http://seafarerslog.org/archives/files/original/5a45b4b32be4f80e646d71a461a601f6.PDF c1d508b1e01ff1111efde48d745f1839 PDF Text Text SEAFARERS » OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE SEAFARERS INTE R N ATI O N At UNION • LOG ATLANTIC AND GULF ^ March 18, 195S DISTRICT * AFL • SEAFARERS ADOPT I ^ -II ->.va I Ir ' '^1 •K- -.,1 I I il i' -Story On Page 3 Squeeze On US To Scrap '50-50 Story On Page 2 1 1 ' Discussing changes in the galley as part of a new IwCnr AOOfv* systeni of food preparation and feeding, Seafarer Cliff Wilson, steward adviser (left), shows former SIU man Eandolph Bass, Alcoa port steward in New York, what's ^been done on the com­ pany's Alcoa Partner. (See Photos on Page 5.) • •,j,| f fjj A miniature United Nations set-up was organized for Liftto I#lw» a visit by Italian transport union leaders to an AFL Central Labor Council meeting held recently at the New Orleans SIU hall. The proceedings were translated into Italian by Mrs. V. Brown • (at mike) and piped into individual earphones worn by the delegates. Seafarer Fidel DiCSiovanni served as a ^ide for the yisitors. , ,, A > Familiar as a haven for sea oldtimers, At WCiflipifSr century-old Sailors Snug Harbor is now in danger of being taken over by the City of New York as a site for a college on Staten Island. The fate of some 200 men living there is uncertain. (Story on Page 4.) S<S>'S:v' iil I • f I 'f '!A \ I ''M �SEAFARERS March 18, »S5 LOG Proposed New AFL Longshore Hq« Pressure US To 50-50' Law I WASHINGTON—A powerful and influential com­ bine of foreign-flag shipowners, the State Department and a section of the Congressional farm bloc has been formed for a frontal assault on the "50-50" shipping law. The combine is using the huge pile-up of billions of surplus agricultural prod­ maritime circles, and among Con­ ucts in the Government's gressmen concerned with the na­ hands as a lever to upset tion's shipping problems. Repre­ Architect's sketch of the proposed headquarters at St. Louis, Mo., for the AFL International Brother­ hood of Longshoremen,/Which was founded 18 months ago after the old ILA was ousted from the AFL for racket domination. The new union has its principal strength right now on inland rivers and the Great Lakes. Occupancy is expected-in April. Improper Stowage Blamed For Mormackite Sinking NORFOLK—complete study of bulk cargo handling has been proposed in a Coast Guard report blaming improper loading for the loss of the SS Mormackite last fall with 37 of her crew. The NMU-manned C-2 went down off Cape Henry on October 8, 1954, much the> manner SlU-manned Southern Isles procedure in the Brazilian port. reflectors so that rescue vessels before her and the Southern Aside from the cargo study, the can spot them more easily. Districts afterwards. All three ships were carrying ore cargoes. In addition to the stress placed on improper cargo handling, the Coast Guard indicted the ship's captain for failure to prepare for abandoning ship, and for not or­ dering distress signals in time. The skipper went down with the ship. Earlier Notification Of equal significance, in light of the Southern District's loss, was the Coast Guard opinion that, loss of life would have been greatly re­ duced had the Coast Guard been notified earlier of the ship being overdue. The Mormackite and Southern Districts sinkings have ptompted demands for daily radio reports by merchant ships so that an immediate search can be under­ taken if a ship is hot heard from. Testimony offered on • the load­ ing of cargo during the hearings brought out that the 9,003 tons of iron ore loaded in Brazil had sim­ ply been dumped into the holds Without hand-trimming. This, the company maintained, was standard I SEAFARERS LOG Mar. 18. 1955 fe. Vol. XVII. No. 6 As I See It Pago 4 Burly ....Page. 7 Crossword Puzzle Page 8 Editorial Cartoon .......Page 9 Editorials , Page 9 Final Dispatch Page 19 Inquiring Seafarer Page 8 - Labor Bound-Up Page 8 Letter of The Week..... .Page 9 MariUme Page 8 Meet The Seafarer Page 8 Notices, Personals .......Page 17 T)ff Watch Page 14 Port Beports Pages 12, 13 Quiz Page 14 , Becent Arrivals Page 18 SIU History Cartoon ....Page 16 Vote of Thanks Page 9 Welfare Benefits Pages 18, 19 Welfare Beport Page 18 Your Dollar's Worth..... Page 4 Publlshod biwaekly at the headquarters ot the Seafarers International Union, At­ lantic A Guif District AFL, «75 Fourth Avenue, Brookiyn 32, NY. Tel. HYacinth f-6i00. Entered as second ciass matter at the Post Offfice In Brookiyn, NY, under the *«f ef;yAyB««t 84, 1911' Coast Guard hearing panel rdfcommended redesigmng of -lifeboat radios so that they could be oper­ ated without opening watertight coverings, immediate • notification of the boast Guard when a ship was in distress, and notification of the Coast Guard and operators whenever the master thought that the "eaworthiness of the vessel was affected by its cargo or by other difficulties. Additional Life Rafts The hearing board also sug­ gested that merchant ships carry additional life rafts and floats and that they be equipped with radar Cargo Shift The Mormackite left Brazil Sep­ tember 24, 1954, after loading iron ore and a smaU quantity of cocoa beans. Early on the morning of October 7 the crewmembers no­ ticed some cargo shifting in heavy seas. Subsequently, the vessel took a battering on its starboard bow causing a large cargo shift following which she took on a 25 degree list. Crewmembers were forced to abandon ship by jumping into the sea, after which the vessel rolled oyer and sank. Only 11 men sur­ vived the disaster. one of the US merchant ma­ rine's basic props. The strategy of the combine is a three-way squeeze play. Foreign nations started it off by refusing to take surplus agricultural cargoes. unless they could dictate the conditions of shipment. The State Department took it from there by encouraging the tactic and amplifying a con­ tinuous stream of protests. With agricultural surplus, failing to move in large quantity, some farm bloc Congressmen have taken up the beef as a means of protecting the huge subsidy program for their constituents. The farm bloc representatives are demanding that "50-50" be nullified as far as disposal of agri­ cultural surplus is concerned. If that happens the foreign shipowners-«and the State Department ex­ pect to have little difficulty repeal­ ing the entire Cargo Preference Act. Threatens Sea Jobs Victimized V this squeeze play would be the American merchant marine and the jobs of thousands of seamen whose livelihood has al­ ready been endangered by the wholesale transfers of US shipping to runaway flags. The attack on "50-50" , has aroused considerable alarm in FBI Nabs Enemy Of Canadian SIU On Charge Of Dodging Draft In US MONTREAL—A man who made a full-time job of attempting to disrupt the SIU's Canadian District has been picked up by the US Federal Bureau of Investigation for draft-dodging, according to the "Canadian Sailor," the District's official publication. John Droeger, who had been a ' hatchetman for a "union" op­ found at the fringe of the labor ance with Captain H. N. McMaster erated by a former shipping movement. The latter include un­ who graduated from- company hir­ master, was arrested in Philadel­ phia, the newspaper said, on a warrant issued by Assistant US Attorney General John Carrol. Droeger was recently described in McLean's magazine, a leading Canadian publication, as "Bank's severest critic." The magazine was referring to Hal Banks, who is the SIU of North America's interna­ tional representative in Canada. The arrest of Droeger, following upon the arre.sts in the attempted assassination of SIU SecretaryTreasurer Paul Hall and also the shenanigans of disgruntled ele­ ments in the National Maritime Union bear out the contentions made in the SEAFARERS LOG last September as to the nature of forces working against legitimate maritime unions. The LOG of Sep­ tember 3 described this group as the "A.nti-Union Medicine Show," a "traveling troupe" composed of three elements. They are "the Communist Party . . . lawyers w,hose professional ethics are on the skimpy side ... and an odd .assortment ^f phon\es ithat' can. be successful ex-officials, would-be officials without talent and a few fastbuck boys . . Canadian SIU Target At the time of the appearance of the article the Canadian District was a choice target of this oddly assorted group. As the LOG put it, a nucleus of unhappy ex-officials of the defunct Canadian Seamen's Union had formed a working alli- MeeUng Night Everg 2 Weeks Regular membership meet­ ings in SIU headquarters and at all branches are held every second Wednesday night at 7 PM; The schedule for the next few meetings Is as follows: Mar. 23. April 6, April 20. All Seafarers registered on the shipping list are required to attend the meetings. ing boss to "union" official. They were using ex-Canadian District seamen as a front to attack the Canadian District. McMaster him­ self operates under a charter from District 50 of the United Mine Worker's. Before his arrest, Droeger had been McMaster's field general and had gotten into the SIU Canadian District during the Korean crisis. Subsequently he was expelled for dual unionism and went to work for Mc Master. He pulled such capers as padlocking Canadian Dis­ trict halls, filing nuisance charges against Canadian "District officials and other publicity-seeking stunts. .According to the "Canadian Sailor"'- US authorities bad been looking W Droeger for failure to report for military service in the Korean War period. It was at this time that he was sailing in Canada. He made the mistake of taking the Canadian-flag ship Canadian Con­ structor into Philadelphia where he M^as picked up by US agents in a routine examination of the crew list. .•>uUh't' Uiil hns sentative Thor C. Tollefson (Bep.Wash.) ranking minority member of the House Merchant Marine Committee, has charged that for­ eign-flag operators are aiming for a complete monopoly of US Gov­ ernment cargoes. As an example of their tactics, he cited an Instance where repre­ sentatives of a foreign power ap­ proached a farm bloc Congressman directly^nd told him that "prod­ ucts of JUS state will be purchased if such can be shipped on their own flag vessels." Quarterbacking the strategy of the combine is the US State De­ partment which was taken to task recently by the House Merchant Marine Committee. The committee noted that the State Department had failed to maintain US national policy in respect to "50-50." "state Dep't Lobby Actually the SIU and other marltime groups consider this ah ex­ treme understatement. From the time that a "50-50" provision was first proposed back in 1948, the State Department, in their eyes, has virtually become a lobby on behalf of foreign flag shipowners. State Department spokesmen un­ der every administration have ap­ peared year after year at Congress­ ional hearings to oppose "50-50" in any shape or form. Outside of the Congressional hearing rooms the Department has energetically presented every protest made by foreign flags and has actively en­ couraged foreign nations to make such protests. As has been, pointed out in the LOG, the operations of "50-50" are* shell as to guarantee foreign flags half of existing Government cargoes but this, apparently, does not satisfy the foreign-flag oper­ ators. Thus far the Foreign Operations Administration and other agencies are living up to the letter of the law and no bills to repeal "50-50" have been introduce. The SIU and other maritime groups are keeping a close watch on the situ- • ation, prepared to move in if the situation warrants. Okay Subsidy For South Atl. WASHINGTON—The SlU-contracted South Atlantic Steamship Company's bid for a Government operatipg-differential subsidy con­ tract was approved this month by the Federal Maritime Board. How­ ever, the company must still clear up its foreign-flag connections or get a waiver on them from the FMB. The agreement requires the com­ pany to provide between 22 and 26 sailings per year with four C-2s from the US Atlantic ports of Hampton Roads and Key West to .the United Kingdom, Ireland, and all of continental Europe except J .bftaiW wt rtut �B fige Tare* SEAFdRElLB IOC Siareh IS, IfiS SlUSeenAs Victor In WC Voting Just a handful of ships re­ main to be voted as the crucial t h r e e-department collective bargaining election on West Coast ships draws "to a close. The last of the West Coast ships scheduled to vote is the 'round-the-world pas­ senger vessel, the President Mon­ roe, which will be voted in New York on or about March 26. The SlU Pacific District remains fully confident of a de'cisive victory. Monroe Delayed The Monroe was scheduled origi­ nally for this week, but engine trouble delayed her en route. She is now in an Italian shipyard get­ ting necessary repairs. Four freightships should be forwarding their ballots to the San Francisco office of the National Labor' Rela­ tions Board in the next few days. On the ballot in the elections are the SIU Pacific District, rep­ resenting the Sailors Union of the Pacific, the Marine Firemen's Union and the Marine Cooks and Stewards, AFL, versus Local 100 of Harry Bridges' longshore union. Bridges hhs taken over for the vir­ tually-defunct National Union of Marine Cooks and Stewards which at one time controlled steward de­ partments on West Coast ships. Count On April 4 The present schedule calls for the NLRB's San Francisco office to count all ballots on April 4. Vot­ ing began January 31 with the NLRB mailing ballots directly to the ships with the exception of five large West Coast passenger vessels. Indications of an SHJ victory i were strong from the very begin­ ning ' when Bridges and the NUMC&S (the latter union is not even on the ballot) attempted to upset the NLRB election order In the courts and confine the voting to steward department men only. The courts refused to interfere with the NLRB'a conduct of the voting. • . '^1 All ports have been instructed to allocate proper facilities for the registration of new men. Photo, left, shows fkilties set up to handle Class C registration in New York. In photO: at right, two appUcants are in process of being registered by dispatcher. The membership of the Seafarers International Union, Atlantic & Gulf District, has ratified a newly-nego­ tiated hiring clause with contracted operators, establishing a system of seniority in the employment of Seafarers. Action op the contract was taken at the regular membership meetings throughout the District on March 9. The new hiring system with the signatory companies is already operating in New York and will go into ef­ fect shortly in the outports. It was drawn up after lengthy study by the Union of difficulties brought about by the Taft-Hartley Law.^ Because of the provisions of"^= that law, the type of hiring hall operated by the SIU and From Report Of other maritime unions in the past has been considered Secretary-Treasurer as not permissible. In reporting to the membership oh the new hiring agreement at and to assure last Wednesday night's (March 9) headquarters membership meet­ When the Taft-Hartley professional'seaman the shipowner of qualified labor. ing, Secretary-Treasurer Paul Hall, who served as chairman of law was first passed the late The outcome of their discussion at the SIU negotiating committee, said: Senator Robert Taft himBelf agreed,' after meeting with Harry Lundeberg, president of the SIU of North Amwrica, thai the special problems of day-by-day hiring in maritime . The complete text of the membership-adopted hiring clause is on page 1 and the newly-adopted 'shipping rules are en page 6. had to be dealt with to protect the View of the training ship Andrew Furuseth, now stationed in Mo­ bile, where steps are being taken to obtain state recognition. Vessel has its own pier on a site that includes Ufeboats, rigging loft and facilities for all three shipboard departments. It will serve for the training of Class C men, as well as upgrading for duties performed by men employed-on SlU-contracted ships. Up to now ship has served for upgrading but now goes into type of training program Union envisioned when vessel was first acquired. In charge are Joe Wread, D. L. (JOghciad) Parker and BiU Wallace. ' I thd time was the "Lundeberg-Taft formula," an understanding which recognized seniority as , the key­ stone of any equitable hiring sys­ tem. Thds, for all practical pur­ poses, seniority has always been the basis of SIU hiring, but this new agreement spells it out in fine detail and embodies those details in the present contract. Three Classes The core of the new hiring system involves three classes of seniority, -with men sailing regularly before December 31, 1950, getting the top "A" rat­ ing. Men sailing regularly since January 1, 1951, to the present, are rated class '"B" and men who have no time aboard SlU-cohtracted ships as of January 1, 1955, or who have not' shipped regularly during the periods described to cover classes A and B, re­ ceive a "C" rating. Regular­ ity of sailing is defined as a minimum'of 90 days' seatime on SIU ships in any given cal­ endar year. ' , ,. For the purposes of seniority the joint hiring system gives equal recognition toward time spent on any SIU ship. In other words, the seniority is pooled among all SIU operators, just as time spent on SIU ships is pooled for the pur­ poses of vacation pay and welfare benefits. The significant provisions of the new hiring system are as follows: • The hiring syslenr and the .shiroine i^ules aria jumt 4uurt of the "The new agreement .gives, a maximum of job. security and pro­ tection to the SIU membership... "This agreement was accomplished only after many months of hard detailed work by many of our people. The negotiating com­ mittee, consisting of Joe Algina, Claude Simmons, Earl Sheppard, Lindsey Williams, Cal Tanner and Keith Terpe were assisted throughout by consultation with the SIU agents in all ports and in discussions with rank and file members. ^ addition, Morris Weisberger of the Sailors Union of the Pacific, a veteran of mari­ time negotiations, sat in throughput the agreement talks and gavo valuable advice and assistance, for which we are grateful. • "The union's general counsel, Sy Miller, did an outstanding job in all of the legal details, including the complexities of the TaftHartley Law. His efforts in this dijection, as reflected in the new agreement, could well serve as a pattern in those areas similarly affected by Taft-Hartley. "As the membership knows, we have discussed this problem in many membership meetings, over a considerable period of time. You are fully aware of the problem confronting the Union in this matter... "It is the considered opinion of your negotiating committee that this agreement on hiring represents an answer to this problem... Your committee recommends ratification of this agreement." (SIU membership in all ports voted unonimously in favor of the new agreement.) contract with the shipowner so that hiring now becomes a joint responsibility exercised thi-ough the physical facilities of the Union's halls. • There are important differ­ ences between the three classes of seniority. Class A men are recog­ nized under the new agreement as having first preference for employmfent. They can ship without hindrance accordingly. This group should contain the SIU's present full book membership as well as those other men who have been sailing steadily and are eligible for. class A seniority under the rules. Discussed In Defail It is estimated that the number of men who qualify for class A seniority and who do not yet pos­ sess membership in the SIU totals 350 men. In recognition of Jthese 350 men obtaining class A" senior­ ity, Seafarers in rfegiflw a\eetings have gone on record to allow thas* men to apply for full Union mem­ bership. The vote approving mem­ bership to these 350 men came only after the entire issue had been presented in SIU meetings and dis­ cussed in detail—the SIU policy on issuance of new memberships at any time. . Under the new agreement, class A men sailing SlU-contracted ships —including.the 350 newly^admitted men—will have, by far, the best job ratio in the entire maritima industry. • Class B seniority comes after class A on hiring. The present SIU permitmen are expected., to con­ stitute the great majority of those possessing class B seniority ratings. Since under the new provision class B men will have a priority, which did not exist before, over class C men, the holders of class, B (Continued ©n- page IT) - • I • ''ts V^I M.\ ;T-\! I 'V; I J �Pare F«w iMuvli It. IfM istAFMREks ide Snug Harbor Future Dark The 124-year old mariners' haven, Sailors Snug Harbor, inay close its doors if New York City goes through with plans to take over the property. A proposal by Mayor Robert Wagner to convert it into a Staten Island community college is now under study by the city's budget director. A GROUP OF FINNISH UNION SEAMEN APPEAR TO HAVE Admittedly a desirable struck an important blow for the West ahd in the process taken the laiece of real estate, the 127shipowner and the diplomats of several nations off the |iook. Accord­ ;.cre waterfront retreat started Mincticning in 1831 under the pro­ visions of the will of Captain Itobert Randall. At its peak it I'ared for over 800 aged seamen, but in recent years the number has dwindled until today there are lit­ tle more than 200 men in resi­ dence there. Contributing to the sharp decline in numbers are the difficult entrance requirements set up by the trustees. Men Will Lose Should the city take the prop­ erty these men would undoubted­ ly be the losers as any other home that might be set up for them would not compare in facilities to what they have now. And there is always the possibility that they might be turned over to state and city institutions instead of having a place of their own. The SlU has always been a staunch defend­ er of the oldtimers at Snug Har­ bor and will watch the current de­ velopment closely. Just four years ago, in fact, over SSOO.OOO was spent in modernizing Snug Harbor with the money go­ ing for an ultra-modern infirmary, new fire alarm system, heating A view of the large library at Sailors Snug Harbor, Staten Island, system, conversion of the electri­ NY, founded as a home for veteran seamen more than years cal system to AC current and re­ ago, M-hich the City of New York is considering as a site for a new construction of galleys. The in­ municipal college. The question of what would happen to the re­ firmary was especially designed to tired seamen has not. been decided. The "harbor" was established meet the needs of aged and bed­ and is maintained from funds of the late Captain Robert Randall. ridden seamen. The proposal to establish a col­ property off Washington Square duce the maximum income for the lege at the Snug Harbor site was : has grown past the $12 million benefit of resident seamen. They first put forth seven years ago. It ! mark by the trustees' own esti- point to the institution's practice is being taken seriously now be­ tmate. In recent years, the trustees of setting up 99-year leases for out­ cause of the expected population i have leased portions of the land side developers whereby the de­ increase on Staten Island when I to high-priced housing and com­ velopers reap the bulk of benefits the Narrows Bridge is built. while paying a flat rental to the mercial developments. Several officials besides the Despite the multi-million dollar estate. mayor have indicated great inter­ value of the holdings, the trustees Actually today. Sailor's Snug est in the plan and one Staten have pleaded poverty on several Harbor is operated as a private Island architect's group is applaud­ occasions. Once in February, 1949, corporation with the state and city ing the choice. The architects call they attempted to get resident sea­ having no direct interest in its the property ideal for a "first class men to sign over all their personal business. At one time three gov­ college installation" and declare property including any pension in­ ernment officials sat as members "there is no longer any need for come they might have. An out­ of the board of trustees, the its present use." cry from the maritime unions Chancellor of State, Recorder of Self-Supporting forced the trustees to beat a hasty New York County and the Mayor of New York. The first two offices Under the terms of Randall's retreat. Critics of the way the institu­ were abolished years ago and the will Snug Harbor is supported by income from property Randall tion is conducted have maintained mayor stopped sitting as trustee in owned in lower Manhattan. that the valuable properties have June, 1950, with the permission of Through the years the value 8f the not been managed so as to pro­ the courts. ing to an announcement by the Finnish Seamen's Union (which in­ cidentally,' is part of the International Transport workers Federation with which the SIU is affiliated) the crewmembers of the Finnish tank­ er Aruba will not take a shipload of jet fuel into Red China. For the information of those Seafarers who have not been in a position to keep up with the news on this issue, the Aruba had been chartered by her Finnish owners to a Hong Kong company which is believed to be controlled by Red China. She was loaded to the marks with kerosene which is the fuel used by jet-propelled warplanes. It has been estimated that there was enough aboard her to provide for 5,000 jet missions from the Chinese mainland against Formosa or against any US military ba%es like Okinawa. As soon as the voyage of the Aruba got under way there was a great deal of excitement. The Nationalist Chinese said that they would in­ tercept the vessel and there were demands made' in some quarters here in the States for the US to take positive action. Needless to say this made the-Far East situation more explosive in more ways thah one. Nobody though, seemed to be able to figure a way out. The Finnish government said it couldn't do anything and the ship's owners claimed their hands were tied by the charter. It looked like real trouble until the seamen of the Aruba themselves took a hand. Their union told the world Wednesday morning that the men would not take the ship into a Red Chinese port. This announcement was greeted with a sigh of relief everywhere except in Pciping and other Communist capitals. It might be no exaggeration to say that these union seamen on their own may have preserved peace in the world for the time being. The shipowner involved wasn't wonded about the consequences as long as he got his charter fee. The diplomats were helpless. What makes the situation all the more pleasing is that the Communist Partj^'s wateifront section has been calling on seamen to strike a blow for peace. These people even took a rap at the SEAFARERS LOG for pointing cut just what was happening around Formosa. Now that the Finnish seamen on the Aruba have struck a blow for peace we can expect the local Communists to weep and wail and gnash their teeth, which wiil show how peace-loving they really are. It might be that this courageous action by the Finnish seamen conu!S out of their first-hand knowledge of Communism because of the 1939 invasion of their country by Russia. Finland has been a sitting duck for the Communist armies ever since, with some of its territory oc­ cupied by Soviet armed forces. Certainly then, it took plenty of cour­ age on their part to act as they did despite any consequences their country might face. 4- IT'S A ROUTINE MATTER FOR THE PROFESSIONAL SEAMAN f SEAFARERS GUIDE TO BETTER BUYING the market instead of the more expensive advei-tised brands (they're all much the same). Around New York, white eggs cost more than brown. 