the rest of the fleet walked off their vessels in protest. They returned, however, and five men on the Prinzregent Liutpold were sentenced to death. Three of them had their sentences commuted to 15 years, and two were shot. The unrest continued, and by this time Germany was beginning to negotiate with the Allies for an armistice. The men "in the-fleet, as well as the rest of the country, knew that they had lost the war. Plan Battle However, the men got wind of a plan to send the German fleet out in a last-ditch battle to "save f|ce." Both the admiralty and the men knew that even winning a naval battle could not save Germany. So, when the fleet was ordered out, the men refused to sail the ships. The sailing was cancelled. Then the battleships Thuringer and Helgoland were ordered out. The desperate crews sabotaged the gear aboard the ships, put out the fires in the boilers, and refused to sail. A patrol of 200 marines were sent aboard the Thuringer to ar­ rest the mutineers. When the ci-ew of the Helgoland learned that their men on the Thuringer were being arrested, they decided to help, and ran to man the Helgoland's guns. Once out on deck, they stopped. On one side, the 12-inch turrets on the Thuringer's stern, manned by her officers, were trained on the Hel­ goland and ready to fire. On the other side, the U-135, manned by a loyal crew, stood ready to tor­ pedo the Helgoland if they tried to man the guns. ' Marines then boarded the Helgo­ land, and some 500'seamen were taken off the Thuringer and the Helgoland under arrest. * They were loaded on a train for an hour ride to prison. However, halfway to the prison, the train stopped and the 500 prisoners, as well as the two companies of marine guards, disappeared into the coun­ tryside. 180 Arrested Meanwhile the Markgraf had been having trouble with her crew, and put fntb Kiel, where 180 men weiie arrested ^and put in prison there. The rest of the fleet walked off their ships and held a mass meeting in town.. They had planned to use the Trade Union Bouse, but the naval governor had or­ dered it locked' up, so they held. the meeting outdoors. Some 200,- agreed that the officers would com­ 000 persons attended, including the mand in technical matters, while shipyard workers and other civil­ the sailors soviet governed in mat­ ians in the base. ters of policy. The naval governor of the base It was at this point that they sounded a battle stations alarm learned that the German fleet, as to break up the meeting, but the part of the pre-armistiee terms, men ignored it; Some 10,000 per­ was to surrender to the British, sons marched on the prison to free and to be "interned" in a "neutral" the Markgraf prisoners, but when port. They received an order from they arrived, the prison guards British Admiral Beatty that a "flag fired into the crowd, breaking it officer" was to meet with him to up after eight men were killed discuss the details of the surrender. and another 21 wounded. The sailors soviet, along with one At this point, the seamen elected German admiral, sailed to meet a seVen-man sailors soviet or coun­ Beatty and he refused to see any­ cil to lead the revolt, and broke body but the admiral. It was then into the arsenals to arm them­ learned that the German fleet was selves. At that time the word "so­ j to be disarmed, and to be kept viet" meant a revolutionary com­ j at the British Naval Base at Scapa mittee. The sailors soviet called 1 Flow., under guard of Beatty's fleet, on the naval governor with the ! until the armistice was settled. following demands: release of the Fleet Sails Markgraf prisoners, abolish all sa­ Under the threat of an attack lutes except on duty, better food, easier service, more shore time— by the Allied fleet, the German and then feeling their power, they ! fleet—under command of the sailincorporated the political demands ' ors soviet—sailed to Scapa Flow. of universal suffrage and unseat­ One of the reasons the men in the fleet agreed to sail was a ru­ ing of the Kaiser. mor that the British fleet was al­ Red Flag The governor asked for time, ready under the red flag, and they but the revolting fleet, armed this expected to join the British sailors time, roamed the citj^. The men there. As soon as they aiTived, quickly adopted the red flag symbol they were amazed to flnd no red of revolution from time immemo­ flag over the British fleejt, and rial for their own, and one by Beatty immediately began a cam­ one, the Imperial German flag was paign to break the sailors soviet brought down aboard the ships and in the German fleet, by refusing the red banner hoisted instead. to deal with anyone other than Detachments of infantry were the officers. Some 74 German vessels anchor­ sent into Kiel, but the naval gover­ nor, still hoping to find a way out, ed in Scapa Flow, including 24 prdered the troops' to leave. The battleships and cruisers. As the fleet lay under the guns men, by this time, had begun a systematic looting of Kiel. Gunfire of the British fleet, word came was heard in the streets, and the through of the victories the sailors" men were all talking about the at hortie were w inning. The Red recently successful red revolution flag now flew over the German in Russia. It was believed at the admiralty and the royal palace in time that this revolution meant Berlin. Plan To Scuttle the abolition of tyranny and a new At the same time, the negotia­ dawn of freedom. One of the heads of the German tions for an armistice dragged on. Socialist Party, Noske, arrived in The commanders of the fleet be­ Kiel and was immediately made the gan to wonder if the war would head of the sailors soviet. Other continue, and decided that the Ger­ of the men in the fleet, heartened man fleet would not remain in by their easy victory in Kiel and British hands. The plan was care­ still afraid that troops would be fully laid, with each of the 74 sent into the town, spread out. In ships allerted for a signal of "Para­ Cologne, a group of about 600 sail­ graph li. Acknowledge." As the signing of the armistice ors arrived and the 45,000 troops in the garrison promptly surren­ was delayed, Beatty ordered his dered and joined them.- In Wil- fleet out* of the harbor for maneuv­ helmshavqn, the men in the fleet ers,' leaving a squadron of destroy­ anchorage revolted and took over ers to guard the German fleet. When Beatty was gone,- the flags the city.. As Germany settled on pre-arm- "Paragraph II, Acknowledge" ran istice ternis with the Allies, the up on the German flagship. At that food *fiee£ that hao started in instant, the seacocks on every one Squadron IV was spreading into of the 74 German ships were a full-scale revolt throughout the opened, and the remaining crews hunger-ridden country. As the re­ abandoned their ships. By the time volt spread to the cities, the sailors that Beatty returned, all 74 vessels soviet in the fleet reached an were at the bottom. The Imperial armed tXHfift.wittMtttf Xhey v.. , i•1 '^1 1 -'"'vl �\• ; DIGEST oC SHIPS^ MEETINGS SEAFARERS LOG ' Fag* Twenty-four :,. *1,- • • Si-: ilr ... • WACOSTA (Wat»rm»n), February H— Chairman, John MeOonnall; ^eratary. R Griffith. We have a clean ahip, lets keep it that way. Repair list was read and hew items were added. There ^as a discussion on handling of soap and linen. Room next to the 8-12 foe sie is uncomfortably hot due t", heating room bulkhead. Vote of tiianks went to the steward department. I'l < • JULESaURG (Terminal Tankers), Feb­ ruary 2a—Chairman, A. G. Alexander; Secretary, C. 1. Copper. B. H. Kimberly was elected ship's delegate by acclama­ tion. All departments will prepare re­ pair lists. Scuppers in the galley are stopped up. Dirty dishes are to be placed in the sink. Steward department toilet needs repairing. Letter will be sent to the California agent from Panama about the shortage of stores. ARIZPA (Waterman), December 23 — Chairman, E. Warfieid; Secretary, P. Cassidy. Beefs of the last tri,o were settled; there are no beefs this trip. Matter of one <lay*s subsistence in San Francisco will be referred to the natrolman at the payoIT. E. Warfieid was elected new ship's delesate. It was agreed that the wtrtch post an.v time change on the boird in the messhall. Delegate cautioned against noise in quarters and keeping the mcssroom and laundry clean. January 31—Chairman, P. Cassidy; Soereiary, R. Norgrev. One man missed ship. Repair lists will be turned Jn at least ten da.vs before the payoff. A few minor heel's were dlrcussed and settled agreeablv. Ship's delegate wl'.l talk it over with the patrolman. Rooms should be cleaned up before leaving the ship and linen should be turned in. CM ship an hour before sailing time, as per contract. Steward will put out bananas before they get rotten. BETHORE (Ore), February 13—Chair­ man, A. M. Weems; Secretary, W. F. An­ derson. Steward reported that there is onl.v 15 pounds of sugar left aboard ship. Crew voted not to use sugar for any­ thing hut coffee and tea. FELTORE (Ore), February It—Chair­ man, R. • Ciymer; Secretary, J. Keavney. One man missed sliip: a report will be sent to the patrolman. P. Adklns was elected ship's delegate. It was asked that the PC mess be brought up before the patrolman. .He is unable to perform his duties. Men were asked to cooper­ ate ill making up a repair list. INiS (Bull), January 31—Chairman, Ray Browh; Secretary, Harold Long. Dlsscntlon in the galley was squared away to everyone's satisfaction. Repair list will be talfen care of by the ship's, delc;.a'e. Rapair list was read. Patrolman will be as'xed which department is sup­ posed to take care of the hospital. Pa­ trolman V.'