http://seafarerslog.org/archives/files/original/47d32801eac1e3767bb7b308d503dbe7.PDF 3a11a6b03611fccb85fae6fe60d31472 PDF Text Text ^ LOG' • OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THI SiAfAKlRS INTHNATIONAL UNION • ATLANTIC AND GULF DISTRICT • AFL • SIXTY SEAMENNOW Nine Men Approved This Month Story on Page 3 ii M |.i* •- ! '"i-, »>>r' vig 4 • ".-I fl MAW f A graduate of the SlU-operated fwCWr fcffl60Oaf fllCIfla training ischool, John "Red" Burke (left), veteran SIU stewardrshows instructor Jack Parker his new lifeV boatman's endorsement. Training school in Mobile helps many Seafai> upgrade and get lifeboat.tickets. (Additional photo on Page 3.) V sew Seafarer Jesse Parrish, FOW, catches up on one of 450 books that have been put aboard all SIXJ ships since SEAFARERS LOG started their distribution two years ago. Libraries go.aboard in 50-book lots every three months and con­ tain wide variety of reading matter. Sfory Time. �Mvfibtr IB, 19SS SEAFARERS laG Fare Tiro SUP, Marks Labor Day, Opens New Hall In Portland SlU Sifts New Korea Leave Beef The restriction to.ship for the SIU crew of the SS Marie Hamill in Inchon, Korea, while crewraembers of another vessel passed them regularly on their way ashore, is being investigated by SIU representatives in Wash­ ington. Lasting several days, the restric­ tion on the Hamill appeared par­ ticularly unreasonable to Seafarercrewmembers, who could watch members of the SIU crew on the Sea Comet II go ashore almost at will. This situation also didn't help create any warm feeling toward the Army on the part of the Hamill crew, which figured itself entitled to the time off but couldn't get to first base. As explained by the Army, and later cited by the Bloomfield Dedication of new Sailors Union of the Pacific hail in Portland, Ore., on Labor Day, provided occasion for combination affair Steamship Company, the restric­ marking formal opening of the new building a> well as labor's national holiday. Two-story Portland hall houses dispatching tion was due principally to the facilities, offices and recreation rooms on first floor and housing for SUP oldtimers and pensioners above. At right, Portland general uprisings in Korea involv­ Agent "Whitey" Benz leads inspection tour of new branch, followed by SIU Secretary-Treasurer Paul Hall, who represented ing American guards serving the SlU-A&G District at the opening, SUP New York agent Morris Weisberger, and Seattle agent Max Weisbart. On balcony is Communist - nation truce team 'Tom Hookey, SUP building fund trustee. SUP now has modern halls in all west coast ports. which is seeking to police the Korean armistice. 'Thumbs Down' Inequities about the restriction are the still unexplained approval of shore leave for the crew of the Regular membership meet­ Sea Comet, a tanker, while the ings in SIU headquarters and Hamill, with light cargo aboard, at all branches are held every got the "thumbs-down" signal. second Wedneeday night at Last May, a Defense Department 7 PM. The schedule for the order ending shore leave bans by next few meetings is as follows: SAN FRANCISCO—Just six months-after they furiously attacked SIU of NA president Sept. 21, Oct. 5, Oct. 19. local military commanders, gave Seafarers for the first time a clear- Harry Lundeherg for signing-a special hulk cargo agreement, representatives of the West cut policy to |p by, and it was as­ Coast mates, engineers and radio operators' unions were clearing the decks for a similar sumed that the method used would agreement with American Lundeherg was echoed by Harry transmitted to all US ships by the follow the pattern established. The Bulk Cargo Inc. CIO operators. new case of the Hamill, however, The West Coast Masters, Bridges as well. However, AFL maritime unions, Heavy pressure was brought to Mates and Pilots have already ap­ leaves everyone wondering. Accordingly, Union representa­ proved the agreement patterned bear by the CIO unions, with the including the SIU and the national tives are checking the beef. after the now-famous Tonsina con­ radio operators threatening to MM&P, rallied to Lundeberg's tract originally signed by the Sail­ strike all ships if the Tonsina's support. The AFL unions were ors iJnion of the Pacific In March. charter was not cancelled by Pa­ convinced that the real reason for The two CIO unions, the Marine cific Far East Lines, and a barrage Curran's blast at Lundeberg was Engineers and Radio Operators, of anti-Lundeberg propaganda was an attempt to cover up his abject surrender on the hiring hall, also indicated they would approve which led to the opening of NMU's the contract. Ship's delegates are urged to membership books and hiring halls The Tonsina agreement was WASHINGTON—An inves­ notify the Union immediately signed as an experimental contract to all comers. tigation of officers' training when a shipmate is taken off for bulk carriers only. It was de­ Curran Lost Hiring Hall pro^ams at Federal and Stato the vessel in any port because signed to revive American partici­ Under pressure from the Na­ maritime academies has been of illness or injury. Delegates pation in the bulk ore trade be­ tional Labor Relations Board, the scheduled by the Senate Com­ should not wait until they send tween the West Coast and the Far NMU had caved in on the hiring merce Committee. Senator Fred­ in the ship's minutes but should East. Up until then the trade was hall, with Curran carrying the erick iPayne (Rep.-Maine), chair­ handle the matter in a separate monopolized by runaway - fiag ball despite strong opposition man of the subcommittee conduct­ communication, so that the un­ ships. from NMU treasurer M. Hedley ing the hearings, said that the ion can determine in what man­ The basis of the agreement was Stone and others in the union. study would begin October 4. ner it can aid the brohter. a sizable increase in base pay for Curran also forced through the The four academies Involved are It would also be helpful if all hands through incorporation of WASHINGTON—One Con­ opening of membership books to Maine State Maritime Academy, the full name, rating and book penalty pay in base wages, and a gressional committee, the number was sent in. Address slight reduction in the West Coast House Merchant Marine Com­ all comers without giving the Castine, Maine; Massachusetts these notifications to Welfare manning scale, the highest in the mittee, has already given Indica­ membership a chance to vote on Maritime Academy, Boston; New the issue. York State Maritime Academy, Services at headquarters. country. Lundeherg signed it on tion that it expects to have a busy Just a few months before Cur­ Fort Schuyler, New York; and a one-ship basis in the hope that season next year when Congress ran had told a "World-Telegram Kings Point Academy, Kings Point, the experiment would prove of reconvenes in January. and Sun" reporter that opening New York. The first three schools value in opening up many more Thus, 1956 is likely to be a big books to all comers in maritime are run by the respective, states job opportunities for American year once again for maritime in­ was "just plain racketeering." but mostr of the funds for all Sept. 16, 1955 Vol. XVII, No. 19 seamen. vestigations, with a possible probe Curran was also disappointed schools come from the Federal into the way the Maritime Admin­ that he had been unable to "de­ government. Develops Trade PAUL HALL, SecreTary Treasurer HERBERT BRANB, Editor; RAY DENISON, With additional operators, now istration has, administeiPed the sub­ liver" Lundeberg to the "Mari­ Managing Editor; BERNARB SEAMAN, Art planning to enter the bulk cargo sidy program heading the list. •Unnecessary Expense' time Labor-Management Commit­ Editor; HERMAN ARTHUR, IRWIN SPIVACK, The committee chairman. Rep. The SIU tfid other maritime field, it appears that the Lunde­ tee," a combine of subsidized ship­ Staff Writers; BILL MOOBY, Gulf Area Representative. herg move has been successful in Herbert C. Bonner (D-NC) has al­ owners and the CIO unions. unions have maintained for many ready committed himself to find Editorial Cartoon Page 11 developing an area of trade which out whether the subsidized lines Lundeberg flatly rejected Curran's years that the academies were not had been closed to US-flag ship­ invitation to join what Lundeberg needed since all of the merchant Editorial Page 11 are getting too much from the MA called a "phony set up.!' marine's officer needs could be Final Dispatch Page 1.5 ping up until now. staff in the way of benefits. The met by men coming up "out of the No sooner had the agreement With dissension rising on all Labor Roundup Page 11 subsidy program was also under Letters Pages 12, 14 been reached than Lundeherg was fire late this year in the midst of sides in the NMU and his plans foe'sles." The net effect of the Curran -turned on schools, the unions argue, has been Meet The Seafarers Page 11 the target of a savage, vituperative hearings on a controversial con­ thwarted, personal barrage led by National Lundeberg and the Tonsina issue to overload the industry with a Personals Page 15 trols bill governing merchant sea­ as a convenient target to distract surplus of unneeded marine offi­ Maritime Union President Joseph Recent Arrivals Page 15 men. his membership. He also was cers at considerable expense to the Seafarer In Action Page 9 Curran and enthusiastically sec­ •50-50' Warm-up onded by the MEBA, the CIO Ra­ hopeful of isolating Lundeberg on Government. Shipping Figures Page 4 dio Operators and the West Coast this issue "so that he could act as One result is that a very large Another matter standing high on Your Dollar's Worth Page 6 MM&P. The agreement was de­ the committee's agenda is the fight the spokesman for all of maritime number of academy graduates Published biweeMy uf the headquarters •t the Seafarers International Union, At­ nounced as a "sellout" which to keep the "50-50" shipping law in the coming AFL-CIO merger. spend little or no time serving at lantic & Gulf District, AFL, 675 Fourth would , "destroy" US maritime from being knocked off the books Since the other CIO unions have sea after being educated for that Avenue, Brooklyn 32, NY. Tel. HYacinth V-6600. Entered as second class matter unions—Curran conveniently over­ by foreign lobbyists and US farm now approved the Tonsina-type purpose at Government expense. at the Post Office In Brooklyn, NY, under looking all the while that he had interests. The anti-"50-50" drive is agreement they have, in effect, the Act of Aug. 24, 1912. Union spokesmen will have a called for special concessions for being fever^hly whipped,: injtp, fplly vindicated Lundeberg's ac-, chanpfi to ait their views on thw »12«' the bulk cargo trade, some months shapp fojr t^p , opening, pT ,yon left .Qu^fan, .sittipig ,qut ,9n subject I .when.; the. hearingsA can* before. The denunciation of year's % aR4:%* llmlj,,,, .r.V'r.n;,'.' .-wu WC Officers f//p-F/op, Okay Tonsina-Type Pact Notify Union About Sick Men Congress Warms Up Sea Probes SEAFARERS LOG • • •' \- Meeting Night Every 2 Weeks Senate Sea Schooi Quiz Opens Soon �Sei»tember K, USif' SEAFARERS SEAFARERS LOG AWARD There are still seven issues of the SEAFARERS LOG left for the year 1955 in'which Seafarers can qualify for One of the annua! LOG awards for distinguished member­ ship contributions to the Union newspaper. The flT.J/. award program, announced " early this year, will cover four categories /— letters, photo­ graphs, poetry and drawings— submitted by any Seafarer to the newspaper and, appearing In the calendar year 1955. / The awards will consist of medallions, suitably inscribed: No particular entry form is needed. As long as the Sea­ farer's "material appears in the LOG it automatically qualifies for the prizes. Standards that will govern se­ lection of winners in the four categories are: for letters—one offering a constructive proposal or best expressing a Seafarer's feeling on any given- issue; photography—for the best pho­ tograph, or photographs of Sea­ farers at work or play or other material of strong Interest to Seafarers; poetry—^literary mer­ it and subject matter in •the tradition of the sea; drawings— quality and originality plus sub­ ject matter based on maritime or related experience. LOG Pagre Thre* Sixty 51U Members Now Receiving $1S0-Mo. Pensions The number of Seafarers, receiving the $150 per month SIU pension* disability benefit rose to 60 last week with the approval of nine more disabled brothers by the SIU Welfare Plan. The 60 Seafarers now on the list are the great­ est number since the benefit was first established in May, 1952. The SIU benefit is among the largest of any non-contributory system in the country, amounting to^ butions negotiated by the vised the qualifications on June 1 $1,820 a year for each of Union, no Seafarer has to make and also increased the benefit from $25 to $35 a week, as well as addr the 60 Seafarers, far more any payments into the fund. ing the new hospital-surgical plan than many of them earned for years while going to sea in pre-union days. Since the Welfare Plan's benefits are fi­ nanced by shipowner contri- Most of the 60 Seafarers on the benefits list are over '65, which en­ titles them to Social Security old age benefits over and above the Welfare Plan payments. However, the disability-pension is not based New Llfeboatmen—Via SIU Training School Nelson Fiynn on age, but on inability to work be­ cause of illness or injury, so that .a number of Seafarers who would not be covered by Social Security are protected by the SIU Plan. All of the nine men approved at the last Welfare Plan trustees meeting had applied under the old seven-year seatime provision. Their applications were either incom­ plete or were being processed when the trustees of the Plan re- for Seafarers' families.' It was the feeling of the Union that since the applications were pending they should be judged on the basis of the old seven-year sea time rule. The trustees agreed that it would be an injustice to the nine men if they were caught in the middle of the change-over. flexible Plan This action by the trustees, like other decisions in the past, points up the flexibility of the Union-ad­ ministered Plan. The board of trustees, consisting of Union and employer representatives, is able to make interpretations and rul­ ings tff this kind in short order, without getting involved in com­ plicated rewriting of an insurance contract. The SIU disability-pension was first put into effect at the rate of $15 weekly as of May, 1952. It was increased to $25 weekly in March, 1953, and to $35 a week this past spring. In changing the seatime qualifications from seven to 12 years, the trustees extended the Halt Alcoa's Late Payoffs Ready to ship after completing lifeboatman's courses at the SlU's Apdrew Furuseth Training Schooj in Mobile, Seafarers Tony Pisano, George W. Trippe, Jr., and E. B. Neeley (l-r) re­ ceive |ob assignments from Robert Jordan, dispatcher. Looking on (in background) is vet­ eran SIU bosun Jack Parker, a member of the staff of the school operated by the SIU Welfare Plan to train new men and to aid experienced seamen in upgrading their ratings. Action by SIU headquarters has halted the practice of Alcoa ships paying off in New York about one. hour before sailing time. The delayed payoffs left little time . for settlement of beefs and repair lists, to say nothing of the unnecessary hardships they placed on family men. As a result of talks with com­ pany representatives from Mo­ bile the practice has been dis­ continued. I LA EndsTie-Up; Dock Vote Ahead Active planning for a new waterfront election in the Port of New York is underway, the AFL International,Brother­ hood of Longshoremen announced, as the harbor was again thrown into turmoil by an-*^ ^ ILA shutdown which lasted working longshoremen and con­ one week. trolled them by reign of terror The ILA strike was not a bread methods. The,Commission then, is and butter issue against the em­ the child of ILA manipulations in ployers, but was seen as a political the harbor. squeeze play on the New YorkSubsequently, the AFL acted to New Jersey vy;aterfront Commis­ oust the ILA and to charter a new sion. The AFL-IBL is convinced union, the IBL, to bring trade that the only way to get rid of the unionism to longshore workers. commission is by establishment of Dissatisfaction Grows a clean, democratic longshore union. In announcing its intention to The Waterfront Commission it­ go for a new election, the IB]^ self is the product of years of ILA pointed to growing dissatisfaction racketeering in the harbor. It was among longshoremen as a result of established after public hearings constantly-worsening working con-' showed the extent to .