8—Buy standard grades (Grades B and C) of canned Hut in Boston, many families are willing to pay more goods instead of fancy Grade A (they're all exactly for the brown. the same nutritionally). Actually, of course, the shell color has nothing to do 9—Buy the store's oWii private brands of packaged or •with the quality of the egg inside. This is simply one canned foods instead of the nationally-advertised «f the better-known of the many food prejudices that brands. lead people to part with extra money. -Every family has 10—Use home-cooked cereals instead of ready-to-eat some of them. But when you realize certain food-shopping cereals (often the home-cooked ones are more nour­ habits are founded on fictitious legend, including the ishing too). modern legends of high-powdered advertising, often you 11—Where available, buy foods loose; loose cottage can make noticeable savings. cheese, sauerkraut, lentils, etc., instead of the same Here is a list of 28 ways to cut food costs that a Sea­ foods in packages. farer's family might find both revealing and profitable: 12—Buy small or medium-sized oranges and other fruit . 1—Buy brown or'mixed-color eggs if cheaper in your instead of the large, specially-selected, more ex­ locality. pensive ones (they're just as good eating). ; 2—Use large eggs during spring and summer but switch 13—Buy the fruits and vegetables in season in your area to mediums and pullets in tire autumn months. instead of those hauled long distances. :. S—Use evaporated milk or dry non-fat milk powder in 14—U.se more dried fruits instead of canned. Buy the cooking insdead of whole milk. smallest sizes, as smalFsizd prunes; they are. priced lowest. ' • 4^—Buy plain milk if the price is lower instead of 15—Buy '.stahdard whole wheat, rye and White breads in­ homogenized milk. stead of rolls or special bi'cads. N 8—Use margarine, cottage-cheese, apple butter or peanut 16—Serve home-made desserts instead of commercial butter as a-bread spread instead of butter. " baked good^. fli-^Buy cheese off-the loaf instead of in packages or jars." 17—Use pink ralmbqj khd bopita instead, of red^ salmon 7—-Buy the cheapest brdiid of vegetable shortening in and Tuna fish. ' ' " '' * 28 Ways To Cut Food Bills 4'" to deal with danger and near-disaster. Ship rescues happen so often that most of the time they go unnoticed. Just recently, for example, the crew of the SlU-manned Antinous had quite a time saving some, fishermen in rough Gulf waters outside of Tampa. According to ail accounts, this was a considerable feat of seamanship. And this week headquarters received word that crewmembers of the Stony Creex had been warmly commended by their skipper for prompt and efficient action in plucking one of their number from the sea. The professional seamen, like the men who man SIU ships, take this kind of occurrence as part of the job. They hope it doesn't hap­ pen, but if it does they Have the skill and training to handle the emer­ gency. That's why it is important to see to it that US ships are manned by experienced professionals who are always up on the skills of their trade. || f 4- Written exclusively for THE SEAFARERS LDG. by Sidney Margolius/ Leading Expert on Buying 18—Buy large sizes of packaged and canned goods instead of small ones. 19—Serve fewer and larger courses at meals instead of many small courses (tcenable buying in bulk and to have fewer leftovers). 20—Except when tomatoes are in season locally, buy them canned instead of fresh. 21—Serve more frequently these vegetables high in food value for co.st: turnips, kale, carrots, collards and green cabbage (and often spinach). 22—Serve potatoes more often than rice or macaroni products (they're higher in food value). 23—Use molbsses to add iron and extra food value to . baked beans, cereals, gingerbread and puddings, in­ stead of white sugar. * • 24—-Cook vegetables in as little water as possible, but save the remaining liquid—also the liquid from canned vegetable.s—^for' making soups and gravy. ""Some of the best nourishment is in the liquids. 25—Cook vegetables in the skin where possible instead of paring fii-st, both to preserve food value and avoid thick peelings. 26—Make your own jellies and jams while fruits are in season instead of buying preserves later. . 27—^Use meat leftovers! and bone scrapings in casserole'is, scailoped dishes o^ salads. V 28—Plan ypiir menus beforehand around the advertised ;..y. specials Hi the "markets xpthe^. than Y'aiiing until you get to the store and buying on impulse. �BEAFdnEHS Piss Wlrs LOG New Meal Set-llp Betters Service, Cuts Waste Viind-UpOn, Cos Report Most of the retroactive wage claims payable to Seafarers under the SIU freight agreement have been collected, but the major ^teamship operators report they still have amounts outstanding. While over-all totals are cator, voyage 20 (Jan. '54-April '54) small, individual Seafarers $344.95; Steel Inventor, voyage 89, Seafarers in the steward department aboard the Alcoa Partner help launch the "new look" in food preparation and feeding which will be tried on all company ships to improve service and cut waste. At left, C. G. Cazalas, galley utijity, prepares soup, while Alfredo Aaron, chief cook (right),"^ carves ham to prder. Unions Nix Wage Freeze striking back at a Congressman's proposal to freeze seamen's wages, US maritime unions have moved to protest and battle this infringement on collective bargaining rights. Action followed after Representative Herb^t C. Bonner (Dem., North Carolina) wrote to the Maritime Administration suggesting that the agency in its calculation of the operating it would not abide by such a ruling as far as unsubsidized operations place a subsidy ceiling on subsidy. manning scales, wages and fringe benefits as of January 1, 1955. In other words, seamen sailing sub­ sidized ships would not be able to negotiate improvements through their unions as the Government would not figure any further gains $IU Tanker Men Hailed In Rescue Among the first to act was the Sailors Union of the Pacific which went on record for a six-point pro­ gram of counteraction involving protests to Bonner and the Mari­ time Administration as well as a call for united union action. The SUP further declared that should such a proposal be adopted it would notify the shipowners that are concerned. In his letter of protest to Bon­ ner, SUP Secretary - Treasurer Harry Lundeberg placed responsi­ bility upon the Pacific Maritime Association for the wage freeze, proposal. He recalled that the same idea was put forth a year ago by a West Coast shipowners' spokes­ man. . j A' ' 'v'ic'.' have appr^able amounts coming to them in some instances. Among companies which still have back wages outstanding, Alcoa has submitted a list of 65 names which covers both retroac­ tive pay and other unclaimed wages. The total is approximate­ ly $1,600 of which $553.05 is due to an ex-Seafarer John BaiTon, for a 1951 voyage on a National Shipping Authority vessel. Mailed Checks Bull Lines reports very little left on retroactivity with only 35 checks still pending for amounts of $1 or more and a small number of checks for lesser amounts. The company explained that these checks were mailed out three times without success in locating the Sea­ farers who had money due. Calmar and Ore Lines were un­ able to break down retroactivity as they had lumped it together with unclaimed wages running back for the past several years. Isthmian reports that it has $14,130 still outstanding out of an original total of $63,000 that was due Seafarers. Some of the ships with larger amounts due are: Steel Advocate, voyage 19 (Aug.Nov. '53) $298.87; Steel Age, voy­ age 19 (Nov. '53-Feb. '54) $701.18; Steel Executive,, voyage 11 (Nov. '53-Feb. '54) $331.63; Steel Fabri- SOUTH GATE, Calif.—-One of 43 veteran Seafarers currently receiving a guaranteed Seafarers on board the income of $25 weekly in SIU disability benefits, Henry A. Ferree, 66, has found this Los Stony Creek were proud pos­ Angeles suburb a perfect place in which to enjoy his new-found leisure. sessors of a "well done" from Actually, Ferree points"*'""" the ship's captain as the result of out, he still has a job of He continued shipping the successful rescue of a crewsorts. Since hit wife In­ with either Isthmian or member who went overboard in tends to work until she Waterman until his eye­ shark-infested waters. herself can retire next sight got too bad and, in — Singled out% for praise in the fall, he's "chief dishwash­ fact, wound up his final z commendation were Pavlos Vour- er" around the house trip last September on . deris, chief steward, Mike Ohan- right now. After that, Isthmian's Steel Designer. ^^ < nesian, AB, and Frank, Alboi'e, however, the closest to In December, he began bosun, along with the ship's chief anything resembling "work Ai.4 >•> receiving SIU disability mate. that he's going to get to benefits, but he still keeps will come when the lawn in touch with doings at Gave Immediate Alarm around their comfortable the SIU hall in Wilming­ According to available informa­ home needs weeding. ton. He visited the De­ tion, on the rescue, one of the crewsigner at Long Beach last Ferree, who was born members went overboard on week while she was in February 9 while the Stony Creek in Texas back in '89, first port to see if she w-as still started on a career at sea was outside Aruba, headed for the in good shape and to say Panama Canal. Vourderis, who saw when he joined the US hello to former ship­ Navy, for a four-year him hit the water. Immediately mates. sounded the alarm while Ohan- hitch', in 1908. His first Thanks to the SIU ship, he recalls, was the nesian thi'ew him a life ring. Welfare Plan and tiie square - rigged Intrepid. A boat was then lowered away His job was that of a 40money he had coming in Seafarer and Mrs. Henry A. Ferree on the lawn and the crewmember was safely gallon yards man at $16.40 from social security he of their comfortable home in South Gate, Calif. hauled back aboard little the worse per, month. Today, many can now take it easy for for wear although the waters in the men on SIU ships earn that in just slightly hectic. Eventually, in 1920, the rest of his life. "It's good to area were thick with sharks. one day of regular Saturday over­ Ferree had to give up his sea life know you're not forgotten," he In his commendation. Captain time, aside from their base pay. and help raise his young daughter, points out. E. M. Mokarzel cited Vourderis and "The disability benefits provided After bis Navy hitch was over, Bose. His Arst wife had died sev­ Ohannesian for their prompt ac­ Ferree turned to merchant ships eral years before. every week by the SIU made a tion and bosun Albore for his "An* for a Tob and in 1913 in San Fran­ Then, in 1940, Ferree returhied great deal of difference to men seamanship." cisco eventually landed a quarter­ to shipping and began working for like myself who no longer can work The skipper concluded, "It is master's berth on the Pacific Mail Isthmian which, at the time, was at their profession," Ferree stated. gratifying to have seen that the Line's Mongolia. He received $40 an unorganized company: He stay­ "I don't-know what we'd do with­ entire crew responded to tlie monthly, there, but with the watch ed until the SIU began organizing out then)," he added, "Years ago, emergency promptly and without on. ships- at that time always on the company, and remained to vote before the SIU, there were no reserve, . and that each man co-i call, and a four-on, four-off system for the Union and help bring the benefits like these for. seamen at operated itUly ^afld effectively." .all." in .< oper^ion, conditions - tveve fleet under SIU contract. pas' waaiwqiai nqi atiiy,ud 1>«B "jdi oJ • • • -"-v.; (Sept. '53-Feb. '54) $307.95. Also, Steel King, voyage 17 (July-Nov. '53) $297.79; Steel Maker, voyage 27 (Sept. '53-Jan. '54) $704.65; Steel Navigator, voy­ age 20 (Oct-. •'53-Feb. '541 $420.97; Steel Ranger, voyage 89 (Sept. '53Feb. '54) $317.52; Steel Scientist, voyage 24 (Jan.-April '54) $416.30; Steel Surveyor, voyage 19 (Oct. '53Jan. 54) $405.12. Other large payments due are Steel Traveler, voyages 15 and 16 from August, 1953. through May, 1954, a total of $821.14; Steel Ven­ dor, voyage 20. (Oct. '53-Mar. '54) $438.65; Steel Voyager, voyage 19, (Nov. '53-March '54) $500.79 and Steel Worker, voyages 21 and 22 from October, 1953, to May, 1954, a total of $674.33. Has Unclaimed List Mississippi Shipping Company has no breakdown on retroactive wages for last year as it has lumped them together with figures for past years. A total of 830,000 is still outstanding on this list, with most of the money being old unclaimed wages. Last year the LOG ran the company's unclaimed wage list and Seafarers can check the list by consulting the bound volumes in any SIU hall. Robin Line has $2,160.72 pend­ ing for 173 Seafarers. The largest amounts outstanding are on the Robin-Goodfellow, voyages 24 and 25; Robin Gray, voyages 20 and 23; Robin Kettering, voyage 20^ Robin Kirk, voyage 21; Robin Locksley, voyage 48; Robin Sherwood, voy­ age 48 and Robin Trent, voyage 20. South Atlantic reports it has a 200-man list of wage claims cover­ ing both retroactivity under the current contract arid unclaimed .wages running back for several years. Con.sequently the amount of retroactivity left is a small one. Seatrain Lines reports a total of $2,877.78 remaining in retroactive wages plus another 8858.08 in un­ claimed wages for other reasons. By ships the totals are: Soati'ain Texas, 546.84; Savannah, 3'70.52; Louisiana, 162.99; New York. 793.56; New Jersey, 745.49; Georgia, 258.38. Morse Okayed As MA Chief WASHINGTON — Although he declared that the wholesale trans­ fer of US ships was a "correct" policy, Clarence G. Morse was unanimously confirmed for the Federal Maritime Board by the Senate Interstate and Foreign Commerce Committee. In the public hearing on his ap­ pointment, Morse told the Senators that he did not approve of the "principle" of transferring Ameri­ can ships to runaway flags, but -he gave his endorsement to the Roth­ schild program of allowing 69 Liberty ships and a number of pther types to escape US-flag obli­ gations. Morse said it was the proper procedure at the time, even though the Government was al­ ready setting various aid programs in motion. • , ---•v." I •\ 'CM �SEAFARERS Six SEAFARERS INFL UNION A&G DISTRICT, AFL 2. Shipping Procedure CONTRACTED EMPLOYERS Shipping Rules |C. s:;: I nf.:: • h 6. Standby Jobs A, Standby Jobs shall be shipped in rotation, within A. No seaman shall be shipped unless registered for shipping. No seaman shall register for shipping in more each class of seniority rating. No standby shall be per­ than one-port of the Union at one time. No shipping card mitted to take a regular job on the same vessel unless he returns to the Hall and throws in for the regular Job. Issued in one port shall be honored in another. B. No seaman may register for another, or use another's His original shipping card shall be returned to the stand­ by when he reports back to the dispatcher unless it has shipping card or seniority rating card. All registration must be in person, and seamen must bt present, in person, expired in the interim. when a job is offered them. 7. Relief C. No seaman may register for a job so long as he In the event an employed seaman wants time off and is employed on any vessel. secures permission to do so, he shall call the Hall and D. No seanian shall have the right to reject more than secure a relief. No reliefs shall be funiished for less than Every seaman shipped through the hiring halls of the two jobs, after throwing in for them, within the period four (4) hours or more than three (3) days. The one ask­ Seafarers International Union of North America, Atlantic of validity of his shipping card. Rejection of more than ing for time off sliall be responsible for paying the relief and Gulf District, hei-einafter called the "Union" shall be two jobs during this period will require re-registration at the regular overtime rate. Reliefs shaU be shipped in shipped pursuant to the following rules: and the taking out of a new shipping card. the same manner as a standby. E. Every seaman who accepts a job, and who quits or This rule shall not apply when replacements are not 1, Seniority is fired after one day, shall not be permitted to retain lequired by the head of the department concerned. A. Without prejudice to such other legal conditions and the original shipping card on which he received his job, restrictions on employment as are contained in the agree­ but must re-register to ship. If he quit or is fired within 8. Promotions or Transfers Aboard Ship ments between the Union and the Employei's, seamen one day, he must report back to the dispatcher on the No seaman shipped under these rules shall accept a shall be shipped out on jobs offered through- the hiring next succeeding business day or else give up the original promotion or transfer aboard ship unless there is no time halls of the Union in accordance with the class of sen­ shipping card on which he received his job. or opportunity to dispatch the required man from the iority rating they possess, subject, nevertheless, to the# F. .No seaman shall be allowed to register on more than Union hall. other rules contained herein. one list (department). No seaman shall be shipped out 9. Change In Seniority B. Seniority shall be determined in the following man- on a job off' a list other than that on which he is registered, A. All those who possess a Class B seniority rating Jier: except under emergency eircunistances, such as insuring shall be entitled to a Cla^ A seniority rating eight <8) A Class A seniority rating shall he possessed by all against a vessel sailing short in a department. sesmen who have sliipped regularly up to December 31, G. No seaman shall be tendered any job unless he is yeai-s after they commenced to ship regularly with the 1954, with one or more of the companies listed in Appen­ qualified therefor in accordance with law and can furnish, companies set forth in Appendix "A", provided they dix A, attached hereto and made a part hereof, since on demand, the appropriate documents evidencing this maintain their Class B seniority rating witliout break. B. All those who possess a Class C senimity rating shall before January 1, 1951, subject, however, to Rule 9. qualification. be entitled to a Class B seniority rating two (2) years A Class B seniority rating shall be possessed by all H. No man shall be shipped while under the influence after they commenced to ship regularly with the com­ seamen who have shipped regularly up to December 31, of alcohol or drugs. panies set fortli in Appendix "A", provided they main­ 1954, with one or more of the companies listed in Ap­ I. All seamen shipped through the Union shall be given pendix A, since before January 1, 1955, and who do not two assignment cards. One of these cards shall be given by tain their Class seniority rating without break. have a Class C seniority rating, subject to Rule 9. C. Shipping with one or more of the companies set the seamen to the head of his department aboard ship, A Class C seniority rating shall be possessed by all the other to his department delegate aboard ship. forth in Appendix "A" for at least ninety (90) days each seamen who do not have a Class A or Class B seniority J. Subject to the other rules contained herein, a seaman calendar year is necessary to maintain without break a rating, subject, however, to Rule 9. receiving a job shall give up the shipping card on which Class B or Class C seniority rating, subject, however, (o Rule 3A. This latter provision shall not operate so as to Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, no he was shipped. reduce any seaman's seniority if the requirements therein seaman shall be deprived of the seniority to which he were not met during the first calendar year in which the would be otherwise entitled by virtue of service with the 3. Hospital Cases seaman commenced to ship but, if not met, the said armed iorees of the US. A. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein calendar .vear shall not be counted insofar as seniority up­ C. A seaman will be deemed to have shipped regularly contained, the period of employment i-equired' during with one or more of the companies listed in Appendix A each year to constitute regular shipping, or the main­ grading is concerned. D. The same provisions as to military service as are if he has been employed as an unlicensed seaman no less tenance of Cla.ss B or Class C seniority without break, than ninety days (90) per calendar year on one or more shall be reduced, pro rata, in accordance with the propor­ contained in Ruie IB shall be analogously applicable here. American flag vessels owned or operated by the said tion of bona fide in and out patient time to each calendar JO. Discipline companies, subject, however, to Rule 3 A. This latter year. Example: If a man has been a bona fide in and out A. The Union, although under no indemnity obligation, provision shall not operate so as to reduce any seaman's patient for four (4) months in one caiendar year, the seniority if the requirements therein were not met duruig yearly employment required for seniority purposes shall will not ship drunks, dope addicts and others whose pres­ ence aboard ship would constitute a menace or nuisance the flrst calendar year in which the seaman commenced be reduced by one-third for that year. to the safety and health of the crew. Anyone claiming a to ship but, if not met, the said calendar year shall not B. A seaman who enters a bona fide hospital as an in­ be counted insofar as seniority upgrading is concerned. patient and remains there for thirty (30) days or more, wrongful refusal to ship may appeal to the Seafarers .Ap­ D. Employment with, or election to any office or job shall be entitled, if otherwise qualified, to receive a thirty peals Board, which shall be a board of four (4), two (2) to in the Union, or any employment taken at the behest of, (30) day back-dated shipping card. If he has been such be selected by the Union, and two (2) by that negotiating the Union, shall be deemed to be the same as employment an inpatient for less than thirty (30) days, he shall be committee, representing Employers, known and commonly with any of the companies listed in Appendix A, and entitled, if otherwise qualified, to a shipping card back­ referred to as the Management Negotiating Committee. seniority shall accrue accordingly during the period such dated to the day he first entered the hospital. This ruie This Board shall name a Hearing Committee of two (2), to sit in the port where 'the refusal to ship takes place, employment, office, or job is retained. shall not apply unless the seaman reports to the dis­ if practicable, and if not, at the nearest available port E. A Cla.ss A seniority rating shall be the highest. Class patcher within forty-eight (48) hours after his discharge, B, the next highest, and so on, and priority as to jobs exclusive of Satui'days, Sundays, and Holiday.s, and pro­ where it is practicable. This latter Committee shall "ar­ range for a prompt and fair hearing, with proper notice, shall be granted accordingly, subject, nevertheless, to the duces his hospital papers. and shall arrive at a decision, unanimously, to be binding rules contained herein. and final. If a unanimous decision cannot be reached, an F Within each class of seniority, a seaman shall be 4. Business Hours and Job Calls appeal shall be taken to the Seafarers' Appeals Board. shipped in accordance with the length of time he has A. All Union halls shall be open from 8:00 A.M. until Where a specific company is involved in the dispute, a been unemployed, the one unemployed the longest to be 5:00 P.M. On Saturdays, the halls shall be open from shipped the first, subject, nevertheless, to the rules con­ 8:00 A.M. to 12:00 noon. On Saturday afternoons, Sun­ representative thereof must be appointed to the Com­ mittee by the Board, unless waived by the said company. tained" herein. days, and Holidays, the hours of business shall be de­ B. Where a seaman deliberately fails or refuses to join G. It shall be the responsibility