.PS asked about the.milk situ­ ation. Ship was over-supplied and spoil­ age resulted. Milk should he ordered in Puerto Rico ?s well r.s the States. New buckets will be requisitioned for all hands if laundry tubs arc not repaired or roolaced. one new toaster is needed for the Crew pantry. The three dopartmen s will rotate the cieanln-' of the recreation room, laundry and library. February IS—Chairman, F. A. Hipp; $otre;ary, $. F. $o';oi. Discussion was held on the repair list. Vote of thanks from fne crew went to the ship's dele­ gate and the department delegates for good work and coope^ration. CUBORE (Ora), February 21—Chair­ man, C. Ray; $acretary, C. Kinkade. ri>- K"'" ?t' . - Iw vy- ^ f-:. .r MADAKET (Waterman), November 21 —Chairman, A. M. Branconi; Secretary, N. D. Merrick. A. Hammoc was elected siiip's delegate by acclamation. Ship's delegate was asked to see the chief engi­ neer about the heads, as they were on tlia repair list last trip. Everyone should help to keep the messroom clean. The steward reported a balance of $91.32 in the ship's fund. He will keep the money. Steward reported that the captain bought a movie projector for $380 and rented eight films for $200. 11 was agreed that everyone will sign the log book for S5 to see tl)e pictures and pay for the cost. Siiip's delegate will get a receipt for part payment on the projector and pass it on to the new crew. If any brother doesn't want .to see these films, the rest of the crew will make up the difference. Captain agreed that this projector will be the permanent property of the ship— three quarters owned by the SIU and one quarter by the officers. Each man will clean the laundry after using It. OS and wipers wUl clean the recreation room for a week. Dacember 31—Chairman, T. W. Hinson; Sacrelary, M. D. Mauich. There is trouble in the deck department. The chief mate has run the bosun off the deck twice: this will be brought to the attention of the patrolman at the next port. Steward got off the ship in Japan to go to the hospital. Christmas decora­ tions cost S11.32 and the captain gave SIO to Rte fund. It was agreed to do­ nate $35 for payment on the camera, leaving a balance of $35. A vote of thanks went to the exceptionally good steward department. There is a $31..38 balance in the ship's fund. Frank Clawson was elected ship's delegate. Ship's fund will be donated to the March of Dimes. Crew was asked not to leave cups in the foc'sles or out on deck. STEEL ROVER (Isthmian), March 1— Chairman, William Andrews; Sacratary, Gagrga H. Schmidt. There is $26.24 in the ship s fund. 'Ship's delegate asked to reaign his position, as the chief mate will not allow him to go to or to call the SIU hall on company time. Also, the chief mate takes the position that If the SIU wants a ship's iTelegate on board, they should put one on board, and not interfere with the routine. Vote of thanks v/ent to the steward department on the improvement of meals and con­ ditions In their departments. Washing machines should be cleaned and sliut off after use. Duties of sanitary men were discussed. Men who don't turn to for weekend watches will be logged. Stew­ ard remarked that in general stores this trip are the same as last trip, and that any improvement in meals Is due to the new galley crew. Carlyle Stack was elected ship's delegate by acclamation. AZALEA CITY (Waterman), March 2— Chairman^ Red Brady; Secretary, Feta Christopher. Report was made on re­ pairs. New repair list was posted. One man missed ship in Philadelphia and was replaced before departure. Pete Christopher was elected- ship's delegate. Some repairs were missed by repairmen at the payoff. Ship's movements, with addresses, will be posted.' MARINA (Bull), February 14—Chair­ man, Allan L.' Lake; Secretary, M. Rep- keurez. There is a very good crew, and cooperation between all departments. All repairs should be checked before the ship sails. A vote of thanks went to the KY$KA (Waterman), Novamber 22— steward department for good feeding. Chairman, H. C. Hili; $ccretary, H. Car- Good cooperation should be continued. michaei. Frank A. Gages was elected HILTON (Bull), February 2S—Chair­ siiip's delegate by acclamation. Sugges­ tion was made that steaks be cut a little man, Eglierl Goulding; Sacratary, Robert thicker. Ail hands should keep feet out Hutchlni. Ship's delegate wrote a letter of the chains in the messhali. All dishes to New York to find out about the old should be left in the pantry sink after ship's fund of $200. New ship's fund use. Crewmembers should cooperate with wiU be started next trip. Suggestion the messman in kgeping the messhali was made to have the chief engineer and pantry clean. look at the washing machine. Brothers December 2i—Chairman, Cecil Gates; should cut down on the length of time Secretary, Vyrei G. $uth. Electrician and they run the washing machine; Cups one fireman were hospitalized in Kobe. should be returned to the pantry. Japan. Steward should make out a re­ quisition for two new electric coffee per­ colators and a toaster. Members enjoy­ ing early morning breakfast after watch should clean the pantry and put dishes in the sink. Department repair lists should be turned over to the ship's dele­ gate as soon as possible. A vote of ap­ preciation went to the steward depart­ QUEENSTON HEIGHTS tSeatrade), ment for the excellent food provided on this voyage. Captain got a vote of appre­ February 22—Chairman, Thomas H. Flem­ ciation for the many considerations ing; Secretary, Charlas Moss. There is Letter of shown the crew, and for the added re­ $17.38 in the ship's fund. freshments he provided'on Thanksgiving thanks to James Sheehan, Boston agent, will be sent to the LOG. Performers wUl Day and Christmas Day. be punished in the future. OT will be STE^LORE (Ors), February 17—Chair­ paid only to men on board doing work man, Laroy Bewig; $ecretary, Richard A. in. port. More variety in meats is needffd. Cruber. Ship's fund of $20 was turned ALCOA RANGER (Alcoa), Fobrusry 1* over to the bosun, who was voted ship's treasurer. Ship's delegate will call the —Chairman, Charles F. Garriz; Secre­ hall for a library exchange. All dele­ tary, W. B. Yarbreugh. Everything is gates will see the captain if and when very nice, we have had a good trip with the food gets poor again; Crew voted no beefs, so let's keep it that way. Vote to have the milk kept under lock and of thanks, went to the steward depart­ key until tLs vessel's departure, se we ment, especially to Larry and the pizza will get some to drink for a few days. pie. Vote of thanks went to the en­ Anyone wanting a relief is to call the gineers, a swell bunch. We have taken SIU hall for such relief. Violators will up a collection for a prestnt for Swee­ be turned over to the Union for action. ney, radio op—a swell fellow who has Each man must call his own relief. Deck done a lot of favors for the crew. We - engineer asked that it be brought to the decided to get a razor. attention of the Union that the rating which he hql^s- ahould also be qualified ALAWAI (Waterman), February 21— as pumpman. Chairman, Jackson; Secretary, Pedlar. Relief captain misplaced the repair list. STEEL ROVER (isthmian), February 11 However, all repairk that were remem­ —Chairman, James Long; Secretary, F. bered were taken care of except (messF. BIttie. Membership voted unanimously room chairs, chipping and painting port­ at this special meeting that the chief holes and replacing gaskets, clearing In­ steward be replaced. side passageway scuppers and deck scup­ pers, water-Ught doors and gaskets on ELIZABETH (Bull), February 21 — them. Luke A. Ciamboll was elected Chairman, T. Gonzalez; Secretary, C. ship's delegate unanimously. Gear of Kaust. D. De Dulsin was elected ship's the man who missed ship in Long Beach delegate. Repairs for refrigerator men. will be packed, and the patrolman at tioned two trips ago were not made. the first port will be asked what to do Steward department wa$ told to be on with it.- Crewmembers were asked td a p- .h k .r r. f',: iii- 'k' ji--' e-* . .