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7he Seafarers' Log
Seafarers'^International Union of North America
Official Organ of theAOantic, Gulf and Great Lakes Seamen
VOL. I
NEW YORK. N. Y., FRIDAY, NOV. 17, 1939
COMMY CONTROL OF NMIL
RUINATION OF SEAMEN
NOTICE
All members are hereby
notified that the $5.00
Strike and Organizational
Membership Overlooks Power That
Assessment, and the $2.00
Lies Within Their Own Hands
Hospital Assessment for
the year of 1940 are now
collectible.
SIIJ IS ANSWER TO PROBLEM
Pay your assessments to
Altliougli we feel lhat we must agree that the J^ies Com your Patrolmen now, —
mittee investigating unAmerican activities has brought to DON'T WAIT!
light eoJisiflerable information attesting to tlie fact that tlie
commies plan to completely take over the American Mer
Se notifica a todo miem
chant Marine, we are not completcl\ in .iv, u'd with Avhat
bro
de esta asamblea y or
they liave clone about it.
ganizacion
a pagar $5.00 a
What we are getting at is this; It has long been a known
beneficio
he
huelga y $2.00
fact among seamen that the Communist Party is practic<'illy
para
el ano 1940.
in complete control of the ^bitional Maritime Union. We
Page cste cuanto mas
also know that the NMIJ controls the shipping on most of
antes
a su Patronisadcr,—
the transAtlantic ships. Therefore, it naturally follows that
NO ESPERE!
the Comuuinist Party controls transAtlantic ships.
D446
NO. 22
COMMISSION ATTEMPTING
TO FORCE HNKY PROGRAM
ON AMERICAN SEAMEN
Use Unemployment Caused By Passage
Of Neutrality Act As Wedge
SEAMEN CAN PUT STOP TO IT
Are American seamen to be forced to subject themselves
to the U.S. M&ritime Commission's program of regimenta
tion? This question has become increasingly important since
the passage of the Neutrality Act, which has thrown thou
sands of additional seamen out of empolyment.
Following are the plans as outlined by President, Roose
velt at a conference on November 10, the'Maritime Commis
sion now insists that seamen, in order to be eligible for re
lief, MUST REGISTER IN THE MARITIME TRAINING
SERVICE! What sort of a dictatorship is that? It is cer
PROBABLE INVESTIGATION
"Plainly substantial evidence that
However, the NMII does NOT e,ontrol the. coastwise or
the Commission intends to utilize
intei'coastal ships. On the East Coast, most of the coastwise
this exi.sUng emergency as a
and intercoastal ships are controlled by the Seafarers' Inter
mean.s of furthering their phony
national Union—which is strictly antiCommunist. On the
program, and thus aid them' in
West Coast, the Sailors' Union of the Pacific controls the
their imionbusting campaign.
deck department on all ships. The SUP is also notably an
antiCommunist organization. Now: it is quite possible that
To Train More Finks
In a press release, dated Novem
the Communist control of the NMU will result in a close in
Oaim That Dies Committee Calls
ber 14, the Maritime Commission
vestigation of all maritime unions, which, in turn, may result
All Members Communists
outlined a plan to train 8,360 sea
in the passage of legislation detrimental to these unions.
men annually in the Maritime
This will be done, regardless of the fact that the SIU and
Training Service, or, in other
COMRATS BRING ILL REPUTE
SUP are not under Communistic control, and the good will
words, the Finky Training
Ever since the Dfes Committee Tiad Joe Curfan on the Schools! According to their own
suffer with the bad!
witness stand, a great hue and cry has arisen from the com figures, the Commission's Fink
MEMBERSHIP POWER
rades within the ranks of the NMU. They protest that the Schools have had only 2,883 en
As a remedy, we would suggest that the rank and file Dies Committee is deliberately blackening the name and rollments since their inception in
membership of tJie NMU take steps to rid tlieir orgaiiization reputation of a bona fide labor organization, by classing it as September 138, and now they plan
of all Communists. Although the Party is in control of the a communist organization. Let it be said, for the record, that to train just about three times
this nunibei each year. The peiiod
NMU, they are not in the majority, and at least 85 percent no one has claimed that the NMU is a commy outfit, but of enrollment will last only three
of the membership are not commies, and would like to get rather, they have declared that it is controlled by officials, months, and then you will be put
rid of fhem. DOES THE NMU MEMBERSHIP REALIZE ihost of whom are communist party members, or sympathizers. out in the cold, and on the beach
again—with nothing gained; "
THE POWER THAT LIES WITHIN THEIR HANDS? IP
As a matter of fact, one witness specifically stated before
THEY DO, WHY DO THEY ALLOW THEMSELVES TO the Dies Committe that only,^
liequirements Outlined
———
BE BULLIED BY A HANDFUL OF COMMISSARS? WHY about ten percent of the rank and the gutter levels." We would like Requirements for enrollment un
HAS THE NMU ANNUAL ELECTION OF OFFICERS file membership of the NMU are to point out to this misguided der this socalled "emergency pro
commies. However, the commy comrat that NMU officials are, gram" are that you must have
BEEN INDEFINITELY POSTPONED? WHY DOESN'T stooges
have taken it upon them
had one year's sea service within
THE MEMBERSHIP INSIST THAT THE ELECTION BE selves to attempt to make the themselves, responsible for the the past three years, and must pre
NMU being dragged through the
HELD?
NMU members believe that they mire: They dragged it down to sent" a discharge showing that you
Communist ollicials or sympathizers are not the only ones have been accused of being out that level themselves. If the com were a member of the crew on
who must be purged fiom tlie NMU. There are also commies and out, commies,—when nothing mies ^d never gained control of the last voyage of a vessel with
could be further from the truth.
and fellow travelers aboard the ship.s. They must also go I It is, of course, a well known fact the NMU, such an undesirable drawn from service because of the
affairs would never exist; passage of the Neutrality Act.