^which ILA ditions and denial of. trade union > leaders throughout the harbor pat^ rights to .the men. , ticipated i'i, in .extortion, ••''•usary,- jT^e -b'olimfirel -of; iQngsljojioirteh'^ shakedowns and kiCkbitckV flroth' ^ddmplaints ha^'^feeeh''^h' tfti'' riyfe' because of speed-up^, overloaded slings, unsafe conditions on the piers, lack of any kind of job se­ curity and complet#lack of repre­ sentation on grievances. Since the ILA squeaked through to victory in a National Labor ReAn example of union democracy men is shown In pearing on page issue. the denial of to longshore­ the story ap­ seven of this lations Board election in May, 1954, ILA supporters have been waiting for the leadership to make good on promises of better condi­ tions on the piers, an end to racketeering and establishment of ipiiqh democracy in ILA locals, tr^leaii, conditibni^ hav^ reverted db'what they were/befof^ the IBL . •• Guilford Larsen eliglhility period back to January 1, 1934, allowing a wider range of seatime than before. Nine Passed Away Beside the 60 Seafarers on the list at present, nine men who were receiving the benefit have since died. Seafarers added to the list by last week's action of the trustees are: Charles A. McComisky, Bos­ ton, Mass.; Buster S. Carlson, Texas City, Texas; Arthur F. Nel- was chartered, and in many areas have grown worse. - ILA president William Bradley admitted on a television program that conditions in the harbor were the worst in 30 years. Petition Next Summer Under the terms of the TaftHartley law, the IBL cannot pe­ tition for a new election until 90 days before the ILA contract ex­ pires at the end. of next, summer. However, preparations for a new election would get underway well before the time came to petition for a vote, sometime in June, 1956. The IBL Is assured the full sup­ port of the AFL Maritime Trades Department, representing both seagoing and shoreside unions in the industry. The SIU is a mem­ ber of th'e department. k - * % Ellis '• Gillot son, Foley, Ala.f-William Fiynn, Wollinger's Island, Ala.; William Guilford, Pritchanl. Ala'.; Bernard M. Larsen. Miami. Fia.; Robert M. Eliis, Brooklyn, NY; Henry L. Gillot, Long Island City, NY; Deward. G. Robinson, Hamilton. Ala. Two of the men. McComisky and Robinson, are entitled to retroac­ tive benefits because their applica­ tions were conipleted at an earlier date. " : •41 -1 �SKAtAMERS PMe Foiif •spfaoAer IC i«5l L0€ 8IU Welfare Speeds Recovery 'Districts' Report Shows Ship Inspection Loopholes V A casual scanning of the recent Coast Guard report on the Southern Districts disaster and the Coast Guard's inspection regulations would give the impression that a US flag ship is the most inspected collection of equipment on the face 6f the earth. Closer examination, how­ ever, reveals two startling dis- -• ^ human beings can make mistakes?". crepancies between inspec­ accepted as infallible with nary "Not. In the examination of tions as they exist on paper second look. • The hearings further revealed the ships," was the reply. and actual practice. existence of an agreement between The presiding Coast Guard opFor one thing, as testimony showed at the hearing in the ABS and the Southern Steamship cer again intervened to stop the Southern Districts disaster, it Company permitting the company questioning as reflecting on the seems to be permissible for an in­ to get by with patched bottom "integi'ity of the Bureau." spector to give the engine room plating on the ship instead of un­ Subsequently other witnesses an okay without even going down dergoing expensive repairs.. The from the Coast Guard itself agreed the ladder. The hearings also agreement was. approved by the that the Coast Guard accepts ABS showed the trust placed by the Coast Guard in violation of its own certificate 'without question as evi­ Coast Guard in the American Bu­ orders, apparently on the grounds dence of a vessel's seaworthiness. reau of Shipping, a private ship­ that "if it's okay with ABS it's okay Other testimony revealed more owner-supported agency which has with us." of the divided responsibility and no official Government status. As Held In Reverence authority in the present inspection No one in the maritime industry set-up. ^veral inspectors from in­ far as the Coast Guard is con­ cerned, ABS surveyor's reports are denies the value of work done by surance agencies and other sources ABS in setting safety standards were in direct contradiction with for US ships. But the almost each other as to the condition of reverential attitude of the Coast the hull, weather conditions at time Guard toward any report with an of loading and other items. When Home from a 15-day stay in a Mobile hospital that followed ABS stamp on it ^n effect buck- the shi^ loaded at Port Sulphur, major surqdry, Mrs. M. J. Oswald, wife of Seafarer "Dutch" passes the responsibility for La., an inspector spent an hour Oswald,appears to be on the way to complete recovery proper inspections from the Coast on the ship at night. Part of the and happy to be reunited with her husband. Oswald was Guard to a private shipowner-sup­ time was spent eating dinner with one of the first in Mobile to receive cash assistance under ported agency. the captain and the remainder in­ Several exchanges in the Coast specting the holds with the aid of the new schedules of hospital and surgical benefits provided SAN FRANCISCO — T h e by the Welfare Plan. boom is definitely on the Guard hearing were revealing on a cluster of lights held by the this score. When an attorney repre­ mates. jDn the basis of this once­ wane out here as for the sec­ be maintained the ship was ond two week period in a row the senting the family of a deceased over Seafarer attempted to question an seaworthy. port has had slow shipping and ABS representative as to the thor­ Another inspector, this one more of the same is expected in a Coast Guard representative oughness of that organization's in­ the future. Activity was limited to checked" the engine room by ask­ SEATTLE—The "bottom" fell out of shipping here during one payoff and sign-on plus seven spection of Southern Districts, the presiding Coast Guard officer was ing the chief engineer over a cup the last two weeks, but they're going to glue it back on in In-transits. shocked, and intervened on the of coffee how things were below. proper fashion in the current period. Further, port agent Leon "Blon- grounds that the questioning was Between the Coast Guard, the Slumped to the lowest point"*_ .. ... die" Johnson warned, there are improper. "Are you attacking the Federal Communications Commis­ L J . 1 ii. run of ships that call there reguno payoffs in sight for the next two American Bureau of Shipping," he sion, the ABS, the National Cargo it's reached in several months, larly. weeks, although on the West Coast asked in a tone indicating the at­ Bureau, the insurance companies shipping took an unexpected This pleasant prospect is due to ships have a habit of popping up torney was being presumptuous. and other agencies one would think nosedive for two weeks with only be provided by an array including when least expected. 'Bureau Doesn't Err' ship would get a thorough in­ one payoff and sign-on, the Bar­ the Jean LaFitte, Young American San Francisco has been a hot Another attorney then asked the spection. But this division of func­ bara Frietchie (Liberty Naviga­ and Kyska (Waterman); Longview port for so many months now that ABS man if it accepts the certi­ tion and the abandonment of pri­ tion, plus five assorted in-transits. Victory and Coeur d'Alene Victory a downturn was bound to come fications of its surveyors at face mary responsibility by the Coast The present two-week period, (Victory Carriers); ..^Marie Hamil along. However, there are still not value. Guard would seem to nullify the however, is expected to see the (Bloomfield); George A. Lawson too many men with A and B sen­ "Yes," the ABS man replied. very purpose of an Inspection sys­ port rebound quickly, with eight (Pan Oceanic), and Ocean Joyce iority here. "Then you don't recognize that tem; to maintain a seaworthy ship. payoffs scheduled plus the usual (Ocean Trans). Frisco Job Boom Dips Seattle Boom Stumbles August 24 Through Sept. 6 Registered „ ^ Port Boston New York Philadelphia Baltimore Noriolk Savannah Miami Tampa Mobile New Orleans Lake Charles Houston Wilmington San Francisco Seattle Deck Deck Eng. ABA 10 83 31 51 18 13 5 7 36 55 13 12 9 14 15 Deck TOTALS 372 5 29 9 30 22 3 6 0 6 7 8 5 2 g 9 Deck 147 4 68 22 50 10 13 3 0 23 36 4 8 2 11 n Eng. 265 The overall picture of shipping in the Atlantic and Gulf District showed another general decline during the past two weeks, as the number of men registered remained pegged about the same as the previous period, but shipping itself dipped a little further. Total number of men dispatched to jobs was 1187; registration was 1358. The shipping barometer, however, indicated a probable rise soon with some braiT/:hes reporting increased activity due in the coming two weeks. Thusj the present situation appears to' be only temporary, as business continues to level off from the hea"vy shipping brought on by the summer vacation period just ended. Statistically, class A and class B resumed their near-two to one relationship, as a "slump" showed up in class C this time. The decline in class C shipping remains in direct proportion to the gen­ eral dip in shipping for all seniority groups. The Eng. B 1 25 14 27 13 6 1 4 11 18 9 9 4 8 6 Eng. B Stew. A 5 72 16 48 15 4 41 5 11 42 3 8 4 7 8 Stew. A stew. ®2 21 5 14 9 9 15 4 6 8 2 9 1 9 15 Stew. B 129 Total Total Total A B «2^- 19 223, 69 149 43 30 49 12 70 133 20 28 15 32 34 8 75 28 71 44 10 22 8 23 33 19 23 7 33 30 298 97 220 87 48 71 20 93 166 39 51 22 55 64 Total Total Total A m Deck Deck Deck A B C 1 71 32 64 14(1 15 3 3 24 45 11 9 6 14 3 Deck A 1. 16 15 22 11 3 2 0 3 15 13 4 3 5 2 1 6 3 1 16 3 0 0 1 9 1 0 0 4 0 Deck Deck B C 117 45 Eng. ^2 56 18 43 11 11 2 2 14 23 4 7 2 17 5 Eng. Shipped Stew. Stew, Eng. Eng^ stew. A B C 0 3 2 11 35 10 43 10 7 13 14 4 7 5 28 5 17 0 44 7 10 412 9 6 4 1 3 2 5 0 1 1 4 0 0 2 1 1 7 5 9 4 2 5 20 25 21 5 3 6 2 5 1 5 1 3 0 1 3 2 0 2 1 7 1 12 8 1 0 2 3 3 0 Eng. Eng^ Stew. Stew. stew, -c A B 143 49 173 96 36 Total Total B 6 61 36 67 22 15 7 3 14 56 24 10 8 20 7 Total Tota^ A 701 356 3 170 63 151 34 25 10 6 47 93 17 19 9 43 11 Total 3 23 72 6 38 0 1 0 8 19 5 1 2 6 0 254 111 224 94 46 18 9 69 168 46 30 19 69 18 m Total Total C 2f7 130 926 45| presence of available manpowtr in classes A and long overdue. . . . NEW YORK: Boom appears PHILADELPHIA: Very B, in ports where they^were needed, spelled out to be ended as of now the drop for class C, which has no seniority in good one week; slow the next. . . . BALTIMORE: the SIU. Of the total, class A remained the same Pepped up again after a slight dip.... NORFOLK: as the last period, at 60 percent, and class B Good now and will continue. Blue Jay run may climbed again to nearly 30 percent. The rest was be over, but coal is no"w moving out. .. . SAVAN­ accounted for by class C, which experienced the NAH: About the same as before; very little change. . . . MIAMI: Florida's transfer puts whole crew only drop. Port by port, the figures showed a shipping rise on beach; Registration up, particularly in steward in four ports, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Norfolk department.... TAMPA: Still slow; little in sight. and Savannah, a dip in six others and five re­ . .. MOBILE: Slow and should decline a bit more maining the ^ame. West Coast shipping continued yet.... NEW ORLEANS: Shipping stays the same. to shrivel up, as Seattle, which has been really . . . LAKE CHARLES: Keeps shipping same kept jumping for many months, reported 'almost amount steadily. . . . HOUSTON: Still nothing no activity worth mentioning. Wilmington had in sight for this port, . . WILMINGTON: Has already gone from bad to worse and San Fran­ quieted down completely, . . . SAN FRANCISCO: Feels same decline as other West Coast ports. . . . cisco stayed about the same. SEATTLE: Slowest .it'^, been. in. several months. The following isdhe forecast, port by port: ^ ' iNext'pqqpd,phQviilld|tbrl^^ way/j«ri^h\§i,|ht • BOSTON: ^P8y<3 156 297 311 H' - • �Mmihm 19, nu SEAFjtkEKS toe Prototypes In Gov't Now Ship Design Program mmrnrnMSsmMmiSi^^ i ''''•' /r "TSitsr^A;* Designed to replace outmoded C-type ships with vessels of greater speed, more stowage space and easy cargo-handling, Maritime Administration's new cargo cai'riers include Sea­ farer Class of 13,400 tons and IS-knot speed, which would replace existing C-3s and C-4s. "Clipper" class ships would replace present C-2s with vessels of 10,800 tons and 18-lcnot speed. Vessels wou d be 460' long, with 28' draft and would be suitable for same general service now operated by US-flag C-2s in foreign and domestic trades. Third type of several proposed modern sKfpi of the future Is Freedom Class of approximately 8,500 deadweight tons. These ships would be designed to do 16-18 knots and would replace present C-IBs. They would be 4L7* long and have draft of 26,5'. NY still Has Plenty Of Jobs NEW YORK—Shipping has finally slacked off here, following a summer of record activity in which same-day shipping ceased being a novelty. The lull will give harried headquarters dispatchers a chance to catch their breath for the first time since the end of June. Bated men, however, can still ship out in a few days, pinch would be considerably more Claude Simmons, SIU assist­ severe if the Union had not been ant secretary-treasurer, reported. able to sign up several new compa­ He cited the case of a wiper on nies in recent months to swell the the Chickasaw who came in a few number of available jobs. The or­ days ago, registered and then ship­ ganization of new companies under ped back aboard as a fireman the SIU contract still remains a pri­ TAMPA,—Several Seafarers in same day. mary target for headquarters of­ this port have collected benehis Thus, Seafarers who are looking ficials and the SIU Organizing De­ under the SIU's family medical and to ship right away can still make partment. surgical plan. All reports are that their way without too much In connection with the new com­ the plan has been of considerable trouble, he said. panies, Simmons pointed to the help and is welcomed by the mem­ The drop in shipping was not added importance of avoiding all bership accordingly. attributed to any special cause, performing on SlU-contracted ves­ The shipping picture was not too Simmons explained, but could sels at all times. Jhe presence of exciting for the past two weeks with likely be due in part to the end performers on a vessel will never eight in-transits supplying all of of the vacation season when less contribute to a satisfactory rela­ the business. But port agent Tom men are coming oft ships for a tionship for all parties, and keeps Banning is optimistic about the stay ashore with their families operations from running as future with more action expected or friends. smoothly as they should, he de­ in the coming period. Lay-^p clared. Adding to the clouded future The performers themselves only shipping picture is the lay-up of wind up losing their papers and one tanker, the Queenston Heights, their right to continue sailing and for a few weeks, and the sale of earning their livelihood, he added, Another, the Julesburg, to a n,pnr, cHing, the stappedrup: practice of •S'rU'-coinbarfy.! close Ipg book inspections followed He noted that the fdihpdrary by' the Coast Guard tliesi^ days. Tampa Lauds Hospital Plan K*lOW I. Pw« Fiwi Stewards, SIU Meet To Prepare Master Rulebook Formal meetings between SIU stewards and headquarters officals designed to hammer out a master set of working rules for galley and messroom operations got underway this week. The first such gathering, ^ which convened this past dividual "to order" -food preparaWednesday, Sept. 14, provided tion and service for making meals the occasion for some 30 SIU chief more attractive and eliminating stewards^and chief cooks to match waste. The Union and representative experiences and air mutual prob­ lems regarding shipboard feeding cooks and stewards consulted on and storing. Details of the meeting the program jointly agree that al­ were set in motion by SIU Assist­ though SIU ships have always been ant Secretary-Treasurer Ed Moon- good feeders, a new approach to ey, representing the steward de­ «hipboard meals could make that impression even more emphatic. partment. Principal aim of the meetings is Seafarers Cliff Wilson and Phil to sift the details of steward de­ Reyes, SIU stewards who have been partment operation and come up introducing the new program in with a uniform set of rules which the Alcoa and Waterman fleets, can serve as a gqidebook for all were on. hand to report on the results. Louis Gellnitz, who pio­ galley personnel. neered the program on Bull Line In this way, storing, cooking and ships, was unable to attend due to serving can be standardized illness. throughout the SlU-contracted Customs And Practices fleet in line with "new" feeding The first meeting of stewards, program instituted by the Union for the first time on Bull Line both oldtimers and newcomers, es­ tablished the fact that there is al­ vessels last year. ways for improvement in The new method of feeding and feedingroom aboard ship and making it serving has since been extended more palatable. to Alcoa and Waterman ships, Discussion emphasized the point under the supervision of veteran that although food preparation and SIU stewards who circulate each storing of ships is a primary re­ company's ships to introduce and sponsibility of the steward aboard explain the system. the ship, he cannot go it alone quite Well Received often because company practices Well-received on virtually all and feeding customs vary from ships operating under the new sys­ ship to ship. tem, the Union-sponsored revised Subjects dealt with also con­ feeding program is based on in- cerned revision of some steward department working rules as well as the still-present need aboard some ships for efficient "deep freeze" equipment to permit more extensive use of frozen fruits and vegetables, and the question of what constitutes minimum or nec­ essary stores for a given ship. Also considered were ways and means for drawing up lists of reputable ship chandlers and food supply houses in offshore ports, so that missing stores can be ordered with­ out delay in those areas. MIAMI—A few hours after The meetings, which are being it had paid off the SIU crew, held both mornings and afternoons, the P&O Steamship Company were due to continue today. transferred the passenger ship Florida and her sister ship, the Cuba, to the Liberian flag. As a result of the free-wheeling policy permitted by the Maritime Ad­ ministration, not a single cruise ship operating out of Florida re­ mains under- the American flag. The Florida had operated for many years on the Miami to Ha­ vana run and P&O was one of the first companies organized by the SIU when it was founded. Many of the crewmembers had been SAN DIEGO—Delegates to with the SIU since its earliest days. the California State Federa­ In recent years, the passenger tion of Labor last week whole­ ship run from Florida to Cuba and heartedly approved a resolution other Caribbean islands has been assailing proposals for Government Invaded by an increasing number regulation of collective bargaining of runaway-flag operators under in maritime. The delegates adopted the benevolent eye of the Maritime a proposal submitted by the Sailors Administration. Ships put on this Union of the Pacific severely run included the former SIU- critical of any limitations on the manned Yarmouth of Eastern rights of sea unions to strike and Steamship Company. freely negotiate their own con­ Gov't Says Okay tracts. With everyone else turning Li­ The resolution was aimed at the berian, P&O said "me too" and controversial Bonner proposals, won approval of the Maritime put forth by Rep. Herbert Bonner, Administration to complete the chairman of the House Merchant Marine Committee. The proposals transfer of its two ships. The Cuba, formerly the Denali would 'establish a new Federal of the Alaska Steamship Company, agency with broad powers to in­ had been placed on a Tampa-Key terfere with collective bargaining West-Havana run just this past in maritime and to pass on contract provisions. , winter. P&O Cruise Ships Dump US Registry Calif. AFL Backs SUP On Bonner •v' •- • "vl �..