• YTO' iJRe Only One Mail Adilress Seafarers with beefs regard­ ing slow payment of monies due from various operators in back wages and disputed over­ time, should first theck wheth­ er they have a proper majling address on file with the com­ pany. SliJ headquarters offi­ cials point out that reports received frCm several opera­ tors show checks have been mailed to one address while a beef on the same score is sent from another, thus creat­ ing much difficulty in keeping accounts straight. Seafarers are urged to use one perma­ nent address for mail so that claims can he checked speediIv and payment made right away. keep shoreside personnel out of the mcssroom. Repair list will Re made up by each delegate before arriving at New York. Coffee will be made in pots in­ stead of the urn during meals. Cots should be taken off the deck when not in use. •*" WINTER HILL (CHies Service), Febru­ ary 7—Chairman, J. R. Lane; Secrelary, George Mihaleppeulos. Motion was passed that the crew will go on record as supporting the ship's delegate, who was fired by the chief mate, against the -tactics of the chief mate, lliere is $23.05 in the shij's fund. Deck delegate also supported the ship's delegate against the chief mate. Steward knd engine dele­ gates also support the ship's delegate. Present ship's delegate will continue to represent the crew until the beef Is set­ tled. Engine delegate will hold the ship's fund. Ekigine delegate will see if the television set can be repaired in Gal­ veston. € CATHERINE (Drytrans), February 20— Chairman, H. R. Hlghtawer; $ecretary, Larry Arbec. No one is to pay off until a patrolman arrives to square away all beefs. Minor problems will be taken to the. department delegates. All white cards have been congratulated on their work by the crew and recommended to the brotherhood of the SIU for member­ ship. Repair lists ( will be made out and tiuQcd over to the ship's delegate,. Steward has disposed of all stale and bad food. Captain didn't issue draws in Egypt, as he didn't have the authority to do so. Crew put in for OT. Crew feels that the captain brought the ship's delegate up on charges to get even with the crew. COUNCIL GROVE (Cities Strvlcc), Feb­ ruary 21—Chairman, W. W. Reld; Secre­ tary, James H. Parker. All JFoc'sles wilj be checked to see that fans are In order. Cdmpany will be asked for boards hung to handrail for seats. Future meetings will be held at one and at six alter­ nately. Steward was asked for an addi­ tional coffee pot for the messroom. An­ other agitator will be purchased out of. the ship's' fund. Union will be asked who pays for washing machine repairs. Ship's delegate will find out about re­ pairing the . messhali radio. HASTINGS (Waterman), February 21— Chairman, Mullins; Sacratary, J. Wells. Discussion was held on misbehavior, like drinking, spitting, leaving toilets dirty. Guilty members In the future will be turned over to the port patrolman for action. Pressure on all toilets should be increased. Toilet seat should 'be repaired. •.vire-: room. Engine delegate told wipers thai man should be contacted about getting a full two bouts Is to be; spent oh sanl, a better' slopchest put on board. •tary work. SEATRAIN SAVANNAH (Seatrain), SEATRAIN GEORGIA (Scatraln), Feb­ February 24—Chairman, $. U. Jehntsnr ruary 14~Chalrman, A. Hansen; Sacra Secretary, T. Faies. -All repairs were tary, Jos Atchison. Matter of larger taken care of from the last voyage. Two draws in port has been taken up with hours OT for delayed sailing will he the Union. Letters on bad eggs written taken up with the boarding patrolman. by the steward were read. . One man Steward department foc'sle lockers need missed ship. Several minor matters were shelves A vote of thanks from the' en­ discussed. Crew'went on record to ask tire crew went to the chief cook for the negotiating committee to propose a the fine food he has been turning out Brother $10 raise in clothing allowance to the singe he joined the vessel. Seatrain Line,s or have a gangway In­ Smith, the ship's delegate, was highly stalled back aft. Copies will be sent to commended for the manner In which all ship's delegates of all Seatrain ships for beefs and repaii-s were taken care of through the boirdlng patrolman on bur their, consideration and approval. last paybff. TOFA TOPA (Waferman), December 21 VAL CHEM (Valentine), February SB—Chairman,. Sam Carisle; Secretary, Joe Gareelo. Men were warned not to foul Chairman, W. Snell; Secretary, O. Rayup in Honolulu, and keep the payoff mor. There is a cash balance of $24. clean. Ship's delegate volunteered to One man missed ship in Port Sobei. Tex. buy Christmas trees and trimmings, from Motion was passed to have a committee the ship's fund, and do the trimming. of three men investigate the possibility New mattresses are heeded for the crew. of installing a coca cola vending machine Repair list was taken to the captain, who for the use of the crew. All expenses said he will take care of It. A vote of and profits will be handled by the ship's thanks went to the steward department fund. New Trork patrolman will be asked for a job well done, as well as to the about getting, a greater variety of fruit, and. such items as shrimp and o.vsLers. ship's delegate. J. Markham. Vending machine can be bouTht in ' GOLDEN CITY (Waterman), January Orange, Tex., since this is the only port 20—Chalrmin, Henry Bllde; Secretary, which the ship is certain to make. Francis R. Nspoll. Four men were logged; one missed ship In Houston, Te.xas. and caught' it in Beaumont. ~ He was logged by the captain. One man left ship in Japan. Action should be taken by the patrolman on this man. Ship's delegate will bring It to his at­ tention. The whole crew gave a vote of thanks to the steward department for STEEL AGE (Isthmian), February 3— good food and service during the entire Chairman, Henry Rowa; Secretary, B. voyage. ' Pederttn. Saloon messman complained YAKA (Walermsn), February 27— about the second mate coming in late Chairman, J. Teurst; Secretary, C. B. for dinner. Steward will straighten-out Owens. $S3 out of the ship's fund was this matter. Ceddings was elected new given to the pantryman, whose wife ship's delegate. Fireman complained of passed away. 'Vent In dayman's room lack of attention from the doctor In Cal­ needs repairing. Water cooler in crew's cutta and for engineers and mate trying quarters aft should be repaired. Standby to minimize his injuries. He will see the on each watch will clean the messroom doctor again in Colombo. Washing ma­ and leave clean cups for the next watch. chine is reported to be in bad shape. Cots that are issued to each man should We will put In for a new washing mabe taken care of, not left lying around cliine in New York. and out in bad weather. There should February 14—Chairman, Bob Geddlngsi be no performing around the gangway Secretary, E. Pedersen. Everyone is to In Puerto Rico or any port. check foc'sles for needed repairs. Mess­ WE$TERN RANCHER (Western Nav.), man complained of noise at- night made February 27—Chairman, Thurston Lewis; by checkers working outside portholes. $acratary, M. H. SImonaaux, Jr. Pantry We will try^o collect subsistence on this. urn should be replaced. Chief engineer Discussion was held on necessary repaire. .should be asked about having the re­ Showers should be painted before the frigerator repaired In Japan. Stove, payoff. Steward will get special eating mixer, two fans should be repaired. utensils for shoreside personnel's use Clothes should be taken off the line next trip. when dry. Captain said the ship would VBNORB (Ore), February 24—Chair­ be painted inside on the way back if it doesn't lay up. Steward should serve man, H. Zurn; Secrelary, Peter Shel­ cold drinks with meals. Steward said drake. Vote of thanks went to the stew­ that it. is not required that ice be made ard department for fine preparation of aboard ship, but that he will see the food and service given. captain about making ice once a week DOROTHY (Bull), February 2t—Chair­ for OT instead of daily. Ship's delegate will accompany the steward. More va­ man, Peter Patrick; Secretary, E. Jim­ riety of the menu Is needed. Stores will enez. Ship's delegate checked with the be obtained In Japan. Mess table steward .about canned fruit and other should be fixed. Meat block needs re­ matters and everything was squared away. Chief cookawanted to know who pairing. runs the steward department, the stew­ WARRIOR (Waterman), January 31— ard or the captain. Ship's delegate will Ciialrman, J. N. Crews; $ccretary, M. B. call the patrolman to find out. Captain Elliott. Motion was passed to keep the has been after the wipers on sanitarysame ship's delegate, as he has done a work to sougee passageway. Washing good job. Cigarette butts and magazines machine isn't working, so the patrolman will be asked to inspect It to see if a should not be thrown on deck. new one Is needed. Recreation room FebrusrH 28—Chairman, Harold Duc- ahould not be left dirty, with cups all loux; gecretary, M. B. Elliott. A mo­ Delegates demanded better coop­ ment of silence was observed In memory