If the rank and file would insist that the election of officeiis that the average NMU member is state of
but the NMU has been commie But, in the meantime, what is to
be held, and tlien go about the business of putting men in not a communist, nor even a sym controlled practically since its in happen to the other bona fide sea
offiee who really have the interests of the seamen at heart, pathizer, but it is likewise just ception, and they have suppressed men who are on the beach, with
well known that the NMU is or purged every official who would no hopes of landing a job? Appa
then, perhaps, the existence of the maritime unions would as
completely dominated by the com not go along with their policy of rently no provision has been made
• not be jeopardized.
ppnist machine. The selfsame rule or ruin.
for them! It will be noted that
ebhditfon
prevails in Soviet Rus
COMRATS IN'POWER
the Commission has now cut the
It
is,
of
course,
more
or
less
of
However, we do not place much faith in the ability of piki. where the communist party a mystery to we who are mem sea service time necessary for an
ik actually in the minority.
bers of the SIU, how the commies enrollee from two yeais do'wh to
the rank and file'inembership "of the NMU to irid.tlicjr ofegan^
Countless
SellOuts
manage
to retain control of the ONE year. This, in itself, is sig
ization of the Comniuuists. Th,§y have too much of strangle
NMU, or even hold their mem nificant. As a matter of record
We
hold
no
personal
grudge
hold on thali orgknizationv and it will take ailot toijar them against theNMU as an organiza bership together. However, it is and fact, there are at present non
loose. A.s.a matter of record and fget, the comrats havcbeen tion;; but we' are unalterably op frankly our opinion that the great seamen being trained by tbe Com
more or less in control of the NMU since itk inception',' and poseri to the commy top fraction majority of NMU members would mission's Training Service.
they have seriously goncf about the business of cntrenehing Which completely dominates the desert that outfit willingly, and
Indu.sti'y Overcmwded
iinion. They have sold their join the SIU, if the SIU had a Unless we are sadly mistaken—
themselves securely ever since.
membership out time and time sufficient number of ships under
What then is the NMU rank and file to do in order to again, and will continue to do so. agreement to supply such a large and we know that we are NOT—
there are already more thair
save themselves? The answer is simple: BREAK AWAY Some outstanding examples of membership with jobs.
enough seamen in the United
PROM THE NMU COMPLETELY, AND GET INTO AN their perfidy are the tanker strike
On Verge of Collnpse
States to take care of the task of
ORGANIZATION FREE OF COMMUNIST CONTROL— and the war bonus question. If Now, with the passage of the manning the entire Merchant" Ma
these weren't deliberate sellouts, Neutrality Act several thousand rine fleet, but the Unionhating
THE SEAFARERS' INTERNATIONAL UNION OF NORTH —then
we don't know one when more NMU members will be Maritime Commission gaily goes
AMERICA!
we. see it!
thrown out of jobs, and many of about the task of making more
SIU IS DEMOCRATIC
Comrats to lllame
these men will undoubtedly seek seamen. The industry is already
We do not claim that the SIU/is a panacea for the ills Comrade K. K. Owen, NMU membership in the SIU. As a so overcrowded that there are
of the .seamen, but we do claim that it is the closest approach Agent in Galveston, in a lengthy matter of fact, many have already far from enough Jobs to go
to Congresman Dies, rants done so, and some of them could around. WHY, THEN, DOES
to it on this Coast! In the short year that the SIU ha,s been letter
and raves about what he terms not seem to understand why they THE M. C, PERSIST I.N TRAIN
In existence, we have proven ourselves time and time again, the "unAmerican action" of the were refused. They can't seem ING PLOW JOCKEYS AND
and have .established the fact that ye are a democratically Congressman in "dragging the to get it through their heads that STUMP JUMPERS? ARE THEY
National Maritime Union through
on jPqffe J)
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NMU COMMIE OFFICIALS
HOOOWINK MEMBERSHIP
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�THE S E A F A R E ^ S • L O G ;:
Published by the
Seafarers'' International Union
of North America
Friday, Nov. IJ, 1939 •
TAMPA QUIET
StandBy Crews for Ore
Tampa, Fla.
Oct. 31. 1939. Line ShlRS ln Baltimore
Have not' seen any notea or news
from Tampa lately. Things are
Asks Members To. KeA;p Record Of
quiet here at the present time,
since the P &, O strike was called
Overtime,As Aid In Beefs
HARRY LUjNDEBERG, Acting President
olT. The ships are sailing, and we
110 Market Street, Room 402, San Francisco,Calif.
have some of our members on the
FINKS FOUNa EXPENSIVE
Cuba, doing the best they can to
:
'
Atlantic District
reorganize
that ship.
HEAQQUARTERS
Baltimore, AW., Nov. 1—Shipping out of this port has
New York (Phone: BOwling Green 9343^7:>: ......2 Stone Street
The Company fires anyone who
squawks about chow, working con been slightly beloAv average for the past IAVO Avee.k,s, ^ HOAVI.
BRANCHES
Boston
330 Atlantic Avenue
ditions, or, in some cases, i.f they ever, in vicAV of the air of uneertainty that pervades the
Providence
465 So. Main Street
find out you are a Union man. But entire shipping field due to certain pro\'isipii.s of the Neu.
Philadelphia =.
i
6 North 6th Street
the Union men are doing their
trality Act, as they affect the United State| Alercluuit Ala
Baltimore
.......;
14 North Gay Street
best to line it up.
Norfolk
60 Commercial Place
"We have heard .that the finks riiie, it is not to be wondered at that changing scdiedule and
San Juan, Puerto Rico
8 Govadonga Street
were loud in protesting about he.sitancy on the; part of the .sliipoAvner result.s ju a slowdoAvn
Gulf District
the overtime. They pay according of .shipping turnover in tlie Union Hall. With (Jongress still
HEADQUARTERS
__ to your mout'hly salary, and it whittling oil the Alereliaut Alarine provisions of the Neu
New Orleans
309 Chartres Street
ranges from 20 to 35 cents an trality At it looks like that, at best, no more tlian 76 sliips
hour, and you are lucky to get a will be affected. These ships are,^:
BRANCHES
Savannah
.i,... .218 East' Bay Street
couple of hours a month, the Avay of course, on the Transatlantic
Jacksonville
136 Bay Street
it is chiseled downf Fresh milk run but Ave .don't look for any ships that have seen bett'er days
Miami
809 N. E. First Avenue
for the crew has been cut out en great tieup, but rather a chahge laying at anchor, scores of men
Tampa
...206 Franklin Street
are busy reconditioning them, so
tirely, and
the chow is lousy!
in service, and runs occasioned by that can make the trip up" the Bay
Mobile
55 So. Conception Street
Then, there is the first class the pickup in business on the to the Baltimore shipyards.