-;^^V-v?:r SEAFARERS L06 Pare Six Mobile 'Rec' Lounge Due For Completion Sevtcmber if. 1955 Plan New Growth For Booming NO NEW ORLEANSr—Continued development of New Orleans as a leading world port is be­ ing reflected here by a steady brisk rate of shipping on SlU-contracted vessels, Government agency reports of increased cargo volume and announcement of a long-range program of har­ MOBILE—The last step in the renovation of the Mobile bor improvements. • —— —• ' hall is nearing completion here as work is going ahead rapidly Job opportunities for SIU crease of 2.2 percent over tonnage on a lounge in the lowest deck of the hall. Members here are men shipping through this for 1953. looking forward eagerly tow-'^ ^ port are holding steady at a high The Army report also showed ard the wind-up of the job as ones have been reissued by the level and prospects for the imme­ the Mississippi River carried mote the lounge will have televi­ Seafarers Vacation Plan. diate future are good, said SIU commerce than in any previous Shipping has not been • exciting Port Ag^nt Lindsey J. Williams, sion, i-ecreational facilities and year, a total of 82.4 million tons service facilities for meals and in the port over the past two-week From a long-range point pf view, between Minneapolis and the Gulf. soft drinks. It will also have period, Tanner said, but men are the economic future of the port Between Baton Rouge and New plenty of comfortable chairs and still shipping without any trouble also appears sounds. Good labor Orleans, 37 million tons Were car­ sofas and is expected to become a as testified by the fact that several relations have been cited as ried on the river, and 54 -million social center for Seafarers and C seniority ratings got out in the major factor in the sound posi­ tons between New Orleans and the past two week period. Six payoffs tion enjoyed by the port with no Gulf. their families here. and sign ons, and one in transit sudden upsets to harass shippers. Number Two Port Also being installed in the hall LAKE CHARLES — Jobs Is a complete burglar alarm system. ship summed up the port's busi­ In dollar value of all foreign are still going begging down, Tonnage Grows Port agent Cal Tanner expects the ness. As usual, relief jobs around trade, the port continued to rank Statistics recently announced by second in the US, according to in this hot corner of the Gulf, alarm system to prevent repeti­ the harbor helped pick up the the Army Engineers showed that the New Orleans Board of Port which has continued to ride along tion of a recent burglary of the slack. at the same confortable level of Tanner expects the next two waterborne tonnage handled Commissioners. During 1954, ex­ shipping all summer. hall in which 40 vacation checks through the port in 1954 exceeded were stolen. Most of the checks weeks to be considerably improved ports and imports were valued at Seafarers can ship out of here 40.5 million tons. This was an in- $1.5 billion, up seven percent from almost have been recovered and the lost with a dozen ships scheduled. any time tliey want, espe­ 1953. New York and New Orleans cially when they're -not dead set are the only US ports in the bil­ on a particular berth aboard the lion dollar class. "one and only" ship. Those who New Orleans moved from second aren't too choosy will have no to first among US ports in exports trouble getting out. of cotton and agricultural machin­ There are, however, enough men ery and in banana imports. The on the beach to handle anything port continued to rank first in im­ that comes along in the normal Two NMU officials have been assigned the embarrassing task of explaining to the Interna­ ports of sugar, molasses, burlap turn of events, so a mass invasion tional Transport workers Federation just why NMU president Joseph Curran wholeheart­ and sisal and in exports of wheat, of this area won't do anybody any good, Leroy Clarke, port agent, edly endorsed the ILA's phony seamen's union a short time" ago. The NMU was recently ad­ flour and soybeans. "Favorable freight rates and commented. mitted to ITF and will send its * Weather Good Curran's endorsement of the good labor relations, may be the delegation of two to a confer­ work on runaway flag ships operat­ The good weather of the past two "United International Seamen's cause of an expected increase in ence of the ITF Seafarers Sec­ ing out of New York. ILA opera­ tion in Ostend, Belgium, October tions in this field ran directly Union, Local 1824," came after the the shipment of motor vehicles weeks helped assure a coinfortablt counter to the efforts of the ITF SEAFARERS LOG exposed the so- through the port," the Board of stay for the crew of the Chiwawa, 3 and 4. which spent five daj^s here because By giving its approval to the Special Seafarer's Section, and the called "union" as a crimp opera­ Port Commissioners reported. Automobile shipments were the refineryx couldn't turn out the ILA crimp "rig, the NMU put itself ITF office in New York reported tion whose top officer boasted that In tlie position of endorsing an out­ many complaints from seamen who he would raid ships of all nations stimulated recently by the diver­ cargo she required. None of the sion of Kaiser-Willys vehicles from crew seemed to mind the "incon­ fit which was exploiting foreign had been shakendown for dues and with the help of the ILA, Curran immediately came to the the Port of New York to New Or­ venience." The Chiwawat was One seamen of many countries who assessments on the promise of ac­ of the eight Cities Service oil defense of the ILA's operations, leans for foreign shipment. tion that was never forthcoming. Not content to rest on its laurels, wagons which made an appearance giving prominence to a friendly ex­ ITF Expands Drive This past June, the ITF an­ change of correspondence between the Board of Port Commissioners in the port during the past period. Other visitors included that nounced it was expanding its activ­ him and tug captain William Brad­ •is going ahead with plans for con­ ity in the runaway-flag field and ley, ILA president, in which Brad­ tinuing expansion and improve­ regular caller in Orange, Texas, the Val Chem (Valentine), and was opening an organizing office ley denied everything that the ment of harbor facilities. On the planning boards is a $65 right here, the'Ocean Nora (Ocean for that purpose. The ITF cam­ Local 1824 spokesman had said. paign received the full support of The net effect of the exchange was million construction and rehabili­ Trans), which loaded rice for Ja­ the last SIU of NA convention to convey the impression that the tation program to enhance the pan, as well as the Del Oxo' and which denounced the ILA's activi­ ILA would perform a service for port's position in world trade. Port Del Mundo, both for Mississippi. Aside from the healthy shipping, ties as hampering ITF progress. foreign fiag seamen, igrforing ITF's Director Walter J. Amoss said. all else is quiet in the port right Eleven years' will be required to Jurisdiction and activity in this The SIU has been a member of ITF now, Clarke noted. complete this program. area. for many years. Jobs Come Steadily In Lake Chas. Curran Support To ILA's Phony Seamen's Union Faces ITF Quiz YOUR DOLLAR'S WORTH |r I'' 1^-. Beware The Merchants Of Debt One shake of the economic tree and a lot of families now carrying a record-high load of installment debt are going to be in trouble. In fact, business-commentator Elmer Roessner reports that the American Collectors As­ sociation finds the number of bills turned over to its members for collection has jumped ten per cent this year, and that bills ai'e getting harder to collect. Consei'vative bankers consider it risky for a family to assume a total installment of more than ten per cent of its income. But one survey indicates that over 13 million families now are paying out more than ten per cent of their income in installment payments, and over half of these (about IV2 million) are making payments totaling . 20 to 40 per cent of income. A leading debt pooling service repox'ts that 90 per cent of its aecounts, who are people in sei-ious financial trouble, are paying on cars and TV sets. Look For Assistance Often the man or family that has gotten over its head In debt needs some outside help in fending off its eredItors, or at least it is often panieked into thinking it does. Thats why debt-pooling services have gotten numerous recently. This department previously reported that such services operate under such titles as "budget consultants," "debt liquidators," "pro-ratal's," etc. They charge a fee of ten percent or more of your total debt, and try to solve your financial problems by arranging regular small pay­ ments with your creditors. That is, the more honest debt pooling services try to do this. There have been cases in which debt poolers collected fees with little result in re­ ducing the clients debt load or staving off creditors' demands. , With so many families heavily In debt, debt-pooliog services are spreading fast. Now one of the'largest of Written for pe Seafarers Los Margolius, ^ leading expert on biying such outfits, operating out of New York, has announced ' Most of the people in debt to the point where they it is opening 18 additional offices in various large indus­ seek a debt-pooling service are buying cars or television trial cities such as Chicago, Detroit, Philadelphia, Troy, sets. In some cases the debt pooler tries to retui-n this merchandise to the creditor, with the debtor agreeing to NY, Passaic and Paterson, NJ, and others. pay an additional sum if the creditor suffers any loss on Resist Barrage Of Ads the returned merchandise. This way a deficiency judgment This department previously advised that families In against the debtor is avoided. But if a debtor must give debt avoid the debt-pooling sexwices heavily advertised up his car or other merchandise, he should first see what over the air and in newspapers, and instead make their he can get for it on a private sale or turn the car over own arrangements to quiet the threats of creditors, and to someone else who will assume the rest of the debt, if necessary, use the help of the bankruptcy courts to rather than return it and pay an additional sum to the compel creditors to accept extended payments. dealer. One of the older and apparently more reputable debt Mr. Neal's company says It avoids asking small-loan poolers has challenged these recommendations, and states companies to reduce interest fees except when they were that his firm has been able to help some 1500 families in taking too much of the debtor's income due to the lax-ge its four years of existence. C. V. Neal, Jr., of the Credit number of loans. ."Loan companies are entitled to their Management Co. of Des Moines, Iowa, charges that much profit as much as any other merchant." Well, that's just of the criticism of the debt poolers is inspired by small where an aggressive credit-union committee or welfare or loan companies (who • themselves promote "consolidation other community organization would make its first attempt loans" to pay off debtors at higher rates than even the to get a family out of trouble. Melvin Shex-man, a long­ debt poolers charge. Mr. Neal further declares that a time worker in Eastern credit unions, says that many debt poolers' fee of ten per cent" of the total debts is times a committee would go to the loan coihpanies and cheaper than a credit union's Interest charge of 10 or 12 Installment dealers—the merchants of debt—and induce per cent a year. them to recfuce the amount of a debt by arguing that the Even though Mr. Neal may sincerely try to extricate lender or merchant was initially responsible because It debtors by putting them txn a minimum budget and de­ overloaded the fanxily with debt. voting their remaining income to paying the creditors, You'll buy more cars and TV sets In the long run by this department again says stay away from debt poolex'S getting on a cash basis in your buying, and avoiding the as well as loan companies promoting a debt consolidation 18-42 per cent interest rates of loan companies and some loan. Installment dealex-s, and the debt poolers' fees. But if Here's why: you're already mired in debt, set up your own budget of —Credit union rates are not higher than the ^ebt pooling minimum living expenses, as the debt poolers do, pay fees. They're lower. A debt pooler's ten percent fee on off your creditors with the remaining income, and call on a total debt of $1000 is $100. Most cr,edit .unions charge > your,own community organizations for help if necessary. $50 or $60 inteteit''''trh ''k'flbbb/lqan; £e:^aid ••w4thi«''42'' ' months, and some |j , • ..assistance. v; ^ ' - ^ �September 18, 18S5 COIUR D'ALBNf -VICTORY (Vic­ tory Carrlort), July 4—Chairman, W. Zaiaikl; Soeratary, H. Ia|ak. Dlacusalon on keeplnc all Korean checker! from doing their paper work in tha midship house. A vote of thanks went ta the negoUating committee for tha progreia gained for seafarers and their families. A fan siiould ba in­ stalled in the laundry room. Tha steward recommended that all per­ sonal laundry be given to him so that a reliable laundry can take care of cleaning same. SEAFARERS W. Las. Ship's fund $12.89. Motion made and carried to accept recent communication. Ship's delegate elect­ ed. Poor mail delivery In Far East, JOHN C (Atlantis Carriers), July 11 —Chairman, L. Psradlts; Secretary, W. Clegg. All repairs taken care of at sea. motion made and carried to accept headquarter communications. Ail hands to leave foc'sle clean. Cap­ tain and Chief Mate are two good guys to sail with. ROBIN KETTERINO (Seas Ship­ OCEAN ULLA (Maritime OverMst), ping), May 22—Chairman, H. HerklnJuly 4—Chairman, D. Plecerllll; Secre­ heins; Secretary, R. Whitley. Men tary, J. V. Dolan. Discussion by the asked to wear .at least a T-shirt In ship's delegate about the unsafe con­ 'messhall during meal hours. Messmen ditions out on deck. The gear is fairly will wear Jackets at all times. All rotten and there Is no catwalk across repairs have been made except paint­ lumber fore and aft. There Is noth­ ing and that wiU be done thU trip. ing la the slop chest but cigarettes. Treasurer reported S32.64 on hand in The captain said no fresh ,milk in the ship's fund. June 19—Chairman, O. Schmidt; Secretary, R. Whitley. Discussion on food coming from the galley. Now that the ship has left the States the food is not prepared very well. Mem­ bers asked to fill out welfare enroll­ ment cards and turn same in to delegates: D^est of ships' Meetings Panama; will check with patrolman on same. DEL SUD (Mississippi), June 25— Chairman, T. Matting; Secretary, W. Perkins. Brother Joe Collins reported everything running smoothly and asked for full cooperation in making a good impression on the ministers aboard that are attending the Catho­ lic Congress in Rio de Janeiro. Broth­ er Perkins asked that snore effort be made to increase the Del Sud picnic fund in order to have a bigger and "better picnic this year. Motion made and carried to commend headquarters for the fine Job they are doing in protecting our Union. All members are requested to stay out of the crew pantry during meal hours. DEL MAR (Mississippi), July 4— Chairman, E. Caudlll; Secretary, H. Rills. At deck department meeting a vote of thanks was given to the deck' messman. Requested that ship's delegate see the patrolman in New Orleans about passing doctor and signing on the same day. All men were asked to fill out welfare cards and send same to headquarters. All voted' to give $40 for the ship's library. DEL' MUNOO (MIstlttlppI), June 2S v-rChalrman, I. Brown; Secretary, J. PIcou. Brother Joseph Casem was eldc^ed stdp's delegate by acclama­ tion. Treasurer reported $40 in the ship's fund. Suggestion made to go into the recreation hall for bull ses­ sions. Brother Bailey said that ho would repair washing machine for the good of the crew. STEEL ARCHITECT (Isthmian), July 3—Chairman, W, Makin; Secre­ tary, W.. Knapp. Crew donated money and had flowers sent as one of our Union brothers on the ship lost his father whiie on this voyage. Mem­ bers were requested to turn in all keys at the end of this trip. The stew­ ard department was given a vote of thanks for a flno Job done. The cap­ tain and offlcers were also given a vote of thanks for their cooperation. SUNION (Kea), Juno 19—Chairman, •. Sims; Secretary, E. Taylor. A new ship's delegate was elected. All the latest reports and communications were read and accepted by crew. General topics discussed. ROBIN COODFELLOW (Seas Ship­ ping), June 19—Chairman, J, LIpplncott; Secretary, W. Backley. Ship's delegate' asked for repair lists to be given to the department delegates as soon as possible. All hands were asked to tui'n in all linen and cots, before arriving in states. MOBILIAN (Waterman), June 29— Chairman, Roberto Hannibal; Secre­ tary, M. Eayers. Beef reported con­ cerning fresh stores and milk. • Stew­ ard said in some ports vegetables are unsanitary, and he will get fresh stores when he can. Ship's delegate will collect money from crew for ex­ penses for mail during this trip. VAL CHEM (Valentino), June 29— Chairman, J. Cheshire; Secretary, J. Jellette. Discussion with the steward about salads and water to be served at meals, whereby the steward prom­ ised his cooperation in the matter. Members were asked to be quiet be­ low deck as men are sleeping. ANGELINA (Bull), Juns 30—Chair­ man, J. Kain; Secretary, Warren Reed. Suggestion made that each delegate make a volunteer collection at payoff and turn in money to treas­ urer who will mail the balance due, on TV to N. y. Sea Chest. A lengthly discussion follows concerning the reqiUrements for eligibility under the new and/or revised welfare program. Each delegate requested to turn in a repair list as soon as possible. HASTINGS (Waterman), July 10— Chairman, G. Hansen; Secretary. R, Callahan. Motion made and carried to accept and concur with headquarters communications. Discussion held about moving hospital midships, to see pa­ trolman. Messhall to be painted. IBERVILLI (Pan Atlantic), No data .