over. eration. of the brother Who died during this trip. Motion was passed to donate money for ROBIN GRAY (Seas Shipping), Febru­ flowers for our departed brother, whom ary 14—Chairman, not listed; Secretary, we are bringing back to the US for William Jenkins. Everything has been burial. We should also send a wire running M. quite smooth for the entire voy­ ahead, so some flowers can meet the ship age. Only a repairs promised by the when we dock, to be put on his casket captain werefew refuged in Savannah. The right away. Ship's delegate will take actions of one of the ordinarys will be care of collecting this donation. Stewup with the patrolman. Patrolman -ard ahould type up a list of personal taken will be to contact the company property lost when the portholes and officials asked_ about moving the steward te glasses were ^nocked out In the storm the cadet's room a»d_ giving the bosun that damaged two rooms. More fans and •the steward's room, while the carpenter parts are neeeded. Everyone should in the deck maintenance room will be clean up the me'sshall at night, and not leave such a mess for the crew pantr.v- (Continued on page' 25) man to clean in the morning, .Patrol- Order Blank For LOG Bound Volumes iP"" Editor, SEAFARERS LOG BEATRICE (Bull), February 21—Chair­ man, Jim FoH; Sacratary, Frank Zananski. Everything is satisfactory in all de­ partments. Worn out band wash ringer In • the laundry will be replaced. Dele­ gates' repair lists were turned over to department headg. AH departments wholeheartedly thanked the steward de­ partment for excellent menus, well pre­ pared meals and good service. 675 Fourth Avenue Brooldyn 32, New York Please send me the following: " ' SEATRAIN LOUISIANA (Seatrain), Feb­ ruary 21—Chairman, J. LIppancott; Sec­ retary, O. Robinson. Cockroaches are being exterminated. Ship's tressurer re­ ported $134.31 In the ship's fund. Ship's delegate wlU write a letter to the Union about wars tubs In the laundry which the company refuses to repair. Engine room door should be .kept closed. SBANAN (Stratford), Novombor 1— Chairman, A. D. Williams; Socrotsry, John Flfhor. Master's attention wiU be drawn to the fact that the articles should be dated October 23,. not 24. A balance of $65 was turned over to the ship's dele­ gate from last trips ship's fund. $15 was spent for a radio speaker, leaving a balance of $30. Robert Wagner was elected ship's delegate. There was • a discussion on doing repairs before paint­ ing, but after weighing the matter we thought it would be best to paint now while the captain is in the mood. Messhall should be left clean. Last standby should put the finishing touch to the messhgU tables. Wipers and OS will Man* It; 1954 ', .(a)'. - bound v6|umes of the 1953 LOG @ $5 each. (b) complete seti of bound volumes of the LOG fo/l947 through 1953 @ $25 each. ."inclosed is a fptaf of $ • • • •• -»-» eeeeevo-^aeee'eeeoeee'eBBeB *•#••••• *'eB|Bee**«-gea ' \ODRESS .,e-ee-».eee. e.ee'e* •###•» •••#$••#•••# eeeeBeB^eBau • • -.V' -T • • ... • e « ' • • e e' • e' • » B. B, 4: 8 • e e '• e • e B. • • e • • e • • eBeBe8»*e«B»e • (Note: Please miika checks OF money orders payable to the. S SEAFARERS LOG.-J ; • mm•«• mm mmmm This convenient order blank for LOG bound volumes can be used for ordejt^-by mailvor can be filled put and brought into head- �SEAFARERS March 19. 1954 Pace Twenty-five LOG ... DIGEST dfi SHIPS' MEETINGS.. (Continued from page 24) given the bosun'i room, with the DM. Port captain wiil be asked if the lookout can be moved from the bow to the winj;' of the bridge during wlnd.v and bad weather before there is some serious accident aboard. Nothing can be seen from the bow then, on account of the spra.v, and the men are neariy thrown overboard with nothing to ciing to. One man nearly fell overboard and another fell and hurt his back during this, voy­ age. There will be no sign on until proper repairs are made, as they have PEESGNAEE Steve Messaros Eugene Ceccato Please get in touch with Joseph Pilutis at St. Vincent's Hospital, 11th St. and 7th Ave., NY, NY. 4, 4> . i George CuIIen Legal proceedings have been completed regarding your divorce. For further information, contact Frank Roberts & Kane, solicitors, 21 Adelaide Street, Brisbane, Aus­ tralia. ^ 4* Schuyler Bland Crew Will all crcwmembers of this ves'sel who were shipmates with Dan­ iel H. Boyce on the voyage com­ mencing July 30, 1953, at New York, please communicate with Stark and Goldstein, 1201 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, Pa. t Si ft Seafarer Baldwin Your father, William C. Baldwin, would very much like to hear from you. You can reach him at RFD 3, Box 29. Norfolk, Va. ft ft been neglected for .three coneecutive voyages. Captain promised last trip to build shelves In the pctly oiTicers' mess for the library, but nothing was done. Heating in crew's quarters is cut off when it is cold, and on full blast when It is hot. A vote of thanks went to the steward department for a job well done. STEEL EXECUTIVE (Isthmian), Febru­ ary 2n—Chsirmsn, Al Brodie; Secretary, J. L. ttodses. Earl L. Morris was elected ship's dele-fate. Suggestion was made to stop whistling in the passageways. Magarines should be returned to the proper pl.ace after they have been read. Laundry deck should bs mopped up after using the washer. A longer handle should be obtained for the starboard passageway drin1:ing fountain. January 21—Chairman, Aussie Shrimpton; Secretary, Charles J. Hartman. Mo­ tion was passed that the ship arrival pool, which was undecided In San Fran­ cisco be decided b.v the first pilot to board ship at the next port. Brother hospitalized during the voyage will be given $25 from the ship's fund to cover his immediate pcisonal expense.s, and the Weirare Deparlmcnt will be notified by cable. Crew was asked to leave the ship washing machine clean. SEA WIND tSe.vlradcrs), January SiChairman, not lisle::; Secretary, not listed. There is $22 in the ship's fund. There is not enough linen aboard, not enough stores and the ship needs ex­ termination badl.v. Ship's delegate will see about sougeeing (he galley and pas­ sageways and paintin.g the decks. AFOUNDRIA (Waterman), January 3— Chairman, Derwood Mann; Secretary, Frank Young. Ship's dele.gate will con­ tact the chief engineer about painting or spotting engine room quarters, having the washing machine repaired and gas­ kets fixed aft before tiie ship is fully loaded. Mann was elected new shin's delegate. Arrangements were made about cleaning the laundry and recreation room. All cups should be returned to the panti-y. and messroom should be kept in SIU state. February 21 — Chairman, Derwood Mann; Secretary, Samuel B. Thomas. Washing water is sUll salty. All depart­ ments are running smoothly with one ex­ ception. Chief engineer made the state­ ment that the ship's delegate had been • ft James H. Smith , Your sister, Beulah S. Wright, 1202 Shearn Street, Houston, Inoculation And Vaccination Texas, . would like to hear from The following men have their you, inoculation and vaccination papers in Welfare Services: ft ft ft .. Bill Odum ft ft ft Contact Louis Riviere, 36 W. Alexander Crew Gear 138th Street. Apt. 15. NY, NY. Gear left aboard the Alexandra ft ft ft by crew can be picked up at the - Herbert D. Dunlevie New York hall. Contact Robert F. Reynolds. 350 ft ft ft Sansome Street, San Francisco 4. Theodore' Katros Cal., regarding a suit you have Contact SIU Headquarters or pending. Philadelphia hall regarding NLRB • ft ft ft chai'geis. Aivin C. Olander . ft . ft ft . Please write or phone Mrs. Olaf Dean Hardin Olander, New Sweden. Maine, con­ Contact Cowdrcy for money at cerning merchant mariner's docu­ the New York hall. ment. • ' ft ft ft ft 4» ft • •' .Bobert Malioney Theodore Martens! . Your personal effects off the Please contact Ralph Mueller at 87-14 163rd Street, Flushing, Lonig Steel Voyagei' are at Headquarters. Contact Welfare Sei-vices for same. Island, NY. ft ft ft ft • ft ft Ture Sandstrom Joseph A. Torrisi She's Kindly notify Walter Siekmann where you would like your checks ft ft ft sent from Transfuei. James Byrne ' ft'- ft ft -Please contact Frank Plascik, Ralph Wllkins 337 Market Street. Philadelphia, We have vouchers for you to Pa., regarding radio left aboard the sign regarding your voyage on the Marymar. Seatiger. Inform the Welfare ft ft ft Services DepJrlment where it Ex-Carrabuiie Will the members of the crew of should forward same so that you the Carrabulle who were aboard may receive your money. March 25. 