of each seaman to termined by the Port Agent, upon proper notice posted his ship, or is guilty of misconduct or neglect of entry furnish proof of seniority and length of the period of his on the bulletin board the day before. aboard ship, he may lose his shipt>ing card for up to unemployment. Notwithstanding any other provisions B. Jobs shall be announced during non-holiday week herein, the failure to produce adequate proof of seniority days, including Saturday mornings, on the hour, except thirty (30) days. For a second offense, he may lose his or length of unemployment shall be greunds for denial for the 8:00 A.M. and noon calls. On Saturday afternoons, card up to sixty (60) days. In especially severe cases, or of the job sought. An appropriate seniority rating card Sundays, and Holidays, or under exceptional circum­ in case of a third offense, he may lose his shipping card duly issued by the Union shall be deemed sufficient proof stances, the job may be called out at any time after it permanently. C. The Board of four (4) shall be a permanent body, of seniority, for the purposes of shipping, without prejudice • comes in. In no case shall a job be called out unless it and each nieinbei-s .shall have an alternate. The selection to the right of any seaman to furnish different proof of is first posted on the shipping board. of alternates, and the removal of members or alternates seniority in reasonably legible and easily ascertainable.C. There shall be a Ihnit of eight (8) job calls in which form, such as official Coast Guard discharges. Unemploy­ the priority of Class A and Class B personnel may be ex^r- . -shall be-set forth in the agreements signed by the Uniqn ment periods shall be ascertained solely from shipping cised in obtaining a pai-ticular job. If the eighth job call . and the Employers. -Members of the.Board may serve on a Hearing Committee, subject to sub-paragraph A. The cards i.ssued by the Union. does not produce a qualified seaman possessing either: a.'' H. Seniority rating cards will be issued by the Union Class A or Class B seniority rating tin the order pre- , Board shall act only if (here participates at least on# • only upon written and personal application made and ac- scribed herein), that seaman with a Class C sexiiorRy rat­ Union member end one-Employer member, while the ecpted. These will be valid only for the calendar yeai- in ing, otherwise entitled under th»e rules, shall be selected collective strength of each group shall be (lie same, re­ which issued. No seniority rating -card will be issued after for the job. This rule sliall not be applied so as to. <»use gardless- ef-the actual number in attendance. The deciaions-ef the Board shall be -by unanimous vote, and sh^ll October in each calendar year, unless the remaining time a vessel to sail shorthanded or late. , - be final and binding, except that, in the event of a tie, is not needed to preserve the seniority rating of the appli.the Board shall select an impartial fifth member to re­ 5. Special Preferences cant, or is mathematically sufficient to enable him to re­ tain his seniority. Each seniority rating card shall be based A. Within each class of seniority rating, seamen over solve the particular issue involved, in which case, a major# jupon entitlement as of the date applied-for. fifty (50) years of age shall be preferred in obtaining jobs ity vote sjhail then be final and binding. Where no agree­ ment can be reached as to the identity of the fifth mem­ Shipping cards issued by the Union shall be valid for of fire watchmen. a period of three months from the date of issue, subjdct B. A seaman shipped on a regular job, whose ship lays ber, application therefor shall be made to the American to the other rules contained herein. Shipping cards shall up less than fifteen (15) days after the' original employ­ Arbitration Association, and Its rules shall then be fol­ be issued to all those requesting the same, previded the ment date, shall have revered to him the shipping card lowed in reaching a decision. D. All disputes over seniority, and transportation dis­ aeaman has all the necessary documents and papers re­ on which he was shipptMl, provided the card has not ex­ putes arising out of seniority, rule applications, shall be quired by law and is otherwise eligible. pired. dealt with in the same manner as disputes over shippinB. I. Seniority shall be calculated on the basis of emploj'C. If a ship lays up and then calls for a crew within rights. ment in any one of titese three departments; deck, engine ten (10) days after iayup, the same crew members shall E. W is the obligation of the one aggrieved to initiate or steward, have prefei-ence, providing. they are registered on the action. No particular form is necesoary, except that the J. Seamen with a Class B and Class C seniority rating shipping list. complaint must be in writing, set out the facts in suffi­ may be shipped on a vessel for one round trip, or sixty D. A seaman with a Class A seniority rating shall not cient detail to properly identify the situation complained 160) days, whichever is longer; in tlie latter case, the sixty be required to throw in for a job on the same vessel after (60) day period may be extended,. where necessary to first obtaining a job thereon, so long as he has not been of, and be addressed to tfao Seafarei-s Appeals Boei<d, Room 316, Graystone Building, Mobile, Alabama. insure practicability insofar as leaving the'ship is con­ discharged for cause or has quit. cerned. This rule shall not be applied so as to cause a £. Class C personnel with e certificate of satisfaction IV. Amendments vessel to sail shorthanded. No transportation shall be completed from toe_ Andrew Furuseth Training School These rules, including seniority classifications and due by virtue of the application of this rule. The words, shall be preferred over other Class C personnel. requirements, may be amended at any time, in accordance "round trip," shall have the usual md customary meaning F. The above preferences shall obtain notwithstanding with law, contracts between the Union and the Employers, attributed to it by leamcof^n^HattHtr it be eeastwise, inter- any other c provision to the contrary contained, in. tfaes* andj to the extept pei-initted by law and contract, as afore- AND ! I Msrsfa !S, 1«5S LGC Oli.: �':=:T3;y-S^-Vrf Mard IS, 19SS SEAFARERS LOG Pare ScT« New Membership-Approved Hiring Clause Article 1, employment, amended March 1, 1955 and ratified in District-wide meetings on March 9, 1955, This agreement is entered into this 1st day of March 1955, by end between the Seafarers International.Union of North America, Atlantic and Gulf District, affiiiated with the American- Federation of Labor, hereinafter referred to as the Union and the undersigned company, and any of its subsidiary companies, which may be form­ ed. to operate ships in the off-shore, coastwise, or intercoastal trade, hereinafter referred to as the Company and remains in effect until September 30, 1957, and shall continue from year to year thereafter, unless either party hereto shall give written notice to the other of its desire to amend or terminate same, which notic^ shall be given at least 60 days prior to the expiration date. After such notice has been given, specific proposals must then be submitted within 10 days and negotiations commenced at a time which is mutually agreed upon. If, duryig the 60 day period, the . parties fail to agree with reference to such proposals, the parties may, by mutual consent, ex­ tend this agreement for a specific period beyond such expiration date for the continuance of negotiations. Ap­ plications by either party to open negotiations for changes In the wage scale or any monetary matters at any time during the life of this agreement shall not be deemed cause for termination of this Agreement. Monetary mat­ ters for the purpose of this section shall be the following: Overtime, Standby Rate, Longshore Rate, Tank Cleaning Rate, E.xplosives Handling Rate, Extra Meals Rate, Sub­ sistence and Room Allowance. Section 1. The Company recognizes the Union as the sole and exclusive bargaining representative of all Un­ licensed Personnel employed on board American " flag vessels owned or operated by the Company, or its sub­ sidiaries. Section 2. The Union agrees to furnish the Company with capable, competent, and physically fit persons when and where they are required, and of the ratings needed to fill vacancies necessitating the employment of Unlicensed Personnel, in ample time to prevent any delay in the scheduled departure of any vessel covered by this agree­ ment. To assure maximum harmonious relations, and in order to obtain the best qualified employees with the least risk of a delay in the scheduled departure of any vessel covered by this agreement, the Company agrees to secure all Unlicensed Personnel through the Hiring Halls of the Union. If, for any reason, the Union does not furnish the Company with capable, competent and physically fit persons when and where they are required, and of the ratings needed to fill such vacancies, in ample time to prevent any delay in the scheduled departure of any vessel covered by this agreement, the Company may then obtain members of the Unlicensed Personnel from any available source, in which case the Union shall be notified. Section 3, The Company agrees that, as a condition of employment, all Unlicensed Personnel shalh become members of the Union within thii'ty-one days after the execution of this agreement, or within thirty-one days after hire, whichever is later, ancl shall remain members of the Union while employed by the Companies listed in Appendix A, attached hereto, and made a part hereof, during the life of this agreement. The Company is not obligated to take steps to enforce this provision unless due notice is received in writing from the Union, to the effect that a member of the Unlicensed Personnel is not in compliance herewith. Section 4. (a) The Union agrees that the Company has the right to reject (by written notation on the job assignment slip) any application for employment who the Company considers unsatisfactory or unsuitable for the vacancy, or to discharge any member of the Unlicensed Personnel who, in the opinion of the Company, is not satisfactory. If the Union considers the rejection of any applicant for employment or the discharge^^of any mem­ ber of the Unlicensed Personnel as being without reason­ able cause, such action by the Company shall be dealt with under the grievance procedure, and the Union agrees that" any such rejection or discharge shall not cause any vessel to be delaj'ed on her scheduled departure. (b) Unlicensed Personnel when appiying for employ­ ment shall submit to the physical examination prescribed by, the Company, and shall submit from time to time Burly thereafter to such physical mcamination as^may be re­ quired by the Company. In the event any decision of the Company physician is challenged by the Union, as to the physical fitness of a member of the Unlicensed Personnel, such member shall be re-examined by a Public Health Physician and his decision shall be binding. Section 5. The Company agrees not to discriminate against any member of the Unlicensed Personnel for legitimate Union activities, and the Company further agrees .hat no man, referred in accordance with this Article, shall be discriminated against because of race, ^reed, color, national or geographic -origin. Section 6. The term Unlicdhsed Personnel ai used in this agreement shall not include super-cargoes, cadets, pursers, and livestock tenders. Section 7. Either party shall have the right, upon written notification to the other, to re-negotiate any part or all of Article 1. Upon receipt of such notification, the parties to this agreement shall meet within seven (7) days for negotiations of this issue. Section 8. Subject to the other provisions of this Article, jobs shall be referred and held upon the follow­ ing seniority basis: (a) A Class A seniority rating, the highest, shall be possessed by all Unlicensed Personnel who have shipped regularly, up to December 31, 1954, with one or more of the companies listed in Appendix A, since before January 1, 1951. (b) A Class B seniority rating, the—next highest, shall be possessed by all Unlicensed Personnel who have shipped regularly, after January 1, 1951, to December 31, 1954, with one or more of the cdmpanies listed in Ap­ pendix A, and who do not have a Class A seniority rating. (c) A Class C seniority rating, the ne.xt highest, shall be possessed by all Unlicensed Personnel who do not have a Class A or Class B seniority rating. (d) Unlicensed Personnel possessing a Class B senior­ ity rating shall be entitled to a Class A seniority rating eight (8) years after they commenced to ship regularly with any of the companies set forth in Appendix A. Un­ licensed Personnel possessing a Class C seniority rating shall be entitled to a Class B seniority rating two (2) years after they commenced to ship regularly with any of the companies set forth in Appendix A. No upgrading of seniority shall be granted if the Class B or Class C rat­ ing, as the case may be, was not maintained without break during the required years. Shipping with one or more of the companies set forth in Appendix. A for at least ninety (90) days each year is necessary to constitute shipping regularly, and also, to maintain without break a Class B or Class C seniority rating, unless reduced pi-o rata by virtue of bona fide inpatient and/or out-patient hospital time. This latter provision shall not operate so as to reduce any seaman's seniority if the requirements therein were not met during the first calendar year in which the seaman commenced to ship but, if not met, the said calendar year shall not be counted insofar as senior­ ity upgrading is concerned. No seaman shall be deprived of the seniority to which he would be otherwise entitled by virtue of his service with the armed forces of the United States. (e) Subject to the provisions of Section 3. assign­ ments to jobs within the above classes shall be made without regard to Union affiliation. (f) The Seafai-ers' Appeals Board may provide for concomitant reasonable disciplinary, administrative, and elaborate rules and regulations, add newly contracted companies, provide for rotary shipping within classes, and full seniority credit for employment by, or election to office or job in, or any employment taken at the be­ hest of, the Union, and draw reasonable job circulation regulations, provided: 1) The said rules, regulations, and provisions do not discriminate except to the extent contemplated in this' agreement, or change the intent and purpose of this agreement. 2) Rotary shipping within classes A, B, and C, shall be based on a period of unemployment of ninety (90) days. . 3) Men over fifty years of age may be prefeiTed in obtaining jobs of fire watchmen. 4) The Andrew Furuseth Training School, jointly 3iate« Are I/nreasonable operated and administered as an upgrading center for unemployed seamen, shall also be jointly operated and administered, pursuant to ai-rangements and details to be worked out, to train Class C personnel. The Company prefers to hire Class C personnel regardless of rating or department with a certificate of satisfactory completion of the course therein over other Class C personnel when­ ever possible. • 5) The job circulation regulations may provide for requiring those possessing a seniority rating below Class A to leave a vessel after sixty (60) days or one I'ound trip, wihichever is longer, provided, further, however, this regu­ lation is not construed to sanction a vessel's sailing shorthanded. There shall be no bumping within Class A. No tranportation, subsistence or wages shall be paid a man joining or leaving a vessel through exercise of seniority privileges, notwithstanding any provisions of Article II, Section 57, of this agreement. Any disputes arising out. of the application of tills sub-paragraph shall be decided under the procedure set forth in sub-paragraph 6. 6) Any seaman claiming a wrongful deprivation of his rights under this Article shall have a right to petition a permanent Board of four members (each with an alter­ nate, to function when the tegular member can rot do so), to be known as the Seafarers' Appeals Board.. The address of this Board sliall be Room 316, Greystone Building, Mobile. Alabama. All complaints shall be in writing and shall set out the facts in sufficier.t detail. In the event an alleged grievance arises under this Article affecting a Company, the Board shall appoint a hearing committee of two to sit, conduct a fair heax'ing, and make a determination which must be unanimous to be final and binding. This committee must be composed of one representative of the Company involved and one Union representative, the committee to sit at the port where the complaint arose. Subject to this latter provi­ sion, Board members may be committee members. In the event the Committee cannot reach a unanimous decision an appeal shall lie to the Seafarers' Appeals Board. The Board of four shall be evenly divided between the Union and Employers, and selections thereon and removal therefrom shall be made by the Union and the negotiat­ ing committee, commonly known and referred to as the Management Negotiating Committee. Decisions of the Board shall be by unanimous vote, each side to have the same collective vote, regardless of whether the Board of four, or their alternates, are all in attendance. In the event of a tie, the Board shall select an impartial fifth member to resolve the particular issue involved, in which case a majority vote shall then be decisive and binding. Where no agreement can be reached as to the identity of the fifth member, application therefor shall be made to the American Arbitration Association and its rules shdll then be followed in reaching a decision. The Seafarers' Appeals Board is charged with the duty ^ of making appropriate and reasonable rules of procedure ^'ith respect to the proceedings to be taken before it. Section 9. The parties hereto agree that the appro­ priate unit, for representation purposes, is the unlicensed personnel aboard the vessels owned or conti'olled, as aforesaid, by all the companies listed on Appendix A, and any amendments to said Appendix, as set forth herein. Section 10. The Union siiall protect and indemnify the companies parties to this agreement in any cause of action based on improper application by the Union of the employment provisions of Article I of this agree­ ment. The Company, shall protect and indemnify the Union in any cause of action based on improper applica­ tion by the Company of the employment provisions of Article I of this agreement. Section 11. The provisions hereof are subject to Fed­ eral and State Law and if any part hereof is in conflict therewith, such part shall be deemed inapplicable and, to the extent thereof, shall be deemed severed from this agreement, the remainder of whic^ shall remain in full force and effect. The Collective jBargaining Agreement between the parties, as amended above, is to remain in effect, sub­ ject to the opening and renewal provisions therein, until September 30, 1957. Bir liernarfl Seaman ^'3 I i �Pace EicM Xc' 1^.V i'A. * ;r"'~ :s':.. • SEAFARERS A new improvement is slated to get underway soon for the Suez Canal, in which the waterway will be deepened and widened to per­ mit faster movement of ships drawing up to 36 feet. The Improve­ ments are in anticipation of an annual oil traffic volume of more than SO million tons, and an average daily traffic of 45 ships. Its capacity is now 40 vessels . . . Ending a three-day vigil aboard the US freighter Meta D after she grounded on the English Channel coast last month, Question: Do you think tho av­ the captain and 13 crewmen* came ashore to join 24 others rescued erage Seafarer keeps • himself earlier by the British Coast Guard. The ship was enroute with coal abreast of what's happening in the from Newport News, Va., to Rotterdam. SIU? 4" t" 4" France's merchant fleet tonnage Is way above its pre-war level, and showed a total of 3.8 million tons on January 1, 1955, 800,000 tons more than in 1939. The total number of ships involved, now 1,376, is vir­ tually the same as at that time. However, today's fleet has many larger vessels . . . The shipping season on the St. Lawrence and the Great Lakes loomed closer this month. The Canadian government icebreaker D'Iberville completed the annual icehreaking trip between Quebec and the eastern approaches to Montreal on March 1. 4> 4' 4> Israel will have a brand-new 10,000-ton passenger-cargo ship next Sep­ tember, following the launching of the first of two sister ships in Ham­ burg this month. The Israel will have accommodations for 313 passen­ gers, a swimming pool, and 300,000 cubic feet of cargo space plus 20,000 more in refrigerator space. The 501-foot vessel was built under repai'ations agreements with West Germany. Three 7,000-ton cargo ships have already been delivered ... A total of 213 ships have been sunk and an­ other 200 damaged since 1945 by mines laid during World War II, ac­ cording'to The Financial Times of London. Indicating that the menace was far from over, the paper said the worst mine areas are off the coasts of West Germany, Denmark and Yugoslavia. 4" 4 4* Bulldozers have begun work on a $5.5 million project at Feltham, England, where model ships will be tested under rough sea conditions. The site will include a tank nearly a quarter of a mile long where 35foot model ships will be given tests at speeds up to 30 knots while a wavemaker stirs up 10 million gallons^of water ... An effort to promote Peruvian-flag shipping based on the "50-50" principle is now under­ way. A bUl was submitted to the Chamber of Deputies last week re­ quiring shippers to use Peruvian vessels for a minimum of 50 percent of their exports. 4" 4* 4' Designed to carry raw sugar cane in bulk instead of bags, the Crystal Cube—only ship of her type in the world—was launched at Greenock, Scotland last week. The vessel, one of six being built for Sugar Line, Ltd., will be unloaded by three-ton grabs in half the time taken to un­ load the cane in bags . . . Faced with deportation under US laws, some 200 British seamen who staged a protest strike against the Furness liner Queen of Bermuda have returned to work. The crew's beef was that three waiters serving as their bargaining committee had been un­ fairly fired in trying to boost the average basic monthly wages of $110. The ship sailed on a round-trip to Bermuda, however, with just cargo and mail. 4* 4< 4i A small blaze that broke out behind the panelling In one of the rooms on the Cunard liner Queen Elizabeth one week ago caused a flurry of activity at the drydock in Southampton where the ship is having her annual overhaul. However, firemen quickly handled the fire and no real damage was reported. The 83,000-ton ship, due to resume transAtlantic service March 30, Is also being fitted with stabilizer fins to reduce rolling . . . The 26,650-ton Esso Frankfurt, largest tanker under the flag of West Germany, has been launched in Bremen. Upon com­ pletion, she will be operated by the Waried Tank Ship Co. to Saudi Arabia and Venezuela.' ACROSS 1. Coast Guard'! move to con­ trol all seamen 8. A good outfit to belong to 8. Pack in the hold 12. Pacific Island 13. Coffee 14. Irish 15. What crimp outfits make 17. Hindu cymbal! 18. Declare 19. High Turkish title 31. Negative 32. Belaying 83. Islands, in France 35. Kirby'! Bar and , . Makati Rizal 38. A little drunk 31. What waves do 32. Mothers 33. Of aircraft 34. Devilish 36. Thong of leather 87. Making! of • bomb 38. Dodger, pitcher 39. Eastern penin­ sula of NE Mass. 41. Crewmember 43. What you are reading 46. Bumps 48. Where the Flying Angel Mission is 80. Pacific island 51. First woman 52. Girl's name 53. Long fish 84. Mar-V« . 3. 4. B. . 7. 8. 5. 10. DOWN 11. Neva — • 35. At this time The elephant 16. A brown dye 36. Tender is the 20. Baba 38. Turn back symbol 22. Fold in cloth 39. It sweetens avis the pot 34. New Hebrides A shout island 40. The Kind of boat below London 35. Grains: Abbr. Girl's name 42. Cover a street 36. Creek Angers 37. Port 5,000 ms. 43. Girl's name from NY 44. Night birds Unloads 28. Indian 45. Tiny Insect Fix. as sails 29. Period of tima 47. Sacks: Abbr. This hurts 30. Jeweler's cup 49. Temporary: US shipping Abbr. Northern port 32. Imitated (Puzzle Answer On Page 17) 1 2 3 12 rr JJ 1516 34 superstcftflAg* ariHtmA 26 27 10 II L 122 25 9 123 35 42 24 29 30 Robert Hannibal,, steward: Yes, why shouldn't he? He's got every­ thing to gain be­ cause it means money in his pocket. If a man doesn't read the agreements and other Union lit­ erature then he's only^ hurting himself. The same goes with the guy who comes to a meeting and sits there with both ears closed. 4i 4 4" John Hamilton, machinist: When a Seafarer attends his Union meet­ ings ashore or aboard ship and reads the LOG through, he's got a pretty good Idea of what is happening. The man who doesn't bother and isn't Interested In his Union is only hurting himself in the long run anyway. 