—Chairmen, Taylor; Sacratery, R. Eckerl. Motion made and carried that recent headquarters communication be accepted and concurred. MAOAKET (Waterman), May Chairman, J. Rose; Secretary, W. Busch. Ship's fund agreed to be taken up on 1st draw. A little more, cooperation was asked for in- keeping showers and passageways clean. All headquarters information posted. Re­ pair list being taken care of satis­ factorily. BARBARA FRIETCHIE (Liberty Nav­ igation), June 12—Chairman, C. DeMarco; Secretary, O. Payne. Much dis­ cussion about draws in foreign ports. The ship's delegate will ask the cap­ tain to give US currency where pos­ sible and the crew will accept trav­ elers checks elsewhere. All hands asked to remove clothes from line below as soon as they are dry. En­ gine and deck departments to take turns cleaning laundry. Steward de­ partment will clean recreation room. VENORE (Ore), July 3—Chairman, Nelson Norwood; Secretary, C. RawlIngs. Request has been made at sev­ eral meetings for a toaster for crews mess. The membership feels this should be brought to the attention of headquarters. New secretary re­ porter elected. ALCOA CAVALIER (Alcoa), July 2$ —Chalrmj.n, E. Moyd; Secretary, G. Scett. Motion made and carried to ac­ cept and concur with headquarters communications. Discussion held on donations for sick brothers. ALCOA PENNANT (Alcoa), July 24 -—Chairman, E. Kellyj Secretary, J. Olsen. One man miss ship in Mobile and one went to the hospital in San Juan. Few be^s. Steward and his de­ partment cooperating 100 percent. En­ gineers to pump water from domestic tanks to after peak in order to have cold water for showers. In order to eliminate too much heat in crews quarters starboard passageways con­ nection and valves to be insulated. Chief cook and steward to work to­ gether to get meats to cook longer and cooperation requested from crew for messman while being served. Motion had been made to post all bulletins from headquarters. They were accepted and concurred. Dis­ cussion held on getting boiled ham aboard. ALCOA PILGRIM (Alcoa), July 10 —Chairman, none; Secretary, A. Scott. No. beefs. Communications from headquarters read and accept­ ed unanimously. Motion made and carried to get new washing machine and all repair lists to be turned into the patrolman. Poor grade of soap powder aboard. Vote of thanks to Steward. ALCOA RANGER (Alcoa), July 23 —Chairman, R. Stahl; Secretary, C. Scott. Ship to be fumigated again. Crew was urged to keep messhall clean. Motion made and carried to accept and concur communications from headquarters. AMPAC NEVADA (Trans Oceanic Marine), July 13—Chairman, A. Brown; Secretary, D. Mease. No beefs. Mo­ tion made and carried to accept and concur with communications from headquarters. Ship's delegate elected. Ship's delegate to see captain about draws. Repair lists to be taken up by delegates and turned into department heads. ARCHERS HOPE (Cities Service), July 17—Chairman, R. Kehrly; Secre­ tary, C. Connors. Ship's delegate elect­ ed. Discussion on ships fund and new TV set to be purchased and new li-on. Some small..beefs. Communications from beadquaAers accepted and con­ curred. Crew mess refrigerator has been out of order and ship's delegate was Instructed to see captain about it. ARLYN (Bull), July 17—Chairman, A. Sacco; Secretary, M. Randon. One brother was U1 and missed ship in Puerto Rico. Ship's delegate elected. Crew asked steward to prepare vege­ tables a little better and to swUch night lunch. B. BALTORI (Ore), July 21—Chelrman, Lemb; Secretary, G. Williams. Ship's fund—$13.11. Motion made and carried to accept and concur with communications from headquarters. Crew discussed keeping laundry clean. DEL VALLI (Mississippi), July 9— Chairman, C. Murree; Secretary, H. HIgglnbotham. Ship's fund—$29.65 in cash. No beefs. New washing mach­ ine needed, repair list to be tmned in, suggested that ship's reporter •srrlte letter about library, and sug- Paee Sereo LOG' Farm Croup Wars On '50-50' Renewal of the farm bloc attack on the "50-50" shipping law has been signaled by the powerful American Farm Bureau Federation in its publication "The Nation's Agriculture." An article in the magazine denounces "50-50" as causing the loss of foreign sales of agricul­ tural surplus on the grounds-* that US flag shipping costs the foreign shipowners' lobby was they could make big sales abroad more than foreign shipping. a threat by their home countries if "50-50" was to vanish. Supporters of "50-50" have pointed out several times that most agricultural surplus Is being car­ ried on regularly-scheduled liners operating under steamship confer­ ence rates, so that the only differ­ ence in costs would be In the small percentage carried by US tramp ships. Foreign aid cargoes are im­ portant to maintaining tramp ships in operation and American seamen working. Since the Farm Bureau Federa­ tion is one of the most powerful of all farm organization^, its attack indicates that farm bloc Senators and Representatives will again team up with foreign shipping lob­ byists and the State and Agriculture Departments in an attempt to re.peal "50-50" as far as agricultural surplus is concerned. Bills to that effect have already been Introduced by Senators Clin­ ton Anderson (Dem.-New Mexico) and Francis Case (Rep.-So. Dakota). Defeated Before Last July maritime unions and the industry crushed the farm blocforeign shipper combine by a 181 to 51 vote In the House of Repre­ sentatives against a repeal meas­ ure. At that time Department of Agriculture spokesmen admitted in testimony before Congressional hearings that "50-50" would not add to the cost of surplus disposal to any great degree. It was esti­ mated that the total additional cargo cost of this valuable assist to American shipping would run about $2 million in a surplus dis­ posal program involving hundreds of millions. The major tactic employed by to boycott sales of US farm prod­ In actual fact trade authorities ucts if "50-50" was not repealed. have pointed out that there will This threat has been used to con­ always be strong opposition abroad vince farm bloc spokesmen that to sales of low-cost US surpluses. Digging In At Ciipper Party Sampling some of -the plentiful supply of food at a beach party for the passengers given by the SlU crew of the Alcoa Clipper in Porto Cabello, Venezuela, are (l-r) Capt. O'Keefe, skipper of the Alcoa Pegasus^ Jimmy Monroe, Alcoa agent; Sea-farer Cliff Wilson, SlU steward department representa­ tive, and Seafarer R. M. Roberts, Clipper steward. -^^•1 ILA On Union Demoeracy The active role played by Seafarers in aiding the AFL drive fdr a clean, democratic longshore union is a record of which the SIU is proud. A recent incident in the course of the ILA's latest political demonstration in New York harbor illustrates that the long­ shoremen's need for a demo­ cratic union is just a^ great as Tn] ever, (See cut.) ark—pres­ Since the ILA's narrow victory in the waterfront election of May, ence of cTOnnission *'^es." Th^ 1954, spokesmen for the ILA, ship­ meeting in Newark was the scene ping industry representatives of the port's only violence. When friendly to it and paid publicists have attempted to create the im­ the stop work order was an­ in| pression that the ILA was reform­ nounced there a longshoreman ing. stood up and asked "What are The- illusion was carefully cultivated by ILA president Brad­ the principles for which we are ley and given substance by promi­ going out." nent individuals who associated with the ILA in an effort to give A beefy man in the back of it a gloss of respectability. the room, in Newark's Amvets ,True Nature Shown Hall on Walnut Street, walked However, the true nature and meaning of ILA was shown by up to the speaker and punched Teddy Gleason, ILA general or­ him in the nose. ganizer, at a Newark meeting. The Thomas (Teddy) Gleason, the incident is fully described in the iis I. L. A.'s general organizer from adjoining reproduction from the "New York Times." Gleason is not New York, was presiding at this just another small fry ILA offi­ session, and he waited for the cial, but one of the ILA's big three. No matter how many showers of nose punching. perfumed publicity the ILA dis­ "Now I'll answer the ques­ penses, the fact remains that the tion," he said. "The principles ILA governs longshoremen by raw force and has not the slightest inare these: you go home and you teution of loosening its dictatorial don't work. We don't want you grip on dockworkers. In the light guys asking questions." of that fact, it is a lot easier to understand the true nature of ILANewspaper ^^jorters at the sponsored demonstrations and "vol­ were rough untary walkouts." On several occasions Seafarers have voted in membership meet­ ings to continue the SIU's support of efforts by the International Brotherhood of , Longshoremen, '^Fh, to bi-lPg gen^e,tj:ad^ unionisni to longshoi:^^,..; , i Aiew yo/?Kr/M0S i L J - .mI • •%)* I �Face Elcht SEAFARERi' 100 :v:-. i«ptemb(tt 1«,' 1955 rn^i4 _ • V . Saturday is a day off for most workers ashore, but at sea or in port, even with a 40-hour week, ship's work goes on. Here, aboard Bull Line's Dorothy in port in Savannah, Seafarer Alex Benzuk, FWT, prepares to change a burner down in the engine room. Taking a breather on deck, after doing a bit of sougeeing, Allan Lake, BR and ship's delegate, comes up for air be­ fore turning to again. Catching up on the latest news via a recent copy of the SEAFARERS LOG, Ray Velasquez, FWT, concentrates hard on reading an item of interest. In the galley, Raphael Padilla, chief cook, tastes his lat­ est creation for the hard-working Dorothy crew before proceeding further. He's a serious student of "gastrology," according to crewmembers. Busy on repair work, Fernando Vargas, deck engineer (right), and A. Malcolm, 2nd engineer, try to bring the cargo winch for No. 5 hold back up to snuff. The winch was damaged by longshoremen during loading operations. Repair and maintenance work goes on aboard ship all the time. The deck delegate aboard the ship, Luis F. Rivera, AB, takes advantage of a little lull in activity on deck to re­ lax at the gangway and try to stir up some cooling breezes to get his mind off the heat. Just about to take over the 4 to 12 watch, Ralph Ramos, FWT, checks up on all the auxliaries in the engine room before going to work. He's tightening up the steam gland , on the generator engine here. It can get to be mighty hot down in that engjuiq>oop», as every black gang veteran \ "Creamed carrots" is one of the vegetables of the day iiS( •'yi' �-' September It. 1181 .- „-.:-.;..,y,. SEAFARJSRS LOG Face Nla* SlU Wile 'Pioneers' In R1 MAW Widens Drive In Chesapeake Bay u — BALTIMORE—Organizers for the SlU-affiliatcd Marine Allied Workers here are meeting edntinued success in a cam­ paign to bring excursion boats and other Chesapeake Bay craft uilder the MAW banner.*• Following on their earlier triumphs in the Wilson Line and another_smaller company^-the MAW- organizers are now prepar­ ing for probable National Labor Relations Board elections on ships operated by several mo/e outfits. Petitions have already been filed with the Labor Board for elections NEW ORLEANS—The an­ on these vessels, none of which nual SS Dei Sud picnic, given are expected to provide too much here every year by crewopposition. members of the Mississippi pas­ The MAW activity in this port senger ship for SIU men, their is linked with the similar action families and friends, will be' held taken in Philadelphia, where the September 24. union also won a contract covering As usual, the picnic will be ah the Wilson Line boats there. all-day affair. Site of the big cele­ bration will be shelier house No.' Improved Shipping On deep-sea matters,' SIU Port 10 in Audubon Park. ; Agent Earl Sheppard reported im­ The Del Sud at present is home­ proved shipping during the last ward bound from one of her regu­ two weeks and forecast more of lar cruises to Buenos Aires and the same for the immediate future. intermediale South American ports. Arrangements for the pic­ Both the Liberty Flag (Tramp nic were carried on, however, Cargo) and the Flomar (Calmar) through-a series of messages from were due to crew up this week. a committee on board to SIU Together with the regular callers shoreside representatives in this at the port, they were expected to hold shipping near its present high port. Members of the Del Sud com­ level. The statistics of the past two mittee, including Steward Emil weeks totalled 12 payoffs, nine Herek, Bosun Louis O'Leary and sign-ohs and 19, ships in transit. Joseph Lae have sent word ahead They provided only routine beefs of the ship that the crew intends that were handled right on the to spare no expense to make this year's affair "bigger and better ships with no trouble. All is quiet on other fronts also. thdn ever." Already more than The political pot hasn't started to $1,000 has been accumulated in boil just yet and the labor front is the ship's fund. Dancing And Contests quiet, with no major beefs for any The picnic plans call for music local unions in sight. for dancing to be provided by Val" Barbara's band. Athletic contests, games and free rides in the big Union Has municipal park's amusement cen­ ter are being arranged for th^ Cable Address children of Seafarers. Seafarers overseas who.want Mounds of fried chicken, baked to get in-touch with headquar­ beans, potato hot dogs and ters in a hurry can do so by cookies will besalad, pi'ovided cabling the Union at its cable certain that picnic-goers toofmake all address, SEAFARERS NEW .ages will be well-fed. YORK. Ice cream and soft drinks in Use of this address will as­ generous quantities will be handed sure speedy transmission on out to the children and kegs of all messages and faster serv­ cold beer will be tapped to quench ice for the men involved. the thirst of the grownups. Best Ever' Picnic Set By Del Sud On visit to SlU headquarters in Brooklyn, Seafarer Newton Paine and his wife illustrate plans they've made for remodeling 230-year-old house (right) they own near Woonsockett, Rl. Mrs. Paine ha« been rebuilding and remaking house from plumbing up during the past two years. With the aid of an elderly handyman and an occasional boost from her Seafarer-husband when he is ashore, Mrs. Newton Faine of North Smithfield, Rhode Island, is completely re­ modeling their 230-year-old home. In a year and a half of rugged labor Mrs. Paine has re­ paired and re-furnished the with hand-whittled wooden pegs. second floor of the 14-room ditches was a common way of pass­ The oak is so hard that ordinary building, installed modern ing the day. drill bits make no dents in its plumbing and wiring and even re­ The couple was married in Jeru­ surface and it is almost impossible placed some of the original pon­ salem and then came to the States. to drive nails. Sawing the wood derous white oak beams. When they got back to the is also out of the quesyon and The old house was originally the States, Paine brought his bride to much of the work has to done Stage Coach Inn, a major stop iiis Rhode Island home. "My aunt with, hand punches, chisels and for travelers enroute from Provi­ had picked up the place about 30 hardened drill bits. dence to Worcester, Massachusetts, years ago," he said, "and my father "You have to nave a world of and Boston. It is located, fittingly had been living in it for the past patience to work with that stuff," enough, on the Providence Pike 15 years. But he never felt like Paine said. "It's easy to get exas­ yhich was a main highroad in putting any money Into the place perated because it is very difficult colonial times, and the . cement because it was so old." to penetrate the wood with any­ hitching ^osts in front of the house Mrs. Paine had different ideas. thing." are reminders of the days -when "When I was in the house the first One of their biggest prob­ stagecoaches stopped at Us door. day, I asked my father-in-law lems was replacement of five At a casual glance, the slight- where the bathroom was. He said, beams, approximately eight-bylooking Sedfarer's wife would ap­ 'outside'. The first thing that en­ eights, which were supporting a pear to be more at home with knit­ tered my mind was 'these crazy corner of the ground floor. A leaky ting needles than two-by-fours. But Americans!" old hand water-pump had rotted she qualified for her unusual job 'The old outhouse subsequently the beams through the years, and After a rugged apprenticeship as went