1953. contact the wife of • ft ft ft • Lost and Found the late Floyd Holcombe who suf­ Child's hand-knit gray sweater fered a fatal accident on that date. Mrs. Gladys Holcombe can be with name, "Jay," knit on front. reached at 311 Industry Street, Lost at New York hall on March 5. Finder please return to LOG office. Florence, Alabama. George C. Smith • Write your Sister Grace. worried about you. ft ft ft ' W. G, Moore John Buttimer Whitten Hammock Claries White ; Your gear left aboard the AfounJdria will be sold under authority Of the law on April 22, 1954, if it is not picked up before that time at the Collector's Storage Sales Section, 311 Appraiser's Stores, 201 Varick Street, NY. ft ft ft Tony Cavalier Get in touch with Mr. J. O'Con­ nor 9t 42 Broadway, NYC, concern­ ing the case of Ernest Ramirez, R to-very important. Puzsle Annwer SSiUS SEQS] GSSESQ lilslESIZa BSQ QBSSliSS BSBS BBQ QBQS SQOSSaii BBISSB man sns SQB S[S!BBBQg@S SSSS SB&I BSSQ QDSsaQQas [§)g]Ba QQO sBasisi sBQaaas lanci' BBHs [SHas aaa aiiaia ^Van-Shahprs^ Have So 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. running tilings too long and he wiU slop this. Ship's delegate will conlac-t the patrolman in the first US port. One man missed ship in Yawata. and a letter will be sent with the minutes giving complete details. Chief male will be asked to notify the engine depar.ment of the exact time on starting and finish­ ing of cargo. Ship's delegate will con­ tact patrolman on the salty water. Wash­ ing machine is being left dirty; brothers were asked to leave It In SIU condition. Vote of thanks went to the ship's dele­ gate for tile close cooperation with aU mutters concerning ship's affairs. STEEL MAKER (Isthmian), January 24 —Chairman, C. B. Kelleher; Secretary, El Lane. One oiler went to the hospital in Saigon (George Pitour, later ropairiated). His replacement, hired in Sin­ gapore, , was later hospitalized, with an­ other man, at Pinang. One OS went to the hospital in Port Said. There were scleral beefs on electricians' OT. Five bottles of whis'Kcy were purcha.scd with the renininder of the ship's fund for the crew's Christmas party. American con­ sul in .Singapore was consulted by the ship's delegate about the captain hir­ ing an alien seaman without seam-sii's papers or clearance from the Coast. Guard. He also registered complaints about shoreaide personnel having free run of the crew's quarters, showers, toilets. Men were not given proper medical attention when needed. In Bom­ bay, getting a special draw of S.IO. $15 was donated to the Sisters of the Poor, for the orphans' Christmas. Hit will take care of the library. Klotion was passed to have the hospiLal moved to a room with portholes an'd that sirk men be placed in (he hospitals so as not to interfere with men working, who noed proper rest. - Men getting elf tiic ship should' strip their bunks and leave the foc'sles the way they like to find them. ship's delegate by acclamation. Depart­ ment beefs should be taken to depart­ ment delegates. Chief cook was asked to prepare fried food as late as po.ssihie. .-!o it is not dried out when served. Messman and pantryman should secure work­ ing gear before leaving the messroom. Coffee cup hooks should be imstalled in the crew's pantry. Steward informed the crew that the coin;>any is storing ships by a form and he has been re­ quested by the port steward not to order by trade names. Anyone wlio wishes may check the storing form, or the in­ voices on stores received. February 13—Chairman, R. Prichard; Secretary, C. Foslar. Patrolman will be asked to check on b-atter, quality of stores. Patrolman will bo asi-.ed about collecting compensation for being re­ stricted to ship after 10 PM in PUsan. Patrolman will cheek with the steward on the quality of night lunch and other stores supplied by the company. Slopchest should be cheeked. Patrolman wiil also be a.sked to see the captain about purchasing fresh salad in -redicnts and Irc.sh fruit. New chair is needed in the electrician's room. Ship .should bo stored before signing foreign articles Washing machine and laundry should bo cleaned after use. Mate will be con­ tacted by patrolman on painting foc'sics. -i" be asked to see about this outrageous situation. FRANCES (Bull), February 38—Chair­ man, John O'Rourke; Secretary, Fr.-.nCisco Cornier. Purser should notify the ship's delegate about posting draw time. Patrolman will see about painting • the rooms th.'st need it. Better grade of night lunch should be put out. Washing ma­ chine needs repairing. ANN MARIE (Bull), February 14— Chairman, Cliff Wilson; Secretary, E. Gibbs. Repair list from the former crew was checked and found incom­ plete. Decks in rooms and passageways are sweating in cold weather. Coast Guard inspector in Boston will be told about this. Second cook has already fal­ len and hurt himself. More help it needed in crew mess. Ice box is needed also. Small box in the pantry is insuf­ ficient. Egg boiler and timer are needed. RAPHAEL SEMMES tWatermcnt-, Febru.-.ry 4—Chairman, A. Hoag; Secretary, Robert Pionk. Repair of portholes was hroiight up. Ship's delegate will he b:.cked up by the crew on deck dep.ertnieni beefs. Discus.sion was held on the bl.-ick gang watch obtaining preference in Slopchest. It was agreed that they be allowed to go first in line. Fresh milk when there was none in the BIENVILLE tWatarman), February 3— was topside refrigerator. There is too much Chairman, Earnest B. Sims; Secretary, crew beef on the menu and • pepper steak William Whalen. Crew messhall should .<hoiiid be served once in a while. 12-4 be kept cleaner in the future by the deck will make coffee In the aficrcrew. AU condiments should be taken noon. watch Steward wanted to know how off messliall t.-iblcs after the evening i was it th-at when a member of the stew­ meal. Slopchest should be c-iiccked b.v ; ard asked to have his light the ship's delegate before leaving S.on I li.xeddepartment he was told to get matches from Francisco. Vote of thanks went to the i the steward and use them light. All steward department for a good, hai- i floors were fixed since the la.st meeting. anced diet, and to the cooks and baker Ship's delegate will see about obtaining for well prepared food. | keys for all rooms. Bosun sug-insted that February 21—Chairm-:n, Charles Ma- the cretv try to get along better. lur; Secretary, Oscar Payne. Chief en­ gineer was contactod about oil in the fresh water. The chief said ho already has done all he could with no results, and promised that the t.-.nks would be cleaned in .lapan. He also asked that anything found out of order he reported at once so it could be fixed. Two re­ placements were secured in San Fran­ cisco. There was somo discussion on $EA WIND (Saatraderx), December 24 sanitary work in the laundry, c-le:iniiig —Chairman, W. E. Waddle; Secretary, garbage and using too much disinfec­ T. L. Dugan. $5-worth of games were tant in deck department foc'sles. Baker purchased; there is $23 left in the ship's complained that fresh bre.id was being fund. \'ole of thanks went to the stetvtaken from the gallc.v while there is srd department for extra work done still bread below. Tliere were beef.* for holiday dinners. Night cook and about one man, who is uncooperative, baker should be given a private room. and whom some of the men 'want re­ Disliwasher should do a better job on moved from the ship. A three-man com­ silverware and dishes. Thanks went to mittee will investigate charges again.st the brothers who decorated tlie Christ­ him. Ship's delegate complained about mas tree and made general holiday prep­ men carrying, beefs to the captain. All arations. Wilmington hall was notified hands were again asked to return cups of tlie ship's arrival and of the short­ to the pantry and wash them at night. age. but no representative appeared. y; SEACLIFF (Coral), January 31—ChairALCOA PLANTER (Alcoa), January 18 m;<n, Walter Crcssman; Secretary, H. R. —Chairman, Krenti; Secratary, H. BerHutchins. List given out by tiie captain kenfald. Sanitary system should bo and slopchest was correct. A word was leken care of; drains have been backing said about performers in foreign ports. up. Recreation room should be kept Vote of thanks went to the c.-iptain. S! V. cleaner. One man should donate the S.vre, for the cooperation and well man­ magazines we have read to the Seaman's aged job he. did on this., .ship. . He is Club in Busan. W'e will try to make well-llkcd: not one man has anything the washing machine last unlil we can to say against hiin and the oldtirncrs on replace warn out parts. Stale cigar­ the Seat-lift say he is the be.st thc.v have ettes should be replaced with l're.sli ones. .sailed w-ith. A vote of thanks went to Slopchest is incomplete. At the next the ship's , delegate for his wonderful meeting a man who Is remainin-g on the achievement in keepin.g everybody hap­ ship will be appointet! to get an SIU py. A vote of thanks went to the s'tcw- library. LOfs, OT siieets, etc. ard department for their excellent work February 12—Chairman, Geuld; Seeand for a well-fed ship. Next crew will retary, L. H. Marks. Brand of soap pow­ not sign on unless a new- wringer is ac­ der should be changed. One vent needs in-.e.sticatinR. due to the occitjouei-ing DEL MUNDO (Mississippi), February 12 quired and the washing machine fixed. .stench of oil fumes. A vote of lii.