4 4 4 Eddie Hernandez, 2nd cook: It would be foolish not to because it's all there for you to study and check whenever you don't under­ stand something. The reports are put on the bul­ letin boards for anybody to look at them. It pays off in the long run. 4 4 4 Mai«h IS. 195S LOG MEET THE SEAFARER JOE WAGNER, bomiii There are some men who are US Shipping Board hall or right just not cut out for farming. Sea­ off the docks" he said. There was farer Joe Wagner was one of them, nothing like the current SIU hir­ with the result that the US mer­ ing haUs. Subsequently when the ISU fell chant marine gained a new hand. It Vas back in the late 1020's apart, Wagner joined the AFL that Joe decided he was through Seamen's Union formed to take with corn, cotton and peanuts and its place. He became a member headed for New Orleans and the in January, 1938, later in the .year sea. Before that he had spent all switching to the newly-chartered his young life oif farms in Mis­ Seafarers International Union. Sailed As Organizer souri, his native state, and- MissisAfter World War II Wagner sippi. Once in New Orleans, Joe headed, sailed as an organizer in the SIU's for the waterfront, looking for a' successful post-war drive at Isth­ mian. He also spent six months' job as a sailor. One day, while he aboard the Cities Service tanker was walking down Canal Street an Government Camp during some of AB on a Mississippi Steamship the hottest part of the SIU's fight Company ship asked him if he with that company, as well as sail'» wanted to go to work. That was ing on other tankers on organiza­ all he needed. He went aboard the status. Bibco as an apprentice seaman for tional "I was down in Buenos Aires in $27 a month. 1948 taking a vacation," he said, Subsequently the Bibco became "when I happe'Red to catch the •the "Del Plata and was torpedoed Government Camp out of there. In World War II. Wagner was While I was in the company agent's aboard her at the time a German office I spotted the ballots mailed sub sent the ship to the bottom. out by the Labor Board. The agent The crew was able to lower away had stashed them away and the boats and get away safely. crew hadn't gotten a chance to Wagner lost one other ship dur­ vote. I raised a" beef with the ing the war, a Waterman-operated American consul and afterwards scow. This time" too, the crew was the skipper had to vote the ship. able to get off without any loss. "They figured I was an SIU man Graduated To OS after that and even searched my After one year on the Bibco as foc'sle once to try to turn up some­ apprentice seaman, Wagner "grad­ thing on me. "But I managed to uated" to ordinary seaman at a stay aboard for six months until small raise in pay. From then on, my vacation time came due. Then he sailed pretty regularly on Mis­ they made me get off and wouldn't sissippi, Waterman, P&O and take me back aboard." This was typical of the tactics South Atlantic ships, sailing mostly employed by a company attorney out of Gulf ports. Quite a few of the men he sailed at the time who was setting up a with in those days are still active dummy union of his own in an in the Union while others went attempt to keep the SIU out of on to get their deck licenses, like the picture. Subsequently the Captain Kinney who is currently whole apparatus was ordered port captain for Mississippi in New abandoned and the company signed Orleans. "I understand some of with the SIU. After coming off the Govern­ these skippers - are still packing their SlU books too," he added. ment Camp, Wagner started sailing But in those early years there regularly out of New York. He was no SIU yet to represent sea­ was aboard the cruise ship Puerto men. Wagner was a member of the Rico for about three years and old International Seamen's Union sailed other companies out of the at the time, which didn't mean city. But he prefers those long very much in terms of wages, con­ Far East runs , with Isthmian be­ ditions or on-the-job protection. cause he can pile up a good-sized "We used to ship out of the old payoff before he gets off. Francisco Cornier, AB: It is to our advantage to do so at all times because if we do not know about our own benefits and conditions we are the ones who lose out on them. By reading the LOG and going New wage cut demands have to meetings you understand all been put forth by manufacturing the procedures firms, coupled with threats to move and help yourself at the same time. plants to cheap labor areas. The Sparks-Within^on Company of 4 4 4 Van Whitney, deck engineer: I Jackson, Michigan, manufactiAers think the average man in the Union of television equipment, have asked 600 workers to take an 18makes it his cent diourly cut. Electric Auto-Lite business to know of Toledo, which is a major autor what's going on mobile supplier, has also demanded because when he that costs bte "reduced." is out at sea .he is but of touch 4 4 4 Investment of union welfare with everything. funds in housing developments has That's why the been proposed by the New York LOG is read and housing commissioner as one way re-read and com­ to ease housing shortages. Some munications from the Union are always-looked over New York unions, including'Elecy trical Workers Local 3 and the In­ carefully. ternational Ladies Garment Work­ 4 4 4 Joe Bucher, AB: The more he ers Union, have already made such does, the more he benefits. The investments. It's been pointed out Seafarer who that the investments have been se­ reads the I^G cured through Federal mortgage carefully when it guarantees. comes to the 4 4 4 A new way to spur organization house or the ship can easily find of retail automobile dealers is be­ out what's new. ing tried by the Automotive Em­ Many reports are ployees Council in Portland, Ore­ included and gon. The Council, representing posted in our several unions in the industry, is halls for ,every- getting union members in Portland h9|lly 1dfiiee'-'«iidi<ineetlngff alwayf' <je6 IsignljfieidgtiJjthwibjefLmit their cars from unionized dealers •^ and have them serviced at union- * ized sei'vice stations. 4 4 4 With merger news in the air, the CIO Oil Workers and the Chemical Workers have gotten together in a new union, the CIO Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers International Union. O. A. Knight, who was president of the Oil Workers, heads the combined group. 4 4 4 AFL Machinists Union members on strike against the Rohr Aircraft Company, Riverside, California, at­ tracted attention with a picket line consisting of elephants and camels. The line was in protest against a court order limiting pickets to two men before each gate. The 800 union members have been striking for six weeks, principally for a sat­ isfactory procedure to settle onthe-job beefs. 4 4 4 The Louisville Ond Nashxillo Railroad suspended operations after a Federal judge lifted an in­ junction against operating unions. The operating brotherhoods were permitted 4iow to respect picket Tines of 19,000 non-operating em­ ployees in ten unions^ Health and ithoartKikefeoiiiq fi ga mm. ri �ol March 18, 1M5 ' " . - " . .' SEAFARERS LOG ^ ^ Page SEAFARERS^LOG f'S. Vol. XVII, No. A March 18, 1955 Published biweekly by the Seafaren International Union, Atlantic & Gulf District, AFL, 675 Fourth Avenue, Brooklyn 32, NY. Tel. HYacinth 9-6600. Cable Address: SEAFARERS NEW YORK. PAUL HALL, Secretary-Treasurer Editor, HEBBERT BRAND; Managing Editor, RAY DENISON; Art Editor, BERNARD SEAMAN: Photo Editor, DANIEL NILVA; Staff Writers, HERMAN ARTHUR, IRWIN SPIVACK AL MASXIN; Gull Area Reporter, Bai MOODY. The Big Squeeze Foreign shipowners who have been struggling to cripple "50-50" with the help of the State Department have gotten themselves valuable new allies. These are some farm bloc Congressmen who are anxious to unload surplus agricultural products before they overflow US warehouses and cause a kickback against the farm subsidy program. The result is that "50-50" faces its sternest challenge less than a year after the practice was written into permanent law. ' " The SIU does not believe that the farm bloc Congressmen involved are deliberately out to wreck the merchant marine. It does think they are being conned by the State Department and foreign-flag lobbyists with golden'promises of massive agricultural cargo shipments if "50-50" is pushed aside. If the farm bloc Congressmen would reflect a little they would remember that at best the agricultural surplus pro­ gram will dispose of only a small percentage of existing sur­ pluses. The problem of exporting agricultural surpluses existed long before there was a "50-50" law—^before, in fact, there was any Government parity program. - These Congressmen should also consider that the American merchant marine and the people who work for it form^a huge consumers' body for US farm products. This condition is in no small part due to the fact that maritime unions have done so much to raise shipboard feeding standards as well as the living standards of workers throughout the industry. This kind of market, incidentally, is far more lucrative and reliable in the long run than any one-shot agricultural sur­ plus export program. The minute foreign nations have no need for US agricultural surpluses the US will not be able to give them away with transportation costs thrown in, whether they are carried on US or foreign-flag ships. If, as is claimed, US surpluses are needed abroad to meet the demands of growing populations, then foreign nations are playing a cynical game for the benefit of their ship oper­ ators at the expense of their own populations. Self .interest on the part of foreign shipowners is to be expected. Far less admirable is the-role played by the US State Department which seemingly has forgotten which na­ tion it represents. The SIU has fought this "50-50" battle many times over in the past. It is fully prepared to do it all over again this time. Slightly At Odds Noting more has been heard on the subject of the Public Health Service hospitals since the Hoover Commission report proposed their closing. All seems to be quiet as well with respect to the Coast Guard's brain-body test plan for Ameri­ can seamen. That doesn't mean that these issues are dead. But for the time being the proponents of these plans are awaiting a favorable opportunity to press them actively. What remains unclear is the role of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, which is in charge of the Public Health Service. The^ department, we were told, had endorsed the Coast Guard plan which would have involved setting up an elaborate medical and psychological bureau­ cracy to give exhaustive tests and "rehabilitate" seamen. At the same time, the department was the original sponsor of the plan to close down the PHS hospitals and concentrate its services in four specialized centers—none of which, inci­ dentally, is in a major port city. Its hard to tell just what the department really stands for. In either case, it's plain to see that the department's policy makers have no love for the working seaman. Snug Harbor Indications are that Sailors Snug Harbor may be taken over by New York City for use as a community college. Such plans raise a disturbing question as to the fate of retired seamen there, whose care has been provided for under an estate worth millions of dollars. Many of these oldtimers are bedridden. There is danger that their needs will be disregarded—a not uncommon hap­ pening with seamen. While Snug Harbor inmates are not the direct res^nsibility of the Union, the shipowners, or the city for that matter, any,.plans ifor-i SnNg-.fJJwSJotfftiftttiuiat 8hduld'.i«^;thi;,weifai?e ofrthese men as #pnme-^ebhjceifiil'i!-»ii;<).^ Raps PlanTo Shut Marine Hospitals To the Editor: The March 4 issue of the LOG tells about a'proposal by a group headed by former President Her­ bert Hoover to shut down the marine hospitals as part of a new Government "economy" move. Now I'd like to offer my opinion of this idea to my brother Seafarers. As we all know, Mr. Hoover held a number of public offices during the many long years of his turbu­ lent political career and has been both praised and damned as a re­ sult. For the record, most people like myself remember the tragic state of affairs we wound up in while he was in the tyhite House, and most of us find them pretty unpleasant to think about. Back In Washington But now Mr. Hoover is back in Washington, this time as head of another heavy burden on the tax­ payers, another alphabetical agency which bears his name. It's the Hoover Commission on Govern­ ment Reorganization this time. Meanwhile, the taxpayers are tak­ ing the beating and paying the wages of the whole gang. Now, it seems, the merchant sea­ men are going to get the dirty end of the deal, although the money which the Gov­ ernment provides annually so that seamen can get proper medical care is almost insignificant com­ pared to the mil­ lions spent on commissio ns, committees', Mazur boards and panels each year. .This shutdown of the marine hos­ pitals will give Mr. Hoover a chance to show the American peo­ ple how he can save them some dough. He calls it "economy." I say "nuts!" Would any man in his right mind deny his kids necessary medical and. hospital care because he wanted the money to buy himself a new Cadillac? Under the' circum­ stances, this proposal amounts to the same thing. Feels The Pinch I'm beginning to feel the pinch of this "economy" drive already, but even If things got worse I doubt whether I would ever take to selling apples again. That would only bring back the memory of Mr. Hoover in the White House, and would not help things one bit. However, I might take to whit­ tling little models of Mariner ships out of gold and try selling them to the Maritime Commission. But if this scheme by one of our ex-Pres­ idents gets to a point where it looks like the Government will really knock out the hospital and medical cere we now get, vte should all write or wire our Con­ gressmen to run him out of Wash­ ington, It won't be anything new to him. Xbe.VQtert nohim outopcf before. •' 'A I % Vote ^ Thanks One of the features of the SIU's steward department "new look" is a provision calling for the depart­ ment to put out a variety of baked goods at coffeetime. This has been the practice on certain ships where bakers go all out for their ship­ mates and turn out the tasty jtems which go a long way toward avoid­ ing monotony in the shipboard diet. Two men who have been doing this are Seafarers ' A. D. "Bud" Williams aboard the Seamonitor and Charles Locke on the Orcmar. Both of them were praised in their ships' minutes for .the extra effort they put out and the palatable ef­ fects it had. Williams is a New York native, who has been a member of the SIU since June, 19 4 5. He's 36 y e a^r s of age. Locke comes from West Virginia originally and started sail­ Cox ing with the SIU out of Baltimore three years ago. 4" 4" 4" Seafarer Maurice "Duke" Duet may have been a Delta Line reg­ ular once but he seems to have transferred his affections to the Antinous (Pan Atlantic). Maybe it was because of the nice things he said about the feeding on the ship, in a recent letter to the SEAFAR­ ERS LOG. In any case. Duet tried to resign as ship's delegate but it was no soap because he was im­ mediately reelected. It looks like a mutual admiration society, Duke. The 28-year-old Seafarer is a New Orleans man all the way, joining the Union in 1945 in that city. He sails on deck and calls the Crescent City his home. 4" 4" 4^ Although the last minutes re­ ceived from Seafarers on the George A. Lawson were dated February 27, the crew was still talk­ ing about the holidays which have been a high spot after eigh# months on the Japan-Korea shut­ tle. Steve Mosakowsk took charge of the 4ecbl-ali6ns deplili^entlahd,Bid' tion rooms, while the steward de­ partment labored mightily to put out appropriate holiday meals. Baker Jimmy Cox was especially cited for his wonderful output. Cox has been an SIU member, sailing in the steward department since May of 1948. He comes from Pemberton, West 'Virginia.^ Mosakowsk is a Philadelphia na­ tive who got his Union book back on May 12, 1940, in Port Mobile. He .sails in the deck department, usually as bosun. ^ 4 Any time there is a Union refer­ endum such as the one recently concluded it uti­ lizes the services of a large number of rank and file Seafarers to con­ duct the balloting and also to count the votes after it is all over. As is the usual procedure, these committees are elected at mem­ bership meetings and cannot in­ clude in their number any officer or employee of the Union. The headquarters tallying com­ mittee, which acts as the tally group for the district as well, con­ sisted of W. Horne and E. C. Bell, representing the deck dpeartment; R. L. Toler and W. S. Collard, en­ gine department; and Joe Malone and F. Keelan, steward depart­ ment. 4 PA ':A I 4 w . 1I 1 'M 4 This vote of thanks is a little different. It goes to an entire crew instead of any one individual and comes from the skipper. The captain aboard the Sea Comet II sent the following message to crewmembers while they were holding their February 27 shipboard meet­ ing before paying off on the West Coast: "I want to thank this crew for being a darn good bunch of men. It was a pleasure to sail with a crew that does their work and did not have anyone foul up. That is what you would call the old SIU tradition." Since the Sea Comet II was out for several months on the Far East ittlp that's a well-eaij^^ ,5 lent forv^e sntlre tianf^K nj A • , I •'i I �^•r; ,• ' - •- • :•. — —" .'. jr-"- fes'. V' Pas® Ten SE AF AkERS LOG ^ b: •'""fe-i... March 18, 1951 • •i^-' E~' '• I '^- '" r.-; ' f urv- .: . The cribbage board comes into play as Otto McLean (left) and Frenchy Blancbard carry on their own tournament to pass the time. Otto, shown figuring bis next move, woV the match. Seafarer Bill Reid on the Catahoula runs bis own "disc jockey" show on a portable record player. Porgy and Bess, apparently one of bis favor­ ites, is always-goodiJistOningi^'" I 'i; �•-> ' •> '•' >^»>T-7,-«.vV---r«vsj^ Vi'-r-iir"-'- * March 18. 1955 SEAFARERS LOG Page Eleven 11 The Lawrence Victory crew pores over the latest LOG during a hull session. Included are Joe Woodward, G. it. Cannon, P. Frarigo, Bill Lynn, Ed Brown and Mario Reyes. "^1 i /i '••'-'I The hookah and the headgear recall memories of "Arabian Nights" for A. J.. Johnes, bosun (left), and Dugan, wiper, on the Steel Director. F. E. Hagin, FWT, took the photo. When barber-poles are few and far between, anyone with a pair of shears, a comb and nerve is a tonsorial artist. Bob Morgan, AB, is get­ ting the trim from Dick Anglone, oiler. i •^1 m Many ships carry a movie projector and a stock of rented films for reg­ ular showings. On the Del Sud, Frank Beeck, Doniinick San Sone and Lewis Lae officiate for the event/ . Back aboard the Lawrence Victory leaving La Fallice, France, George P. John, MM, shows off some of the tapestried furniture he picked up ftir his collection back homcu ;^. vf .1 �!^vrv>7:: ;• •••• i Sailing Be6f Pending For Bull Line Cremrs Clean payoffs have bfeen the rule herd during the past two weeks, and that certainly is the way we like to see them at all times. The record was broken by only one Item, a small beef concerning de­ layed sailing on Bull Line ships, and we are waiting for a clarifica­ tion from headquarters on whether this is payable. All of the activities at the SIU hall in this port are proceeding smoothly and in good order, and we expect no kinks to come up in the future. The membership, of course, is urged to make full use of all the facilities here, which are being maintained for the Seafarer's comfort and convenience. Shipping Remains Slow Shipping in the port remains on the slow side and there has been no uniisual activity in this regard over the past two weeks. With the breaking of spring, we are, how­ ever, hopeful for a break- in the lull. The last period was marked by 16 payoffs, 10 sign-ons and 14 ships stopping over in transit. Paying off were the following: Venore, Baltore, Feltore, Santore, Marore (twice), Cubore (Ore); Oremar, Bethcoaster (Calmar); Ines, Kathryn, Evelyn (Bull); Council Grove, Winter Hill (Cities Service); Alcoa Roamer (Alcoa), and Yaka (Waterman). The ships signing on were the Venore, .Marore (twice), Baltore, Feltore, Santore (Ore); Bethcoaster, Oremar (Calmar); Council Grove (Cities Service), and Atlantic Water (Metro). In transits included the Portmar, Bethcoaster (twice), Alamar (Cal­ mar); Antinous, De Soto (Pan-At­ lantic); Topa Topa (Waterman); Robin Kirk, in twice (Seas Ship­ ping); Alcoa Pointer, Alcoa Part­ ner (Alcoa); Kathryn, Frances (Bull), and Steel Advocate (Isth­ mian). Wc still would like to remind the brothers that there are Seafarers not as fortunate as we are in hav­ ing. our health stationed in the ma'rine hospital right here. Take a few minutes of your time to write these boys a card or stop in and see them between trips. The address is USPHS, Wyman Park Drive, Baltimore 18. The names can be gotten right off the hospital report in the LOG on page 19. Earl Sheppard Baltimore Port Agent t- i> New Orleans: t> New Guif Ship Channel ' Is Urged in Congress -y.- India Wharf Blaze Burns For Two Days Money Exchange Rates Listed England. New Zealand. South Af­ rica: S2.80 per pound sterling. Australia: $2.24 per pound sterling. Belgium: SO francs to the dollar. Denmark: 14.45 cents per krone. France: 350 francs to the dollar. Germany: 4.2 marks to the dollar. Holland: 3.7-3B guilders to the dollar. Italy: 024.0 lire to the dollar. Norway: 14 cents per krone. Portugal: 28.73 escudos to th» dollar. Sweden: 19.33 cents per krone. India: 21 cents per rupee. Pakistan; 30.22 cents per rupee. Argentina: 14.2 pesos te the dollar. Braidi: s.eioentBtdHm^cciiai^. Shipping Figures February 23 to REG. REG. BEG. TOTAL PORT DECK ENGINE STEW. BEG. Boston .... 20 12 5 37 New York . 105 106 119 330 Philadelphia 24 21 23 68 Baltimore . 109 84 75 259 Norfolk ... 21 16 10 47 9 9 7 25 Savannah 9 7 6 22 Tampa 56 46 57 159 Mobile 56 42 78 176 New Orleana 82 61 52 195 Houston 27 1811 56 Seattle ............... 31 19 29 70 San Francisco 8 .5'. .22 » e e e e •Wilmington 0;t4-S Jr.OlltM .5E lasc ...... mo 471':^ - i,466' • ••••• 4 7;.-;;-TV . cient India Wharf into a blazing Philadelphia: inferno. It required the use ofevery piece of fire apparatus in the city before it was brought' under control. Tugs and harbor craft teamed up The recommendations of the to fight the blaze, which caused an estimated damage of $100,000. Al­ Hoover Commission^ urging the though the fire was believed to closing of the US Public Health have been checked in 92 minutes, Service hospitals means that the it, broke out again and continued SIU will have to go to bat again to fight this latest effort to cut the burning for two days. heart out of the Government's pro­ Meanwhile, shipping remains gram of medical sei-vices to sea­ fair and is expected to keep that men. way as far as this port is con­ The Seafarers in this branch are cerned. We paid off the Salem all set for another campaign to Maritime, Archers Hope (Cities Service); Tagalam, Queenston fight this "economy" proposal which everyone involved Heights (Seatrade), and Alexan­ in dra (Carras), and signed them' on in the maritime industry has a vital stake. As always, it is the all over again. policy of the SIU to fight any Ships in transit were the Arlyn curtailment of medical services to (Bull)'; Topa Topa, in twice (Water­ seamen and we will do everything man), and Iber­ possible to keep the USPHS hos­ ville and Chicka­ pitals open. saw (Pan-Atlan­ Shipping Fair tic). We settled Shipping has continued at a fair a beef, over a pace in this port, and even men broken refrigeracoming in from other ports have tor on the managed to ship out in a few days. Queenston The outlook for the next two weeks Heights, and fin­ is about,the same, as we have the ally jarred loose Stony Creek (American Tramp a new one from Bayne Skipping) scheduled for payoff as the company for well as the usual Bull Line and the vesseL Calmar ships that call here. For our typical SIU ma'n of the Payoffs during the last period week this time, we have .chosen Samuel £. Bayne, who is one of the included the Fort Hoskins (Cities charter members of the SIU and Service), Alamar (Calmar), and is waiting to ship out of the hall. Hilton and Carolyn (Bull). The Brother Bayne shipped as stew­ Fort Hoskins and Alamar signed ard on the SS Minotaur headed-for on again, and we also had eight in Russia during the winter of 1942, ships in transit. These were the Trojan Trader and his ship proved to te one of the few lucky ones to get through (Trojan); Robin Kirk (Seas Ship­ to Archangel. Only eight vessels' ping); Steel Executive (Isthmian); out of a 24-ship convoy finished Suzanne (Bull); De Soto, Iberville the trip and, like the Minotaur, (Pan-Atlantic), and Yaka and Topa laid in Archangel for three and a Topa (Waterman). The membership here rec^eived half months while the port was a full report on the new shipping being bombed continually. procedures at the last meeting and Torpedoed First Trip discussed them in full. The feeling On returning to the States, the among the Seafarers here is that ship headed right out again and the SIU has solved a big problem was torpedoed off the coast of and will continue strong. South America. Bayne clung to a A. S. Cardullo life raft for 12 hours before be was Philadelphia Port Agent rescued, and has been sailing SIU 4" 4" 4" ships as steward since then. He is Norfolk: especially grateful for the SIU Vacation and Welfare Plans which have helped give all Seafarers and their families security for the first time. One final note, a sad one, is that The membership in this port is we must report the death of cheered by the way shipping con­ brother James R. Frotton, who lost tinued to run at a good pace here his life in a flash fire that took the during the last two weeks. The lives of three others on March 6, future looks good, too. in Wilmington, Mass. The Union It's a welcome sign when this sent a floral wreath to his services. sort of thing happens for all con­ James Sheehan cerned. In addition, the ships that Boston Port Agent were paying 'off or calling for men were not in the coal trade at all. Th^y were carrying grain or gen­ eral cargo from this port, and at least one of them was moving Government cargo to Spain. We hope to see more of this sort of activity in coming weeks. • Two payoffs are scheduled so March 8 far for this period. Meanwhile, dur­ SHIP. SHIP. SHIP. TOTMi ing the past two weeks we handled . i DECK ENG. STEW SHIPPED four payoffs, "the same number of sign-ons and six in-transits. 