up in a bonfire to celebrate when they were pulled out the an Israeli frontiersman. the completion of Mrs. Paine's old house sagged ten inches. The Paine, who has been sailing SIU plumbing project, and installation Paines had to jack the house up for many years, met his wife-to-be of an inside bathroom. with 20-ton jacks and salvage re­ J.n Haifa three years ago. She had The inn, built in colonial days, placement beams from the renlains been bom in Poland but lived 15 presented quite a rebuilding prob­ of another old building, since years in Israel, a good deal of the lem. All the beams, floor-boards lumberyards could not supply them time on wilderness fanii settle­ and other fittings had been hand- with hardwood beams of the ments where digging irrigation hewn in odd sizes and fastened proper dimensions. Despite the sag, Mrs. Paine's plaster job on the second floor walls held up. The second floor of the house has nowAieen completed and fullyfurnished with carpets, curtains Those who read in the SEA­ has the full support of his ship­ and all the fixings. Right now Mrs. Paine is ripping off the old shingles FARERS LOG how Tommy Moore mates on this issue. on the outside and replacing them Colder, who sails regularly as worked off 280 pounds from 427 steward, has been an SIU member with new clapboard. down to 160, in the course of a since 1943, Joining in Norfolk. He long hospital siege, will be pleased comes from Iowa originally. CeSeafarers Pay Respects To A Shipmate to hear that he has successfully mashko is a New Yorker who completed his first trip. Moore, joined the SIU in New York. He who was in the Savannah hospital sails in the engine department. t i;. for four years, on and off, took Two Alcoa ships' crews swung the Southport as crew messnaan, and everything worked out fine. into action in short order when Tommy thanked the gang for the shipmates of theirs ran into diffi­ kindness and consideration they culties. On the Alcoa Corsair, one of the crewmemshowed him on his return to sea. bers was flown 4" t 4 home sick from The dredge Sandcaptaln, hard at Cuba, and ship's it dowi) in Venezuela, -finds a big delegate James morale-booster in the excellent Prestwood report­ chow put out by chief steward Jim­ ed that $141 was my Colder and his department. collected on be­ With many months still to go on half of the sick its 18-month sign on and nothing crewmember and but the same Venezuelan scenery sent to his wife Prestwood day after day, food looms as an to help soften the important item. impact of his illness. Other dele­ JThe Sandcaptaln also reports gates on this Alcoa passenger ship that three of the crew have donat­ are George Clarke, deck; Robert ed blood to Kelley, engine, and Ed Kukar and Brother Joe Bar­ Edison Walker, steward delegates. ron who is ill The Alcoa Clipper, faced with a and hospitalized, similar problem when an oldtimer with more Sea­ was hospitalized for some time, farers expected to collected $431 for him and passed help out. On the it on to help out, J. A. Rusheed, grievance side, ship's secretary-reporter said. ship's delegate Of course, all this is in addition Pete Cemashko to the regular SIU hospital and Part of the delegation of Seafarers who came from Manhattan Beach USPHS hospital to attend is putting up a other welfare benefits. But even Cemashko final rites for Seafarer James Lewis, a fellow TB patient, stand at graveside at Cypress Hills beef on behalf of though the Welfare Plan takes Cemetery, Brooklyn, to pay last respects. Pictured ll-r) are Claude Banks, John Driscoll, the black gang to get proper ven­ care of cases such as these. Sea-, Frederick Landry, SIU We fare Service R^p. Toby Flynn, Frank D. McGraw and Anthony Pintilation in the engine room. Lack fapersdn these two ships and others chook. Brother Lewis had been suffering from IB for many years and received SIU Welfare of adequate ventilation in the still put out on their own ^tQ pro­ tropic heat has -been a caiise-of vide additional ' help f OrHUpihates '.'hospital benefit during his hos)iiitalizjation. Unidn-fconducted service'Was One df brother Lewis' extreme discomfptt, apd Cemashkp last requests. • - Seafarers In Action 1 •- . 'fi: f 'i • " ("ir •" .. .J 1- �ravtita SEAFAnSRS toe Seirtemlte^ If, Itss Ship Mysteries Royal Oak Boasfs Solid Ctew Stiii Puzzle To Sea Historians Th« sea has inspired many strange tales ... and all of them true. Tales like that of the Marie Celeste, the ship that sailed without a crew; and the schooner Fannie Wolston, which traveled 7,000 miles without a soul on board! Many other stories, equally* ^ true, come to light from time serted section of the South Ameri­ to time as marine historians can coast.. Ir:., S"iKa-;swi;: •«1 Upon boarding, crewmen from pore through old shipping records the Johnston discovered that it was or faded logs of long-past voyages One of the strangest tales of the the schooner Marlborough, regis­ sea happened along the British tered in New Zealand. Down be­ low, they found 20 skeletons. east coast in 1915. A subsequent investigation re­ Soldiers patroling a section of the coast could hardly believe their vealed that a schooner called the eyes when they saw a submarine, Marlborough had sailed from the with the "U" mark of a German port of Lyttleton, NZ, in January, raider on her conning tower, high 1890—almost 24 years before! She had more than 30 people on board and dry on the shore. at the time. A team of submarine experts It was. .assumed this was the were summoned and when they opened the sealed hatches of the same vessel, })ut what had brought U-boat, they discovered an awe­ her to the coast of South America some sight. The entire crew lay and what had happened to her pas­ dead in their bunks or at their sengers and crew was never dis­ stations in the various compart­ covered. t * ments! A more modem mystery of the Investigators concluded that the sub had been spotted and depth sea occurred as recently as Feb­ charged in the English channel. It ruary, 1948, off the coast of Swed­ had probably gone to the bottom en when the auxiliary .ketch Kinand shut off its engine to elude nekulle was found abandoned with the hunters; or there was a possi­ a load of coal under hatches and bility it had become ensnared in a capsized lifeboat being towed an anti-submarine net and had astern. The vessel was coated with ice been kept on the bottom for days and part of the after accomoda­ —perhaps weeks. While on the bottom, they coh- tions had been gutted by fire. cluded, the crew died from lack There was no sign of the crew and of oxygen or from gases that an aerial search by Danish and formed when water leaked into the Swedish planes disclosed no trace of them. batteries. Investigators concluded that fire Eventually, the submarine came to the surface and drifted ashore, had broken out in the crew's quar­ ters and spread so quickly that the it 4 crew thought the flames would Another strange but triie tale of soon reach the oil tanks. To escape the sea is that of the British iron this anticipated explosion, it is sailing ship Rodee, which caught thought, they launched the ship's fire and sank in Manila harbor boat but kept fast to a painter . about 50 years ago. Because she trailing astern, hoping to re-board was 60 feet under water, the un­ their ship if possible. derwriters didn't think there was A heavy wave very likely came much possibility of salvage and along and capsized the boat, either sold the ship for less than $100. drowning the men or tumbling A few years later there was an them into the water so that they earthquake and the bottom of soon froze to death in the frigid Manila Bay was considerably al­ weather. tered. Sometime later it was dis­ i 4. i covered that the spot where the One of the strangest tales of the Rodee sank had been raised con­ sea is that of the Gloucester fish­ siderably and divers found the old ing schooner Columbia which be­ windjammer's hull resting only a came famous as a contender in few fathoms under the surface! the International Fishermen's ^ Races under Captain Ben Pine. When launched in 1857 the A beautiful little windjammer, steamship Great Eastern was she was fis'hing near Sable Island among the wonders of the world. when a terrific storm hit the area It was the largest vessel built up in August of 1927. to that time. The Columbia never came home Unsuccessful as a trans-Atlantic and was posted as missing with all liner and a great hog of fuel, the hands. big ship later gained fame for lay­ About a year later the beam ing a North Atlan'.c cable. trawler^ Venosta was dragging her Unable to find a profitable use trawl over the bottom near Sable for her, the owners eventually sent Island when the net and cables the huge ship to the scrap yard "hung up" on a heavy object on where a strange sight came to the ocean floor. light. Not wanting to lose his expen­ On breaking through a section sive net and gear, the Venosta's of the double bottoms, the wreck­ skipper put all the power he dared ers found a bag of worker's tools on the trawl winch and the cables and, a few compartments away, came slowly up from the bottom. the bones of a workman, with Waiting to cut the net free.from rags of clothing still around him. its encumbrance, whatever it might The man had probably been a be, the Venosta's fishermen were "bucker" for a riveting gang and amazed to see the topmasts of a had been sealed up inside the ship break the surface and, soon double bottoms when the last after, a weed covered deck and plate was put on. Not realizing he hull. was trapped, the man was probably It was dark and In the light of not able to attract attention before the fishing lamps they could onlyhis fellow workmen left the yard. see the hulk dimly for a few mo­ $> ments before the cables broke and The strange report of a derelict the ghostly vessel dropped back and her lifeless complement en­ to the bottom. tered the shipping records in 1913 In those few moments, they saw when a weather-worn and delapi- her well enough to claim she was dated hulk of a ^phoq^er wa^ found tjhe, l9?t , CQlumbla, ,clraggq^ back ashore by the British ship Johnston lo to the tne sumce surface for one oue more breatti, In the lee of aiii'tslahd'^n .a 'de­ sslt -G? .•roivjn No Ae would have nerve enough to cro$| this crew," says Seafarer J. W. Henry, oiler and en­ gine delegate, of his shipmates on the Royal Oalc. Here s part of the gang photographed by Henry at coffee and doughnut time on the fantail. (Left to right, standing) Wiggins. Olvl| Wirtz, ch. coolc; H. E. )\^orris. AB; Sino Lee, OS; Hunt, baker; Arnett, machinist; Filosa, AS; Johnson, OS; Whitey Kliamol. Seated, Hatch, OS; Ramsey, AB and ship's delegate; Tregembo, AB and deck delegate. Palmer, AB. Oiler R. E.' Jones (above)' starts routine inspection of the plant at the throttleboard. Above right, en­ gine delegate and photog­ rapher Henry, is shot in his foc'sle with own camera while catching up on news. Henry was oiler on th'e ship. At right, 3rd cook S. Rothschild (1.) and ch. cook Wirtz get the ball rolling for some more of the good food that's kept the crew well-fed and happy. Photos were taken while Royal Oak was on coastwise run headed for Baltimore. /. , , •!«.;. 8j..:;?4a! �J^feiibwlVlMS •- ' ' 8BAPARER8 LOG ^ -" " -- Fafe;EieTg« "" •Wait!^ Until You're 65/' NORMAN OKRAY, AB Seafarers who shipped during World Wqr II will remember a poster showing a rugged-looking iiombre weajing a watch cap and toting a sea' bag saying, "You bet I'm going back to sea." The poster was one of those dreamed up by the Maritime Commission to "glam­ orize" life in U-ijoat alley. In this one case though, it proved the turning point in Seafarer Norman ' Okray's life, , Okray was a shoreside worker at the time (mid-1943) punching the clock in a Michi­ gan plant. The poster was across the street from the tavern where he stopped off for a beer after work, and it got .under his skin. Finally Ae took off for New York Okray and signed aboard the Joseph Wheeler, an SIUmahned Liberty run by South At­ lantic headed for Liverpool. From then on, despite numerous air raid scares, he was a confirmed Sea­ farer. Subsequently Okray married and settled down in Baltimore which is his regular shipping port. Now the proud father of two little girls, he finds going to sea the best way of giving his family the advantages which money can buy. 'Gimme A Good Ship' Although some family men like to stick to the coastwise or nearby foreign runs, Okray isn't that par­ ticular as long as he is on a good SIU ship. His longest voyage was lOVi months on the Holystar which went down to Chile. As favorite ports he will take Yokohama, Antwerp or Hamburg. "These are seaman's ports," he says, "because nobody is trying to take you for a buck and seamen are welcomed as old friends and treated that way." STEVE J. FOOLE, AB The SIU contains a good number of men who served in Uncle Sam's Navy before becoming merchant seamen. One of them is Seafarer Steve J. Poole "of Nashville, Georgia. Poole didn't go straight from the Navy to seafaring life. In between he spent a long hitch ashore, a good deal of the time as the oper­ ator of a barbershop in Jackson­ ville, Florida. It was in 1920 that Poole signed up for a four year Navy hitch. He was aboard the USS Mississippi in June, 1924, as quartermaster, when one of the ship's 14-inch guns blew up, killing 48 of t|je crew. Shortly afterward Poole said goodbye to the Navy and headed shoreside. Likes SIU In 1947, Poole first hitched up with the SIU and liked what he saw in the way of shipboard wages and conditions. He has been sail­ ing steadily with the Union ever s i n c e.^ Through the years he has participated in a number of local b^efs including the recent tele­ phone strike and other SIU actions on behalf of Poole shoreside unions in Savannah and other ports. Poole prefers to ride the Seatrain Line ships on the coastwise run, but they have one disad­ vantage in that they do not run to his favorite foreign port, Manila. As a married man Poole is par­ ticularly pleased with the new SIU welfare benefits for Seafarers wives, which he feels are the best in any industry. "Getting into the SIU was the best thing I ever did," he said, "because you get I'enl representa­ tion and the best of shipboard con­ ditions." AFL Meatcutters Union officials say that Communist and Commu­ nist-line officials of the former Fur and Leather Workers Union are being removed in the process of merging the two organizations. The AFL Executive Council has withheld approval of . the merger thus far but Moatcutter Union spokesmen expressed confidence that the clean-up in the fur union will^win AFL approval. pay poll taxes. Participation of the independent rail brotherhoods In­ dicates close collaboration between them and the merged AFL-CIO. t t 3^ Long-term peace was in sight on the New York City transit sys­ tem as the CIO Transport Workers Union agreed to a 2'/^ year con­ tract package providing over-all wage increases of 27 cents an hour. The contract with the Transit Au­ 4« 4> thority affects approximately Seven air-conditioned Pullman 28,000 subway and bus workers in cars, complete with a diner, are the city. being used to house strikebreakers t 4. 1. at the Colonial Sugars plant in A brand-new one-year contract Gramercy, Louisiana. Meanwhile a covering installers of office equip­ series of court injunctions and jail ment in Bell Telephone buildings sentences has eliminated all union in 44 states has been reached be­ picketlineS from the plant. tween the Western Electric Com­ pany and the CIO Communications The National Labor Relations Workers. The signing provides Board turned down a bid from the general wage increases of 7 to 12 AFL Hotel Employees Union to cents an hour for the installers. take jurisdiction over struck hotels 3^ 4" 4" at Miami Beach. The NLRB said that hotels are under state juris-, The AFL iintemational Typo­ diction. Florida has no state labor graphical Union has voted to con­ relations law which would provide tinue the operation of its ownmachinery for a collective bargain­ newspapers in cities and towns which have newspaper strikes. The ing election. union's 97th annual convention in t t t In anticipation of the merger, Boston said the newspapers would . AFL, CIO and Rail Brotherhood be continued because they are "the unions in Texas participated in a most effective and cheapest means United Labor Assembly in Dallas. of defense in monopoly situations." Approximately 450 union represen­ ITU and CIO Newspaper Guild tatives who participated ;• madtt strikers haye often combined in in i vplans for a political ofg^^hg the di^iye including getti^j^^^il^.;^' - The great difference in attitude toward disabled men between a union of seamen like the SIU and a union of doctors like the American Medical Associa­ tion has been pointed up by a recent AHA panel on Social Security. The AMA used the panel as occasion to launch a nationwide drive against a proposal to pay Social Security benefits to all permanently and totally disabled tvorkers over 50 years of age. By contrast, the SIU has pioneered in payment of disability benefits to Sea­ farers of any age who cannot work. The result is that 60 Seafarers, some of them in the 30's and 40's, are receiving $35 a week from the SIU Welfare Plan to take care of their needs. Ordinarily you would think that the doctor's union would have no objections to a proposal which would provide funds whereby disabled workers yvould be able to pay their living expenses and part of the cost of medical care without subsist­ ing on charity. But to the AM A, this is "socialized medicine" even though the Federal Government would not offer medical care but cash, so that disabled workers could pay their doctor's bills. The AMA has no objections when the Governmeiit subsidizes farmers, railroads, steamship companies and aluminum plants, but "not one penny for the disabled." Protecting Insurance Companies The real reason for the AMA's