Houston
1712 • 75th Street
phony
and scabherder who is in Coastal and Intercoastal services,
Great Lakes District
'
8taiidBy Jobs
Miami. He
was formerly a member and especially the South Amer
HEADQUARTERS
After
consideiable
representa
of the SIU and was given a break ican run, which at present prom
Detroit
....1038 Third Street
by the membership, but evidently ises to absorb more ships than the tion by Agent McKay here, the
he is the sort who will always be entire U. S. Merchant Marine can Qie SS Line has agreed to provide
ADDRESS ALL CORRESPONDENCE CONCERNING THIS
a FINK and COMPANY SCAB float. The cleaning up and ready standby crews for their ships,
PUBLICATION TO:
ing of a great many of the ships while they are docked here. These
HERDER!
"THE SEAFARERS' LOG"
EA'eryone^is looking forward to in the "ghost fleets" of the United ships, on an average, only get 24
P. O. Box 522, Church St. Annex, New York, N. Y.
States bears this out, as for in hours in port aftfr being close to
the election.
stance, down Solomons Island way six weeks at sea without the ciew
Hold steady, mat^!
Charles Evans, Gulf No. 3 where there are a number of old getting ashore anywhere. Much of
the trouble caused by the sliort
time ashore allowed the crew, such
to this country. High Avar rates and cheap labor—the ship as men missing their ship; not
showing up to the last minute; or
oAvners' dream !
By 0. B. P.
showing
up intoxicated will now
If they can get around tire laAv by the simple expedient
{Reprinted from West Coast Sailors)
be
eliminated
by the new standby
of clianging the registry of a ship, Avhat reason have AA'C to
At eoa.stwisc membersliii) meetings of the SUP the Sec
regulations, and, of eourse, the
believe that they AVOM't do the same tiling in the event of a $6.40 paid the standby men for
retary Avas instructed to launch a A'igorous protest AA'ith the
strike or lockout? Again, Avith the support, and blessing their work will be a help to the
Maritime Commis.sioti and the Pre.sident against the transfer
of the Maritime Commission, the State Dcpai'tment and the men on the beach. Also, at Agent
to Panamanian registry of eight United States Line steam
Administration—bolstered up by the political terrorism of McKay's request, tank cleaning on
ship.s.
the FBI, Avhich is another dish they're handing organized these ships has been cut out. This
job Ayas a particularly dirty one
STARS AND STRIPES
labor these days!
and ruined tlie men's clotliing;
FEED 'EM ALPHABET, SOUP
The transfer Avas authorized by the Maritime Commission
and since the Company seemed fo
Wliy can't the war materials going to France and Britain hedge about paying extra for the
• to a Panama corporation Avhieli Avill be organized and eon
trolled by the United States Lines. The A^essels, Avill carry be carried in French and Briti,sh bottoms, and other formgn Job, it was requested that it elim
together, and this has
the Panama flag and AAMII be operated by foreign creAvs. By bottoms undei; charter to the.se countries, Avhieh are noAV in inating all
been done.
this. maneuvre, the vessels will he kept on the same run to the trade In nonbelligerent Avaters — and use American
Operators See Light
to replace them in these waters? If they did that. Beefs, wlileh are plentiiful these
Pryuch and English pprts from Avhich vcsseLs carrjdiig the
don't you .see, they Avould be deprived of the fat war rates days, are being settled amicably
United States flag have been barred by the neutrality act.
and sAvolIen Avar profits! That Avould ncA'er do! The Mari w'ihout a great deal of trouble. On
THE PARADE STARTSJ .
time Commi.s.sion, Roosevelt and. the rest of t h e m , Avould the LosUiar the other day it took
The United States Department and the Roosevelt admiiir not stand to see their friends deprived of their pound of over four hours for the creAV to
pay off, due to the large number
istratioh. Avhich £o.stered the socalled neutrality legislation
flesh. So the seamen can starve, or, perhaps, go to the CCC of overtime squabbles. It would be
have, appareiAtly, given their blessing to the venture. Accord
camps to replace the CCC boys AAAIO are being recruited to of material help to all concerned
" ing to one member of the Maiitime Commission the Diamond
man the fink training ships , of the Maritime Commission if the meniberB kept a closer
Liims, LykeS Brbs.^AV'aterma and.South Atlantic Ijines are
check on (heiir overtime, and have
Avhile .iohn ShipoAvner changes flags on his tnbs.
expected to seek similar transfers to escape operation of the
It; written out so that in case of,
"NATIONAL DEFENSE?"
dispute, the Patrolmen can see at
neutrality laAv, The paytriotie shipoAvners, greedy for larger
"We Avere also tojd that one of the main functions of the a glance just Avhat the member
profits, haA% quickly folloAved the lead of the Maritime Com
mission. They can depend upon their stooges in Washington Maritime Commi.ssion Avas to build up th, merchant marine has coming to him, instead of hav
in the cause of "national defense!" NOAV these fake Pana ing to spend an hour or so drag
to look after their interests.
manian .ships Avill sail out of NCAV York Harbor AAuth cargoes ging the story out of the man
concerneid. It is noted these days
SWISS CHEESE NEUTRALITY
of Avar materials, and many of them Avill be sunk. Aside that the average steamship com
W^hom does the goATrnment serve—and in Avhose interest from the probability of the paytrlots involving this country
pany is granting the requests of
does it function? One day after the pas.sage of the hnv which' in the war over such sinking " incidents" how can the the Patrolmen, without giving
was to sa^guard_our neutrality a hole opens up large enough admirals continue to maintain this fiction of "national de them some of the long drawnout
to sail any ship through—by the .simple device of hauling fense." If these ships were needed for "national defense" arguments they used to offer ev
doAA'n one' flag and running up another. Only simpletons before, hoAv can they be spared noAV when the need for such ery time some imprwement was
can believe that the shipoAvhers and the commission hadn't "national defense" is suppo.sedly Ijccoming more acute every asked for. Probably friend ship
owner Is beginning to realize thaf
planned.this move far m 'ad.vance of the pa.ssage of the laAv. day?
the seaman doesn^t ask for a
With'tlie connivance of the State Department and the Ad
whole lot, but only what he is en
DOING THEIR BIT!
ministration?.