12 6 27 9 The-Bents Fort, Logans Fort and 42 55 57 154 French Creek (Cities Service) and 11 , 48 19 18 the Albion (Drytrans) all paid off 36 105 29 40 and signed on again. Ships calling in transit were the Inss (Bull); 20 33 23 76 Southstar (South Atlantic); Steel 7 18 7 4 King (Isthmian); Yaka (Waterman), ' 6 IS 3 6 and Alcoa Partner and Pioneer 36 38 29 103 (Alcoa). 65 52 Brothers in the marine hospital 51 ' 168 here are William C. Baldwin, Fran­ 62 49 39 150 cis Boner, William H. Mason, Rob­ 32 74 28 19 ert W. Miller and Joseph M. Cash, 17 5 7 9 Who recently became an out-pa­ IT* tient and attended our meeting. 9 - 8 .4 . '-'^Ben Beea-- • v:"* -•n.Hi&ri n» i'-.n. Norfolk IFort Ai^t - Check With Union Hail Upon Leaving Hospital Maritime interests in this port afe watching with interest the progress of a bill Introduced in The following is the latest available listing of official ex­ change rates for foreign cur­ rencies. Listings are as of March 17, 1955, and are sub­ ject to change without notice. i: i -:^- '• Mareh 18.1955 Congress by Representatives Hale San Francisco: Boggs and Edward Hebert of New Orleans to authorize construction of a $77 million, 70-mile-long tide­ water ship channel from New Or­ leans to the Gulf. This port has been in the dol­ This project has been under dis­ cussion and in the planning stage drums as far as SIU ships are con­ for some time. Army Engineers cerned with no payoffs in the last already have recommended dig­ two weeks. We had one sign-on, ging the short cut^ which would the Coeur d'Alene Victory (Victory provide a straight line seaway to Carriers) and a half dozen in-tranthe Gulf to eliminate the twisting sits taking some men. The outlook for the immediate course of the Mississippi River. The proposal calls for a channel future is not bright at all and I 600 feet wide and 35 feet deep. It would advise the brothers not to would connect with the Mississippi head for San Francisco for the through locks of the Industrial time being as we have enough men here to handle our needs. Canal. The in-transit ships consisted of Port's Activity Shipping picked up here some­ the usual run of Waterman and what since our last report. Even Calmar intercoastals with the J. B. so, if is by ho means booming. Waterman, Fairland, Bienville and During the last two weeks, we had Azalea City for Waterman and the eight payoffs, seven slgn-ons and Portmar and Marymar for Calmar. As is to be expected there's quite 17 ships hit this port in transit. a bit of interest here in the revised Ships paying off were the Alcoa Ranger (Alcoa); Steel Traveler hiring hall procedures with the (Isthmian); Del Norte, Del Oro, membership in this port fully in Del Mundo (Mississippi); Chicka­ accord with the steps taken to pro­ saw and Antinous (Pan-Atlantic), tect their seniority. * Check In and Western Trader. (Western Navigation). We have had a little problem The Steel Maker (Isthmian); Del arise here with Seafarers who Monte, Del Norte, Del Sol and Del check out of a hospital in one port Aires (Mississippi); Warrior (Wa­ and then take off for another terman) and Western Trader area without notifying the Union Hall. The result was in one in­ (Western Navigation) signed on. Ships in transit were the Alc(pa stance that the Seafarer faced Corsair, Alcoa Patriot, Alcoa Cava­ quite a delay in collecting some money due him because the com­ lier and Alcoa pany did not have an agent here, Polarus (Alcoa); but could have taken care of him Steel Maker, in the East Coast cffy where he Steel Advocate, had been hospitalized. Steel Rover It's a sound idea to check with (Isthmian); Del the Union upon getting out of dryMonte, Del Sol, ^ock so you can take care of all Del Aires (Mis­ loose ends before leaving that par­ sissippi); Seaticular port. ' trains Georgia On the beach with us now are and Louisiana Visser R. Shaynick, R. Charroin, F. Yoh, (Seatrain); Gold­ en City, Monarch of the Seas, C. Gedra, J. Basch, H. Skallegaard, Maiden Creek and Claiborne (Wa­ R. McCannon, M. Lee, L. Dower, terman), and Marie Hamil (Bloom- H. Shiba and F. Hills. The men in the San Francisco hospital, who field). Our sympathies are extended to would welcome a visit or a letter Dick Visser, Edward Stevens, from old shipmates, include C. Thomas Scanlon, James M. Lucky Knab, C. J. Lund, Chester Ander­ and Adie Coleman who recently son, C. Neumeier, P. S. Yuzon, R. were admitted to the USPHS Hos­ Lambert, J. McBrien, J. Perreira, pital here. We hope they will be Frank Paylor and S. L. Woodruff. Tom' Banning up and around the hall ready to San Francisco Port Agent ship soon. 4- 4Glenn Curl, John Doyle, Billy Ward and Alfonso Olaguibel are Boston: still in the hospital, but are re­ ported to be progressing toward recovery satisfactorily. Konstant Kain, Eugene Hayden and Aurelio Patingo recently were discharged, A large section of the Boston but had to return to the hospital waterfront was threatened with for additional treatment. Lindsey J. Williams flaming ruin this month when a New Orleans Port Agent roaring five-alarm fire turned an- f lir •• .• - POJtmfPOJRTS. Baltimore: |r- ' ,—: . SEAFARERS L<fG Paee TWelTB i •i---:^' :?'WvK.;;,f-''''--^.;^:-V,:'v Y"': Union Will Figjit Cuts In Hospitals See Good Shipping In Perl Oeniinuing �, •. /s," Mobile: New Facilities Seen Ready Next Mealing Completion of the Sea Chest store,' recreational facilities and other comforts in the extension of our hall here is now expected by the next meeting. Meanwhile, any Seafarers in the area or who come into port are Invited to drop around and see the way things are shaping up. Shipping for the past two weeks v.'as only fair and will likely be about the same for the next period since only two ships are due in for payoff, and-only six more are ex­ pected In transit and coastwise. The vesseis scheduled so, far are the Monarch of the Sea, Claiborne (Waterman); Iberviile, De Soto (Pan-Atlantic), and Alcoa's Corsair, Pilgrim, Patriot and Cavalier. Payoffs during the last period were the Golden City, Monarch of the Sea, Clai­ borne (Waterman); Arizpa (Pan • Atlantic), and Alcoa's Pa­ Nelson triot, Partner, Cavalier and Pennant. The Patriot, Partner, Golden City, Arizpa and Pennant signed on again. In transits included the Steel Rover (Isthmian); Fort Hoskins (Cities Service); Marie Hamil (Bloomfield), and Chickasaw, War­ rior . and Antinous (Pan-Atlantic). Elected as Seafarer of the week Is brother Marble E. Nelson, who joined the SIU 14 years ago this month. Married, and the father of two children, he likes to hunt and fish during his jspare time and also tells the world he has more job security with his Union member­ ship than a banker has. Nelson has books in both the SIU and the SlU-affiliated Marine Allied Work­ ers, and has been employed on tugs in the harbor for the Jast Ave years. He keeps his deep-sea SIU book active along with the MAW book because he believes that the in­ surance beneAts he derives as a Seafarer are worth the amount in dues he pays. He feels that the death beneAt program is the best of the many welfare beneAts avail­ able through the union right now. Among the old timers on the beach here right at the moment are H. R. Scott, J. C. Dunlop, T. Teears, N. Gronberg, C. Merritt, L, B. Moore, H. Hankee, H. Hill, G. Gonzales and E. Garberson. Cal Tanner Mobile Port Agent t> 'ti New York: . ' *• :. ~ -"--r -' '" ^ '" » - " SEAFARER'S LOG March IS. 1958 Pare Thirfen PORT REPORTS a benefit to all hands in improved service and feeding, and will also eliminate a lot of waste on the ships, always a big bone of con­ tention. Mooney In Charge Eddie Mooney, who was elected an assistant secretary-treasurer to. represent the steward department, has been £iven the responsibility of putting this plan into operation here at headquarters. Any sugges­ tions or inquiries on this subject should be addressed to him here in New York. We would like to get the com­ ments and ideas of the member­ ship on this subject, since it vitally concerns every man on the ship, and the steward department in particular. Shipping has been on the slow bell ibr the past week with very few payoffs and not too much of a tqynover on the ships in transit. Even the weather has been bad. Rain, sleet and snow combined with the sdow shipping to make ali hands wish they were on the beach down in the sunny south. It has been so cold up here that when they opened the track at Lin­ coln Downs last week for the sport of kings, they had to furnish the jockeys and horses with anti-freeze to keep them moving. But I guess we are never satisfied—in a couple of months we will probably be wishing for a transfer to Alaska. For the record, there were no major beefs on any of the ships pajdng off and signing on in the past two weeks. We paid off a total of 14 ships, signed seven on foreign articles and serviced 16 in vessels in transit. Payoffs The following, were the ships paid off: Beatrice, Elizabeth (Bull); Royal Oak, Bradford Island, French Creek, Government Camp (Cities Service); Seatrains Savannah, Louisiana, New York (Seatrain); Steel King, Steel Artisan /Isth­ mian); Michael (Carras); Val Chem (Valentine), and John Kulukundis (Martis). Signing on were the Robin Gray, Robin Tuxford (Seas Shipping); Gateway City, Maiden Creek (Waterman), and Steel Artisan, Steel Fabricator and Steel Execu­ tive (Isthmian). -Ships in transit were the Alcoa Runner," Alcoa Pointer (Alcoa); Republic (Trafalgar); De Soto, Iberville (Pan-Atlantic); Jean, Edith, Arlyn, Beatrice (Bull); Cantigny (Cities Service); Alamar, Calmar (Calmar), and Seatrains New Jersey, New York, Georgia and Texas (Seatrain). Claude Simons Asst. Sec'y Treas. Savannah: Seafarers Aiding Retail Gierke' Reef Shipping is barely fair for this port with only one payoff and sign-on in the past few weeks and half a dozen ships in transit. The future outlook can be ealled the same, although I reserve the Tight to withdraw that description at any time. Our one payoff and sign-on was the Southstar which came in with 'about 40 hours disputed overtime. The OT was settled in favor of the crew. In addition, the company agreed to put a new washing ma­ chine aboard and install a ladder on the after ^topmast which will make matters safer for the deck department. Needless to say the crew left port in a happy frame of Qiind. Tiie other ships we had in here were tlie Seatrains Georgia and Louisiana (Seatrain), the Angelina (Bull), Robin Kirk (Seas), Steel Traveler (Isthmian) and Chiwawa (Cities Service). The Retail Clerks Union in Savannah is still picketing the Yachum and Yachum Dry Goods Company and the ' ' boss is hurt bad, but refuses to bar­ gain. Some of the brothers are lend­ ing a hand on the picketline, which is mo-st welcome to the clerks. Keeping us comPany here, for the Monteverde geafarer John Monteverde, one of the real oldtimers in the Savannah area. John is pleased with the way the Union is handling the hiring hall problem, which in his opinion, is one of the tou{^est beefs the SIU has faced. John has been in some tough ones himself, one of the worst being the 39 months he spent in a German prisoner-of-war camp. Life Put 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. looks a lot better to him now though, especially ^ith the SIU Welfare and vacation benefits to add to the good conditions out at sea. SIU Skin-Divers We also have Fred and Frank Boyne with us doing a bit of "skin diving" in these southern waters. Frank says he's going to try to lasso himself some giant turtles in the process. Other men in town now are Harry Galphin, Berry Tippins, Vince San Juan, Claude West, Sam Anderson, Geronimo Gapac, Marvin Forrester, Clyde Laseter, "Red" Kagelmacher and "Buddy" May, Jr. Over at the marine hospital Tommy Moore has streamlined down to a mere 170 pounds after up over the 400 mark. He should be fit for duty any day now. Ship­ mates of Jiramie Littleton will be glad to know he is rounding into shape also. Others in the liospital are Carl "Tuscarora" Kumrow, Rufus L.-Fields, Angelo Martins, A. D. Edenfield, Louis C. Miller, William A. Smith. E. B. MacAuley Hq. Representative Seattle: 4" t 4- Port's Shipping .Good; Grows Doing Fine Job This port has been moving along very nicely in the past two weeks but we are soiTy to say we expect a slowdown in the next two-week period. We shipped more men than we registered in the period covered by this report with the result that bookmembers could ship without difficulty. Our payoffs were the Longview Victory (Victory Carriers) and Seacomet II (Ocean Carriers). We had no sign-ons bbt there were^five intransits,-the J. B. Waterman and Azalea City (Waterman), and- the Massmar, Marymar and Pennmar (Calmar). We were happy to see that thei'e were no beefs of any consequence on the in-transit ships. The crews aboard them are doing a real bangup job in true SIU style. We have the Cecil N. Bean com­ ing in from the Far East for payoff in the next two-week period but that's all we have in sight for the immediate future. In the local Public Health Service_ hospital are: S. Johannesen, V. Mihg, G. Wanka, Q. Rosenberg, W. Johnston, M. Candelieri and F. Rochon. These men look forward to visits or a line from old ship­ mates. Jeff Gillette Seattle Port Agent We are liow putting the new steward department feeding p>rogram into effect on more of our contracted ships after trying it out successfully on various iships and runs. We have found that where the entire steward department' really got together and tried to make the new plan work, It has been very successful, and not only the crews but the conipanies in­ volved have been well satisfied. In putting this "new look" feed­ ing program into effect on all of the ships we will need the coop­ eration not only of the stewards but of the entire ship's crew, in­ cluding the licensed personnel. . But once it. is in operation and all hands have, had aome experi­ ence Mtldi^t, we beUhvo^it will be Shipping, Regislration Figures Break Even Shipping took an upswing here during the past two, weeks as we broke exactly even on men regis­ tered and shipped. Fifty-five of the boys came in, and the same number got jobs and headed out. However, we still have enough men on hand for anything that might come up, so don't rush here exi:^cting to get out in a hurry. Moreover, althdligh we helped out Houston with a few men during the past two weeks, they have plenty of man­ power on hand as of now for themselves. The abundance of jol>s in the past period was caused by the arrival of the Weems Council Grove, Bradford Island, Bents Fort, Lo­ gans Fort, Chiwawa, Archers Hope, Winter Hill, Government Camp, Cantigny, and then the Bent.s Fort, Logans Fort, Chiwawa and Arch­ ers Hope all bounced back again. All these ships were Cities Serv­ ice wagons. In addition, we had the Val Chem (Valentine) over in Orange, Texas; the Republic (Trafalgar), in Port Neches and the Alexandra (Carras), in Port Arthur, al.so in that same big neighbor of ours over the state line. At our last meeting, brother James "Blackie" Merrell, a deck department man, was chairman, and the job of recording secretary was handled by brother J. Mit­ chell, who is in the engine depart­ ment. Both these brothers did a fine job during the lengthy meet­ ing which took up over an hour due to the presentation and dis­ cussion of the new liiring hall set­ up and shipping rules. All hands appear pleased with the latest im­ provements. For our Seafarer of the week, we nominate Theodore "Ted" Weems, who joined the SIU during the Cities Service drive and helped swing this company into the SIU column. This brother has a cow ranch somewhere in Alabama and he fig­ ures on retiring there some day and raising nothing but cows. Meanwhile, he's trying to build up a bundle sailing with the SIU to help him over the rough spots. Leroy Clarke Lake Charles Port Agent it 4- - ml •1 ; 1 I ym m •V I • M I • 4" Tampa: t> New Feeding Pregram Tried On Mere Ships Lake Charles: SIV SIU, A&G bistrict BALTIMORE........iai6 E. Baltimore St. Earl Sheppard. Agent:* EAatern 7-4900 BOSTON 876 State St. James Sbeehan, Agent Richmond 2-0140 HOUSTON 4803 Canal St. A. (Frenchy) Mlehelet, Agent. .Preston 6598 LAKE CHARLES. La 1410 Ryan St. Leroy Clarke. Agent HEmlock 6-5744 MOBILE 1 South Lawrence St. Cal Tanner, Agent HEmlock 2-1754 NEW ORLEANS 523 BienvlUe St. Undsey WllUams. Agent Magnolia 6112-6113 NEW YORK 675 4th Ave., Brooklyn HYacinth 0-6600 NORFOLK 127-129 Bank St. Ben Rees. gent MAdlson 2-9834 PHILADELPHIA.......*...337 Market St. S. CarduRo. Agent Market 7-1635 SAN FRANCISCO 450 Harrison St Tom Banning, agent Douglas 2-5479 Marty Breithoff. West Coast Representative PUERTA de TIERRA, PR. .Pelayo 51—La 9 Sal Colls, .^ent Phone 2-599P SAVANNAH ; 2 Abercorn St Jeff Morrison. Agent Phone 3-1728 SEATTLE 2505 1st Ave. Jeff Gillette. Agent.. . EUieU 4334 OUtMmoMr WILUHNGTON. CalU.. . .505 Marine Ave. Ernest TUley. Agent Terminal 4-2874 HEADQUARTERS... .675 4th Ave.. Bklyn. SECRETARV-TBEASURER Paul HaU ASST. SECRETARY-TREASURERS Robert Matthews Joe Alglna Claude Simmons Joe Volplan William Hall SUP HONOLULU. 16 Merchant St. FORT WILLIAM.... 11814 Smdicate Ave. Ontario Phone: 3-3221 PORT COLBORNE 103 Durham St. Ontario > Phone: 5591 TORONTO. OnUrio 272 King St. E. EMpire~ 4-5719 VICTORIA, BC 617Vi Cormorant St. Empire 4531 VANCOUVER. BC 290 Main St. Pacific 7824 SYDNEY. NS 304 Charlotte St. Phone 6346 BAGOTVILLE. Quebce 20 £lgi;i St. Phon^ 545 THOROLO. Ontario 52 St'. Davids St. CAnal 7-3202 QUEBEC 113 Cote De La Montague Quebec Phone: 2-7076 SAINT JOHN 177 Prince William St. NB Phone: 2-5232 Phone 5-8777 823 N. W. Everett St. Beacon 4330 RICHMOND. CALIF 257 5th St Phone 2599 SAN FRANCISCO 450 Harrison St. Douglas 2-8363 Great Lakes District SEATTLE. .2505 Ist Ave, • Main 0290 ALPENA 133 W. Fletcher WILMINGTON ....505 Marine Ave. Phone: 1238W . Terminal 4-3131 BUFFALO. NY 180 Main St. 734 Lakeside-Ave.. NE NEW YORK 676 4tb Ave.. Brooklyn CLEVELAND. Phone: Main 1-0147 : HYacinth 9-6600 Phone: Cleveland 7391 DETROIT 1038 3rd St. Canadian District Headquarters Phone: Woodward 1-6857 DULUTH........... 631 W. Michigan St. MONTREAL ..694 St. James St. West PLat«au.B161 ^ Phone: Melrose 2-4110 ClOCAGO 3261 E. ' • ~ Phonoi Esse: PORTLAND SS Guha Beefs Sqnared Away ••ym Everything is in good shape in this port although shipping slowed up a little from the way it has been over the last few weeks. But the coming two weeks should bring a couple of ships in here, including one from Mississippi. We are keeping the SS Cuba (P&b) in line and she is now call­ ing for very few, if any, replace­ ments. A few beefs on her were squared away when we paid her off March 5. There were no sign-ons in this port, but the in-transits included the following: Chiwawa, Archers Hope (Cities Service); Cuba (P&O); Antinous (twice), Chickasaw (PanAtlantic), and Gateway City, Golden City and Maiden Creek (Waterman). .«Beiiiiie.:QDimaIei' ym m si • '-m �SEAFARERS Pafa F«arteea Manh If, IfSf LOG OFF WATCH This jeatur* is designed to ojfer hints and information on hobbies, new products, developments, publications and the like which Seafarers may find heh>ful in spending their leisure-time hours, both ashore and aboard shijC Queries should be addressed to "Off Watch," SEA' FARERS LOG, 675 Fourth Avenue, Brooklyn 32, NY. P. Both nearly extinct, whooping^ cranes and musk oxen will be fea­ to pass on an item for fishermen tured on two separate stamp issues sent in by a Seafarer who noticed to be put on sale for the first time it in this month's "American Legion in Ottawa on April 4 as part of Magazine." He said he'd often Canada's National Wild Life Week had to cope with the problem of program. Accordingly, both stamp tangled lures and that the idea of collectors and wild life specialists using balsa wood to line the inside will cheer the appearance of the of the tray in a tackle box is a good one that others might also new Canadian issues. find useful. The stamps, a 5c blue showing The balsa wood, of course, serves two whooping cranes in flight and a 4c purple picturing the head of like a pin-cusblon to anchor the a musk ox, are being issued to call hooks on lures and flies and keeps attention to efforts of Canadian as them from fouling and catching well as American conservationists your fingers every time you dig in to protect the scattered remnants for a piece of fishing gear. Balsa is light, soft and easily workable of both species. and helps keep the tackle box Only 21 of the birds are believe^, orderly. to be still-living. Each autumn they migrate south, spend the win­ ir i- iter in Texas, and then return to Aboard the Royal Oak are (kneeling, 1-r) third cook Parker, MM Siim, OS Graham, an unidentified Of special interest to Seafarers some unknown area in Canada. In who enjoyed reading the 1951 nonoiler and OS Spitale. Standing are (1-r) MM Giudny, oiler Williams, baker Spivey, AB Gillispie, the same way, only a few small fiction best-seller "The Sea Around fireman Williams and fireman White. At extreme rear Is AB Crane, Photo was taken by AB Whitey. herds of musk oxen have survived Us," is the current release by the Crew is happy SIU gang all the way, ship's delegate Gillispie reports, and what^s more, has solid co­ the generations of hunters who al­ New American Library of a 35c operation from topside. ' • most completely wiped them out. Mentor edition of the same au­ Seafarers who wish, to obtain thor's "Under the Sea Wind," first LOG-A-RHYTHM: first-day cancellations of the published in 1941. Both volumes stamps should send self-addressed by Rachel L. Carson deal with al­ covers to the Postmaster, Ottawa 2, lied subjects. The older of the two Ontario, Canada, to arrive there is dedicated more to life on the prior to the first-day sale. Besides shore, in the open sea, and at the Tom Finnegan and Don Rundblad the cost of postage, collectors must sea bottom, however, than the "The include enough to pay the cost of Sea Around Us." the X)ttawa department's cover (Ed. note: Seafarers Rundblad No one gives a damn. The success of that volume, service fee of five cents per cover. which was first developed as a and Finnegan both returned from At home we are forgotten Korea not so long ago after serv­ Though we belong to Uncle Sam. Checks or money orders should be series of featured articles for a na­ made payable to the Receiver Gen­ tional magazine sparked the pub­ ing a hitch with Uncle Sam. Rund­ eral of Canada and sent to the PM lication of a number of books about One happy SIU gang is the blad was awarded a Bronze Star And when we get to Heaven, at Ottawa. crew of the Cities Service during the Korean fighting.) the sea and ships over the past St. Peter we will tell: 3) 4» it four years and added greatly to the tanker Royal Oak, according "We're soldiers of Korea Just to keep things in the same popularity of contemporary sea to ship's delegate G. B. (Tex) Gil­ "And we spent our time in hell." vein, this is an Ideal opportunity literature. lispie. Just across the Pacific— This crew, Gillispie says, has al­ Korea is the spot— "Under the Sea Wind" deals with ways considered itself fortunate to the ways of typical birds, fish and have a good ship, good officers and We're doomed to serve overtime other marine creatures. Seafarers a good skipper—Captain Priest— In the land that God forgot. should find it entertaining reading. who "rates with the best and is t 3) 4) always very cooperative in any­ Over here, with snakes and Reds, Stamp collectors interested in thing that comes up." Where a man is always blue. US issues have now sampled three Like New Contract Over here, in Nowhere, out of the four commemoratives Good Union representation has announced last December as part also been a strong factor with the A million miles from you. of its 1955 program by the Post men, Gillispie repprts, and they Office Department. The sole re­ are particularly happy over the ret­ We sweat, we freeze and shiver. maining item will bow In later this roactive pay a good number of It's more than a man can stand. year for the centennial of the Soo them have coming. We're not supposed to be convicts. Locks—"the world's busiest canal" "All of the men," Gillispie Just defenders of our land. —on the Great Lakes. writes to the LOG, "want to give Meanwhile, of general interest the officials a vote of thanks for We're soldiers of the Infantry to philatelists and to the public as a job well done in guiding the Un­ well are the little-publicized plans ion through ^a difficult period. Earning our monthly pay. of the PC Department to issue a They came through in fine SIU Protecting people with millions 15c "certified mail" stamp this • tradition in seeing to it that we For two-and-a-half a day. year. Like the service already of­ continue to enjoy the very 'best in fered by the more costly registered mai-itime.'" We're living with our memories. mail service, "certified mail" will With the crew and officers pull­ Waiting to see our gals. provide a receipt for the sender, ing together and the Union giving first from the office where the the men aboard their representa­ Hoping that while we're away mail is deposited and then when They haven't married our pals. tion, the Royal Oak shapes up as a the communication is actually de­ smooth - running efficient - working livered. - ' ; ship—just what the doctor ordered. No one knows we're living. Will Get 'Normal Handlhig' It will differ from registered ! mail in that the. "certified" letter , will get notmal handling: tyhile in t the custody of the postal service, r instead of the extensive precau­ ID What post did Franklin D. Roosevelt leave when he was elected tions taken in the case of regis- • President? Was he (a) Secretary of Commerce, (b) Governor of New tration. The new service will prob- | York, (c) a US Senator, or (d) Mayor of Chicago? ably be utilized most heavily in legal communications, such as (2) Five states in the US each contain two of the 20 largest cities tho9e between landlords and ten­ 'in the country. Can you name three of the states and the cities involved? ants, where everybody wants a re- ; (3) What