-.nks —Chairman, J. A. Massicot; Secretary, J. STEEL CHEMIST tislhmiah), December ' went to the steward department for good S. Burke. Six men were logged for tak­ M. Bruno; Secretary, P. I t-Iiow. ing time, off without proper authority. 4—Chaiiman, Pearce. Bosun thanked the steward de­ Ship needs fumigation; cockroaches are partment February 19—Chairmen, Jimmy Hans; for their cooperation in dump­ taking over (lie ship.. Patrolman wiil be ing garbage Secretary, Claude M. Sturgis. .Ship is aft of the hou'se. althpu:'h contacted about having the ship fumi­ there is still refuse found on the deck going to Seattle to pay off ami then back gated and getting aerosol bombs for sea. Captain has complained about to tlie Far East. The new wa.shin.g ma­ spraying the ship. Vote of thanks went at performers cots left on deck. Any chine .should have an automatic timer to the steward department for the good cots left onand deck will be taken to tire i on it. One member of the crew, who is job Uiey ji'ave done this trip. chief steward and the oiTender wiil Ire i staying to see that repairs are made berefused reissuance of another for tlie - fore leaving t'ne States, will also sec that ANDREW JACKSON (Waterman), Feb­ rest of the trip. This motion was voted ! a new washing machine is put uboaid ruary 7—Chairman, Kasre G. Sivertsen; against. Laundry will be locked in port j before leaving the Stales. The question Secretary, Leo Bruce. There is $39 on and key left with the dan.gway watch­ ; of restriction to ship in Pusan will i,e hand. A few men still have to pay their man.theChief engineer will lie asked to , put to the patrolman in Seattle. Joe dollar donation to the fund. Repair list on outside water for the shoreside Cash will take care of the repair list. should be turned in a few days before tarn personnel. There was a discussion on the ship reaches San Francisco. A gear fans and heat. ABIQUA (Cities Service), February 28 locker should be built back aft below for January 17—Chairman, M. Keeffer; Sec­ , —Chairman, N. I. West; Secretary. F. the sanitary gear; whenever the .ship retary, E. Yancey. Repair list will be ! Flanagan. There is S35 in the ship's rolls the gear flies around. Washing made out. Performers who bi-eak i fund. Walter Holfner was elected ship's macliine should be repaired before glasses wUl be punished. Bonks should j delegate by acclamation. Ship's delegate re.-iching C.nlifornia. Ship's delegate will be returned to the library. Water cooler j will see the captain about having drink­ sec the chief engineer about this. All for shower water needs cleaning. Some ing fountains fixed, hatch on poop deck slopchest stock should be acquired, as men have contagious disea.scs and still blocked off as a safety precaution. En­ there is nothing the men need. Cig­ the hospital is unused. Deck depart­ gine foc'sles need painting. Chief mate arettes are still rationed. Ship's dele­ ment has all three 8-12 watch members will be asked about supplies, a flashlight gate will tell the chief engineer about sick at the same time. Patrolman will for the watch on deck. any cigarette beefs. Checkers should not be thrown out. Suggestion was made to buy new games from the ship's fund in California; Editor, YOUNG AMERICA (Waterman), Janu­ ary 7—Chairman, G. Bane; Secretary, C. Foster. , S. L; Woodruff was elected ffniz Answerz SEAFARERS LOG, 675 Fpurth Ave., Brooklyn 32, NY (1) Labrador. I would like to receive the SEAFARERS LOG—please (2) Federal Republic of Ger­ put my nome on your mailing list. (Print information) many (West Germany). ' (3) Six. (4) Nautilus, named after the NAME submarine iit Jules Verne's "Twenty Thousand Leagues under STREET RESS ..i... the Sea." (5) Ralph Branca, now with the Detroit Tigers. CITY ................,..:;.20I^^E STATE ...... (6) "Thomas- Murray, Democrat from Montana. (7) General Ulysses Grant, Signed ...». 1869-1877. TO AVOID DUPLICATION: If you «ro an old lubscribor and havo a chango (8) rhumba-swing. of addrats, piaasa giva your format addrgst bajow: ' (9) Ernest Hemingway. (10) The 22nd. limiting a Presi- ADDRESS ^ '•••i8<aaia«a«t)aaaaaata*a«a'*4**a*«laB«aaaaaaaaa*a«Wa*a«a>aa*aaia«)l«BaBB«MBB MaBBBOBMMMBoMBaHaaabaaBaaBaM It oaxV.i. »»»-» year terms. CITY I'r.-.'tii'., i!c a tta««BBB«B«B4Ba8aa ZJ:'' ZONi ' • ..STATE - • ••4aa«Btt«•••••• i'I I 1 •1 �SEAFARERS Pace Twenty-six LOG MutA 1». 1954 Getting information On Sill Weifare Pian in the HOSPITALS The following list contains the names of hospitalized Seafqrers 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. if' m • -. J.'':.-i, M' fe'J -sH.'j- :^v' i-i SIU Welfare representative Bill Frederick explains SIU Welfare set-up to Mr. and Mrs. Frederick R. Sullivan in their New Orleans home. Sullivan received $200 maternity benefit plus $25 baby bond for birth of son, Frederick, Jr. Dad sails on Alcoa Cavalier. Patricia Helen Payne, bom Feb­ 51-B Craftmore Drive, Prichard, ruary 23, 1954. Parents, Mr. and Ala. Mrs. Charles N. Payne, 3905 Park4, 4 4 Michael Karaer, bom Febmary side Drive, Baltimore, Md. 8, 1954. Parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ru­ 4" 4" dolph Karner, 64 New York Ave., Elizabeth Castro, born February Bergenfield, NJ. 14, 1954. Parents, Mr. and Mrs. 4 4 4 Arturo Castro, 1604 Golida St., Dennis Allen Patterson, bom Houston, Texas. December 30, 1953. Parents, Mr. and Mrs. Mack C. Patterson, Route t 4* 1, Box 71, Tampa, Fla. Frederick Raymond Sullivan, 4 4 4 born January 25, 1954. Parents, Ronald David Mottram, bom Mr. and Mrs. Frederick R. Sulli­ February 13, 1954. Parents, Mr. van, 909 Race St., New Orleans, and Mrs. Richard P. Mottram, 40 I ~j0 La. East Main St., Merrimac, Mass. 4 4 4. 4i t 4i Larry Curtis Lucas, bom Janu­ Joanne Marie Brown, bom Feb­ ary 1, 1954. Parents, Mr. and Mrs. ruary ll,'l954. Parents, Mr. and Arlie C. Lucas, 6906 — 21 St., Mrs. Joe Brown, 519 West 148 St., Tampa, Fla. New York, NY. 3^ 4 Elizabeth Margaret and Mary Veronica Maher, bom Febmary 27, 1953. Parents, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas F. Maher, 345 East 83 St., New York, NY. 4> 4" 4" Charles Robert Garrison, bom February 13, 1954. Parents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles W. Garrison, Jr., February 16, 1954. Parents, Mr. and Mrs. James W. Weddle, 1206 South Fifth Ave., Yakima, Wash. 4 4 4 Kevin Bruce Thome, born Feb; ruary 24, 1954. Parents, Mr. and Mrs. Allan S. Thorne, Box 328, Walpole, NH. 4 4 4 Kathleen Samdal, born Feb­ mary 27, 1954. Parents, Mr. and Mrs. Odd Samdal, 1058 Bay Ave., Mobile, Ala. 4 4 4. Warren JeiTery Mayes, born Feb­ ruary 14, 1954. Parents, Mr. and Mrs. Homer S. Mayes, Jr., 1828 An­ nunciation St., New Orleans, La. 4 4 4 Charles Brantley Aycock Brown, III, bom Febmary 26, 1954. Par­ 4 4 4 James Joseph Labenz, Jr., born ents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Brant­ February 4, 1954. Parents, Mr. and ley Aycock Brown, Jr., Manteo, NC. 4 4 4 — Mrs. James Labenz, 1690 North 54 Roger Pierre Grimard, Jr., born St., Philadelphia, Pa. March 2, 1954. Parents, Mr. and 4 4 4 Frances Marie Bohannon, bom Mrs. Roger P. Grimard, 22629 Ra • Febmary 17, 1954. Parents, Mr. vennh Ave., Wilmington, Calif. and Mrs. William L. Bohannon, 410 4 4 4 East Charlton St., Savannah, Ga. Cecil Tyronne Jones, bom Jan­ 4 4 4 uary 26, 1954. Parents, Mr. and Renee Louise Weddle, bom Mrs. William J. Jones, Route 1, Box 48, Penola, Va. Seafarer Baby Poses In NY 4 4 4 VA HOSPITAL NEW ORLEANS, LA. L. Bourdonnay TerrlU J. Nesbltt USPHS HOSPITAL NORFOLK, VA. Otis C. BaUey W. G. Kieswetter Charles E. Carniel Manuel Martins John L. Griffin WilUam H. Mason BuUard Jackson USPHS HOSPITAL SAN FRANCISCO, CALIF. Henry J. ChUds W. S. Singleton Viggio W. Sorensen Ho Vee Choe Sing Ah Sue George B. Dunn Olav Gustausen M. B. Wilson P. S. Yuzon A. M. Keller Joe Perreira USPHS HOSPITAL SAVANNAH, GA. W. C. Bedgood Jimmie Littleton Paul B. Bland B. B. MeCorkel J. B. Christy James B. SeUers George O. Corbett James W. Sweat Paul Jakubcsak G. W. Wilson Joseph Kramer J. F. Wilson USPHS HOSPITAL STATEN ISLAND, NY Lyle Hipp George Anderson Melvin Bass Michael Katrausky John Maclnnes John Beckmann Wiktor MstowskI Marcie Boyles Manuel Muniz Ashton Butcher Warren Nielsen A. Caram Lai Choo Chang Elilio Ortiz Jar Chong Donald Peterson Robert Reynolds Pedro Claudio Julian CuthreU Edwin T. Rushton Speru Demoleas Jose Salgado Donald Dunn P. W. Seidenbergh Robert Sizemore R. Edmondson Joseph Faircloth Jose Sousa Brigido Figueroa James Thompson Deforest Fry W. R. Thompson Antonio Garcia B. F. Trottie J. B. Garrison Samuel L. Vandal Estell Godfrey Jan Vanos John Graddick James Waldron John H. Hannay Willie Yee Hans R. Hanssen VA HOSPITAL CORAL GABLES, FLORIDASolomon Gerber Jose C. VUa USPHS HOSPITAL MANHATTAN BEACH, NY Fortuno Bacomo James J. Lawlor James R. Lewis Thomas Bryant Francis F. Lynch Joseph Carr Bomar 71. Cheeley Harry F. McConald Emilio Delgado A. McGuigan Antonio M. Diaz David McIIreath John Driscoll Frank Mackey Jose Espinoza Lloyd MUler Matthew Gardiner Alfred Mueller Robert E. Gilbert Eugene T. Nelson Bart E. Guranick George Shumaker Thomas Isaksen Henry E. Smith John W. Keenan Harry S. Tuttle L. Kristiansen Renato A. Villata Frederick Landry VlrgU E. Wllmoth Union Aid Helps Seaman Win Loan For Purchase Of Home A Seafarer who was stymied in his application for a home Cathy Yvonne Williams, born Febmary 4, 195,4. Parents, Mr. and loan because of the fact that he was a seaman won a quick Mrs. Bobby G. Williams, 261 Col­ reversal of the bank's position after Welfare Services entered gate Ave., Dundalk, Md. „ the picture in his behalf. As-^ 4 4 4 a result he is now well on his ped through the hiring hall to a Kathleen Margaret Heggarty, way toward ownership of his, variety of sea-going jobs. It also born October 16, 1953. Parents, own home. went into detail about his earning Mr. and Mrs. Thomas J. Heggarty, The Seafarer had been looking powers under the SIU contract. 