We could go on for pages, exposing the complete titled to, and that , when he does
squawk, his beef la hlnetynino
hypocrisy of the entire setup. This is the setup that re per cent of the time entirely jus
SEAlVfEN SERVED
The Mantime Commlsskm A
established for the o.stcn ceived the unconditional endorsement of the Currari, Bridges tified. If takes some people a long
sible purpose of building up the American mierchant marine, clique! The last NMU convention endorsed Roosevelt for a time to ieain anything, but we be
Millions o)f dollai's of taxpayers' money have been poured third term, and loiig ago gave actual support to the Maritime lieve that is gradually, beginning .
into. Uie coffers of the shipowners through .subsidies, etc. Commission program The Mai'itime Federation convention to seep through the sliipowner's
hea.4, that ,by giving his seamen,a
TheAseamen haye been served Avith quite another di.sh—fink and every other stooge outfit on tire West^ Coast Avhoopcd halfway decent wage, and slijght
books, fink halls and fink training ships. I'or the shipowne»s, it up for the "NBAV Deal" and were tlie most rabid sup..' ly improved living conditions^ he
' a, larger dose of profit^for the .seaman, a large do.se of porters of the "third term for,Roosevelt." The Maritime not oiiiy boosts the caliber of fhe I .
Labor Board, which is part of this same setup, Avas invited entire Merchant Marine, but helps;
unipBrsmashiiig (Jevicek
tb sit in on the JL'WU negotiations. The .stooges did their his own business ad saves him ,
THE.SHIPOWNERS' DREAM
self a lot of time, grief, and mon ,
Thousands of American seamen Avill be throAvn on the damndest to tie the maritime Avorkers to the "NeAV Deal." ey by avoiding tieups and dis
rupted schedules.
NOT DONE WITH MII^ORS
bea'ch'while a few individual shipoAvners will rake in Avar
Finks Expensive
The '.'NCAV Deal," which long ago Avas transformed into
tirue profits while employing foreign crews at a fraction of
The
shipowner's idea used
to be,
the
War
Deal,
has
aUvays
been
a
RAW
DEAL
as far
as
the
the 'eost of operating. with American crews. Already, an
and
in
certain
cases
still
is,
that
advertisement has been inserted in the London papers by the seamen are concerned. But the rawest thing they've pulled
the only thing thaf mattered 'was ,
.Umted' States Lines, for crcAvs to" man theSe ships. This yet is this latest hit of sleight of hand work called presto, getlng his ship away from the
means Chinese and Lascars, as attested to by the Assistant ehango, once an American ship^now Panamanian
dock, hut now they are beginning
>
SecretarAT of the British Uiuon of ScaiTion on a recent visit IT'S ALL DONE WITH FLAGS! .
(Continued on Page 3)
Affiliated with the American Federation of Labor
IT'S ALL DONE WITH FtAGS
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THE SEAFARERS' LOG
Friday, Nov. I?, 1939
GULF
GOING
SPEED AHEAD!
Negotiations Opened With Waterman
And Mississippi Companies
COMJRATS AFTER MFOW JOBS
New Orleans, Nov. 15—With the arrival of "Blackie"
Prevost at this "storm" center of the Gulf District, much of
the confusion that had existed here as a result of the "grow
ing pains" inevitable in any new organization has been done
away with. The membership, recogniang the necessity of
putting the District on a solid fitiancial anad organisational
foundation, voted unanimously tp support all of the provi,
sions contained in the reorganizational program.
This program,—due to Brother Prevost's unexpected re
call to the West Coast,—is now being carried out under the
COMMY CONTROL OF NMU
COMMY pFEICULS
(Continued from'Payo J)
{Continued from Payi^J)
controlled organization, and that we arc NOT an.sweral)lo to the SIU does not wish to over
Moscow nor to any other political headtiuarters! The rank crowd ' their membership rolls,
for the sake of a few dol
and* file of the SIU is the entire union, and they cxerei.sc merely
lars. The men on the IMM ships
their right to,have a say in the control of the affairs of the have been more Or leas the finan
organization. There is no dictatorship in the SIU!
cial backbone of the NMU, and
loss of this income caused by
Why are the shipowners insisting on elimination of the the
the laying up of tran.sAtlantic
union hiring halls in the new agreement? Why was the .ships will cause quite a large dent
tanker strike deliberately sabotaged by NMU officials? How In the NiVlU treasury. The NMU
did the commy leadership induce their members to fink on commissar.s are now making des
the SIU in the P & 0 strike? Why did they agree to the perate efforts to hold their mem
bership together, but we predict
measly tWentyfive percent bonus?
that there will soon he a com
plete collapse of that organiza
COMMIES RESPONSIBLE
tion.
Let the NMU members sit dowii and ask themselves some
of these qnestious, and then decide for tliemselves. If tliey We ourselves know that the
of commies, and we,
eousider Ihese questions carefully, it will be selfevident to composed
composed of commites, and we,
them that the commies are out to rule or ruin, without any quite naturally, regard these men
regard of wliat it eests the seamen!
as our brother seamen. We want
The Communist Party is directly responsible for the up to work togothei' with them, but
such a thing cannot happen under
heaval in the American merchant marine, and if any ill •their
present setnp.
eflfects result from it—^the blame will also he theirs. GET
• Appeal to NMU Members
OUT 0.P COMMUNIST CONTROLLED UNIONS, AND
JS'OW
is the time, to break away
LINE UP WITH A SEAMENS' UNION EXCLUSIVELY
from the NMU. That organiza
FOR SEAMEN —THE SEAFARERS' INTERNATIONAL tion is in the process of folding
UNION!
up. and to the NMU members we
personal si:perviaion of U. D.'fr
^
Thompson, new International with the chief causes of most of
Representative to the Gulf Dis these beefs. We hope to have
trict. Brother Thompson, in the these "twin" contracts in the bag
short time ho has been here, dem very shortly.
onstrated the ability that has car
Also, Standard Fruit pulled a
ried hlra thru the most trying and couple of its rowboats off of the
.say:_BRING YOUR SHIPS AND
diflflcult situation during tlie inufltlats, and we have already
training program is a direct YOUR JOBS WITH YOU INTO A
period he served as organizer for shipped a full crew,—blackgang,
Commission's Plan threat to the seamen, and we REAL DEMOCRATIC SEAMEN'S
the International in the Great sailors, and cooks,,aboard her.
have opposed it from the start. UNION, AND FOREVER THROW
Lakes District. Naturally, with We expect to furnish crews for
iCuuliniied on Paye 3)
OFF THE YOKE OF COMMUN
the new shipping rules going into the other two "Fruit" boats this BUILDING UP A RESERVE OF We didn't believe It when it was
ISM WHICH HAS BEEN A
inaugurated,
and'we
still
don't
effect,—with especial reference to week. How long they will run is UNIONSMASHING FINKS?