animals are usually sheltered in a fold? ceipt as evidence of sending the (4) One man bidding for a certain paint job, estimates he can com­ communication, but there's noth­ plete it alone in 15 days. Another man says he can finish it in 10 days. ing of real monetary value en­ How long would it take them to do it together? closed. (5) Over what Pacific volcano was the American flag raised in a The stamp, incidentally, will pic­ dramatic episode of World War II? ture a heavily-burdened but smil­ (6) Where and what is the Gobi? ing letter carrier. The date and Phil's Arena Tavern, where Norfolk seamen gather for 10-cent (7) Ho\/ many sides has a polygon? place of -issue have not been disbeers, is the setting for this scene of harmony between the Navy closed, the same as in the case of (8) Who, in a. nursery zonz, "had a wife and couldn't keep her"? and the merchant marine. SeafarerS-are Clarence Crowder (top the stamp for the 100th anniver­ (9) V/hat is the capital of Northern Ireland? left), Thuston Lewis (top right) and John Edwards (bottom right). sary of the Soo Locks. Details will (lb) RearrangeiiartanachAo s;; ell a word meaning quack. SailA|ifina$9^Iia^-y,,BU8h >(t9P^ oenter),. Bill Wiyftg (hnttnm 1pflt.and_ ihfl printed , here when- they ar* SSjW . (Quiz Answers bis TSfe" Bill De Bruyme. available. Royal Oak Has Happy SIU Crew Soldiers Of Korea Seafarers Meet, Greet The Navy j-v. 1-'-.: �Iwssw"• MaFch IS. 1855 Hard Luck Can't Keep Him Down Seafarer James Hand is not the superstitious kind. And he doesn't believe a little run o£ hard luck puts the hex on a ship. That's why, although the ship he was on had her share of ill winds—including one that blew his way—Hand is back aboard her for another trip. The veteran Seafarer, when he was at headquarters recently, told the LOG that his streak of hard luck-occurred on Isthmian's Steel Fabricator, on which he signed last August on a 'round-the-world run. Things went pretty placidly for the first couple of months,-Hand said. But then, in October, while the ship was cruising along at reasonable speed in a calm sea off Java, the prop broke, ^he -men had to wait three days until the ship could be Hanif towed into the drydock in Surabaya, and then they waited three weeks for a spare. The return voyage. Hand said, was a rough trip and the crewmen continued to have a hard time. First the radio operator broke his leg and got a bad gash in his head. Then the carpenter broke his toe. When the ship finally hit Boston, the bosun had to get off with pneumonia. And, to top it all off. Hand himself fell in the messrooip and injured his back. During the return trip, inciden­ tally, the Steel Fabricator was delayed four days by another mishap. Hand reported. This oc­ curred when the Liberian-flag tanker World Peace rammed a railway swing bridge at El Ferdan in the Suez Canal, causing a .threeday jam in shipping»at both^ends of the vital waterway. The Steel Fabricator was the first ship through the canal afteu this accident. Hand said, but this dubious distinction hardly com­ pensated" for the other mishaps which occurred. SEAFARERS IOC Pace Piftcea SlU Crews Enjoy Christmae In France Bv Spik« Marlin It may come up snow and freez­ ing weather in northern climes but the calendar says that the baseball season begins just four weeks from now. That means it's time to rate the contenders in the baseball winter book. The American League can be dispensed with easily. Like last year the league shapes up again as a two-team affair with the Yankees' chances of a comeback based largely on Bob Turley and Don Larsen. Larsen, who won only three and lost 21 games last year should be a real sleeper. Anyway, he's bound to improve. The Yankees have a real headache at short but "Jerry Coleman may surprise every­ body by moving into that spot as a permanent tenant. Cleveland's' offensive gesture was the purchase of Ralpli Kiner who is another slow-footed heavy in a basketful of the same. The Indians are aging surreptitiously in key spots and look not quite as strong as last year. The rest? Kansas City (nee Philadelphia), Detroit, Baltimore, Washington can. safely be dis­ regarded. Chicago will make it a little interesting and Boston is a deep-toned dark horse with a new manager to boot. The National League looks like a far more interesting horse race. The Giants do not figure to repeat, not because the club isn't strong but the competition is very tough. Brooklyn with a healthy Roy Cam- panella must be rated more of a threat than last year. He is the key man whom the Dodgers simply cannot replace. Of course, Brook­ lyn has its usual pitching question marks. If Milwaukee Is going to make it, this should be the year. Bobby Thomson is supposedly in good health, giving the club the flex­ ibility and extra strength it so badly needed in the outfield. Eddie Matthews will qrrive this year or never. He's had all the press clip­ pings and now is the time for him to produce. Milwaukee will never quite recover from the Antonelll trade but there are several strong young pitchers who have the potential to bust out. The Braves cannot count on one or two more big seasons from their ace, Warren Spahn, so they have to make their move now. St. Louis showed awesome of­ fensive power last year but their pitching was horribly manhandled. Still the club has the nucleus of a strong staff in Harvey Haddix and Brooks Lawrence. Lawrence came up in midseason and stood up lo the League's hitters in real pro style. The Cardinals certainly have the potential to make it a fourteam race. That leaves ^iladelphia, Cin­ cinnati, Chicago and Pittsburgh to bring up the rear. The Phillies have stood pat and aren't improv­ ing with age. Along with the other clubs they don't figure for more than nuisance value to contenders. The LOG conducts this column as an exchange for stewards, cooks, bakers and others who'd like to share favored recipes, little-known cooking and baking hints, dishes with a national flavor and the like suitable for shipboard and/or home use. Here's Seafarer Jesse W. Puckett's recipe for "liquid yeast." Although they were unable to be at home with their friends and families, the crewmen of two SIU ships which were at La Pallice, France, at the time, enjoyed their Christmas with Christmas trees and all the trappings. At top, aboard the Lawrence Victory (Mis­ sissippi) are (1-r) ship's delegate Mike Rogalskl (foreground). Bill Lynn, J. Fuinero, W. Ruskowski and J. Mechour. Bottom, on the Southland (South Atlantic) are (1-r) B. W. Brinson, Ted Morrison, L. A. DeWitt and N. Z. Leggett. Both treei, with ornaments, were supplied by United Seamen's Service. 4 Shipmate Is Shot ALimetC TOlOflGlRiPS? Apparently well-fortified now with recipes for "vinegar pie" submitted by LOG readers (Nov. 26, Dec. 24, 1954) in an­ swer to his request six months ago, Seafarer Jesse W. Puckett, steward, has dug down again*" ' into his bag of culinary tricks. size potatoes, 2 teaspo^s salt, 3 This time the veteran Sea­ tablespoons sugar, 1 dry yeast cake farer offers a hint for bakerf who or 1 ounce of compressed yeast which has been mixed with Vt cup may be running of lukewarm water. low on compres­ First, pare and boil the potatoes sed yeast and in a quart of water. Then, mash can't get any the potatoes and add the salt, sugar right away. The and the water in which the pota­ thing to do, says toes were originally boiled. Cool, Puckett, who has add the yeast, and pour the com­ almost 40 years bination in a stone or glass jar. of seatime behind Let it stand covered in a warm him, Is to make place for three hours or more. up a batch of li­ Puckett Keep Stirring quid yeast to carry you over. Each time the level rises to the The basie recipe he offers can be top 4>f the jar stir it down, and increased 16 times with your li^ •continue this until 4he yeast stops .pound of , compressed yeast, he working. Now cover the liquid adds, yeast end etore it in a cool place. • Here's what you need: 4 medium Use V^'cup of liquid yeast in place of 1 ounce of compressed yeast thereafter. When there is only Va cup of liquid left, prepare a new batch using the remaining liquid yeast in place of compressed Under the Union constituyeast and follow the above recipe. , tion every member attending You can get good results by re­ a Union meeting is entitled to peating the process this way for nominate himself for the quite a while, according to Puck­ elected posts to be filled at ett Then, next time you're in the meeting—chairman, read­ port, sock away a couple of yeast ing.clerk and recording secre­ cakes for Just such an emergency, tary. Your Union urges you to take an active part in meet­ ings by taking these posts of service. And, of course, all membei'S have the right to take the floor and express their opinions on any officer's report or issue under discussion. Seafarers are urged to fait the deck at these meetings and let their shipmates know what's en their mind; . Speak Your Mind At SiU Meetings SF voy TAKE A JC3Bd^)AeHIPeO/^6 A SHUnif fW, STAVWITM H^UmiL^CDMeS BACKTOTMeSTAreS. CtUlTTiNd^lP IN A rORBIGN PORT PffWVIES ybM » BROTHER ^EAfARgRS OFAOaNPWeP fO JOB K>/nn0 OUg<vn<W OFPiEIRld Vincent' (Body) Call, deck steward on the Alcoa Clipper, got this shot of his shipmate, F[orman T.' Ragas; during a run to the Caribbean. Ragas is bartender en the Alcoa ship. It looks h'we like he was on a "busman'* holiday" and was bidding:^ for somo^ aecvico like he pi«vido«|>foE tlMT'CUstomers^ AmiirM 9.tl :)W ciup) m �SEA^AnSRS LOG Pare Sixteen. Marcb 18. 19S8 . w. DIGEST oC SHIPS" MEETINGS . .. ELIZABETH (Bull), January 11—Chalr.man, R. Barratt; Secretary, S. Carr. Mo­ tion made to have ship's delegate, depart. mental delegates and steward check on food being held over to be used again. Di.soiission on men taking tales topsid^ A crewmeraber was promoted from deck delegate to bosun and this was cleared at the San Juan hall and will be cleared throu.gh Mew York. January 30—Chairman, Steva Carr; Stcratary, nona. Motion made and carried that a patrolman be asked to come aboard and check the food. The steward should spend more time in messrooir.j during meal hours. ft-" r;. fv^r ;S<' [ -5^''- if r.. . K- • <f ' • • 'P..~' BENTS FORT (Cities Service), February 9—Chairman, W. Drew; Secretary, G. Sinkes. Ship's delegate tried to get more milk for trip. Motion made and carried that crew be properly dressed when in and around messhall. Crew should be SEATRAIN LOUISIANA (Saalrain), aboard ship one hour before sailing time. January 23—Chairman, J. McCaslin; Sacratary, W. Moya. Motion was made and Vole of thanks given to the 2nd cook and baker. carried to have frpsh milk served three times dail.v as long as it is available. SOUTHLAND (South Atlantic), Decem­ Ship's treasurer reported that one and a half eases of empty coke bottles are miss­ ber 5—Chairman, R. Kitchens; Secretary, T. Brown. Steward reported that he is ing and asked erewmembers to be more careful and return same in future. A unable to get a better brand of washing powder, because, as the Savannah agent suggeslion was made to purchase the 1954 bound volume of the LOG and the money pointed out. the agreement states wash­ for same will be taken from the ship's ing powders and Hot special brands. S15 was spent on (lowers for a recently de­ fund. parted brother, and $96 remains in JEAN (Bull), January U—Chairman, S. treasury. Crewmembers should return Foti; Secretary, R. Sandarlin. Many re­ books to the recreation room when fin­ pairs have not been taken care of. Fans ished with saine. One member asked wili be installed as soon as possible. All everyone aboard to leave radio speaker books will be packed and sent ashore in in mcssroom turned on as man on stand­ New York. A vole of thanks was given by receives orders ffom the bridge by to the steward department for a job this system. well done. STEEL RECORDER (Isthmian), Febru­ SALEM MARITIME (Cities Service), ary 11—Chairman, E. Carter; Secretary, January 21—Chairman, A. Cowder; Sec­ W. Nichter. Engine room door in port retary, Wittiam. Ship's delegate reported passageway should be fi.xed as it slams. that a radio of the proper size has not Motion made to see port captain in New been purchased but delegate will buy one York about cabs taking the men through when possible. Ship's fund stands at the gate to the ship at the - Isthmian SC3. Request made that port personnel docks. not use crew passageways. CHICKASAW (Waterman), January 28— Chairman, E. Monahan; Secretary, G. Busciglio. The crew was thanked for their cooperation and good conduct on present voyage. Motion made that the ship's delegate register a beef in Mobile con­ cerning inferior food stuffs. Discussion held on ship sanitation. STEEL NAVIGATOR (Isthmian), Janu­ ary 9—Chairman, C. Scofield; Secretary, Joe Keamee. Most of the repairs have been taken care of. Minor beefs reported in steward department All hands were asked to take care of the library in keep­ ing it orderly. Garbage should be placed in garbase cans and not on deck while ship is in port. Most of the brothers aboard feel the trouble with travelers' checks is in cashing same. ALCOA PENNANT (Alcoa), February < —Chairman, E. Kelly; Secretary, A. L. Danne. Discussion- on baker's bread. Sliore gang foreman will be contacted about installing bread cabinet in PO messroom. One crewmember paid off in Ponce to go into the hospital. ALAMAR (Calmar), January U—Chair­ man, J. Barnett; Secretary, J. McPhaul. All repair li.sts to be given to the ship's delegate for the arrival at Long Beach. A vote of thanks was given to the baker. Disi-ussiott on the messman service. SEAMAR (Caimai;, February t—Chair­ man, J. Starka; Secretary, J. Hough. Mo­ tion made and carried that the captain be contacted by the ship's delegate about having cook's foc'.sle scaled and painted. If no action is taken this matter will be turned over to a patrolman. Writing desk will be installed in black gang's foc'sle. A vote of thanks given to the steward department for a job well done.. Wringer on washing machine will be re placed. MARORE (Ore), January 29—Chairman, L. Smith; Secretary, E. Harrison. Ship's library is on board and must be taken Ik" .. §:.• I'"''' ;• care of. The steward was asked to put spoons, silverware and more cups out for night lunch. OS lost some articles of clothing due to the taking of sens and was advised to make a list of same and forward to New York office. February 11—Chairman, B. Cuthrcll; Secretary, E. Harrison. Motion made and carried to make sure all repairs are made before leaving port. Discussion ' on de­ layed sailing. Report Lost Baggage Cheek Seafarers who lose baggage checks for gear checked at any SlU baggage room should notify that particular hall right away so that no one can improperly claim the baggage with that check. Headquarters officials advise you to do this immediately to avoid loss of your gear and/or trouble claiming it later on. - Make sure you notify the hall where the baggage was checked as soon as you find out you've lost the check. L:, ALCOA PEGASUS (Alcoa), October 17 —Chairman. L. Phillips; Secretary, E. C. Keagy. Ship's delegate contacted the chief engineer about scuppers in ^lley and sougecing black gang rooms. The boarding patrolm.-y; will be contacted about disputed overtime on dela.ved sail­ ing from New York, and possibility of getting fresh milk where possible in foreign ports. One permitman' aboard was given a vote of thanks for his fine baking and cooperation with all. VENORE (Ora), January 23—Chairman, J. Oliver; Secretary, R. Thels. SuggesANDREW JACKSON (Isthmian), JanU, tion that water sample be turned over to •fy S—Chairman, J. Repeikas; Secretary, i the patrolman as it is still rusty. SEATIGER (Orion), January 10—Chair­ A. Brodie. A vote of thanks goes to the steward department for excellent food man, T.- Bolton; Secretary, M. Collard. COE VICTORY (Victory Carriers), Feb­ served and fine service. Washing ma­ Definite .action will be taken on drinking fountains on foc'sle deck. There has ruary 3—Chairman, J. Golder; Secretary, chine should be used during daytime been a grave neglect of previous repair D. Sacher. More "milk is needed in for­ only, and run for twenty minutes so as lists. Shortages on stores witTbe checked. eign ports. Something should be done not to burn up. the motor. Delegates will note overtime p;-ior to about the spreads when the linen is issued for they have a peculiar smell. payoff. January 23—Chairman, W. Tkach; SecOREMAR. (Ore), January 9—Chairman, ret.-ry, M. Collard. Chief cook asked for a patrolman to come aboard and go over E. Barnhill; Secretary, W. Masterson. menus. Crewmembers are dissatisfied Plugged up shower drain in dayman's foc'sle needs to be opened. The steward with food. should place more cups at coffee time. Repair list to be made up and turned in PAOLI (Cities Service), February 9— before the ship arrives in Baltimore. Chairman, J. Wehe; Secretary, G. LIbby. January 28—Chairman, S. Thayes; Sec­ Motion made and carried that arrival retary, E. Barnhill. Leaks in fireman's pool be made up for radio. All proceeds foc'sle will be repaired. Discussion on will-go to the March of Dimes. It the coffee mugs in night pantry to be brought NEVA WEST (Bloomflefd), December patrolman doesn't take the books in rec- back after using same. Repair lists will 19—Chairman, J. Riley; Secretary, J. reation room they will be turned over be made up and turned in to the ship's Dolan. A new ship's delegate was elected TRINITY (John Carraci Jatiiiarv SB Merchant Seamen's I.ibrary in delegate. and he said he will do the job to the Chalrinan N Hartmln- S.crifarv V ^ ^ork. Ship's delegate will see the February 4—Chairman, E. Barnhill; Sec-, best of his ability and all performers can Bellamy. Special payoff' meeting called! ' Pa^'o'^an abotlt> transportation for each retary, R. FIthen. Discussion on the expect , to be turndd In to the boarding man coming from different ports for patrolman. The new washing machine Patrolman informed the crew that if the signing on. washing machine. Leaks in fireman's in the laundry is okay but the motor overtime was good, checks would be foc'sle have not been fixed as yet. must be reversed as it unscrews the mailed no later than Monday, January \vringer while . running. 24th. The crew was restricted to ship KATHRYN (Bull), January 24—Chair­ at a French port from 5 PM until 8 A.M man, J. Jones; Secretary, R. Adamson. SEATRAIN LOUISIANA (Seatrain), De­ the following morning. Crewmembers were asked to try and keep January 14—Chairman, J. Buzilcwski; the messhall clean at night. Some dis­ cember 27—Chairman, J. McCailln; Sec­ retary, G. Vinson. Forty cases of coke Secretary, J. Kouvardas. Number-2 life­ puted overtime reported. are in stock, and there Is $71.65 in the boat to be repaired. Icebo.x and galley will be cleaned and sougeed. Some dis­ EDITH (Bull), February 4—Chairman, ship's fund. Suggestion made to get puted overtime reported. OCEAN NIMET (Maritime Ovcrstas), L. Cartwrlght; Secretary, F. Davis. Tele­ speaker in crew messhall .repaired in No date—Chairman, C. Bellamy; Sec­ February S^Chalrman, R. Frazer; Secre­ vision set to be raffled off. Crewmembers Edgewater. retary, Reid. A beet came up between tary, S. Cleslak. Suggestion made that will see if a new machine can be se­ OREMAR (Ore), January 9—Chairman, the captain and the chief pumpman when ship's delegate draw up a working sched­ cured. E. Barnhill; Secretary, W. Masterson. The the captain claimed the pumpman did ule _for recreation and laundry rooms. not know his job and that he had to go Bigger light bulbs should be put in messSTEEL DIRECTOR (Isthmian), February steward was asked to place more cups on deck every time the ship was dis­ room and recreation room. Ship's dele­ 4—Chairman, A. Hands; Secretary, A. G. at coffee time, and the chairman sug­ charging or taking on cargo. Members gate elected. Anopcl. A new ship's delegate was gested that the cups be placed in the suggested that all the old poems in LOG elected, and he asked crewmembers., for night pantry after using same. Repair be published in book form so that copies their cooperation. If there are any beefs list to be made up and turned in before ALCOA PLANTER (Alcoa), January 30 in departments,, brothers should settle ship arrives in Baltimore. can be sent to relatives and friends who —Chairman, T. Lyons; Secretary, W. them with their respective department are interested in same. Dodd. One man reported injured in dclegatc.s before bringing them to the STEEL MAKER (Isthmian), November ALEXANDER (Carras), December It- Bremerh.aven. Nothing can be done about attention of the ship'.s delegate. $13.50 5—Chairman, S. Fauks; Secretary, O. Chairman, none; Secretary, W. Hand. A getting more hot water. A vote of thanks in the ship's fund and members would Seara. All departments will take turns motion was made and carried that the was given to the steward dejiartincnt for like to use same for reading material. in cleaning laundi-y room. Discussion Brother DeFerino A suggestion was made that crewmem­ travelers checks. • ~ outgoing ship's delegate get a vote of a wonderful job. thanked the crew for the flowers they bers donate to the fund so there will be November 21—Chairman, A. Paopas; thanks for the good work he did. December 27—Chairman, R. High; Sec­ sent to services for his deceased father. enough money to buy small things for Sec^tary, S; ^anks. Ship's dclegatfi re­ quested that all beefs be taken care of retary, P. Shanger. .Ship's treasurer re­ Patrolman will be Informed about slop- the crew's benefit. in the proper manner, 'and that is ported that the ship's fund is $5.45 in chest being better stocked. debt. A suggestion was made that crewFRANCES (Bull), January 23—Chair­ through the delegates. Cots can be ob­ IBERVILLE (Waterman), February 13— man, W. Smith; Secretary, E. O'Rourke.' tained through steward. menibeis donate $1 at payoff. Delegates December 22—Chairman, S. Hanks; should get up a repair list for patrolman Chairman, V. Smith; Secretary, L. Ken­ A time clock has been obtained and will at payoff. A vote of thanks was given nedy. Discussion on painting of recrea­ be attached to the washing machine as Secretary, O. Seara. Motion made to to the steward department for a fine tion room to be taken up with patrolman soon as chief engineer assigns electrician disregard captain's letter and have over­ Christmas dinner. at payoff. Engine department head needs to do the job. Motion made and carried time taken care of in New Y'ork. Linen January 30—Chairman, V. SzymanskI; repairing. Ship's delegate resigned. to turn over $25 in ship's fund and the will be checked for replacement. Secretary, C. Blalack. Motion made and proceeds from a tarpaulin muster to the MOBILIAN (Waterman), December 27— carried to have repaii-s for watertight ROBIN KETTERING (Seas Shipping), wiper left In hospital in San Juan. Sug­ doors and passage drains enforced by January 14—Chairman, R. Whitley; Sec­ gested that chief mate see longshore boss Chairman, J. Stringfellaw; Secretary, C. headquarters. Discussion on procedure retary, S. Korolla. Ship's delegate re­ on sanitary problem. Vote of thanks Crabtree. Delegate will see the captain for building ship's fund. Crew's radio ported that everything is running smooth- given to the steward department for food (Continued on page 17) Late in 1950, amid continued Communist exploita­ tion of steward department, men on West Coast ships, a major drive was laui^hed to enroll tlie cooks and stewards. under the banner of the SIU of Nortit America. Earlier, the Marine Cooks & Stewards had been ousted from the ClO for CJP-dominatipn. "I:S' FAIRPORT (Waterman), January 1 — Chairman, P. Ryan; Secretary, J. Easterling. Brother Lewis suggested that bet­ ter menus with more of a variety be put out. Vote of thanks given to the cooks for well prepared food. Suggestion piade to use part of the sKlp's fund to repait spare washing machine. Some of the ship's fund will be contributed to the March of Dimes at "payoff. needs repairing. Suggestion . made by crewmembers that a collection be taken for the March of Dimes. Cartoon History Of The SIU - J^'-T ly and thanked the crew for their coop­ and service. Request that a new icebox eration on the past voyage. Total in be put In crew pantry. ship's fund Is $12.53. Moving, pictures will be held between 6:30 PM and 8:00 PM ALCOA PILGRIM (Alcoa), December 1* In the officer's mess. Chief cook would —Chairman, J. Dixon; Secretary, W. J. appreciate a writing desk in his room. Miles. Crew decided to turn the ques­ tion of what Is considered as first and CHIWAWA (Cities Service), January 19 second meat over to the patrolman. Dis­ cussion oq cooperation between galley —Chairman, A. Fricks; Secretary, E. Ray. Discussion on practices thaC are detri­ orew and topside messman. mental to the good and welfare of the ALCOA POLARIS (Alcoa), January 2-. crew as a whole. A suggestion was made that in the future when a man misses a Chairman, J. Morton; Secretary, J. E. vessel his personal papers be sent to the Hannon. All hands were asked to coop­ address he gives on the articles Instead erate and keep the pantry cleaner at of the one that appears on the validated night, and to put all Jellies and other Delegates were papers. The company seems to have types of food away. neglected the repair sheets received in asked to turn in a repair list to the steward. the past. West Coatti Organizing Spearheaded by .the SlU-affiliated Sailors Union of the Pacific, the campaign gained immediate support from the West Coast cooks and stewards. ; They rec­ ognized that -an SIUNA charter would guarantee themcontrol of their own affairs plus the backing of thou- IVo. 8ii In January, 1951, a major -East Coast union attempted-to capitalize on the tangled West Coast situaticin, but its campaign completely failed to get otf the ground. - The cooks and stewards feared being swallowed up by the other uhion and instead con-; . J- �SEAFAItEnS riw* SiTeMitcB LOG '.'i ... DIGEST of