opposition was tipped off in a statement issued by its chairman. The proposal, he said, was "unnecessary Federal in­ vasion of a rapidiy-developing area of private enterprise," the private health in­ surance companies. In other words, the AMA is stooging for the health insurance outfits, many of which are little more than frauds. As previously reported in the SEA­ FARERS LOG, it is the common practice of these companies to cancel the policy just as soon as the unfortunate policyholder becomes disabled, no mat­ ter how much he has paid for protection. When the doctor's union is more concerned with protecting these phony operations than with the state of the nation's health, it is no surprise that this country^ has an astonishingly low level of physical fitness. The rate of draft rejections by the Armed Forces Is one sign that the nation's health is far poorer than it should lems is in direct contrj -Mi S2-. -mm �SEAFARSmii Pac* Tmihr* High Prices^ Skipper Liven Nat'l Liberty Trip High prices on all items seem to be the order of the day in Mersin, Turkey, where the SIU crew of the SS National Lib­ erty is currently holding sway. According to ship's delegate ' Frank Caspar, "if and when of the island of Cyprus. The Na­ tional Liberty is due to pick up a any of our brothers come this load of ore in Mersin and then way, they should be prepared to offer one when asked three on everything. This is the regular way to do business on this side of the world." The ship arrived there recently with a load of barley from New Orleans. Mersin is on the Turkish mainland, about 100 miles north Sneeze Didn't Keep Him In Stitches Long NEW ORLEANS—A kingsize sneeze was blamed by vet­ eran Seafarer Thomas A. Scan- ion for delaying his departure from the USPHS hospital here by more than two weeks. In mid-August, Scanlon under­ went surgery to remove an intesti­ nal obstruction and following that was convalescing in fine style. "Then, I woke up one morning— sneezing. I never was one to let go with a nice gentle sneeze. I had to blast out with both bar­ rels." he commented. Unfortunately, he also blasted his way out of his abdominal stitches and had to be laced up from top to bottom with silver wire. He predicts now that he'll be ready to ship again by the end of October—"if I don't sneeze again!" head for Baltimore "and a good cool glass of good American beer.' The native brew of the hops ap­ parently doesn't have many dev­ otees aboard this ship. Gasijar said the trip over was routine: "we haven't anything to make big headlines with and we don't expect any," he stated. Captain Vs. Agreement "Although he's doing better all the time, our captain is still Jiaving a hard time learning the SIU agreement. He can't seem to un­ derstand things like buying fresh stores abroad, putting out draws in US cur­ rency or travel­ ers checks, okay­ ing inside clean­ ing and painting, and especially paying portime overtime to the steward depart­ Gaspar ment. This clause he just don't savvy at all. "At our'Jast payoffs, in Mobile and New Orleans, the patrolmen who met the ship explained lot of things to him and collected on everything. So, everything ran smooth for a while—a little while —after that. "But the old man is the kind who forgets easy. He'll probably get a good memory course when we get back to the States, courtesy of the boarding patrolman. Seafarers In The Hospitals USPHS HOSPITAL BOSTON. MASS. E. F. Broussard Theodore Katroi USPHS HOSPITAL GALVESTON. TEXAS Carl E. Forrest Fred Miller James E. Hodges Jeff M. Skinner J. E. Markopoio John E. Tillman USPHS HOSPITAL DETROIT, MICH. Tim Burke Wiliiam Mitchell USPHS HOSPITAL MEMPHIS. TENN. Charles Burton USPHS HOSPITAL FORT WORTH, TEXAS B. F. Deibler Jose Santiago Albert W. Kozina Rosendo Serrano r. - •f... - Is-"' SAILOR SNUG HARBOR STATEN ISLAND, NY. Joseph Koslusky USPHS HOSPITAL BALTIMORE. MD. Manuel Antonana Albert Hawkins John Banaschiewicz John C. Henriksen Francis Burley Edward F. Lamb James Cardell Robert G. McKnew Carl E. Chandler Robert Michael Cliarles Coburn Fred Morris Philip Cogley Thomas F. Mungo Victor B. Cooper Fred Pittman Thomas L. Dugan Joseph Rudolph George Fuciu Harry L. Schuier Gorman T. Glaze USPHS HOSPITAL SEATTLE, WASH. L. Bosley J. H. Maxey Thomas Finnegan Henry R. Sojak Sverre Johannessen William K. Wung Meletios John USPHS HOSPITAL SAN FRANCISCO. CALIF. Marcelo B. Belan John F. Murphy Clyde C. Brown Walter J. Oaks Charles Dwyer M. E. Pappadakis A. M. Milefski USPHS HOSPITAL SAVANNAH. GA. Walter I. Beck Jr. C, C. Martinez C. E. Foster James T. Moore Jay C. Harris Janne F. Pierson William Lieberman Ernest H. Webb Jimmie Littleton USPHS HOSPITAL NEW ORLEANS, LA. Ralph Armstrong Duska Korolia T. P. Barbour Leo H. Lang Julian B. Barrett Rene LeBlanc Carrol J. Bauiuan Tlieo E. Lee Merton Baxter Tinerman J. Lee Charles P. Breaux Calvin McManus J. L. Buckelew John R. Mina John L. Caldwell C. R. Nicholson USPHS HOSPITAL Lloyd T. Callaway William Odum M.ANHATTAN BEACH James M. Davis Alfonso Olaguibel BROOKLYN. NY. Calvin DeSilva R. A. Ratcliff Kaarel Leetmaa Edmund Abualy Peter DeVries M. J. Rodrig^uez Fortunato Bacomo Leonard Leidig Marcel Dumestre Thomas A. Scanlon Frank W. Bemrick Arthur LomaS George Foley Benjamin C. Seal Claude F. Blanks Mike Lubas Leo Fontenot Woodrow A. Snead Joseph D. McGraw Robert L. Booker Louis Guarino Joseph G. Carr Archibald McGuigan Earl T. Hardeman Henry S. Sosa Lonnie R. Tickle H. F. MacDonald Gabriel Coloni Homer G. Harris Dirk Visser Michael Machusky Mariano Cortez Robert Hommel James E. Ward Vic Milazzo Walter L. Davis Newton A. Huff David A. Wright Melvin O. Moore Waiter W. Denley Theodore James John E. Ziegler Eugene T. Nelson John J. Driscoll E. G. Knapp Joseph Neubauer Bart E. Guranick USPHS HOSPITAL James O'Hare Taib Hassen NORFOLK. VA. Ralph J. Palmer Joseph Ifsits D. F. Ruggiano E. A. Ainsworth Irwin R. Price Thomas Isaksen G. E. Shumaker John W. Keenan Benjamin K., Baugh David G. Proctor .Fraijcis J. BdngY, Etahfc -A.. R<^V» A - John R. Klemowicz, IJenry £. Smith Franlj T.' guttle,,, Ludwig KristiaifsetiL' JuliiH R.rC**iSSe^.»5^^^ Frederick Landr^.V^^j] iry. r. James J. USPHS HOSPITAL STATEN ISLAND. NY. Hassen .All Jose M. Lucas John Bednar John McWilliams K. M. Bymaster Wm. P. Malcewicz George Carlson John Michlek John Castro Paige A. Mitchell Pedro Reyes Thomas D. DaUey Perry Roberts D. Elderniire Daniel Fegan George H. Robinson Alvin C. Rockwell Gerald Fitzjames Estell Godfrey Matti Ruusukallio W. Kolodziejek Albert Williams Frank Wohlfarth John Laughlin Joseph Wohletz Jesse Lockler William Logan \ 'Good Old Days' Weren't So Rosy TO Editor: I have been sailing since 1927, and when I hear some of th# careless talk about our Union, it makes me sick. < - I remember times when the crew went hungry all the time, wh^ there was never enough provisions and most of the stuff that there was wasn't any good. That was with seven or eight different companies, and they Letters to the Editor were all the same. Things have changed a lot since then. That's why when you hear these people who are making their first or second trip talk about conditions, you have to laugh. To hear them tell it, since they don't know from ex­ perience, the conditions we have now were always there, and just grew better by themselves. Always Had To Fight Well, all I have to say 11 these boys is that the seaman has al­ ways had to fight for everything he got, and we are still in the fight today. And a word or two for our Union officials, who are tops for my money and have done a damn good fighting job for all of us and with us. I know, be­ cause I was there. Another thing, the only breaks we ever got from Wash­ ington were those we fought for down the line. So when you see these senators and represen­ tatives running for office or for reelection, make sure- they are on our side before you vote for them. Also get your friends and family to do likewise. It's tlie only way we can ever get a square deal. In fact. I think the Union should put up men in our own Union to run for those jobs. They could certainly do a bet­ ter job than some of the people in office now. L. J. Fuselier 4" 4" SavlMBW 1«, ItSS LOG 4* Meal Plans Okay, Says Chickasaw To the Editor: I have just read the letter from the steward and ship's delegate of the Maiden Creek complimenting our Union offi­ cials and Brother Phil Reyes upon introducing thp new SIU feeding system aboard our con­ tracted ships. I fully agree with the opinions expressed by the two brothers as I believe this new system of feeding, along with the set of instruc­ tion, to the stewards in con­ nection with the program, will be an excellent stabilizing fac­ tor in the efficient operation of the steward department. The Union, by officially spon­ soring this system, will mini­ mize if not entirely eliminate the biggest source of our ship­ board gripes. Many will agree with me that despite the many votes of thanks received by the steward department on many ships, ample room for- improvement still exists. I have noted with profound interest in the ship minutes printed ii( the LOG how on one trip the crew of a particular ship praises the food to high, heaven and the follow:ondemns it .,-*0 hell. Somewhere, I am sure, there is something wrong. Whatever it is, the absence of a uniform sys­ tem of feeding in the steward department is a contributory factor. Members of the steward de­ partment who follow this new system will find it gratifying to listen to continous compliments, and I also hope the presence of personnel from headquarters aboard ships in connection with our new program will be £ per­ manent part of the system. As a steward of wichf experience, I can truthfully say that this new feeding system is, so far, the most practical system we can devise to insure good shipboard feeding. Having experienced difficult times in the past at the hands of both company and crew, I can state with some de­ gree of Authority that this sys­ tem will help the steward's lot aboard ships. To my Union of­ ficials who have the vision to institute this new feeding sys­ tem, I say, "thanks a million." To insure the efficient opera­ tion of this new system I would suggest here that members of the steward department who wish to advance their rating should pass a test given by a Union Committee; that any rated man in the steward de­ partment found wanting in ef­ ficiency or ability by ship's crews or Union officials on two occasions should not be allowed to sail in that particular rating for at least a year, after which he should pass another examina­ tion. Lastly, lef me say a word or two about Brother Phil Reyes who just rode the Chickasaw to introduce the new feeding sys­ tem. The steward department can truthfully say that we gained many good points in the preparation and serving of food as proven by the compliments we received from the crew, of­ ficers and passengers. It was a pleasure on my part as the steward to have him aboard and discuss with him the problems which commonly beset stewards. To him and our Union officals I would say, "keep up the good work." William E. Morse 4> 4 4 Seeks Assist On Stamp Hobby To the Editor: I am sort of bottlenecked around here in Manhattan Beach and since I am confined to the hospital, I am in a way handicapped in keeping up with my stamps, which occupy me plenty in passing the time. I was wondering if it would be possible to pass the word to those boys who discard their stamps to either give them to Brother Toby Flynn, who comes here regularly, or perhaps mail them to me at the hospital. I would be more than glad to ex­ change with those who have the same hobby. E. Abualy 4> 4 4 Fishing's Good On Blue Jay Run To the Editor: Greetings from the Jefferson City Victory. This ship is now on the "Blue Jay" run. We hd five ports on this voyage in Newfoundland and Greenland, and some of them have very good fishing. The crew had a fine time with a big fish fry one night, with the captain furnishing the beer. But if you are looking for romance, this is a good run to steer clear of. There is no shore leave in most of the ports. J. L. Hodges Shijp's secretary Gl Can't Walt To Return To Sea To the Editor: ^ I'd like the next four months and 27 days to go flying by. That troopship that takes me out of Japan will sure look as good as a Delta passenger liner to me. No Saluting Here Boy, it sure will be fine to have some of that good SIU contract chow and not have to stand in line for it besides. I won't be sorry either when pay­ day comes along, and I won't have to stand at attention and salute for a few measly bucks. There won't be anymore of this '24-hour duty nonsense either. Eight hours a day under an SIU contract, and' nobody to hand you any baloney as long as you do your job right, is the way I want things to be for me. Yes, it will be great. No one can really appreciate belonging to a good Union until they have to put in some time in the Army or work in some fink set-up. Japan isn't too bad a place, but after you've been here for a year the rice paddies and wooden shacks begin to look worse and worse every day. I read in a recent LOG how the boys really go for Yokohama. Well, I can't say I blame them as I spent quite a bit of my time there too. But I'll take Ham­ burg anytime, and will be look­ ing for a trip back there when I get back. Thanks for sending the LOG regularly. It's like a day's leave everytime I get a new copy. Best of luck to all the brothers and my old shipmates whom I hope to be seeing again in a few months. Henry J. Kowalski 4 4 4 Likes Idea On Ship Safety To tiie Editor: Here on the Alcoa Ranger, Josep Bulla, master, holds a safety meeting once every monUi, and a very formal and "meaty" meeting it is. He came' out - with something that I thought was a ten-strike at the first meeting I attended. He would like all Alcoa ships to print a history of the acci­ dents they have had aboard, bind them and put them in the recreation room for all crewmembers to use as educational reading matter, and maybe, who knows, save a life or leg or something in the process. I couldn't help but think of "Jim," one of the finest ship­ mates a fellow ever had, who lost both his legs and is just about now getting ready to try and walk on,man-made ones.* The companies are running these safety meetings on our be­ half, but of course they have an axe to grind, although a coin-. paVativcly small one considering the. good they are doing or try­ ing damn hard to do. I think it's good enough to ride in the same boat with, anyhow. Harry L. Franklin ^ 4 4^ 4 Calls LGG Poem 'One Of Finest' To the Editor: The poem by E. A. King on the profound sea, in your sec­ ond edition of August, is one of the finest sea poems I have ever read. It has substance and makes a guy think — just as the sea —and it has carefully conceived form to make it a finished poem." Furthermore, it is timelessas good one hundred years hence as today. ' . Roy Fleischer rnm-lStm iiSkSli- �Pace Thirteen SEAFAREM9 LOG SOptomlMr Mt UW A trip Around The World 'The Hammer And The Wrench' ("Every Seafarer remembers his first trip and his first ship. Many made their debut on the high seas during World War II," says Seafarer Thurston Lewis. This is the Brother Lewis' story of one first tripper.) Jimmy Green was over-anxious to do his job, to please everybody and to serve his coun­ try, even if it was in the lowly capacity of ordinary seaman on a slow-moving Liberty ship to Le Havre. Jimmy asked questions, did"* *" and the kid shears he did." what he was told and was ab­ captain's office. solutely honest. He asked so "Please, Sir the carpenter wants The Old Man swore as he threw INDIA—Coffeetime aboard the Cecil N. Bean means a wel­ come lull for dec department n)en Nancarrow, DM (left), and H. J. Stanley, AB. Enroute to Bombay, the Liberty pro­ vided a good backdrop for the camera work of Seafarer Sten T. Zetterman. The two opposite expressions of these men on a coffee break makes for an interesting photo. TURKEY — Wild Ranger's Joe Trawick, deck delegate (above), pauses in work to study the mountains. LEGHORN—M. K. Morton, fireman (left), and Dexter Worell, bosun, on Ranger, have "grim" mission ahead. KOREA—Trio of steward department men on the Barbara Frietchie, on Korean shuttle run, shares in praise of crew for goooT food at all times. Pictured (l-r) are Ed Odum, chief cook; Carl De Marco, baker, and BilhDavis, 3rd cook. The work of these Seafarers and other members of the galley gang drew crew's vote of thanks. Burly \ many questions — "What do you want me to do now, bosun? — Where do you put this?—What do you call that thing?—^When do we get to France?"