HINDERANCE TO THE AMERI
believe
in
It!
WE
INSIST
THAT
the ninety day shipping clause, a question, because they usually It can be plainly seen that the
THE BONA FIDE AMERICAN CAN SEAMEN MUCH TOO
and .strict insistence upon pay
tie up at the end of the citrus Navy autocrats controlling the SEAMEN DO NOT NEED ANY LONG. YOU NMU MEN ON
ment of dues, some squawking is season.
Commission are. using this sud
TRAINING SUPERVISED BY THE COASTWISE AND INTER
bound to be heard from various
den increase in unemployment as
ANY GOVERNMENT AGENCY, COASTAL SHIPS WILL BE EX
brothers whose mental capacity
GominiiuazL Wreckers "
a wedge to further their phony
TO
FINANCIALLY
AND THAT THERE ARE CER PECTED
does not allow for normal assimi
1 se by the last edition of the scheme. ARE THE SEAMEN TAINLV NOT ANY MORE SEA SUPPORT ALL THE COMMY
lation. The brothers must remem "LOG" that the Baltimore Branch GOI.NG TO . ALLOW THEM
ber that the shipping rules were is having a case of the "heeby SELVES TO BE FOOLED BY MEN NEEDED IN THE MARI PIE CARDS IN THE NMU, NOW
THAT THEIR INCOME HAS
voted in by over a twothirds jeebys" over phantom phone calls THIS QUASI BENEVOLENT TIME INDUSTRY!
BEEN SO SEVERELY CUR
KEEP
AV/AY
FROM
THE
MA
majority, and that In this organ],, from the "Moscow" boys. Well,— GESTURE?
RITIME COMMISSION • F I N K TAILED THROUGH THE TIE
zation the democratic rule of the they might be reckoning with
Must Be Stopped
TRAIINING
SCHOOLS AND UP OF SHIPS AFFECTED BY
majority of the membership de phantoms there, but down here
FINK HALLS! DON'T LET THE THE NEUTRALITY ACT. YOU
Let's
review
the
facts
in
the
cides.
the little brothers of Big Joe Sta
NAVY AUTOCRATS BLUFF WILL BE TAXED WITH MORE
It is gping to be a litle tough, lin are plenty alive and kicking. case. First: The Maritime Com YOU INTO FOLLOWING ASSESSMENTS THAN EVER
mission has consistently refused
at first, but if the rank and, file The latest maneuver of the Krem'
to bargain collectively with any THEIR PHONY PROGRAM! BEFORE, AND YOU WILL BE
get behind this program,
lin stooges is an attempt to mus of the maritime unions. Second: STAND ON YOUR JUST BLED DRY. HOW LONG ARE
shove a wee bit, we will,, in a cle in on the shipping rights and,
RIGHTS AS AMERICAN CIT YOU GOING TO STAND FOR
very short time, be able to shift contract^ of the.MFOWW, Under They have established their own
lEiNS, AND REFUSE TO BE IT?
hiring
halls
and
have
refused
to
from low to high.
the guidance of the Conimuuazi
.ship men from^ Union hiring COERCED OR INTIMIDATED!
pilots the "good ship NMU" shiv
, .Start Negotiations
halls. Third: They do not follow
ered its timbers upon every rock
any system of a rotary shipping,
In the meantime. Brother
and shoal,—in or out of sight. The
but handpick their men. All of
Thompson is meeting with repre
C.P. wreckers missed not one,—
Of considerable interest to SIU
sentatives of the Waleiuian and even if they had to turn around this is.part and parcel of a pro
members will be the announce
Mississippi Lines, in an effort to
gram strictly antiunion In all its
If the Administration is really ment that they will soon have
secure agreements that will be, and go back to hit it!
phases, and Is a direct threat to
interested
in taking care of the Union emblems of their own. They
as far as possible, identical.
the life of each and every mari
MFOW Gets ItunAround
unemployed
.seamen, and does not will, of course, be in the fornx of
Which means that instead of Jiav
Now, with her bow stove in, her time union. IT MUST BE v/ant to foi'ce the Maritime Com
ing certain shipping or working
lapel buttons of conservative de
rudder gone, and the pumps leak STOPPED, AND THE SEAMEN, mission's training program down
rules for one company, and a dif
THEMSELVES,
ARE
THE
ON
sign. They are quite
similar to the
ferent set of rules for the other, ing badly, the (com) rats are at LY ONES WHO CAN STOP IT! their throats, we offer the fol SUP buttons—the only difference
lowing suggestions as an answer
—as was the case before,—ah ef tempting to solve their situation
being that the lettering is changed
by. crawling aboard West Coast
to the .unemployment question in to "SIU," and where the SUP but
Coiiuiiissai's About
Face
.
fort will be made to. secure "twin"
ships, under the too, too glitter
The N'MU Commissars, after the maritime industry.
agreements, thereby doing away
ing slogan of "Equal Shipping aiding and aljetting the Maritime First and foremost, the Amer tons have "Org. 1885," our buttons
Rights." MFGW&W men are to; Commission for some time, have ican seamen do not want any will have "A. F. of L." They will
have equal shipping right^ with finally done an about face, and form of charity from the govern be blue, gold and white in color,
NMU men, and vice versa. Which, have declared that they are out ment. They want work. Neither with an outer margin of dark
means that .any MFOW man who to fight them. HAD THEY DONE do they want to be forced into blue, with the words, "Brother
hood of the Sea" inscribed thereon.