SmPS' MEETINGS... (Continued from page 16X and chief mate aaain abont the cleaninK «f Quartera. Motion made and carried that all members write to their Senatoi-s .and Confressmen In protest of the action that the Coast Guard is trying to pass concerning physical examination of all merchant seamen. BENTS FORT (Cities Service), January *—Chairman, B. Jackson; Secretary, R. Hammond. Ship's delegate reported that any men performing will be reported to . the patrolman. Motipn made and carried that headquarters take up the question of the coifee and soap powder put aboard this sliip. S20.15 reported in the ship'i fund. tary, A. Janet. Report was aent to head­ quarters in regard to the galley stove. General discussion on food and menus. Crew asked for a different brand of soap powder for the next trip. A new wash{ ing machine requested as present one is I in bad condition. Ship's delegate will ! take care of a new library for the next voyage. November 7—Chairman, R. Cootc; Sec­ retary, A. Friend. Coffee urn and wash­ ing machine were repaired. Discussion on new mattresses and they will continue to come al>oard six at a time until all the old ones have been replaced. December 11—Chairman, A. Friend; Secretary, A. Janes. A letter will be , sent to headquarters requesting that the three patrolman who paid off the vessel last voyage be dispatched to pay off the vessel this time as they understand the problems that arise aboard this ship. Lengthy discussion on the problem of the steward taking news of ship's min­ utes to captain and bringing captain mis­ information. All departments asked for less noise in the passageways. EMILIA (Bull), January 2—Chairman, 'L. (tuellnitx; Secretary, C. Kavanagh. Motion made and carried that screen . doers be installed on main deck passage­ way entrance instead of present closed type. Ship's delegate instructed the deck delegate to represent the deck depart­ ment only and let him take care of ship's business. One man missed ship at San MASSMAR (Calmar), January IS—Chair­ Juan. man, Arthur Kavcl; Secretary, Guy Wai­ ter. Motion made and carried to have QUEENSTON HEIGHTS (Seatrade), Jan­ soap put aboard as per agreement and uary I—Chairman, S. Cieslak; Sacratary, not Octagon soap. Discussion on food in . K. Goldman. General discussion on bad general. Deck department was reminded menus that have been put out for last that ail hands should be on board for few days, especially on the holidays. shifting. Allotments being sent out on Steward has promised to work closer the tenth. with the cooks. MAOAKET (Waterman), Dacember 12— ROYAL OAK (Cities Service), January Chairman, W. Buscli; Secretary, B. 7—Chairman, T. Jones; Secretary, J. Wil­ Rucker. Ship's delegate reported every­ son. Suggestion made to see the patrol­ thing -going along very well. Talk in man about mattresses, and to' find out general. last time the ship was fumigated. One January 2—Chairman, Schmidt; Secre­ man missed ship in Staten Island. tary, Butch. Ship's delegate gave a talk on cleanliness of messroom. Water foun­ BARBARA FRIETCHIE (Liberty), Janu­ tain will be repaired. Vote of thanks ary. 4—Chairman, C. Suit; Secretary, A. given to the stewai;d department for a Thorne. Motion made and carried that fine jpb. The crew thanked the elec­ all delegates talk to the port steward trician for running the movies. abont getting a better grade of food and more of a variety. Card players were ROBIN TUXFORO (Robin), December 6 asked to be more careful with cigarettes — Chairman, J. Levin; Secretary, J. and not burn the tables. Domestic water Meyers. The work of the night cook and tanks will be cleaned. baker is definitely not up to par. The steward was asked to provide better night SEATRAIN GEORGIA (Seatrain), De­ lunches for the crew. . * cember 19—Chairman, J. Long; Secretary, T. Bowers. Everything running smoothly. SEATRAIN TEXAS (Seatrain), January Cash in ship's fund $38.03. A new ship's 23—Chairman, . J. Allen; Secretary, Sir delegate was elected. Two brothers got Charles. Discussion on a crewmember off and said they hated to leave as good a missing ship. $75.45 reported in the bunch as was oii this ship. ship's fund. January 16—Chairman, J. Long; Secre­ tary, F. Johnson. Christmas card was HURRICANE (Waterman), December 21 sent to Paul Hali and staff at headquar­ —Chairman, J. Burke; Secretary, W. ters. Coast Guard profiling system dis­ Smith. Ship has just been reactivated cussed,, and all brothers were urged to out of lay-up in Mo)>ile. Motion made and tend letter or telegrams to members of carried to speak to the patrolman at Congress whose names appear in the LOG payoff about getting chairs for the crew's atory. foe'sles. All hands were asked to return MANKATO VICTORY (Victory Carriars), October 3—Chairman, J. Flanagan; Secretary, A. Janes. There should be less noise in the recreation room when men off watch are sleeping. A vote of tlianks was given by the crew to the ateward department. October 24—Chairman, R. Cootc; Sccrc- :liiNET #iiisON^i: James McGuffey Call Valley 4492 as soon as pos­ sible or write your wife at 1916 Stephen Giarod, New Orleans, La. 3« i" i Roland Parady The followiRg men can collect Please contact , your mother. unclaimed wages from voyages on Write Mrs. Mary .David, 115 Austin National Shipping Authority ves­ Street, Worcester, Mas.s. sels operated by the Alcoa Steam­ i t i ship Co., Inc., by writing to the Jerry McCarthy Paymaster, Alcoa Steamship Co,, Please write as soon as you can. Inc., 17 Battery Place, NY 4, NY: Tim McCarthy, SS Fairland, c/o Spyrion Athanassioni Dillard Adcock; Waterman Steamship Corp., C. F. Miiiican L. Armstrong; Jean Auger; Vic­ tor M. Alcaraz; Edward Blackmon; John Sharpe & Co., Inc., No. 7, Nihon Barron; Edward J. Boynton; William A. Qdovi, Makakui, Yokohama, Japan. Brewer; John S. Bragg; Napoleon ~ A. Blanchard; Cecil E. Bennett; As Chan L'hu; Joaquin De Carvalhu. Pat G. Dougherty; Carlos De Leon; Nicholas Fedyk; Vincenzo Formlsano; Han L. Fook; John H. Floyd: John Gala; Matthew Gichenke; John O. Godfrey; loannis S. Gerontopoulos; F. Goose; Thad W. Hinson. Jr.; Edwin S. Harrlman; Her­ bert R. Hutehins; John T. Hawley. Winston C. Jackson, Jr.;' Hakan H. Jensen; Edward J. Koehanovski; loanis Konstantakis; Vincent S. Kuhl; Robert V K. Lee; Adam Le Maine. Jr.; Roland E. Lomax; Andrew C. Lutey: Harry C. Lloyd; Michael Marcandois; Thomas O. Melton; Ezeb Manuel; Edward R. Meeh; James A. McWhinney; Albert N.-North. Charles Palmer; Purvis S. Parker; Leo Rhodes; Doren L. Redmond; James P. Russell; Anthony H. Reardon; Eugene L. Stark; Daniel A. Santos: Wjn. C. Splvey; Ferdynand Szoblik; Wong M. Sing; Lee :A. Seh; Charles J. Sweet; Wilton A. ,'Thompsett; Wilmcr R. Wilkins; Leslie West: Robert WUson, Jr.; W. R. WhiteAurst; Constantine Zeppas. Quix Angwerm (1) (b) Governor of New York, (2) California (Los Angeles, San Francisco); Missouri (Kansas City, St.. Louis); New York, (Buffalo, New (York); Ohio (Cincinnati, CleveiiJand); Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, iPittsburgh). . ' I (3) Sheep. ] (4) Six days. (5) Mt. Suribachl on Iwo Jima. (6) The great desert ih Mongo­ lia. (7) Many! A polygon is a figure which has more, than four angles and sides. («) Peter Piper. ' '/ .(9) Belfast. ^ " (10) Charlatan. 4« 4" 4" Timothy F. Griffin Get. in touch with your sister right away. Urgent - 4 4 4 A! Kirkis I lyill leave your storm gear at the baggage room at SIU head­ quarters. Blaine Boxwell. 4 4 4 BUI Gonzales Your gear is in the baggage room at SIU headquarters. The cheek has been left in the mailroom in an envelope addressed to you. Van Whitney. 4 4 4 NIel Abernathy Please contact Red Braunstein at the Wilmington SIU halt Buzxlm AMSwer EEEE Bliffl aosa saiiiE ..Hjaifl aasa aasansaa HMHS SESa QEaCSQ GOSU QDGS QBiigl a[]3a[ia fansra ariBM SEDESiaS EOQEQ BOH3] HSa OSES aEQEU;SS3C] HSfflca awa aauiE anas SEH ausy coffee cups when Snlshed with same. A ing foe'sles and getting standby buzzer vote of thanks wns given to the steward installed in crew's messroom. department for a ftnc Christmas dinner. Ship's delegate explained to new erewLIBERTY FLAG (Dover), January f— mcmbers the purpose of standing one Chairman, C. McMuilan; Sacratary, E. minute of silence at every meeting. Hilt. The captain stated there was to be no American money, issued or trav­ ALCOA RANGER (Alcoa), January 14— elers cheeks. All hands were asked to Chairman, S. Scott; Secretary, J. Purscll. cooperate in connection with painting of Discussion on repair list and excess drink­ rooms, moving gear. etc. ing, which will dealt with more harsh­ ly in the future. One member paid off by mutual consent in Trinidad. CUBORE (Ore), January 23—Chairman, Foust; Secretary, O. Guerrero. A vote of thanks was given to the steward de­ STEEL SCIENTIST rrslhmlan), Deccmpartment for the good meals served dur­ iMtr 15—Chairman, R. Hunt; Secretary, J. Fitzacrald. Ship's delegate reported that ing the holidays and during the entire everything is running SlU style. Depart­ trip. Portlwle windchute* will be ordered ment delegates volunteered to decorate for all unlicensed personnel's foe'sles. the crew mess for the Christmas holi­ All hands were asked to keep the wash­ days. There is $20 left in the ship's fund. ing machine and the deck of laundry Crewmembei-s were asked to return all room clean after using same. chairs to the messhall when finished with ^ame. EVELYN (Bull), December 26—Chair­ man, W. Aycock; Secretary, T. Moller. A GREECE VICTORY (South Atlantic), no special vote of thanks was given to the date—Chairman, E. Westlakc; Secretary, steward and the cooks for a swell Christ­ F. Timmons. Steward was asked to ob­ mas dinner. The entire crew appreciated tain more of a variety in vegetables as the extra work and effort that made this well as fresh fruit in season and a greater possible. variety of fish and shrimp. Motion made ALAWAI (Waterman), January 23— and carried to send a letter to head­ quarters concerning this matter. Ship's Chairman, E. Ray; Secretary, E. King. delegate will see the captain about paint­ Several beefs reported regarding slop- Sill Membership Adopts Seniority Hiring Set-Up (Continued from page 3) ratings will receive far greater job security than ever before. Class B men are subject to the 60-day rule. In other woi-ds, they are entitled to one round trip or 60 days on SIU ships, whichever is longer. • Class C men are entitled to ship if there are no class A or B men available for a given job for eight consecutive job calls. As men with too little or without experi­ ence on SlU-contracted ships they have no seniority and occupy the bottom rung of the seniority lad­ der. They, too, like c'ass B men, are subject to the 60-day rule and have to ship 90 days a calend^ year to maintain their status. Furuseth School • Class C men who attend the Andrew Furuseth training school and receive a training certificate accordingly will be given prefer­ ence in employment (xver oJ.hers in class C. The shipowners agree that the Furuseth school will have offi­ cial status for this purpose. « The luring system also pro­ vides for advancing from one class to another. A class B man can get an A rating after eight years in his class. A class C man can advance to class B in two years if he quali­ fies. • The hiring provisions are subject to renegotiation by either party upon seven days' notice. In negotiating this new hiring agreement, the Union and the operators also extended the exist­ ing SIU agreement for two, years until September 30, 1957. The con­ tract, however, can be reopened by the Union at any time for changes in wages and other monetary pro­ visions. In order to provide facilities for the registration of class C men, an additional shipping area has al­ ready been set up for them on the Union's property in New York. They will have access to registra­ tion and shipping, as well as full information on these subjects in the manner' prescribed in the agreement. This additional ship­ ping area will, as a matter of fact, sinqilify the administrative job required by: the new agreement Seafarers' are being assigned their new classifications as of now in headquarters when they come in to register. Appeals Board' A Seafai'ers Appeals Board, representing the Union and the companies, has been established to handle all grievances prising under the hirii^ provisions and to for-,, muiate rules necessary to cariy out the ;team's .and prineipies of the_ hi^-ing .arrahiggment. r V Tfie Seafarers Appeals Board is composed of Joseph Algina and Claude Simmons for the Union, with Lindsey Williams and Cal Tanner as alternates. For the com­ panies, representatives are Max Harrison, Waterman Steamship Company, and Roland C. (Chap) Chapdelaine, Seatrain, with Charles Logan, Mississippi, and H. (Randy) Schilling. Alcoa, as alternates. It is expected that the panel will operate smoothly and efficiently inasmuch as almost all of the Union and shipowner representatives are currently trustees of either the Seafarers Welfare Plan or the Sea­ farers Vacation Plan, and are totally familiar with problems com­ mon to both sides. In effecting the Union's role in the new program Keith Terpe, SIU Director of Organizing, has been assigned to work as coordinator in establishing the senioritj' rules and regulations in the branches main­ tained by the Union throughout the District. The drafting, negotiating and establishing of - the new seniority procedure culminates many months of work, and in view of the many legalities involved, attorneys for various steamship companies par­ ticipated, as did Seymour W. Mil­ ler, General Counsel for the SIU. Also a participant in the meetings was Morris Weisberger, east coast representative of the SUP, who represented Harry Lundeberg, president of the SIU of NA. Weis­ berger served with the committee in addition to keeping the Interna­ tional and President Lundeberg advised at all times during draft­ ing of the new agreement, a policy agreed to earlier to cover all mat­ ters affecting the hiring hall. chcft ai there U no heavy, sear or panta to fit crew. Crewmembers were ^ked to be quiet hi the pauageways. A vote of thanks was extended to the Bey Supply Company of Coos Bay, Oregon, for maga­ zines and books they sent aboard ship. MARY ADAMS (Bloomfletd), NovemlMr 14—Chairman, A. Blornsien; Secretary, B. Hay. Thanhs given to the deck en­ gineer for the work he did to make the washing machine secure against heavy seas. Discussion on the letter sent aboard ship to ship's delegate. Steward asked for first choice of meats on menus. EVELYN (Bull), January 26—Chairman, W. Aycock; Secretary, J. Warmack. Re­ pair lists should he made up regularly. Discussion on ttie washing machine. Beef about dirty cups and saucers left in the pantry, and the steward promised to straighten same out with the pantryman. CITRUS PACKER (Waterman), Decem­ ber 19—Chairman, H. Hankee; Secretary, H. Sedgeway. Motion made and carried for the ship's delegate to contact a paStroiman in California about getting a new washing m.ichine. Discussion on keeping the messtiaU and pantry clean. GREECE VICTORY (South Atlantic), January 5—Chairman, E. Wcstlake; Sec­ retary, F. Timmoni. Repair list has been made out and copies were given to the chief engineer and the captain. All quar­ ters need painting. A vote of thanks was given to the steward department for well-prepared meals. Motion made and carried to have patrolman contact cap­ tain about changing bus schedule within US Naval Base in Leonardo, as many of the crewmembers missed the 8:30 bus and had to wait hours for the next one. .".'r' i HURRICANE IWarerman), January 30— Chairman, J. Longfellow; Secretary, W. Smith. Motion made and carried to ro­ tate department in keeping the laundry and recreation rooms clean. Discussion about trying to get American money or travelers checks for draws in foreign ports. A lole of thanks was given by the steward department to ttie 4 to 8 watch for cleaning up the messroom each morning. ORION COMET (Oil Carriers), January 16—Chairman, S. Koenig; Secretary, I. Weisbrot. Menus have been poor lately. Crewmembers were asked to keep the washing machine clean. Someone will he elected to buy magazines out oi ship'i fund. • )'% "• -I ; AZALEA CITY (Waterman), January 11 —Chairman. C. Johnson; Sacretary, J. Hannay. A repair list was made up and it wiU be lianded to the patrolman. Everything is in order aboard sliip. ALCOA ROAMER (Alcoa), January 31— Chairman, J. Wallace; Secretary, L. Moore. Motion made and carried to mail a repair list to the New York agent, as repairs liave not bcgn taken care of. Brother member gave a talk on men re­ fusing overtime and lying in bed when asked to work. * '^ • V BETHCOASTER (Ore), January 25— Chairman, F. Parsons; Secretary, M. Burns. Several beefs have been brought up and will ha\e to be placed in the hands of the patrolman. Fans should be fixed before the coming warm weather. Crewmembers were asked to put cups in pantry and keep the messhaU cleaner, especially at night. LONGVIEW VICTORY (Victory Car­ riers), January 16—Chairman, N. Kirk; Secretary, AI Kcesen. Ship's delegate elected. Motor on wasiiing machine needs repairing, and this should be taken care of in Japan. Suggestion made that passageway main deck be painted and delegate will see the captain about same. A vote of thanks was given to the stew­ ard department for the fine food pre­ pared as weU as the service. TRINITY (Carras), January 23—Chair­ man, J. Buzelewski; Sacretary, M. Reid. All of the crew from the last voyage want to give the officials who paid off the ship a vote- of thanks. Suggestion made that chains and hooks be put on the portholes. BENTS FORT (Cities Service), January 27—Chairman, O. Williams; Secretary, L. Melanson. Discussion on Union welfare bsncfils. Tom Collins was clEcted ship'i delegate and will get in touch with head­ quarters for-a library and a patrolman for payoff. Editor, SEAFARERS LOG, 675 Fourth Ave., Brooklyn 32, NY I would like to receive the SEAFARERS LOG—pleose put my name on your mailing list. {Fr/nt Information) NAME ••••/;, •••••• STREET ADDRESS ..... .,,,. CITY ...............ZONE Signed • • • • G * • • STATE ^1 n'G '• TO AVOID DUPLtClATION: If you oro on oM (ubicrikot oiHi. hovB • chingo of oddrtM. givo your formgr odilrgts boloW: ADDftESS CITY le. a ••••as•••eneeeneetsaeeeneenhaeaaeganaefe.ee sea el«ie«j»a9a.ie*»»«aa*a»M hOXiteGnt—OeoeG—»nO»f aonoaoni i ': \ :• ' j- 'c ' gi: s V • * •. li:; • /..L J- ^ Lvv * • . V ZONE • STATE aooeaanaMa »0«n • ;:MI �rii-— SEAFARERS P*ff« EUrhteoi All of the following SIU families •will collect the $200 maternity benefit plus a $25 bond from the Union in the baby's name: Vito Lopez, Jr., born November 22, 1954. Parents, Mr. and Mrs. Vito Lopez, Los Angeles, Calif. iii t> if • Frederick Landron, bom Jan­ uary 31, 1955. Parents, Mr. and Mrs. Jesus Landron, Bronx. NY. a. i •, '^it \l4h^ h' -*;'" •*' li I-;- i • -•', 4 4 If • A\£ETYcx;/eaosHipMA-TESATTHESfUkom AT*IHEUAJIOW«ALL 47H4VEANP20JHSr. m BCCOkLV/M. SWAS* YAmS AHDWATCA 7W£F/<SHTSOMTV. mw LOW/PRICES pf " wt^.':r'-\i: : fe; 4 4 4 4 4 Carolyn Grace Simmons, bom Rebecca McNulty, born February February 4,1955. Parents, Mr. and 4, 1955. Parents, Mr. and Mrs. Mrs. Claude Simmons, Brooklyn, Bowman P. McNulty, Mobile, Ala. NY. 4 4 4 .4 4 4 Deborah E. Sullivan, born Sep­ Marceiia Kqibeck, bora; Decem­ tember 2, 1954, Parents, Mr. and ber' 31, 1954.'' Patents,. Mr. and Mrs. Roland Sullivan, Fairhope, Mrs. Chester Kolbeck, Brooklyn,: Ala. • •NY. i . Ir-,.; : 6l':'- Richard John Kanst, born Janu­ 28, 1955. Parents, Mr. and Mrs. ary 31, 1955. Parents, Mr. and John J. Miorana, Chalmette, La. Mrs. Casmier Kaust, NY, NY. 4 4 4 Sharon Elaine Applewhite, born 4 4 4 Tom Roiiand Danzey, Jr., ^born February 7, 1955. Parents, Mr. and January 13, 1955. Parents,' Mr. Mrs. Thomas Applewhite, Jr., and Mrs. Tom R. Danzey, Chicka- Washington, DC. saws Ala, 4 4 4 , 4 4 4 Betty Ann Hancock, born Febru­ Richard Brown, Jr., born Febm- ary 8, 1955. Parents, Mr. and Mrs. ary 1, 1955. <*arents, Mr. and Mrs. Isaac Perry Hancock, Henderson, Richard Brown, Brooklyn, Md. NC. 4 4 4 WEUCOMBMERBAI YOUflOwNPLACB. OWAl£P4NDOP£RAn© eYTHeSEAfARERS >J7ZUAII0M-A€e-AFL rrri iri— 4 4 4 4 Van Alan Saxon, born January 22, 1955. Parents, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph D. Saxon, Mobile, Ala. 4 . 4 4 Christina Nadal, born January 21, 1955. Parents, Mr. and Mrs. Francisco Nadal, NY, NY. 4 4 4 . •. Manih li, 195S LOG James ' Sullivan Hoiiey, born Mary Lou Smith, born December January 26, 1955. Parents, Mr. and 17, 1954. Parents, Mr. and Mrs. Mrs. John H. Hmley, Jr., Whistler, John F. Smith, Covington,. La.' Ala. 4 4 4 4 4 4 Sandra Torres, born November Kenneth Peter Oisen, born Janu­ 8,. 1954. Parents, Mr. and Mrs. ary 28, 1955. Parents, Mr. and Leonardo Torres, NY, NY. Mrs. Jack Olsen, NY, NY. 4 4 4 Frederick Allen Fehler, Jr., born 4 4 4 Philip Johnny Miranda Puente, February 1, 1955. Parents. Mr. David James Fruge, born Febru­ born January 21, 1955. Parents, and Mrs. Frederick Pehler, Mobile, ary 7, 1955. Parents, Mr. and Mrs. Mr. and Mrs. Philip P. Miranda, Ala. Joseph Fruge, Mamou, La. Ponce, PR. 4 4 4 4 •4 4 4 4 4 Lloyd Burnell Warning, bom Bart William Beye, born Febru­ Emily Cortes, born February 8, December 13, 1954. Parents, Mr. ary 7, 1955. Parents, Mr. and Mrs. and Mrs. Milton B. Warning, Silas, Jan Jacob -Beye, Jr., Union City, 1955. Parents, Mr. and Mrs. En­ rique Cortes, NY, NY. Ala. NJ. 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 Harold Roger Zurn, Jr., born Gary Haymes Jackson, born SepAlark Joseph Grbac, born Jan­ .tember 13, 1954. Parents, Mr. and uary 30, 1955. Parents, Mr. and January 24, 1955. Parents, Mr. and Mrs. Clifton H. Jackson, Baltimore, Mrs. Joseph Grbac, Baltimore, Md. Mrs. Harold R. Zurn, Baltimore, Md. Md. 4 4 4 4 4 4 Manuel Garcia, bom January 6, 4 4 4 Thad Michael Thompson, born Kevin Barry Smith, born Janu­ 1955. Parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ar­ December 1, 1954. Parents, Mr. ary 25, 1955. Parents, Mr. and mando Garcia, Brooklyn, NY. and Mrs. Clem Thompson, MooresMrs. Raymond Smith, Paulsboro, 4 4 4 ville, NC. NJ. Ellen Marie Porter, bom Febru­ 4 4 4 4 4 4 ary 12, 1955. Parents, Mr. and Barry Lamar Kitchens, bom Joseph John Jernigan, born Mrs. Williiun Porter, Philadelphia, February 18, 1955. Parents, Mr. January 28, 1955. Parents, Mr. Pa. and -Mrs. Weldon L. Kitchens, Mo­ and Mrs. Partha Jernigan, Hollis, 4 4 4 LI, NY. Thomas Timothy Cornlck, born bile, Ala. 4 4 4 4 4 4 January 29, 1955. Parents, Mr. and Kathy Ann Stokes, born Jan­ Randolph Ogden Boiling, bom Mrs. Thomas Coraick, Levittown, uary lis, 1955. Parents, Mr. and January 27, 1955. Parents, Mr. and Pa. Mrs. Wiiliam Boiling, Opelousas, Mrs. Wilton Stokes, Prichard, Ala. 4 4 4 La. 4 4 4 James Lewis Smith III, born Anola Lynn Thompson, born • 4 4, 4 February 16, 1955. Parents, Mr. Vincent Pizzltoio, Jr., bom Janu­ and Mrs. James Lewis Smith, January 5, 1955. Parents, Mr. and ary 7, 1955. Parents, Mr. and Mrs. Mobile, Ala. Mrs. William R. Thompson, Colum­ Vincent Pizzitolo, New Orleans, La. bus, Misk 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 Theress Ann Lyngstad, born Linda Sweat, bom January 24, February 6, 1955. Parents, Mr. and Martha Viola Torp, born Febru­ 1955. Parents, Mr. and Mrs. James Mrs. Kjell O. Lyngstad, Mobile, ary 4, 1955. Parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. Sweat, Savaunali, Ga. Arlin K. Torp, Mobilei Ala. Ala. 4 Iv^J; ?>; i. Anita Karen Piraino, born Octo­ ber 19, 1954. Par^ts, Mr. and Mrs. George Piraino, Holly Ridge, Miss. it i 4" Joan Crawford, born January 17, 1955. Parents, Mr. and Mrs. James Crawford, Mobile, Ala. / : ^f^-y Evelyn Leonoe Treuil, born Jan­ 4 4 4 David Earl Kennedy, born Jan­ uary 7, 1955. Parents, Mr. and uary 26, 1955. Parents, Mr. and Mrs. CHfton Treuil, Port Allen, La. Mrs. Williani E. Kennedy, Eight 4.4 4 . Mile, Ala. J• Elolza Pescador, born January 28, 1955. Parents, Mr. and Mrs. 4 4 4 Victoria Yvonne Gutierrez, bom Jose Pescador, Bronx, NY. November 16, 1954. Parents, Mr. 4 4 4 and Mrs. Frank Gutierrez, Gal­ Stephen Smith, born January 2, veston, Texas. 1955. Parents, Mr. and George Smith, Brooklyn, NY. 4 4 4 Sylvia Louise Mouton, born Feb­ 4 4 4 ruary 1, 1955. Parents, Mr. and Sheila Elizabeth Royston, bom Mrs. Joseph Nathan Mouton, Gal­ February 14, 1955. Parents, Mr. veston, Texas. and Mrs. Julian Royston, Royston, 4 4 4 Ga. Bruce Michael Crawford, born 4 4 4 January 15, 1955. Parents, Mr. and Helen Marie Gladhill, born Jan­ Mrs. Charles Crawford, New Or­ uary 30, 1955. Parents, Mr. and leans, La. Mrs. Charles Gladhill, Eflicott City, 4 4 4 Md. Anthony Sturba, born January 4 4 4 2.5, 1955. Parents, Mr. and Mrs. Linda Gayle Hathome, born Ranie J. Sturba, Morgantown, W. February 3, 1955. Parents, Mr. and Va. Mrs. Arnold E. Hathorne, New Or­ 4 4 4 * Robert Banister, Jr., born Janu­ leans, La. 4 4 4 ary 31, 1955. Parents, Mr. and, Debora Ann Alexander, born Mrs. Robert Banister, New OrleFebruaiy 23, 1955.