2107 Southern Drive, Virginia, around for some time for a neW' When the bank received this in­ Minn. home for himself ahd his family formation, it approved the loan. and finally located something The entire matter was pushed which looked desirable. In order through rapidly so that the Sea­ to make the down payment though, farer could take title to his new he had to get a loan so that he home and a check was written out wouldn't clean himself out of all for the amount of the loan. his funds. "It's pretty clear to me," he con­ Under the rales of the SIU, Changed In Hurry any member can nominate cluded, "that if it weren't for Wel­ He went to the bank where he fare Services help, I could never himself for meeting chairman, had his personal account and ask- have gotten that loan anywhere, reading clerk or any other Od for a loan. "Everything was go­ because if the bank where I had post that may be up for elec­ ing fine," he said, "until they ask­ my account turned me down then tion before the membership, ed me where I was employed. every other bank In town would including committees, such as When I told them I was a seaman do the same." the tallying committees, finan­ and was on the beach their atti­ At last reports, the Seafarer in­ cial committees, auditing com­ tude changed right away and they volved was busy, making plans for mittees and other groups told me the whole thing was off." furniture and for decorating his named by the membership. Stymied in his request, the Sea­ new home, secure in the knowledge Since SIU membership meet­ farer turned the matter over to that he wouldn't face any trouble ing officers are elected at the SIU Welfare Services. A letter was from the bank. Other Seafarers start of each meeting, those written to the bank's New York who have belatedly reported simi­ who wish to run for those headquarters explaining the na­ lar treatment from banks where meeting offices can do so. ture of seafaring employment. The they sought home loans unfortu­ The Union also welcomes letter pointed >out that while the nately missed out on good things. discussions, suggestions and motions on the business before ^ Seafarer in question was not em­ Prompt contacting of the Union in ployed by any one company 12 such cases might have avoided ' .the ' meeting. ' thomhr-Ohthe- yeal%'. that-he- ship-' these disappointmentt. • Throw in For . A Meeting Job Youthful Edwin Labiosa does his best before the camera in the arms of his mother, Mrs. Carlos Labiosa of New York, after re? , eeivtog the, maternity, lieneft pj^^ Goverament.bandi, ei USPHS HOSPITAL SEATTLE, WASH. U. K. Ming O. E. Abrams E. P, Cole. Jr. John C. MitcheU J. Van Der Endo Louis Mussolini Johns E. Eubanks T. R. Webster G. C, Farnum Arthur WUfert Wm. K. GuUey Edward L. Woods S. Johannessen USPHS HOSPITAL BALTIMORE. MD. Robert L. ChapUne Edward A. Morgan Jimmie Priddy Jessie A. Clarke John C. Ramsey James R. Oodson Frank Van Dusen Henry Schwartz John D. Seiferth B. J. Dzelak James W. Gordon Elmer Shipp George E. Hermann Ray B. Sunderland Alexander Johnson John Talbot James E. Warren L. G. Linthicum A. Westerlund David McCollum Henrich Wiese Wm. Middendorf Clifford Womack Thomas Mungo CITY HOSPITAL MOBILE, ALA. Jacob A. Otreba USPHS HOSPITAL BOSTON. MASS. Theodore Mastaler Frank Alasavich James H. Penswick E. P. Belkner R. M. ChurchiU Robert A. Rogers S. J. Sbriglio Joseph Delessa Fred MaUory, Jr. Jack Lee Williams. USPHS HOSPITAL GALVESTON, TEXAS Louis L. Bentley John E. Markopolo M. De GoUado D. B. Patterson Herbert Grant Frank L. Ryan Eligio La Soya A. J. Scheving Joseph C. LewaUen Denis C. Skousas Samuel S. Lyle USPHS HOSPITAL NEW ORLEANS, LA. T. L. Ankerson T. S. Johnson Leonard Bailey Leonard Kay E. G. Knapp E. BraceweU Leo H. Lang Chas. E. Brady Wm. R. Burch J. E. Mciareath S. C. Carregal H. Nicol Richard W. Clark Joseph Otreba P. B. Cogley H. F. Paschall S. Gope J. K. Patterson Thomas J. Dawson F. S. Paylor ' Harry G. Peek John G. Dooley Edgar A. Piatt Leo Fontenot Jules J. Ralph B. D. Foster Hugh D. Fouche Joseph C. Revill M. C. Gaddy W. E. Reynolds James E. Gardiner Henry J. Robin N. L. Gardner J. Santiago C. W. Gann Harry L. Schuler Jack H. Gleason Luther C. Seldle F. Hauser James T. Smith Rosa J. Hebert L. C. Smith H. C. Herring Edward J. Stevens John L. Hinton Lonnie R. Tickle G. T. Hollier J. E. Ward Robert E. Homme! Louis W. WetzeU �March 19. 1954 SEAFARERS LOG Paffc Twenty-scTcii Repatriated Men Aided Quickly SEEIN' THE SEAFARERS Four sick and injured Seafarers who came in to New York on a weekend after a long flight from the Far East were properly taken care of by SIU Welfare Services when it ap­ peared that they would be stranded without funds. Welfare Services then attended to their payoff and saw to it that all-*" four of them could get down pital in that port city. 2nd pumpman; Calloway D. Dimsto Baltimore where they are The four men, all off the tanker dale, MM; and Harold Vincent. With WALTER SIEKMANN currently receiving treatment in Stony Creek, were Alfred F. Hfe the US Public Health Service Hos­ bert, oiler; Avery W. McKenzie (News about men In the hospitals and Seafarers receiving SIV Weifare Benefits will be carried in this column. It is written by Seafarer Walter Siekmann based on items of interest turned up while he makes his rounds in his post as Director of Welfare Services.) Heading oif the hospitalized list this week is Joe Dodge, who. didn't. It seems as if Joe was in an automobile accident down in Mobile, Ala., and didn't get out of the way fast enough. At last report he was still badly hurt and is now in Albuquerque, New Mexico, recuperating from the accident. Seafarer Frank Alasavich knows what it is to be a nrember of the SIU, and he's very thankful for it. It is just another indication, Sea­ farers know, of the way the hospital benefits work and apply to members of the Union. Frank was sick a long while some time back. When he got out of the hospital he was not fit for duty. He went back into the hospital after being out for over one year, and things surely looked black. Right then and there the SIU stepped in to brighten things- up; he went right back on the Union hospital benefits list. He'll collect right along with the rest of the boys for as long as he's hospitalized, which should make things a lot easier for him. Dodye In the hospital in Halifax, Nova Scotia, is Sea­ farer Charles Oglesby. Charies just underwent another operation for his condition, which is not too serious from repoi-ts we receive, since he'il be down this way to see all his shipmates in about three or four weeks. Got Ulcers Seafarer Robert Reynolds is in the local drydock waiting to be op­ erated upon for an ulcer he got from worrying about all the money he makes under the top-drawer SIU contracts. He doesn't have any worries, however, now that he's under the Union's hospital benefits plan. This Seafarer usually ships out of Baltimore, Md. His last ship was the Archers Hope of Cities Service which he sailed on as ordinary seaman. In the hospital for a hernia condition is James Stogaitis, one of three Seafarers in the same boat this week. Jimmy's last job was as AB on the Golden City of Waterman. He lives in Phila­ delphia, Penn., and usually ships out of there. He expects to be in the hospital for awhile and would like to hear from his friends and shipmates. Drop a line and cheer him up or drop ai'ound and make him feel even better. Heinrich Rabba is also in the hospital for a hernia condition. His last ship was the Abiqua of Cities Service, where the New York Seafarer sailed as AB. Willis Thompson, AB off the Archers Hope of Stogaitii Cities Service, is recuperating in the hospital after a gallstone operation. He entered at the beginning of the month and hails fx'om Erie, Pennsylvania, the Keystone State. A Brooklyn boy, Azhar Curam, is now resting quietly in the Staten Island hospital after being transferred