(Continued from Payo 2)
allcvws. himself to be lured Into
government sponsored t r a i n i n g
to realize that it is equally impor registering at the NMU halls, will THIS IN THE FIRST PLACE,
schools. Then, why not utilize the Sample buttons have ^ already
tant to have a crew of first class, find himself number 999 on the WHEN ALL OTHER BONA
seamen in jobs to which their va been received, and approved by the
FIDE
SEAMEN'S
UNIONS
hard working, satisfied seamen, shipping list! An illustration ol
rious qualificatio.ns best suit Emergency Board, and delivery is
when she does leave the dock. that was evident last week when WERE FIGHTING . THE COM
them? Put them to work on WPA promised by December 1st. The
MISSION'S^
PROGRAM,
WE
There have been some notable ex six NMU men were shipped
WOULD NOT BE FACED WITH projeicts and U S. Navy Yards. buttons will be sold to the mem
amples of tliat. as for instance, aboard the SS Illinois, and the
THE SERIOUS THREAT TO Don't hand theni a pick and shov bership at' a cost of 25 cents each,
the P & O ehips where the fink commissars sweetly explained
OUR' EXISTENCE. But no, for el, and expect them to lik^ it; put and any profit derived therefrom
crews are costing the. company that at least fifteen men,—bona
reasons best known to them them to work a.t some job witli will be deposited in the General
more in prestige,, and, hard cash, fide members of the MFOW, selves, the Commissars previous
which they are better acquainted, Fund of the Union.
than if they had granted the mod^ were, and still are, on the beach ly played ball with the Maritime
The buttons will be placed on
erate and justified demands of here! Think It'over you mem< Commission,until they eventual and pay them a wage, commensu
rate,with the work.they are quali sale shortly after December Ist,
their legitimate SIU crews, and bgrs of the MFOW:—Do you want ly realized that they were delib
moje recently, the Acadia with it's to be number 999 on the shipping erately cutting their own throats, fied to perform. In other words, and we urge that all hands pur
crew of Commiehasty finks, list by registering at the NMU as well as those .of the seamen! pay them the regular union scalp, chase one at their earliest oppor
shipped In order that the Com halls, or protect your hardearned The American seamen do not plus union working conditions of tunity.
parjy could avoid paying the few rights and control over ..West necessarily want relief—they want the industry, in whtbh they are
employed..
extra , dollars that the original CoastShips by registering at the WORK ! They do not Want to be For instance, men who sail in suggest that the government open
crew was entitled to, and thus the SiU Hall? Where every facility.is forced into attending the. finky
the daeit deparbnent could be em cafeterias in Navy Yards and on
whole Merchant Marine gets a available to all West Cogst jmep, training schools of the Maritime
• WPA projects, and put these.men
—and where an iron cla^ ruling is Commission, and we do not be ployed in the,following capacities: to work as cooks, commissary. ,
black eye.
Carpenters,, would, of course, do
I
In effect at ALL times. The rul, lieve that it lies within the.rights
Dance a Siiccess
carpenter wmk. Boatswains and stewards, waiters, etc. Pursers"
ing beipg,—West Coast ships for of the Commislon 'to practical
able seamen could be pirtHo work could be employed as timekeepers ,
The Branch at this time wishes West Coast men !
ly
threaten
the
seamen, that
they
as riggers and as painters. Ordi and checkers and in pther clerical
to thank its hosts of friends and
,
will
not
be
given
any
sort .of
re
That's
about
all
for
this, week,
nary seamen would be well fitted capacities.
wellwishers in this Port who do
Why can't some sort of a pro
nated their aid in making the first except to remark that shipping lief unless they enroll in the Ma to act as riggers helpers, or paint
gram similar to this be put In op
anniversary dance and psuty of picked^up considerably this week,, ritime Training Service. This is ers.
the S.I.U. a huge success. From all with about forty men shipped to the rankest sort of coercion and Engine department men could eration? Put the seamen to work
accounts, everybody had a good offsljore and coastwise vessels. intimidation, and we don't be be used in machine shops, elec at something they know how to
time and friends and members There are about 13Q men still reg lieve that.the American seamen trical shops, boiler rooms, and as do. Don't put them on relief, ofl
will bow to this "takeitor'else" pipe or .ste^m fitters.
Also in force them into phony training
alike of the organization are ex. istered.
pressing the hope that the getto ' Shipping for MFOW and SUP policy of the i^ritime Commis many jobs requiring a knowledge schools. If there are no ships fotr, ^
sion.
them to sail on. then at least put"
of machinery and mechanics.
gether can be made an annual men very good.
Fight the Couunlssion
For the men who sail in the themto work doing some job witli
"Blackie" Wliliams,
. affair,. •
^
:: NTew" Orleans iCorrespondent. The Maritime Commlsslbn's stewards department, we would which they are acquaiutedi
MoKay, Agent
HOW ABOUT THIS?
'• mi
:ipi
Announcement
BALTIMORE
(1
V
'f,'it^
�THE SEAFARBRSVT, OG
Seeding to Better
Personal Affairs
i'? : /•
Friday, Nov. 17, 1939
CHUCKLES
Urges Members to NOTICE
Fight M.C. Program
(Reprintm from the Alanka Fiah
DAVID HARRIS, a seaman for
itifj yews)
raerly employed on board the
Tampa, Fla., Oct. 19—When the
S.S. ROBIN GOODFELLOW, From Mrs. Sam Anderson we
Maritime Commission could not
Nov. 12, 1939. Ivlndly commuhicate with Frede received a copy of rbe "Harbor
break the Unions' solidarity, on
KiliTor, "ftrafarers' Lay":
rick R. Graves, 44 Whitehall Sentinel" of. Newport, Cutifornia,
West Coast in tiiyHig to open
Street,
New York City, regarding from which we clipped tlie, fol
The American
seamen
have Iiere
Fink Hall in Sdat'tle, fully en
' .
Reasons for Decline
dorsed by every Communazi party In this country the spectacle of a an accident to OTTO WANNE lowing:
Actual
Excerpts
from
Letters
(A.B.
on
or
about
December
I,
Of WMU Explained
organization in the country as government that enacts legislation
Received by State Relief
means of disruption, and say the for the protection of Labor and 1938 in the port of ' Mombassa,
October, 11, 1939. seamen were not able to run their the laboring man; such as the East Africa. All other' members "When will I get my relief?
Editor, the "LOG";
own unions on a demppfptic, basis, Wagner Act, Wages and Hours of/the crew who were present at You say you send them where I
Dear Editor:
which the SUP. has' shown, time Act, and the Child Labor Law said accident or who know any am."
"My husband worked one shift
During recent years we have after time that seafinm with a pol which is in the process of being thing concerning same also kind
seen the rise and fall of mari icy where everyone can be benefit added as an amendment to the ly communicate with said Frede for two months, now he left me
rick R. Graves.
and I ain't had no pay since he's
time unions Avhich have had to ed will prevail as a Union which Consitution.
gone or before either."
give way to newer and succeed has done more for sailors than all Then we, the seamen, have
ing organizations. We will no the phoney rats tried to sell with the government doing a right
"Please .send my elopement as
doubt witness next the decompo their commy ideas on the East about face by attempting, through
I have a four montlis old baby
sition of the now crumbling Na Coast, as shown by the finky NO Its phony Maritime Commission,
and he is my. only support and I
tional Maritime Union. WHY?