- Parents, Mr. ans. La. J, J, and Mrs. Nick Alexander, Jr., Patrick Glenn Ward, born Janu­ Texas City, Texas: ary 4, 1955. Parents, Mr. and Mrs. 4 4 4 Henry M. Ward, Port Arthur, Judith Ann Bonefont, born Jan­ uary 4, 1955. Parents, Mr. and 4 4 4 Linda Ann Wells, bom February Mrs. Juan Bonefont, NY, NY. 5, 1955. Parents, Mr. and Mrs. 4 4 4 Dominic Ann Hall, born Decem­ Hugh F. Wells, Jr., Kenner, La. ber 15, 1954. Parents, Mr. and 4 4 4 J victor Mioran^ki'^'^drirv •^J&iuair Mrk.". Jdse^l? '-HH^r,-' Mobile;' Ala. Old Seatime Still Counts Toward Early Citizenship Alien seamen who served on US ships before September 23, 1950, and have since obtained residence visas can still count that old seatime towards their five year residence require­ ment. However, this proyi--*^ sion of the act will expire Sep­ as it was oq American-flag ships. tember 23, 1955, so that only Time spent, on US ships as a non­ a limited number of aliens can make use of it. This provision should not be con­ fused with the old five yearjseatime rule. That rule expired last year, and allowed a non-resident alien to get citizenship on the basis of five lyears' time on American ships before September 30, 1950. The way the existing provision works is as follows: An alien who served two years on American ships before September 23, 1950, got a visa later on pnd then spent three years as a resident alien, either ashore or aboard US ships, has fulfilled his five year residence requirement. Otherwise, his five year residence, wouid begin from the time he got his residence visa. Continue His Time In other words, any alien who has seatime before 1950 can com­ bine that seatime with his time as a resident alien to make wp the five years. It does not matter how far back that seatime goes as long resident alien after September 23, 1950, does not count. One Seafarer Mvho recently won his full citizenship on that basis is Edward Mikkelson. He had almost three years' seatime on US ships up to the September 23, 1950 date. In February 2, 1952, he got his en- , try visa with the help of SIU Wel­ fare Services which secured the necessary letters of recommenda­ tion for him from various shipping companies. The three years' old seatime plus the time spent at sea and ashore since he got his visa qualified him for naturalization. Mikkelson warns, however, that some Immigration officers are. not too familiar with this particular phase of the law. "I had quite a time convincing the man I was dealing with that such a provision existed," he said. Otherwise, Mikkelson pointed out, he would have had to wait- un­ til February, 1957, before he would have been able to get his citizen­ ship. SEA FARE R S 5 SEAFARERS WELFARE^ VACATIOM PLANS PfMi MPpRTON •IHEPITS PAID T» .....'3..T..^/f.r..."S.ISr..'.....;„........ 1 Avefate Benefits Paid Each Seafarer r\ f/u\ is •iKTVjmrT! Total Behefita Paid ihie Period WILPAU, VACATION •KNEPin PAID THIS PIMOD Hoaalia! BaaafltaDeaih Baaafiia Diaahlilcv Baaafita JiMeraity Beaaflir Vacaiioe Baaafita Total 74 ¥S J-/3V . • S. aoo ts lA So/. 4t 1XS ft 7L^ isy ft WILFARC, VACATION tlNEPITS PAID PMVIOIMLV Hgwitri gwffi'f PtM f iHly i. lyij)' Deth s^tiu PM Si.e. Inl, 1. IWB » Mtttaitv Beaalif I7fc,7#a £4 Ac Simem AnrU I. H!>2 • cto JLLJ222J H niT rj< ts JIsuL ± UQsu. WELPARE, VACATION PLAN ASSETS Vacacioa Catli oa lUad Velfon VacBtioa Eatiaated Accouota RaceivabU y^lfare— US GoTttuaeDt Baada (Velfate) Real Eawta (Telfata) Other Aaaeta - Ttaining Ship (Velfara) TOTAL ASSETS iEfwmwi •JWTOPn insTTtti'ira WWffTO ,1 BCEDGIfim COjgjENT: The collega entranc®^examination board has announced that the rtext 19$b-1955 aeries of tests are to be taken on May 21, Of the 33 sppll' cants who have applied* lli. haVe t®ken the exami­ nation and their grades are in* The remaining 19 applicants are in process of completion and should be available for the Scholarship Committee at the June 25 meeting, providing all. applicants qualify. Swkmittei 3-114-55 A1 Kerr, AaaMflMT^lMSMlvr �^ March 18^^ 195S SEAFARERS SEEIN* THE SEAFARERS With WALTER SIEKMANN LtfG .. Page Nineteen Tax Dep't A Pushover—Sometimes What to do when you are supporting four parents. Claim exemption on all four of them! Which is exactly what one Seafarer did when he learned through the Union that he was entitled to do so. Not all the tax problems-tthat Seafarers bring to Wel­ to learn that he was entitled to an ment of back taxes plus interest. fare Services are as odd as the extra $1,200 for thie step-paren^ as It is believed this will be accept­ above example." But in any case. well. able to tax authorities. Otherwise, Seafarers who have tax headaches In a similar but less complicated he would be liable for heavy penal­ with Uncle Sam, and there are case a Seafarer had been the sole ties of between five and 25 percent many of them because of the na­ support of a widowe'd mother. But for each month's delinquency, plus ture of the seagoing profession, because she was receiving small six percent interest. can get proper professional advice monthly payments from Social If anything, he had a rather large through the Union office. Security he was under the im­ refuQii coming to him probably The case of the four parents is pression he could not claim her as will wind up with additional cash from Uncle Sam. simple enough when you boil it a dependent. File Amended Return down. The Seafarer's parents had Other problems peculiar to Sea­ divorced and both remarried. Since He was informed that he could farers involve wives and families t both parents were elderly as. were do so, and what's more, could living overseas. In these cases,- the One of the brothers who is grateful for the fact their spouses, the Seafarer wound file an amended return for three wife is deductible but dependent that there is a Public Health Service hospital to up with a father, mother, stepfather years back to get back the extra children are not. If a Seafarer turn to in time of need is Theodore Larsen. who and stepmother all of whom re­ taxes he had paid because of his himself claims residence in a for­ was carpenter aboard the Arlyn (Bull Line). Larsen Larsen quired his support. error in neglecting to claim an­ eign country for the tax year he got some foreign matter in his eye which he couldn't He had been deducting just for other deduction. does not have to pay US taxes. Or get out, so the hospital is treating him for the condition. William Neef, Then there were a couple of in­ if he is working in a foreign coun­ who was in a couple of months back for an eye-muscle operation is his natural parents and was pleased teresting cases involving New try on a long sign-on and spends back in for further treatment. It seems that the muscle didn't stay in York State's income tax. A Sea­ 17 out of 18 months out of the place the way it was supposed to. farer who was a non-resident alien States, he does not have to pay Seafarer Theodore Gerber is laid up at Sta.ten Island with a broken got a letter from the state tax de­ US income taxes. leg suffered in a shipboard accident. He was OS on the Seatrain Texas partment claiming back taxes for when the accident took place and had to go in for treatment on 3-Mile Taxfree several years on the grounds that , March 7. The doctors are performing a bone graft Non-resident aliens shipping out he was a "resident" of New York. of the US have an^e,ntirely dif­ operation on him. Brother John Cook, AB on the He cam# to the Union with his . Seamar, went in for minor surgery on March 2. ferent problem. They have to pay problem and a letter was sent to tax on time spent in US territorial A cut arm he got on the Iberville put Robert Grant, the State tax department on his One of the lesser-known features chief cook, out of action. He came into the hospital waters, but not on earnings out­ March 9. Aaron Sasser, wiper on the Gulfwater, had of the Seafarers 'VVelfare and behalf. The letter offered to pay side the three-mile limit. Nor are New York State taxes if the tax a finger broken when one of the engineers closed Vacation Plans are that^ benefits they entitled to Hpy of the deduc­ a door on his hand and will be out of circulation due to Seafarers under these plans department could arrange for him tions which residents have except to be a citizen of New York. Noth­ are still good for wife and children for a while. for the $600 personal deduction. Estell Godfrey, who has been laid up for a long in the event of death. In other ing more was heard from the tax The shipping company has to sup­ people on the subject. time with a broken hip, is moving around pretty well words, as long as the Seafarer is ply them with two separate earn­ Ahmed Another Seafarer, this one a cit­ ing statements accordingly. qualified, his beneficiary is entitled now with the help of his brace and crutches. izen, had been working on the SS It was good to see t^at Brother Hussein Ahmed was discharged from to collect SIU benefits in certain The complications of US tax laws Florida on the Miami-Havana run the hospital after having his leg amputated. He is getting dround pretty instances. are so involved as to go on and on for a period of over four years. For practical purposes, the rule good now and was glad to get out. Also discharged recently was endlessly. Seaferers who have any applies to collection of vacation During all that time he had been questions in mind as to whether Warren Smith. on articles. Nevertheless, the New pay, to the SIU maternity benefit they are following the correct Don't forget brothers when you do get discharged from the hospital and to the SIU scholarship benefit York State -tax department re­ procedure would do well to check quested him to file a delinquency go up to the hall and register with the dispatcher, even though you may in the event the son or daughter of return for a period of three years. up before the April 15 tax dead­ ;not be fit for duty as yet. By registering right away,' you get credit for a deceased Seafarer should quali­ When he was able to show that he line. your hospital time on your shipping card, up to 30 days, but if you fy for a scholarship award. It was on the Florida continually for delay yoii lose'that special consideration that's given to hospitalized might also apply in a> limited way the entire period, the tax depart­ to the, hospital benefit or disability ment dropped the claim. Seafarers. "• benefit where there would still be a Failed-To File few days benefits coming to the A more recent case involved a Seafarer. K. G. Wetterhorn Clifford Womack USPHS HOSPITAL Serfarer who had neglected to file N. D. Wilson As an instance of the way this returns for the past five years as BALTIMORE, MD. ' FcUpc Aponte Okol J. Jones USPHS HOSPITAL work, Mrs. George Plraino of Holly the result of an honest error. ,The Ernest Atkins R. M. Kirkwood NORFOLK, VA. Ridge, Mississippi,.collected a ma­ Seafarer had his home in a south­ Benjamin Balcer James Lewis W. C. Baldwin William H. Mason The deaths of the following Sea­ Robert Littleton G. 'Bassler Francis J. Boner Robert W. Miller ternity benefit for the birth of her ern state but shipped mostly out farers Have been reported to the Robert G. McKnew Walter Butterton Byrd O. Buzbee Charlie W. Phelps daughter, Anita. Her ^husband, of New York. His withholding tax Seafarers Welfare Plan and the Edmund H. Marsh WiUiam Carey Joseph M. Cash James A. Sparrow Victor B. Cooper Thomas Mun'go Seafarer George Piraino, passed forms had been sent back home $2,500 death benefits are being USPHS HOSPITAL Ste'phen Musco James R. Dayton MANHATTAN BEACH, NY away in the summer of 1954, but and he assumed, incorrectly, that paid to their beneficiaries: George Olive Leo A. Dwyer Fortunate Bacomo Arthur -Lomas Arthur J. Faulkner D. G. Robinson since the baby was born within a the family was filing for him. Ac­ Frank W. Bemrick Francis F. Lynch Robert W. Scales Louis Firlie Claude F. Blanks Joseph D. McGraw John Kosmas, 48: Brother KosJohn R. Sehultz Gorman T. Glaze year of th^ time that he was on his tually, this canpot be done as the Robert L. Booker A. - McGuigan George E. Godwin W. C. Simmonslast ship, the survivor, in this case tax returns have to be filed by the mas died of a heart attack aboard Joseph G. Carr Vic Milazzo Roy M. Haw>s Robert Smith Jar Chong Mclvon O. Moore the" SS Eugenie on Februarjr '7,' R. H. Solheim his wife, was entitled to the $200 individual involved. S. A. Holden , . W. Denley Eugene T. Nelson George A. Williams Walter Charles Henschke Welfare Plan benefit. John J. Driscoll Joseph Newbauer Once he learned of the error, 1955. Burial took place at sea. Robert J. Wiseman Bart Edward Huizenga E. Guranick D. F. Ruggiano -Norman T. Jackson N. Hatgimisios Of course, if the seatime were he hotfooted up to the Union where Brother Kosmas joined the Union Taib Hassen Wade H. Sexton Melvin H.- Jones Thomas Isaksen more than a year old, the eligi­ he was told to file as well as to in 1951 in San Francisco and had G. E. Shumaker USPHS HOSPITAL John W. - Keenan E. R. Smallwood BOSTON. MASS. bility for the benefit would have send in an affidavit explaining the been sailing in the steward departLudwlg Kristiansen Henry E. Smith Frank Alasavich John M. • Herrold lapsed. Frederick Landry Renato A. Villata circumstances and offering pay­ ment. He is survived by his wife, -Alfred A. Hancock Frank Simione James J. Lawlor Virgil E. Wilmoth CITY HOSPITAL Margaret Kosmas of San Francisco, Kaarel Leetm'aa Chee K. Zai MOBILE, ALA. . California. James R. Lewis • Arthur Henderson USPHS HOSPITAL USPHS HOSPITAL 4i if . ^ GALVESTON, TEXAS SAVANNAH, GA. Fred Fall Samuel B. Setliff Alexander P. Copa Louis C. Millgr Allan G. Brown, 31: On January Benjamin F. Grice Louis B. Thomas Allen D. Edenfield James T. Moore George Litchfield - WlUiam G. Trice 10, 1955, Brother Brown died of a Rufus L. Fields John H. Morris Reinaldo L. Monies John T. Watt Carl F. Kumrow Robert Myers heart ailment aboard the SS Andrew Norohha Jame^ A. Winget Jimmie Littleton WUliain A. Smith Angela J. Martins Ernest H. Webb Bloemfontein. Burial took place USPHS HOSPITAL USPHS HOSPITAL SEATTLE, WASH. at Oak Grove Cemetery in HyanDETROIT. MICH. MIcliele Gaudelieri Foster J. Rochon ' Tim Burke nis, Mass. Joining the Union in J. Heidt William J. Rose USPHS HOSPITAL Sverre Johannessen Olav W. Rosenberg 1943 in Boston, Brother Brown had MEMPHIS, TENN. W. A. Johnston George J. Wanka . Charles Burton been sailing in the deck depart­ USPHS HOSPITAL USPHS HOSPITAL NEW ORLEANS, LA. ment. He is survived by his moth­ FORTH WORTH, TEXAS Salvatore Manciano Alfonso Olaguibel B. P. Delbler Harry L. Schuler er, Mrs. Anna W. Brown of HyanP. B. Bommarito Herman F. Ostberg Virgil L. Harding Edward J. Toolan Charles E. Brady Kenyon Parks nis, Mass. ' Jose Santiago • Lyles D. Brunson R. A. Ratcliff It seems that every year the seaman is the target of a drive to dump his medical benefits through the Public Health Service. Seafarers in and out of the hospitals helped put the skids under this plan last time. But there is no question that thei'e are influential people who want to take away the seaman's bene­ fits. The way to stop this is to reach out for a pen and some paper and let your Congressman hear from you. It would be a pretty good idea if the wife and other people in the family did the same. •-isI 5IU Benefits Carry Over After Death $1 ^Seafarers In Hospitals Stork's 2nd Visit To Guidry Famiiy USPHS HOSPITAL ; LEXINGTON, KY. - George Qr'Chaudion Charles Gregory VA HOSPITAL OTEEN,%NC Leonard J. Frank SAILOR'S SNUG HARBOR STATEN ISLAND. NY Joseph Koslusky S HANEMANN HOSPIT.AL ' SAN FRANCISCO, CALIF. H. B. Shaynick USPHS HOSPITAL STATEN ISLAND, NY Oscar J. Adams. Ludwlg Kristiansen At Husseh Ahmed Serafln G. Lopez Virgir S. Bowman- John McKarek , Matthew Eurisa Antonio S. Martin -i Joseph Felton Abdul G. Mohamed Angelo P. Ferrie G. H. Robinson C. E. Filkins Jose Rodriguez ' Gerald Fitzjames Jose Rodriguez Henry Franklin MaHi RuusukaUio . EsteU Godfrey Anthony Scaturro • J. A. Golder Antonio Schiavone Fred Hauser Victor Shavroff G. E. Herrmann Henrich Sterling j Timothy R. Holt Carl Simdquist LaueiuChristian rVeee- Adie Coleman M. J. Rodriguez Salem Cope J. E. Rounsavall Glen M. Curl David H. Rucker John Doyle Joachim D. Saik Hal R. Ellis Jr. Benjamin C. Seal Fred R. England Henry S. Sosa Henry L. Falgout G. J. St. Germain Leo Fontenot James W. Sumpter .Alfredo Garcia Charles L. Terry WUliam Grimes Lonnie R. Tickle E. T. Hardeman Marlon C. Vester Eugene V. Hayden Dick Vlsser Frank Johnson Blllie C. Ward Konstant N. Kain James E. Ward E. G. Knapp Paul J. 'Wilkinson Leo H. Lang Edward L. Woods Thomas E. Maynes David A. Wright Lionel B. Miller CHARITY HOSPITAL NEW ORLEANS, LA. George W. Books USPHS HOSPITAL SAN FRANCISCO, CALIF. Chester Anderson C. J. Neumaier G. J. Fletcher Frank S. Paylor Clyde L. Knab Joseph Perreira Robert Lambert William L. V/iUiams Clarence J. Lund S. L. Woodruff, , dlleBrle«-- -- Ifoit? To Get Disabled Pay Albert Raymond Guidry, Jr., joins big sister Martha, 2, in Guidry family portrait. Both children, of course, were greeted by a $200 .SKii'beiieftt iplus ;$25;y.§toiji / | Any totally disabled* Sea­ farer, regardless of age, who has b|Ben employed for seven years on SiU-contracted ships is eligible for the $25 weekly disability benefit for as long as he is unable to work. Ap­ plications and queries on un­ usual situations should be sent to the U11 i c n Welfare Trustees, c/o SiO Headquar­ ters, 675 Fourth Avenue, Brooklyn 32. NY. ;^l �SEAFARERS •fe i^:"' I ib^" * OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE SEAFARERS INTERNATIONAL UNION • March 18, 1955 ATLANTIC AND GULF easily evaded this by using dif­ ferent routes'through the track­ less bayous. Finally, the exasperated govern­ ment got out a warrant for Laf­ fite's arrest, and he was picked up while strolling down a busy New Orleans street one day. He didn't stay in jail very long. Bail was arranged, and Laffite escaped fur­ ther penalties by simply jumping bail. Slave Auction In 1814 Laffite got so brazen that he openly advertised a sale and slave auction. A group of armed men headed by a revenue officer was dispatched to l)revent the sale and arrest the ringleaders. The small force was far too feeble to contend with Laffite's men. One man was killed and two others wounded before the fight was over. The rest were bought off and told to go home and behave like good f-v:- ?I^': i\'T' bOVB. "... Barataria Bay Mras the hideout of most pirate operations. From there the Koods were floated to New Orleans for sale." If The ^Gentleman Pirate' -Louisiana's Jean Laffite Among the ranks of famous pirates, Louisiana's own Jean Laffite surely ranks as the num­ ber one "gentleman." He was also one of the best diplomats and most successful organizers the piracy business has known. Unlike the traditional picture of a pirate, Laffite made nobody walk the plank, carried no knives in his teeth and probably died peacefully in bed. As a matter of fact he would no"" doubt be a bit hurt to have-*" himself described as a com­ stolen cargo onto pirogues and cations arose for the Laffites. For mon garden-variety pirate. He took their goods on hack-country one thing, the US and Britain got was simply a businessman streams and bayous to New Or­ into a war. Then Louisiana hewho found it more convenient leans where they were offered for came a state which meant that l^;.IrV • l-in?''; J/;. ; to operate without bothering about little things like customs duties, laws, and ownership of merchan­ dise. Versatile Operation At one time or another in his career he was a US.marshal, a Mexican federal official, a Spanish Intelligence agent, a leader of auxiliary troops for the US Army, a slave trader, a smuggler, a pirate and a commander of pirate enter­ prises. Sometimes he was several of these things at one and the same time. Nobody is quite certain where Laffite came from, or where he , went after he dropped out of sight In' 1821. Apparently he was a na­ tive of France. JMor can anybody explain why he spelled his name differently than any one of the Louisiana Lafittes. (Despite what Waterman Steamship Company has on the how of its C-2 of the same nathe, the pirate spelled it with two "ff's.") Louisiana Pirate Base In any case, the Laffites, Jean and his older brother Pierre, came Into prominence sometime after the US bought Louisiana Territory froni France in 1803. At that time the Louisiana coast Was a favorite base for pirates who preyed on Spanish ships in the Gulf of Mexico. Barataria Bay was the hideout of most pirate operations. From there the pirates unloaded sale. For a while the Laffite brothers were in the employ of the US Gov­ ernment as marshals whose as­ signments were to capture smug­ glers. A short stay on the side of virtue convinced the brothers that there was no percentage in working for a meager Government salary. They switched sides^ and entered the more profitable smug­ gling operation. Apparently the brothers had a genius for business organization because in 1811 the pirates of Barataria Bay asked them to take leadership over their operations. A business combine was formed with Jean Laffite at the head, re­ placing the independent ventures that had existed before. Became French Ships Among, the first things Laffite did was tp have the ships legally accredited to the Fi-ench flag. For­ eign-flag transfers were easily done those days, too. That took the stigma of piracy off his operations since France was at war with Spain and the French coulii raid Spanish commerce legally. Of course, the little problem of smug­ gling still remained. But Laffite's operations were seldom disturbed since he had connections with prominent local New Orleans mer­ chants who were only too glad to take his merchandise off his hands in short order and dispose of it. -Within a year thougbr compU- there would he an energetic local government to contend with. As a matter of fkct, shortly afterward the state sent out an expedition to stop the smuggling, hut Laffite At about the same time Laffite's brother Pierre was picked up and held without bail in New. Orleans. But the war druths were; beginning to heat louder as a Brftish force prepared to invade the delta and capture-New Orleans. Knowing of Laffite's reputation and his knowl­ edge of the bayous, the British sent an emissary to him who of­ fered him the rank of captain and $30,000 in cash, a tremendous sum in those days, if he would bring himself and his pirates into British service. . ^ However, instead of selling out to the British, Laffite sent word to New Orleans of the impending British attack on the city. The next day his brother "escaped" from jail. It was d fair enough transaction as far as all were con­ cerned. Perhaps if Pierre Laffite had been free at the time, Jean would have reacted differently to the British offer. Ships Seized In any case, Laffite's valuable information didn't stop the author­ ities from cracking down on him. A large expedition was sent out to destroy his fleet and seize his base. Laffite realized it would be disastrous to attempt open warfare with the Government. All of his vessels in port were seized and all his men fell prisoner while he and his brother went in hiding. By December, 1814, the city of New Orleans was in critical danger as British forces took control of the waters.of Lake Borgne; All able-bodied men were pardoned DISTRICT •-AFL • and enrolled-'in General Andrew. Jackson's defense forces. Subsequently, the pirates played an important role in the Battle of New Orleans and the defeat of th# British, for it was their devastating and accurate fire that destroyed the British artillery and softened up British troops. As a result of the pirates' exploits, the LaTitte brothers were-granted full pardons by President Jamei Madison. For a while they contin­ ued living in New Orleans, at­ tempting to regain their ships and property that had been seized by the authorities. They were unable to do so and were forced into bankruptcy. Became Spanish Agdnts But the resourceful Laffites were far from washed up. Jean Laffite made contact with Spanish government agents and was put on the payroll as a Spanish intel­ ligence agent against pirates and Mexican revolutionaries. But while he was supposed to be working for Spain, he was hack at his old tricks of raiding Spanish .ships, this time from a new base—Galveston Island. The island was uninhabited at the time, so Laffite simply set up shop there, building homes, ware­ houses and docking facilities for his ships and for his 1,000-man force. Before long he was hack in business with his old partners in New Orleans on a larger scale than ever before. No doubt the finances for ' his venture came from these same sources. All was quiet, peaceful and prosperous for a couple of years until the Federal Government got into the picture. The US was in­ terested in taking over Galvestoa Island and the surrounding area and Laffite was politely asked to leave in 1818. He ignored the re­ quest and wrangled an appoint-, ment as "Governor of Galveston" from the Mexican government, something he was in fact, if not in name, for several years before. Meanwhile he was still supposed to he serving Spanish intelligence against Mexico. But Laffite. could not hold out indefinitely. In"^ 1821, the US served a second, and final, notice on him to get out of Galveston, and sent a Navy ship to enforce the order. Laffite put all his shoreside installations to the torch and sailed away. That was where his trail disappeared. The best of evidence has it that he died in 1826. ~''h tilH ;:F.i 'r.'-i-.. •A- L^fite $30,000'and-af <;ommi«Bloh hi«Bloh''WJdiii 'f<>ir«hik' wtth 'tbtta" � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Seafarers Log Issues 1950-1959 Description An account of the resource Volumes XII-XXI of the Seafarers Log Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Paul Hall Maritime Library Microfilm 1939-1993 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Seafarers International Union of North America Document A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource March 18, 1955 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. XVII, No. 6 Description An account of the resource Headlines: PRESSURE ON US TO SCRAP 50-50 LAW IMPROPER STOWAGE BLAMED FOR MORMACKITE SINKING FBI NABS ENEMY OF CANADIAN SIU ON CHARGE OF DODGING DRAFT IN US OKAY SUBSIDY FOR SOUTH ATL. SIU SEEN AS VICTOR IN WC VOTING SIU MEMBERSHIP ADOPTS SENIORITY HIRING SYSTEM SNUG HARBOR FUTURE DARK RETRO WAGE WIND-UP ON, CO'S REPORT UNIONS NIX WAGE FREEZE SIU TANKER MEN HAILED IN RESCUE MORSE OKAYED AS MA CHIEF NEW MEMBERSHIP-APPROVED HIRING CLAUSE THE BIG SQUEEZE SLIGHTLY AT ODDS SNUG HARBOR DOOMED OFF-WATCH ROYAL OAK HAS HAPPY CIU CREW HARD LUCK CAN'T KEEP HIM DOWN OLD SEATIME STILL COUNTS TOWARD EARLY CITIZENSHIP TAX DEP'T A PUSHOVER-SOMETIMES SIU BENEFITS CARRY OVER AFTER DEATH THE 'GENTLEMAN PIRATE' - LOUISIANA'S JEAN LAFITTE Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 3/18/1955 1955 Periodicals Seafarers Log