—that he had be­ gun to get on his shipmates' nerves. Yet nobody could get really mad at him because he was so sincere and well-meaning. The convoy had broken up at Land's End. Jimmy's ship was at last preparing to come alongside the war-torn docks in Le Havre. The bosun, with a sigh of re­ lief, had given him to the carpen­ ter to help imsecure vessel for discharging cargo. Tools for this work are a small wrecking bar, a hammer and a crescent wrench. "Whatever you do, don't lo^e these tools," said the mate as he handed Jimmy a new wrench and a new machinist's hammer. The friendly French pilot had brought a bottle of Cognac and a bottle of Calvados to the Captain. The harried American skipper could hardly get his shore-going clothes on fast enough, but did take time to drink first the Cognac and then the Calvados. With shaking hands he took some money from the safe in his office, downed the last of the Cal­ vados and went ashore. Chips and Jimmy were sweating out number five hatch; both were anxious to get ashore. Finally the last of the work was finished and the old carpenter handed the tools to the eager lad and said, "Put 'em away." "Where do you want me to put them?" Jimmy asked. Chips, exasperated, said, "Clean 'em up. Wrap 'em in rags, and— put em in the old man's safe." He ambled off toward the shower. Made Neat Package Jimmy wiped the grease off the tools, wrapped them neatly in clean rags and took them to the Old Man's office. He knocked po­ litely at the door. There was no answer so he tip-toed in and no­ ticed that the safe door was open just a crack. He saw stacks ot American greenbacks on a shelf within but he put the tools back In the corner without touching the money. Then he took a long look at those riches. He stretched a trembling hand out toward the stack of bills. The door shut with a click and Jimmy went to his foc'sle with beating heart in anticipation of his first leave on foreign soil. Several days later the ship was riding high in the water alongside the dock. "Get the hammer and the cres­ cent wrench,"-Chips toW the or­ dinary. Jimmy bounded "off to the Chivalry SMI Lives the hammer and crescent wrench out of your safe." The Captain laughed. "They're pulling your leg, son. You'd better look in the carpenter shop." "But, Sir—" Jimmy went slowly to the carpenter shop with a bit­ ter sense of futility. Work Complicated The wedges had to be driven with a toppin' maul much too large •for the job. The bolts on the storm battens were laboriously secured with a monkey wrench. "Where the hell's that new ham­ mer and crescent wrench?" the mate asked Chips. "I don't know, chief. The ordinary had them last." They looked at Jimmy who low­ ered his eyes. "They're in the Cap­ tain's safe, sir." Shaking his head the mate strode to the bridge. "Cap'n, somethin' funny has happened. The carpenter was pull­ ing Green's leg and told him to put a new hammer and crescent wrench in your safe. That damn wreckin' bar may be in there, too. All I know is nobody can find 'em LOG-A-RHYTHM; Fan-Tan By "Saki Jack" One breezy salty afternoon In Yokohama Bay, We made a draw and went ashore To have a little play. Need be ye neither young or spry Nor frothing at the bit, Just have ten thousand million yen And flojih a little bit. Bar to bar and up and dotvn We roamed* around the town. Then finally found a likely place And ordered up a round. I latched onto a goldenrod A little thing called "Toy," "You're just the one for me," She said, "C'mon along, big boy." Round and round we did the town And never missed a spot. My bankroll slowly dwindling My future not so hot. She said; "Don't worry, honey, "For yours I'll always be, "No matter if no yens you've got, ''You come on home with~me." I did, of course, but had to leave That lovely paradise. Where all the girls are little pearls And feed on fish and rice. Farewell, sweetheart, for I must go And slowly sail away. To dream about this Shangri-La —And gettin' back some day! up his hands. "Impossible! I told that kid to look in the carpenter shop." "Well—^they ain't there." The captain stalked into his office and slammed the door. Tlmee days later, after all ef­ forts to find the missing tools had failed, "the mate approached the captain again. "Now about them tools—' "I don't want to hear any more about it." Back To Office But back in his office he began to wonder. The Cognac . . . damn Frenchmen anyway ... his natural haste to ready himself for shore leave ... he had gone to the safe to get the money. He looked at some figures on his desk. There should be $11,472 in that safe. He went to the door. "Mr. Mate! Get the ordinary up here!" "Green, sir?" "Yes, Green—on the double." The mate took the wheel and send the able-bodied seaman down below, to call the ordinary. When Jimmy appeared the Cap­ tain glared at him. "Mr. Mate!" he called, not taking his piercing eyes off the frightened lad. "Yes, sir?". "I'm going to open that safe, Mr. Mate." He spoke each word distinctly. "Im going to hand you some money. You will count it. If there is one dollar less than $11,742 — I'm going to put yoii in irons!" He pointed at Green with a gnarled and shaking finger. The lad put his hands to his face but the tears streamed out from between his fingers. The mate was opening and closing his mouth like a toad frog catching mosquitoes. Opens Safe The skipper twisted the dial around on the safe—around and back, around" and "back again and then a few touches in opposite di­ rections. He opened the door and solemnly handed the mate all the money. About half-way through the count the mate made a mistake and had to start over again. "11,735—39—41, 52!" It's all here, captain,' he breathed. Silence. Jimmy's tears dried on his face. The captain reached into the safe and drew out the tools. Hand­ ing them to the mate, he took the money and peeled off a fifty-dollar bill. He gave it to Jimmy Green and motioned toward the door with his hand. The boy looked at the bill and opened his mouth to speak but the mate gently pushed him toward the door. As 1 say, the AB at the wheel was all ears. That's how 1 know this happened. Bir Bernard Seaman "•ST/ I. •^1 •fSj i m �5^1 > SEAFdRERS Fare FoiiHeca LOG SIU Welfare Services Quick To Provide Aid Eugenie Arrives Many items fall within the province of the SIU Welfare Services Department.- Sometimes all thatls needed to smooth out a Seafarer's problem^ is the knack of knowing whom to call or contact in order to-*^ ^ straighten things out with the acted promptly to get the man his vacation earnings. least amount of trouble. :rT' On other occasions, Union wel­ fare representatives have to ' pull out a winner from a bag of tricks developed to handle similar cir­ cumstances in the past. Smoothing The Way The department prides itself on its record of accomplishments, however, whether the problem be big or small. It is on the job at all times to ease the path of Sea­ farers while they're ashore and to minimize their worries when they're out at sea. In a typical case of the routine variety, wherein a Seafarer had vacation dough coming but was hundreds of miles from a Union hall and didn't know how to ap­ ply by mall, Welfare Services Arriving in Algeria aboard fhe Eugeniei Vance A. Reid, deck engineer and ihip's delegate (left), and Albert De Forest, steward, are all set for a few cold ones. De Forest apparently has his destination all picked out with the binoculars. Never Left Home Obtaining his discharges, a rep­ resentative filed Seafarer Fred D. Bentley's application, picked up his check and mailed it right back to him. Bentley didn't have to stir from his home in Granite Falls, NC, once. Appreciating the quick'iservice, the Seafarer wrote again to ex­ press his gratitude and enclosed a picture of his family and himself standing in front of their home. "My good SIU earnings have paid for all.thls," he asserted, "and now this vacation gives me a chance to spend some time with my -family. Thank you for help­ ing to make all this possible." Owner Denies Bar ^Scandal' "Scandals" circulated by his competitors have been empha­ tically denied by the owner of the "John Bull Bar" in Piraeus, Greece, in an appeal for continued patronage by Seafarers. Anthony Katsouros, proprietor of the "John Bull," said recent unfavorable newspaper publicity given his bar was, in fact, a pri­ vate matter involving one of his waiters, and not himself as re­ ported in the local Greek press. Katsouros wrote the SEAFAR­ ERS LOG that he wanted it plainly understood that he was not the person involved in the incident. The publicity concerned the "tor,turing" of a young serving girl by a man identified as the owner of the "John Bull Bar." The man was one of Katsouros' waiters, who was filed soon after. SIU, A&G District X4w BALTIMORE 1216 E. Baltimore St. Earl Sheppard, Agent EAstern 7-4900 BOSTON 276 State St. James Sheeban, Agent Richmond 2-0140 HOUSTON 4202 Canal St. C. Tannehill, Acting Agent Capital 7-6558 LAKE CHARLES. La 1419 Ryan St. Leroy Clarke. Agent HEmlock 6-3744 MOBILE . 1 South Lawrence St. Cal Tanner, Agent HEmlock 2-1754 NEW ORLEANS 623 Bienville St. Llndsey Williams, Agent Magnolia 6112-6113 NEW YORK 675 4tb Ave., Brookl'yn HYaclnth 9-CGOO NORFOLK .127-129 Bank St. Ben Rees, Agent MAdlson 2-9834 Union gains and benefits have paid for all this, says Seafarer Fred D. Bentley, as he poses in front of home in Granite Falls, NC, with his wife and daughter. Bentley sent photo to SIU Welfare Services Department along with letter of thanks for aid. Vacation benefit made it easier for him to spend more time at home. PHILADELPHIA ..337 Market St. S. CarduUo. Agent Market 7-1635 SAN FRANCISCO 450 Harrison St Leon Johnson. Agent Douglas 2-5475 Marty BruithoR. West Coast Represenlativ* PUERTA de TIERRA, PR. Pelayo 51—La f Sal Colls, Agent Phone 2-599P SAVANNAH 9 Abercorn St E. B. iMcAuley, Acting Agent Phone 3-1728 SE.ATTLE 2505 1st Ave. Jeff GUlette, Agent Elliott 4334 TAMPA 1809-1811 N. Franklin St. Tom Banning, Agent Phone 2-1323 WILMINGTON, Calif 505 Marine Ave. Ernest TUley, Agent Terminal 4-2874 HEADQUARTERS . 675 4tb Ave., Bklyn SECRETARY-TREASURER Paul HaU ASST. SECRETARY-TREASURERS J. Algina, Deck C. Simmons, Joint J. Volpian, Eng. W. Hall, Joint E. Mooney, Std. R. Matthews, Joint Ir':-.'. I ;•{»;!•,;• .; NAME [|3& m I '. *- . '• ^V'. •^" . 'i-v*..,'" •'• • STREET ADDRESS CITY ZONE STATE CITY ....... .V .ZONE u j,;,„,^;.,;j;.STATi ' To the Editor: On our recent trip to India the majority of the crewmembers on the Frederic C. Collin were gypped out of considerable amounts of money due to the unscrupulous practices of the merchants. The practice of "highway robbery" predominated partic­ ularly in the city of Vlzagapatam, where the facilities are limited to one bank where we could cash our checks after a 43-minute wait. Since the openhours of the bank were from 10 to 2, they posed a problem for us and created an opportu­ nity for some extra "bakshish" Letters to the Editor for the opportunists—the local merchants. From one of them we got $16 for our $20, but thcre'was one merchant, M. p. Mohandas at the American Silk Stores, oh Main Road, who had an eye to the future. ' One Merchant Helpful He went to considerable pains to see that we received what we rightfully had coming and, be­ lieve me, he made us feel as though we were dealing with a fellow American. There was al­ ways a .welcome for 'us at his shop even if we didn't buy any­ thing. Sometimes he even took us to the bank himself to speed up the tedious job of cashing a traveler's cheek. Across the street from the American Silk Stores is one Boolchand and Sons, which really gave us. a rooking. The crew on here is really down on that outfit. So the purpose of this letter is to show Mr. Mohandas our appreciation for his kindness in our predicament, and also to warn unsuspecting seamen who may visit Vizagapatam to get the legal rate for their money, 16 Merchant St. Phone 5-8777 PORTLAND .822 N. W. Everett St. Beacon 4336 llKiHMONO, CAUr,257 5th St Phone 2599 SAbf FRANCISCO 450 Harrison St. Douglas 2-8363 SEATTLE ^.2505 1st Ave. Main 0290 WmHUNGTON 805 Marine Ave. Terminal 4-3131 NEW YORK 078 4tb Ave., Brooklyn HYaclnth 9-6600 P. J, St. Marie Ship's delegate HONOLULU Canadian District HALIFAX, N.S 12814 HolUs St. Phone- 3-8911 924 St. James St. West PLateau 8161 FORT WILLIAM....118V4 Syndicate Ave. Ontario Phone: 3-3221 PORT COLBORNB 103 Durham St. Ontario Phone: 5591 TORONTO, Ontario 272 King St. E. EMpire 4-5719 VICTORIA, BC 81714 Cormorant St. Empire 4531 VANCOUVER. BC 298 Main St. Pacific 7824 SYDNEY. NS 304 Charlotte St, Phone 6346 BAGOTVILLE, Quebec 20 Elgin St. Phone: 545 THOROLD, Ontario 82 St. Davids St. CAnal 7-3202 QUEBEC 113 Cote De La Montague Quebec Phone: 2-7078 SAINT JOHN 177 Prince William St. NB Phone: 2-5232 Great Lakes District 133 W. Fletcher Phone: 1238W BUFFALO, NY 180 Main St. Phone: Main 1-0147 TO AVOID DUPLICATION: If you are an old lubicriber end have a change CLEVELAND 734 Lakeside Ave.. NE of address, please give your former address below: Phone: Cleveland 7391 DETROIT 1038 3rd St. Headquarter* Phone: Woodward 1-6857 ADDRESS "ft""." DULUTH.,,.:,:,, ,531 W. Michigan St. , •,!,"¥ I . . i .^hqne: iMelrose . 8T4110 ,Vii ilO ' T.' ' ,I.• I. 'I '• r' I*. Signed Collin Crew iTas Money Gyp Beef SUP MONTREAL Editor, SEAFARERS LOG. 675 Fourth Ave., Brooklyn 32, NY I wouici like to receive the SEAFARERS LOG—please put my name on your mailing list. (Print Information) Sepiember Ifii lSlKi"' ALPENA j^UUTH emCAG®. ., 13261 E. tend St Pbon«k'Basex.'i5-241IK.i 4- 4- 4- _ Finds Hq. Service A Real Pleasure To the Editor: This is from one old sea-dog who keeps finding out time and time again that he never had it so good until he joined the SIU. My last trip on the Coe Vic­ tory, on which I served as deck delegate, was a prime example, I haven't been getting «p to headquarters too much in last two years, so the type of service available there was a real pleas­ ant surprise for me. Our payoff was not an easy one, particularly because of beefs in the deck department, but the headquarters patrolmen who met the ship on her return from Germany handled every­ thing as smooth as silk. They know the Union agreement and wouldn't budge from it. Was A Pleasure They answered all our ques­ tions, explained everything in quick order and made what might have been a^mess into a pleasure. You can judge the state of things on the ship by the fact that eight men in fhe deck department got off when we got to New Tbrk^ although. this ship is a popular one on a much-sought-after run. The same gqod service was extended to me when I got to the hall with some questions about the Welfare Plan bene­ fits. The officials took time out to explain the whole works to me and made me feel as if they were concerned with my wel­ fare at that moment as just as If I were the only man _ in the Union. This is a good feeling after the runaround you have to take elsewhere. AH in all, my visit to New York was an eye-opener and shows why our Union is con­ sidered "tops" in every man's book. FSed Ryder 4 4 4 Hails Clipper Crew For Aid To the Editor: I would lik; to take this op­ portunity to thank the officers and ^crew of the Alcoa Clipper for the purse that was given to me during my illness. It was very nice for those brothers to show such genorosity as they did, as I was a stranger to most of the crew. I hope to be up and around in a week or two, when I would Hike to have the pleasure of meeting the Clipper crew again. Their generous action was deeply appreciated by my fam­ ily and me. C. L. Stringfellow 4< 4 ' 4" She's Thankful For All- Benefits To the Edtor: My husband, who holds SIU, book number D-513, is away at sea right now. I can hardly express my ap­ preciation of the wonderful benefits that the Union has made possible for each and every member of the SIU. Many many thanks to you who have fought to protect SIU. members and their families. 1 thank you from the bottom of my heart for the good deeds you have done. Mrs. Rae Dacanay 4 4 4 Cheers Forward Progress Of SIU To the Editor: I look forward to each issue of the LOG and certainly con­ cur with the many persons both in labor and management who hold the opinion that our Union is a fine example of a constitu­ tionally sound and democratic balance between workers and their employers. I am especially proud of our SIU scholarship program, which offers one of the finest gifts a deserving person can receive: the opportunity for education. Lets always continue to grow in this manner with increasing strength and integrity. C. Lee Freeman 4 4 4 Hospital Help Is Applauded To the Editor: I want to express my appre­ ciation and thanks to the SIU for helping to provide such wonderful hospital care as I have just had in the Galveston marine hospital. It jis a great comfort to know that our families pan also have wonderful care such as the Wel­ fare Plan provides? It offers more than money can buy fro^n any Insurance plan. .. , Thomas L. Crosby �Sevtemlicr K. 1958 ••THCOASTIR (Calmar), July Chairman^ R. Sanff; Sacrafary, R. Tyral. Everythlny running amootnly. Chief Steward miseed ahlp la Blzabath. Motion made and carried to ac­ cept and concur with communicatlena from headquarters. BRADFORD ISLAND Service) July ii—Chairman; j. Farkar; Sacratary, M. Hummel. Ship's delegate elected. Discussion held on repairs in deck department. CHIWAWA (CItlat Service) July 27 —Chairman, D. Downing; Secretary, J. Christy. Ne beefs. Ship sailed shert from Wilmington, N. 0. Deck delegate to see mate about cleaning showers. Garbage shoot to be washed down every so often. Beef about food and cooking. CLAIBORNE (Waterman), July 22— Chairman, C. Odem; Secretary, C. Turner. Everything in order, no major beefs. Suggested that everyone take their cups back to pantry and help out with keeping everything clean. COUNCIL CROVE (Cities Service), July 2t—Chairman, R. Campbell; Sec­ retary, A. Wasstrom. No beefs. Mem­ bers to complete new welfare enroll­ ment cards and turn them in. Discus- Digest of ships* Meetit^{S sion held regarding local cab compa­ nies operating as strikebreakers dur­ ing telephone strike. DEL NORTE (Mississippi), Juno 12— Chairman, J.. Noonan;- Secrotary, J. ZImmer. Ship's delegate of previous voyage commented on how smoothly everything ran. Enrollment cards to be turned in. Ship's treasury—$79.52. Ship's deiegate pointed out that ail beefs should be aired out at meeting not with company oSicials. Discussion held on the menace of using oxalicacid aboard and request that it be barred from use aboard ship. JULY .17—Chairman, J. Noonan; Secrqtary, J. Zimmer. Several broth­ ers were logged for misconduct and some overtime beefs. Ship's treasury —$178.52. Discussion held on port-time discharges. Ship's deiegate will bring this to the attention of patrolman. DEL SANTOS (Mississippi), July 3— Chairman, F. Carpenter; Secretary, L. Fusollor. Balance in ship's fund is 848. Ship's delegate elected. Steward department quarters to be painted.Shrimp Boil was explained to new members and it was decided to buy the shrimp in first port—jumbo type; Ship's committee are to decide in emergencies when and bow to use ship's fund. STEEL ADMIRAL (Isthmian), Juno 12—Chairman, J. Selby; Secretary, H. Arnold. Six new fans will be ordered for the next voyage. Ship's commit­ tee had a meeting