MOREUNION, which has a record and every means at its disposal, As I read the article, printed in need all I ciui gel every (jfiy to
We seamen on the ships who unfit for use even in the little red to destroy the seamen and their a recent issue of the "LOG," re buy groceries and keep him in
are accustomed to making our house in the backyarcL.j
organizations, and working condl garding Curran's comments on his close."
living at sea, have found through The spirit of the SUP alone, on tlons, which were achieved only perverted 'opinion of the type of
"Plea.se send me a letter and
bitter experience that it is not the East Coast, has given many after long and hard years of en men we have in our Union. I am tell me if my husband made ap
prudent to make heroes of our members of the SlU an idea what deavor on their part.
reminded of an incident' that hap plication for wife and child."
Union officials, and blindly fol a militant Union can do in better
By setting up the Maritime pened during the first convention "Both sides of my parents is
low their orders as from a super Ing conditions aboard ships.
Commission for the express pur the NMU held.
very poor and T can't expect any
natural being; which, at times, Now, all the seamen have a big pose of shipping nonunion sea
I was pumpman of the Gulf thing ffom them as my mother
has been of no benefit, except to fight on their hands in preventing men on American ships, and re
Star. The ship went to Robbln's has been sick in bed with the
certain corrupt officials them M.C. from filling the merchant, ma
fusing to allow collective bargain Dry dock in Brooklyn. When we same doctor for one year, and
selves. We have now come of rine with plowjockeys, stump ing or union meetings, or any
arrived there, we found that a won't change."
age, with regard to genuine union pullers, and pumpkineaters, by
kind of representation whatsoever strike was going on. I at once be
"I am a poor woman and what
organization, and have learned opening a school here, and making
on their ships,''and putting in com gan to get the crew together for I got is gone."
the value of individual initiative sailors with one year's training.
by members in the conduct of This school is a direct threat*to mission a socalled Maritime a meeting to decide what action
Please send me some wife's
Training Ship for the express pur to take in support of the shipyard form to fill out."
union affairs.
every Union, .for as soon as we pose of training (So they claim) iVorkers, as some of the other
"I have already rote the luesi
strike for better conditions, these unioiiwiecking fliiks and scabs, ships had called a sympathy sit
Sincerity Necessary
dent and I don't hear from him.
punks
wil
take
out
ships,
and
the
The rank and file of present
and then going into a great gov down strike. Thi.s was proposed to
will write Uncle .Sam and tell
unions are better informed, and militant seamen will be left high ernment relief project—the CCC— the crew on the Gulf Star. The him about both of you."
more advanced in the knowledge and dry on the beach for striking to jecruit these Labor destroyers. crew decided, at the suggestion of
'The Mrs. has no clothing .for
of issues which concern them, against the bosses.
Deluding union seamen in the one of the commies, to wire Cur over a year ad ha.s been regularly
than at any time In the previous When the NewMoscowUnion NMU, through their Kremlin cre ran for advice on what action to
history of unions. Union officials endorsed the finky policy of the atures, to ship through govern take. He answered via wire, to visited by our parish priest."
"I can't get my sick pay and I
are elected for the purpose of en M.C. last year, that was the be ment Maritime Commission hiring take sitdown action. About one
got
six children. Can you tell me
forcing the orders and mandates ginning of the shipowners' PLOT lialls, and tlireby destroying, in a third of the crew responded—the
why?"
as expressed by the majority of to get rid«of all militant seamen few short years, all the seamen rest thought the measure was too
"This Is my eighth child. What
the membership, for the advan on the waterfrdnt.
had gained after years of battle drastic. I made a proposal that we are you going do do about it?"
tage of the membership at large,
with the mighty steamship com all get on the picket line, as that "I am writing you to say my
and not for the purpose of forc other groups of Labor, have panies.
was the only place to have any
ing their personal fancies, or therefore found it necessary to Now tltese MoscowB erlin effective results. Only one volun boy was horned fw'o years ago.
theories of some other interest collectively organize into unions stooges, having wrecked their own teered to do this, and he was the and Is two years old now, when
which are of no benefit to the in order to secure the requisites union through their phony policy only other AFL man in the crew do I get relief?"
"Please find out if my husband
membership. Union officials, in of "LIFE, LIBERTY AND THE
helping the government get besides myself. This, of course,
office for their own particular ad PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS," and shipping bureaus established, have was before the Gulf Refining is dead, as the man I am living
vantage, and to Serve interests to establish and preserve a stan. taken it upon themselves to at Company gave the NMU4;heIr con with won't eat or anything until
other than ,the membership of ward of living fit for man. Under tempt to destroy t'he only unions tract on a gold platter. Incidental/ he noB for sure."
"I am annoyed to find out for
their union, are doomed to an this recognized system of checks on the East Coast, the SIU and
ly, it was due to Curran's action zertain you have branded my boy
early end. Membership in any and balances in a democratic the SUP on the West Coast, wlio in this strike that this socalled
other organization or political country, the seamens' union is are continually fighting this finky, contract was so graciously given illiterate. Oh, the shame, as it is
a dirty lie, as I married his fa
machine does not make an indi able to counteract the force of laborwrecking policy, and have
to the NMU.
ther a week
before he was horned."
vidual any more intelligent or shipowners associatioiiB and the successfully resisted both the Ma
So, out on the picket line we "In answer to your letter, I
competent to serve his union, and organized companies themselves, ritime Commission, and the pho
two went. The Gulf Company's big gave birth to a boy weighing 101
tends to detract the mind from which, if left unchecked, would
ny "Kremlin Kranks," and will shot spotted us from one of the pounds. I hope this Is satisfacto
the interests of the membership, again force wages to the lowest
continue to do so!
windows, and when we started ry."
and distort the mind in consid depths at which povertystricken
Andrew Keyser, SIU No. 2570 back for the ship, we were told to
"You have changed my girl to a
eration of issues which vitally inen will work, eliminate all pay
corted us to the ship to see boy, does this make any differ
concern maritime, or any other for overtime, and to live in such
pack up and get off. A yard bull es ence?"