there from the Savannah, Ga., USPHS hospital. He was Injured aboard the Robin Hood and he left the ship in that southern port before shifting over to the Staten Island institution. ktus Enow... Seafarer Recuperating From Rare Operation On Heart Benjamin Trottle Is shown resting comfortably at the USPHS Staten Island hospital after being operated on for a heart condition. Having survived a rare and unusual operation on the heart to relieve a cardiac condition, veteran Seafarer Benjamin Trottie is now recuperating at the Staten Island USPHS hospital. The operation on Trottie is considered some­ also happy with the boost Welfare thing of a medical landmark Services has been giving him be­ because he was only the 17th per­ son in medical history on whom this particular piece of heart sur­ gery was performed. Apparently the difficult and delicate operation went through without any hitches because the 66-year-old Seafarer came through the difficult ordeal in good shape and is now recuperating- satisfac­ torily at the hospital. Aside from the nature of the operation itself, Trottie's age made it all the more noteworthy since it is an additional hazard to the success of surgery. Excellent Care Trottie, who was chief steward on the Longview Victory (Victory Carriers) the last trip out before he got ill, expressed his praise of the excellent care he has received at the Staten Island hospital. He was fore and after his trying experi­ ence. Trottie believes that were it not for the USPHS hospitals, his chances of getting the special care and surgery he received there would have been pretty dim. Ordi­ narily, any sui-geon performing an operation of this kind would com­ mand a whopping fee that would be far beyond tbe ability of a Sea­ farer to pay. Trottie added that the help he received from Welfare Services certainly added to his peace of mind. In the days when he was looking forward to the operation and since then, the regular weekly visits from the SIU representative have been a big morale booster for him and added to his peace of mind. Three of them had various injuries, some of them serious ones with one Seafarer suffering from ^a broken ankle. The fourth Seafarer was ill. Arriving Saturday Morning Welfare Services got word late Friday afternoon on March 6 that the four men were arriving 9:30 AM Saturday morning at LaGuardia airport. Someone had to be at the airport to take care of them and provide immediate medical at­ tention. The Union also received notice that the company office had been authorized to issue a minimum draw of $5 for the four men. With a weekend coming up the $5 would have been completely inadequate particularly since the cab fare from the airport to the city is $1.50. Consequently, a Welfare Serv­ ices representative was on hand to meet the incoming plane. The men were taken immediately to the Staten Island hospital for emer­ gency treatment. There they re­ ceived an emergency check and were told to report back Monday for admission to the hospital. Signed Off Arrangements were then made to provide the men, all of whom ship from Baltimore, with quarters and food for the weekend. Mon­ day morning. Welfare Services took them to the company office for the payoff. They filled out the necessary papers and then were taken to the Shipping Commis­ sioner for signing off articles. Pay checks were to have been ready on their return but when they got back to the company office they found that one of the two company representatives authorized to sign the checks had been called out of the office. As a result, the men had to stay over another day and were appro­ priately taken care of. Tuesday they were picked up again and taken over to the company office where they were paid off that afternoon after further delay. Sub§fquently, the men were taken over to the station where they caught a train for Baltimore. The SIU's Welfare Services repre­ sentative in Baltimore, John Arabasz, met the train and took the men to the Baltimore USPHS hos­ pital where they are now getting medical treatment. Proper Repair Lists Help All if you're in troulile Yoon PROBLEM IS OUR BUSINESS SEE TEE SIO WEEFEBE SERVICES BEPAiniENT f. The deaths of the following North Arlington, NJ. Brother Ro­ Seafarers have been reported to mero is survived by a sister, Manuela Pineiro. the Seafarers Welfare Plon and 4" 4« 4" 92,500 death benefits are being paid to beneficiaries. Salomon Tyvold, 53: A lung ail­ ment proved fatal to Brother Ty­ Edward C. Dacey, 42: A member vold on July 21, 1953, at a US Navy of the steward department. Brother hospital overseas. A member of Dacey died of a larynx ailment on the deck department, he had been February 19, 1954, in Boston, Mass. sailing in.the SIU since 1951, when He had been sailing SIU since he joined in New York. He is sur­ 1945, when he joined in New York. vived by a sister, Tsea Tyvold, Ho­ Burial took place at Belmont Ceme­ tel Norge, Bergen, Norway. tery, Belmont, Mass. Surviving is a brother, John James Dacey, 17 4- l* 4Mayflower Road, Arlingtpn, Mass. Sidney T. Boudreaux, 49: A 4. ^ . member of the SlU-affiliated Ma­ Manuel Romero, 51: On March rine Allied Workers in the Port 19, 1953, Brother Romero died of a of New Orleans, Brother Bou­ circulatory ailment in Baltimore, dreaux suffered a fatal blood clot Md. He had been sailing SIU in in that city on September 26, 1953. the engine department from the He had been sailing SIU during Fprt of Baltimore for tblPPP.ypars, part of .1953. Administratrix of his j8iirjaLwE^..a,iiHQly.CrosiC^ is Myr»SKellyi'. ''nn-5' • -iK •• .1 .'Vr'r.kJi-A; The settlement of repair lists means a lot to the men who stay aboard a ship, and to the new crew that comes aboard, just as the repair list made out by the previous crew means a lot to you. Because repairs mean a lot to your comfort and living conditions aboard ship, they should be handled in tbe proper fashion. Each department delegate must make out three copies of his repair list. The ship's delegate should gave one copy to the head of the department concerned, one copy to the company represen­ tative, and one copy to the Union patrolman. In this way, everyone has a copy of the repair list and there is a check to make sure the work is done. I J| 'ii �;• "1 li :fii: i-jV': m: W• liKP fcisrs |'&P-::f. w^¥- lif'' ^:vv'- . • You can't alwoys tell a diplomat or an ambassador by his cutaway coat and striped pants. Sometimes he just wears plain working duds, as many Seafarers do. But the Seafarer, even though he's not a, specialist at diplomacy, is an ambassador all the same. Wherever he goes, in any corner of the globe, he represents his country, his countrymen and his Union shipmates. , To people in foreign lands, his behavior is the yard­ stick against which everything American Is measured. If his attitude toward the jocal populace Is unpleasant, then It must be that all American seamen are tne lame. On the other hand. If he's friendly, courteous and tactful, all SlU men and their Union, get a good name. The record shows that most Seafarers regard the peo­ ple of the lands they visit as friends. This friendly spirit has gone a long way toward making Seafarers among the most welcome visitors In all corners of the world. � 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. 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Title A name given to the resource March 19, 1954 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 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Seafarers International Union of North America 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. XVI, No. 6 Description An account of the resource Headlines: CONGRESSMAN DEMANDS HALT TO TRANSFERS; SETS HEARINGS SIX WEEKS LEFT FOR ART CONTEST ENTRIES GALVESTON HUNT FOR NEW HALL STRIKES SNAG NLRB FINISHING DOCK VOTE HEARINGS; OUTPORTS IN MASS SWING TO AFL SIU WINS EXCELLO BARGAINING RIGHTS; CO. UNION DUMPED LOG POLLS SEAFARERS ON SHIP LIBRARY PROGRAM LEWIS, ROBIN LINE HEAD, DIES AT 45 LA. BOXER SEAFARERS' FAVORITE GOV'T WOULD GIVE ALIENS RIGHT OF APPEAL TO COURT SIU HAS AIDED NUMEROUS UNIONS THROUGH THE YEARS PORT O'CALL SAFE PLACE TO KEEP DOUGH BME TROUNCES ILA IN PHILA COAST UNIONS OFFER LOW-COST SHIP PLAN HUNT FOR LIVE AMMO IN BROOKLYN WATERS USE RAGS FOR PAINT JOB ON ORE VESSEL SEAFARERS HELP FETE MARDI GRAS IN MOBILE, CALLED OLDEST IN US UNIQUE RECORD LIBRARY POLL $64 QUESTION MOBILE SCORES THAT SEAGOING WHITE ELEPHANT THE GREAT EASTERN BALTIMORE HAS OPTICAL SERVICE LAW WOULD LIFT SEA PAPERS IN NARCOTICS CASE STEEL NAVIGATOR HAS SHIPLOAD OF FUN WITH 600 MONKEYS ABOARD KYSKA CREW HAS XMAS SPIRIT; MATE OBLIGES WATERMAN SHIP HAS MORE OIL THAN WATER ON BOARD FOR FAR EAST RUN WHEN THE GERMAN FLEET MUTINIED UNION AID HELPS SEAMAN WIN LOAN FOR PURCHASE OF HOME REPATRIATED MEN AIDED QUICKLY SEAFARER RECUPERATING FROM RARE OPERATION ON HEART Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 3/19/1954 1954 Periodicals Seafarers Log