to increase stew­ ard department efficiency, and to get better organization within the depart"^ment. Improvement noticed since meeting. May 15—Chairman, Joe Solby; Sec­ retary, J. Quigley. Five mattresses are still to be delivered on an order for six which was placed at the end of last voyage. There is no awning on board. Decision made to keep foreign stevedores away from crew's quarters as much as possible. June 28—Chairman, K. Sivertsant Secretary, A. Espino. Motion made that the assistant secretary-treasurer be notified of the action taken on the ship regarding the high cost and waste of food on board. SANDCAPTAIN (Construction Ag­ gregates), no date—Chairman, J. Bar­ ren; Secretary, Harry Mooney. A telegram was sent to headquarters re­ garding number of cartons of cigar­ ettes assigned to our ship. Steward reported that he is having difficulties with port steward on the score of weekly stores. The chief cook re­ quested that the meat box be no longer used for cooling beer. ROBIN LOCKSLEY (Saas Shipping), July 8—Chairman, W. Bunker; Secratsry, J. Genello. Crew was asked to clean up laundry after using same. Treasurer reported no money in the ship's fund as yet. BRADFORD ISLAND (Cities Serv­ ice), June 21—Chairman, I. Toore; Sacretary, G. Fava, Jr. Treasurer re­ ported $59.21 in the ship's fund. If a crewmember performs in port and a replacement can be' secured the man performing will be fired on the spot. Linen wUl be changed every Monday. Suggestion made to extend to permitmen 90 days on a ship or to make vacation plan payable at 60 days if possible. July 5—ChalrmSn, J. Parker; Secre­ tary, M. Hummel. Some of the re­ pairs have not been taken care of but will be looked into. Three men will be getting off ship in Boston. Talked about building a rack in crew messroom. for the ship's iron. SEAFARERS fsri, leqiiested the erew tu tahe care ef night lunches and leenre cups and plates In the sink. AU hands were asked to cooperate In keeping messhall and pantry clean. Motion made and carried'that the ahlp'a dele­ gate contact the chief engineer about repairing the washlBg machine. DB SOTO (Waterman), July 17— Chairman, R. Varn; Secretary, J. Chermeslne. Two swings for crew were purchased from ship's fund In the amount ef S35. No beefs. Soap pewdec te be changed. Brand name te be put aboard. Motion made and carried te accept and concur with communications from headquarters. ELIZABETH (Bull), Ne date—Chair­ man, J. Murphy; Secretary, R Velllnga. Chief Engineer requested that too much soap not be used in washing machine, because it will plug it up. No beefs. To see patrolman about keeping longshoremen out ef messhall. Cups to be returned te pantry. All of the following SIU families will collect the $200 maternity benefit plus a $25 bond from the Union in the baby's name: IBERVILLE (Pan Atlantic), July 24 —Chairman, F. Hartshorn; Sacretary, C. Krclss. Ship's fund—Sie.W. Ship's delegate elected. Steward requested to obtain better grade of Ice cream and a variety of flavors. Cups to be put in sink after use. New radio to ha bought, old one to be raflled oK. Messhall to be painted. JULESBURO (Mathlasan), July 24— Chairman, Swlderskl; Secretary, G. Thornhill. Captain promises to have ship fumigated shortly, in New York, and captain will also arrange to have repairs done. One brother was taken off ship ill. Steward promised that he will order enough vegetables in the future. Members promised to cooper­ ate and keep messhall clean. MOJAVE (Trans Oceanic), July 24— Chairman, J. Sullivan; Secrotary, D. Mulvrana. All beefs squared away and -all repairs to be turned in. Vote of thanks given to steward and depart­ ment. Chief Mate said that all painting may be done after beginning of voy­ age, but did not offer the work to the dayman and bosun until the last few days of the trip and they thought it was unfair of the mate to expect them to work day and night to get this done. OCEAN DINNY (Maritime Overseas), July 25—Chairman, R. Coote; Secro­ tary, C. Murray. Discussion held on fans, to be taken up on arrival in New Orleans. Cash on hand—$4.25. New pump needed for washing mach­ ine and a new porthole glass need­ ed in steward's room. OCEAN EVA (Maritime Ovarsaat), July 25—Chairman, R: House; Secre­ tary, C.'Garriz. Quite a bit of disput­ ed overtime in deck department to be straightened nut at payoff. Repair lists to be handed in. Vote of thanks to steward department. Since the chief engineer stopped ice pulling on weekends we aren't getting any cold drinks. Washing machine to be repair­ ed. June 24—Chairman, R. House; Sac­ retary, C. Garrii. Ship to be cleaned and properly secured for sea. Ship's delegate elected. Cigarettes are to be soid another time before we get into next port. Soap and matches to ba Issued as soon as possible. OCEAN BETTY (Maritime Ovarsaas), July 24—Chairman, M. Hitchcock; Secretary, S. Alpedo. Repairs to be made in West Coast. Motion made and seconded to have company pur­ chase new washing machine and re­ frigerator for crew. ROYAL OAK (Cities Service), July 24—Chairman, W. Palmer; Secretary, D. Beard. Wipers sink to be replaced. Ship's fund contains $12. Discussion on poor food. Mattresses are needed, crew to keep strainer clean in wash­ ing machine. SANTA VENETIA (Elami, July 17— Chairman, C. HosteHsr; Secretary, A. Burke. Motion to notify headquarters about condition of working ger on deck. It is unsafe to work with buom. Lifeboats are unsafe. SANTORE (Ore), July 19—Chairman, M. Chstrom; Secretary, R. Mason. One man missed ship in Baltimore. Motion made and carried to have deck department's overtime equalized, and to have ship's delegate write headquarters concerning overtime. Ship's secretary-reporter elected. SEAMONITOR (Excelsior), July 23 —Chairman, F. Sullins; Sacretary, F. Ballard. Discussion held on shoreleave in Greenland. Ship's delegate reouested that crew keep pantry clean at night. Enrollment cards for welfare to be completed. No foul weather gear was iiuiiued. Discussion held on insuffcient hot water supply for show­ ers. Steward thanked deck and en­ gine departments for helping to make It a trip. STEEL AGE (Isthmian), July 24— NATIONAL LIBERTY (National Chairman, J. Murphy; Secretary, C. Shipping & Trading), July 24—Chair­ Tobias. Ship's fund—$10.10. Brother man, F. Gaspar; Secretary, R. God­ Louis Johnson died. Discussion was win. Repairs taken care of. No beefs. held about his burial. Motion made and carried to ac­ cept and concur with communications . STEEL. NAVIGATOR (Isthmian), No from headquarters. date—Chairman, C. Bergagne; Secret/ry, H. McQuage. Ship is pretty STEEL DESIGNER (Isthmian), July clean. Some disputed overtime. Clarifi­ 2—Chairman, A. Aragones; Secretary, cation on watch foc'sles needed. Dis­ Kllngvall. Steward department cussion on welfare'benefits hMd. ' SIU Aids Union Drive On Radar 'Texas Towers' '-I'll BOSTON—The SIU and repreBentatives of the AFL Cooks and Bakers Unions in this port are going all-out in efforts to put union cooks and messmdn aboard the "Texas Tower" ra­ Bruce Michael Baxter, bom Au­ dar station now anchored 110-^ gust 26, 1955. Parents, Mr. and miles out at sea off Cape Cod. offshore rigs used for drilling oil Mrs. Merton Baxter, New Orleans, Although • everybody else beneath the waters of the Gulf of La. ^ » William Charles HemmlB, bom July 23, 1955. Parents, Mr. and Mrs. William Charles Hemmis, Cumberland, Md. 4" EUGENIE (Ore), July 17—Chairman, B. Hayes; Secretary, J. Easterllng. Two beefs with captain to be turned into patrolman regarding draws and souvenirs. Crew to go on record as being opposed to Gov't freezing wages. New library to he put aboard. Motor for galley range to be repaired and new fans be put aboard. Vote of thanks to steward for good food and vote of thanks to messman. for having speaker hooked up to radio. Pace irtfMca, LOG 4" • manning the Government radar post, aside from service personnel, is union, the cooks are not and are being shipped aboard through shoreside employment offices. The "Texas Tower" is a manmade island patterned after the James Arnold Santiago, bom July 21, 1955. Parents, Mr. and Mrs. James Santiago, Los Angeles, Calif. ^ ^ i4 4> Benjamin Erie Oschitzkl, bom August 5, 1955. Parents, Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Eric Oschitzki, New Orleans, La. DISPATCH The deaths of the following Sea­ farers have been reported to the Barry Joe Moss, bom July 14, 1955. Parents, Mr. and Mrs. Seafarers Welfare Plan and the SIU death benefit is being paid Charles Moss, Fulton, Ky. to their beneficiaries: 4" 4 4 Kathleen Dolores Phelps, born John C. Smith, 72: Natural August 8, 1955. Parents, Mr. and causes led to the death of Brother Mrs. Milton Phelps, New Orleans, Smith at the La. Staten Island , • t 4 ^ 4-4 Mark Bland Lincoln, born April 17, 1955. Parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Lincoln, New York, NY. 4 4 4 Pamela Beth- Granger, bom Au­ gust 22, 1955. Parents, Mr. and Mrs. Harry Granger, Sulphur, La. 4 4 4 Margaret Elizabeth Brown, bom June 18, 1955. Parents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Aycock Brown, Manteo, NO. 4 4 4 USPHS hospital on June 30, 1955. One of the vet­ eran members of the Union, Brother Smith joined in New York on Decem­ ber 24, 1938, and sailed in the engine department. Burial took place at the Oak Grove Cemetery, Medford, Mass. He is survived by a niece, Lillian Montague, of Medford. Adella Susan Castro, born Au­ 4 4 4 gust 26, 1955. Parents, Mr. and Salvador Bennett, -35: Stab Mrs. Arturo Castro, Houston, wounds suffered in Ponce, Puerto Texas. Rico, caused the death of Brother 4 4 4 James Vardeman Warren, bora Bennett on July September 6, 1955. Parents, Mr. 30, 1955. A deck and Mrs. James Warren, Kenner, department man. Brother Bennett La. joined the Union "4 4 4 Serena Margaret Kleiber, bom in its early days, August 15, 1955. Parents, Mr. and on April 29,1939, Mrs. Melvin Kleiber, Newport, Ore. 1 n Philadelphia. The place of 4 4 4 Lourdes Milagro Lopez, bom burial was the Civil Cemetery in May 12, 1955. Parents, Mr. and Ponce. His wife, Monserrate Ben­ Mrs. Pablo R. Lopez, Brooklyn, nett, of Ponce, survives bjm. NY. 4 4 4 4 4 4 Foster W. Grant, 61: Brother Ruby Patricia Gallo, bom May Grant died of unknown causes, 30, 1955. Parents, Mr. and Mrs. apparently Luigi Gallo, Mobile, Ala. a heart attack, at the Erianger Hospital in Chat­ tanooga, Tenn. A resident of Chattanooga, he joined the SIU The following men are asked to in New Orleans contact SIU headquarters or the on May 4, 1946, nearest SIU hall as lOon as pos­ sailing in the sible on a matter of importance steward department. Burial took to them: B. L. Bone. Allen L. Boone, J. T. place at the Burning Bush Ceme­ BlUot. John W. Butler. Fi-ank N. Bachot. His T. L. Blackledge, G. W. Bertbold. C. tery in Ringgold, Georgia. Burns, J. T. Bowman, Robert J. Cole­ son, Clyde Grant of Chattanooga, man. Jose Cubano. Frank F. Cacioppo. survives him.. S. C. Carregal, Elda R. Crawford, T. W. NOTICES Cassldy. J. C. Clevenger, W. C. Dawley, G. Del Signore, William G. Dyal, Marion P. Edge, B. Eerman, Frederick Engle: D. B. Fields. John P. Forget. A. R. Fetcbko, K. M. Fletcher. T. J. Gray. Peter Garvin, L. E. Gregory, W. Hughes. F. Hauser. John J. Harty. V. A. Herbert. P. J. Harayo. M. V. Howton. F. R. Hattaway. E. K. Iverson. W. J. Jackson, S. Jackson. J. S. Kornek. 0. Kinnke. Joseph Kissel. Stephen B. Kutzer. 0. J. Kerrigan. M. R. Knickman; T. L. Laningham. F. A. Lord. Horace LedweU. Robert Lipscomb. James A. LaCoste. P. V. Marsh. Coy L. Morrow. J. H. Mones. G. Merola. T. Merosa. A. D. Nash. Martin T. O'Toole. F. E. Perkins. Leroy D. Pierson. K. F. Parks. B. J. Paniccio. E. Pappel. J. E. Roberts. D. N. Roditas. R. R. Rice; W. Sloberman. W. M. Stanley. K. G. Sanford. H. SI. Clair. Albert E. Stout. S. P. SchlelTler. Warren E. St'-cw. William K. Sutberlin. Frank Semele. J. R. Scbultz. E. J. Swatskl. H. S. Sosa. William J. Smith. Hi ' S. Thomqs, WUUam D. Iiienioilge;' T'.? -L. 'Thompson, Walter fobUlBOnrwy. cE. JHrilllams. Z.^<C..^5bamaui'..IP.cZetterfnas.''.. Mexico. This one Is the first of a chain of radar warning posts which will be anchored offshore from Newfoundland south to Nor­ folk, Va,. Helicopter Field The weather deck of the plat­ form is about half the area of a football field and provides a place for helicopters to land. SmaU boats that come alongside are raised and lowered by cranes, and supplies come aboard in cargo nets. The problem of the non-union galley force is emphasized by the fact that the waiters on, the tower get only $?00 per month and, un­ der their contract, can be worked any hours with no overtime. All other civilian personnel on the tower are union men from several shoreside unions. Boston SIU Port Agent James Sheehan and the officials of the Cooks and Bakers are trying to have a provision put into the con­ tractor's agreement that will re­ quire the sub-contractor to supply union help. In a matter closer to home, Sheehan is also negotiating to have an extra man added to the crew of the tugboat El Sol (Port­ land Barge) to take care of pas­ sengers. The El Sol runs into Bos­ ton regularly. 'PERSiii^ John-Diakakis George Stambilis Get in touch with Bob Welker, ex-chief electrician, Steel Appren­ tice, at 219 - 48th St., Union City, NJ, phone Union 4-8627. Eddie Smith Please 'write G. W. "BiU" Champlin, Draga "Sandcaptain," Construction Aggregates de Vene­ zuela, C. Af, Apartado 77, Maracaibo, Venezuela. Russell E. Lund Contact your brother, Bill, at 2082 Golden Gate Ave., San Fran­ cisco. John Kucharski Ex-SS Winter HiU Get in touch with your mother. Paul Petak Please get in touch with Manny at his home. Alfred Sears Please contact your sister, Mary, immediately. She has urgent news for you. Theodore Emanuel Get in touch with Mrs. Marie Ramsey, Baltimore, regarding your extra clothing stored at her home, or it will be disposed of. Thomas M. Parks Get in touch with T. M. Breen, 220 Broadway, New York, NY. Arthur Collier 4 4 4 C(mtact Jacob Zukerman at 31 John L. Bolden, 51: .An attack Union Square West, New York, of coronary thrombosis caused the NY. death of Brother Charles Rafuse Bolden aboard Johnny Elliot the Robin GoodAbove men are asked to send fellow 1 n the their addresses to James Johnston, port of Cape93 South Main Street, Warehouse town. South Point, Conn. Africa, on Au­ James C. McCoy gust 19, 1955. He Get in touch with Lucille Thomp­ was buried at son, 719 Almoraster Avenue, New sea off the GoodOrleans, La. fellow. Brother T. F. Galvin Bolden was a longtime member of ^ SIU Book G-335 the SIU, joining the Union in Bos­ Your Union book, discharge, ton on December 10, 1938, a few dues receipts and seamen's papers weeks after it was chartered. He were found in Seattle and are be­ is, survived by his sister, Leah ing held for you at SIU headquarKyd4a,.«C.Neiii'. Bfitl{ord,.Mas8iiC.', ,ters.in. Brooklyn.. "Vis's v.?; •"ii �Vol. XVil No. 19 SEAFARERS^ LOG • OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE SEAFAKERS INTE R N AT IO N AI UNION • ATLANTIC AND CULF DISTRICT • AFl • JL • •• X. • i.. .: - .• -*11.- •'••'- - —• -- -•• •'-^r Vour Family's ••: •• A r- •;-•"• s»'' • •. "" ..• i , >'" Kiy:-'L W.: --V;'.' .-•.;• .-••'A-'' ".r^v •. • v- •.-.* ' ;• -^ ••• •;- • '•: • •' ••••••'.'i'•"• • "s--'." •• .-•/-.'•'••-v., ;r-"'-:. . •' ,." : i*. - V.:-'• "1 • . ' ..'ft, • • i 'V j"-'/ •••>•'•";'. • T :",• ' ' •• r—i'i:. • ".vri- •': • • • '. ^^r.7.:•*•"-V// •• I •-.• ' • *•••; V-KLZ'.-• •• '•• I liospltai and Surpical Benefit ; - 4 1 » "i \ •(' To insure your family the maximum protection at all times under the Seafarers Hospital and Surgical pro­ visions of the SW 'Welfare Plan, every Seafarer is urged tot Fill out in full an SlU Welfare enrollment card, listing alH your dependents and drop it off or mail it to any SlU hall. Cards can be gotten aboard ship or at any SlU hall. l( • I• ; V Send to SlU headquarters a photostatic copy of your 2 marriage license and of the birth certificates of your chil­ dren. These documents will enable the Plan to speedily make payment when a claim is niade; they will be kept confidential as part of your Union record. Iv--. tiv:; 3 Should anyone in your family require hospitalization or surgery you can save yourself much delay and possible expense by first telephoning or writing the SlU agent nearest you. > . |r"-I--«: -• fe 1 "-T-r'r.' K' • i-i'- ' . Seafarers International Union Atlantic & Gulf District • AFL •'••'• •••-•-•, ::.f: • 7,S„; 7j 7 •• ^ I � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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Title A name given to the resource September 16, 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. 19 Description An account of the resource Headlines: SIU SIFTS NEW KOREA LEAVE BEEF WC OFFICERS FLIP-FLOP, OKAY TONSINA-TYPE PACT SENATE SEA SCHOOL QUIZ OPENS SOON CONGRESS WARMS UP SEA PROBES SIXTY SIU MEMBERS NOW RECEIVING $150-MO. PENSIONS ILA ENDS TIE-UPL; DOCK VOTE AHEAD 'DISTRICTS' REPORT SHOWS SHIP INSPECTION LOOPHOLES FIRSCO JOB BOOM DIPS SEATTLE BOOM STUMBLES STEWARDS, SIU MEET TO PREPARE MASTER RULEBOOK P&O CRUISE SHIPS DUMP US REGISTRY NY STILL HAS PLENTY OF JOBS TAMPA LUAIDS HOSPITAL PLAN CALIF. AFL BACKS SUP ON BONNER MOBILE 'REC' LOUNGE DUE FOR COMPLETION PLAN NEW GROWTH FOR BOOMING NO JOBS COME STEADILY IN LAKE CHAS. CURRAN SUPPORT TO ILA'S PHONY SEAMEN'S UNION FACES ITF QUIZ FARM GROUP WARS ON '50-50' DIGGING IN AT CLIPPER PARTY ILA ON UNION DEMOCRACY A DAY'S WORK: S.S. DOROTHY SIU WIFE 'PIONEERS' IN RI MAW WIDENS DRIVE IN CHESAPEAKE BAY 'BEST EVER' PICNIC SET BY DEL SUD SHIP MYSTERIES STILL PUZZLE TO SEA HISTORIANS ROYAL OAK BOASTS SOLID CREW HIGH PRICES,S KIPPER LIVEN NAT'L LIBERTY TRIP SNEEZE DIDN'T KEEP HIM IN STITCHES LONG 'THE HAMMER AND THE WRENCH' SIU WELFARE SERVICES QUICK TO PROVIDE AID OWNER DENIES BAR 'SCANDAL' SIU AIDS UNION DRIVE ON RADAR 'TEXAS TOWERS' Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 9/16/1955 1955 Periodicals Seafarers Log