Labor. Members of maritime quarters as are unfit for cargo.
Suggested Reading this
order was carried out. 'We "I have no children as my hu.s
unions can only learn the prob
NMU Will Perisli
told
the
crew what had happened band is a truck driver and works
lems which confront them, and
SS Yarmouth
the solution of such problems, Since seamen are organized
Boston, Mass. and asked them if they were go day and nlte."
aboard ships at sea and in par into unions for the purpose of re
' Nov. 5, 1939 ing to do anything about it. The "In accordance to your instruc
comrat in the bunch popped off tions I gave birth to twins in the
ticipating in the affairs of the sisting oppression, we arrive at Editor, "Seafarers' Log":
conclusion that any I have just completed reading and told the few others who were enclosed envelope."
union, and not in the communist the final
party and other dual organiza union which degenerates into s Ben Gitlow, which appears in the sitting down that we had no busi
"Sir, I have forwarding my mar
tions. When any combination of racket for the benefit of its offi December issue of Cosmopolitan ness to oppose the orders of "Jo riage certificate and my two chil
officials in the service of a poli cials must finally destroy itself. magazine, in which the former Jo," the sicklefaced mug! So, un dren, one of which is a mistake
tical machine, such as the com The National Maritime , Union, secretary of the Communist Party der those circumstances, the crew as you can see."
rades and the finky fellowtravel consistently failing to serve the in America makes a clean con wasn't' obliged to take any action
ers of the NMU, succeed in dis purpose for which the members fession of the Comintern activi on our account.
Don't Be A Shirker
torting the constitution and poli founded it, and tending to follow ties in the United States,
We proceeded to the NMU hall
cies of an organization, and es the dictates of the COMMUNIST Gitlow states emphatically that to find out what the score was on
Vote Now!
tablish a dictatorship in the place POLITICAL MACHINE, which during his tenure of office he re the decision of the crew. 'When
of majority rule under a demo have found advantages In alii ceived fiom Moscow the sum of we got' there^lo and behold!—
, cratid system, the membership ance with the shipowners and ca $50,000 to foster communism there were two jobs posted on the
have only to move from under pital interests of this country, among the American seamen. To board; one Second Pumps, and
the jurisdiction of the defective and the bloody dictatorships of quote Gitlow's article, he states one wiper for the Gulf Star. When
organization, w"hich falls of its Europe, will perish at did the in part, "this work in the Mer we related tib Curran what had
Will AB seaman Thompson,
own weight, and, as a result, a unions which proceeded it.
now
on the SS San Rafael:
occurred
to
us,
he
merely
said:
chant Marine is a good example
ABOVE THE CHAOS AND of our methods^ under Moscow "I understand you two are AFL Henry Godlewski, oiler; A1
new organization is built on the
CONFUSION LOOMS THE
ruins of the old.
meif,' what the Hell do you expect Poore, oiler, Skenkia, fireman,
orders."
FINAL
STRUCTURE
OF
THE
me
to do for you, when we have who Is reported working in
Reason for Organizing
TRULY INDUSTRIAL SEAFAR- He further admits the establish our own men to look after first?" New York, please get In touch
ing
of
"port
bureaus"
in
major
The Constitution of the United ERS' INTERNATIONAL UNION,
with my attorney, S. B. AxLell,
States provides for freedom in, "YOU MAY FOOL ALL THE seaports of the world, to entrench The ship sailed two days later,
15
Moore Street, New York
and all the finks that didn't obey
"THE PURSUIT OF LIFE, LIB THE PEOPLE SOME OF THE pommunism in our ranks.
City,
coucerning my case
ERTY AND HAPPINESS." In TIME, SOME OF THE PEOPLE This outspoken article, written the great Curranski's order sailed against Bulk Carriers Corpora
the earlier stages of the develop ALL OF THE TIME, BUT YOU by a fomer communist leader, a with her. Also those that didrn't
tion for accident on the SS
ment of the nation, small con CAN'T FOOL ALL OF THE man who twice ran for the office sit down were even paid for the Oregon, at once. My case will
cerns bfergained Individually with PEOPLE ALL OF THE TIME!" of Vice President of the United time they sat down, as I later be reached for trial within two
States, on the Communfk ticket, found out.
corresponding groups of employ
Fraternally,
or three weeks.
should be read by all seamen—
ees. Today, we have business or
Fraternally yours for ONE BIG
Salvatore Acurao
Waldo Cripe, SlU No. 112
both A F of L and CIO—to fully UNION.
ganized on a nationwide scale for
Deck Delegate
thai, purposie of advancing their
Jos. Flanagan, No. 542
SS Seatraln New Orleans. understand how far Moscow will
If Michael Evans will call on
go in order to spread the Commu
particular fnterests of business—
his attorney, Silas B. Axtell, 15
nist. Doctrine, and undermine the
mainly, tp secure the utmost in
Street, New York City,
Have You Vcited? American Labor Unitms.
Take An Interest^In Moore
pr«^t , at the least possible ex
he can sign releases and get his
pense, Shipowners are organized Cast Your Ballot For
Fraternally,
The Affairs of Your check. Anyone knowing him.
James B. Harris,
_lntp. ^ficdve groups as a part
please call this to his atteutioix.
Officers f^owl
Union Vote!
SIU No. 7qo
at DUsTness. Seamen, like most
UNWTYNMU STYLE
7(.j'>, .
NOTICE
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November 17, 1939
Description
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Headlines:
COMMY CONTROL OF NMU RUINATION OF SEAMEN
COMMISSION ATTEMPTING TO FORCE FINKY PROGRAM ON AMERICAN SEAMEN
NMU COMMIE OFFICIALS HOODWINK MEMBERSHIP
TAMPA QUIET
STAND-BY CREWS FOR ORE LINE SHIPS IN BALTIMORE
IT'S ALL DONE WITH FLAGS
GULF DISTRICT GOING FULL SPEED AHEAD
DECRIES OFFICIALS SEEKING TO BETTER PERSONAL AFFAIRS
URGES MEMBERS TO FIGHT M.C. PROGRAM
UNNITY - NMU STYLE
CHUCKLES
SUGGESTED READING
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Seafarers Log
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11/17/1939
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Newsprint
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Vol. I, No. 22
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Paul Hall Maritime Library Microfilm 1939-1993
Publisher
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Seafarers International Union of North America
1939
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Seafarers Log