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OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE ATLANTIC AND GULF DISTRICT,
SEAFARERS' INTERNATIONAL UNION OF NORTH AMERICA
NEW YORK, N. Y., TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1941
No. 23
NEGOTIATING COMMinEE WINS ''10 & 10
COASTWISE DIFFERENTIAL
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1942Nominations Closed} Five Major Atlantic Operators Grant SjU
$10 Wage Boost and 90 cents Overtime;
SixtyFour Candidates
(COMPLETE LIST OF CANDIDATES ON RASE FOUR)
After painstaking examination off because they failed to submit
<ot all .ciedentialfl submitted by discharges proving sufficient sea
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• caudidates for 1942 ofllce in the service; others mailed in their
Seafarers' International Union, papers after the legal deadline,
the Committee on Candidates and in some cases the men
made its report to the branches failed to prove citizenship.
and revealed that sixtyfour men
There are several offices to
had aualified to run for office.
This brings to an end the which no one has been nomi
period of notninations; the actual nated. These will be filled by the
election will start immediately man receiving the highest write
and proceed for the next two in vote, provided he receives
months. The new Union offlcens onethird of the total votes cast
will take office' on the , flret for that particular office.
The Committee on Candidates
Monday in February. '
The Committee on Candidates was composed of J. H. Yolgian,
revealed that a number of bro J. Arras, J. Cruz, Theodore
thers had been disqualified to Thomson, Vincent Kadian and
run for office. Some were marked Richasd R. Tyler.
Ships to Sail AH Seas;
^ President Roosevelt has signed the neutrality revision
resolution which passed Congress last week and which allows
AUierican merchant ships to sail all belligerent waters. The
U.S. Navy is now proceeding with its program of arm
ing these ships so that they may defend themselves from
Axis attackers.
ships are already overcrowded.
And of primary importance is the
question of whether or not the
more reactionary shipowners will
try anti use the presence of Navy
men aboard these ships as an
excuse to break down union
working conditions and wages.
• These are vitally important
questions upon which the Gov
erament has taken no official
stand. The seamen will vigilantly
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This revision raises many
questions for the union men that
sail these ships. What sort of
compensation are they going to
receive" for risking their lives in
subinvested waters? Will they
receive bonuses, adequate insur
ance to protect their families in
case they are killed?
Who will man the newly in
stalled guns? If Navy men are
to man them, where will they be
quartered? The focs'ls of most
Bull and Insular Eliminate Differential
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The Aflantic District negotiating committee headed
by SecretaryTreasurer John Hawk, won from five major
operators this week a $10 boost in wages and a 10 cents
per hour increase in overtime. Thus the SIU again takes
the lead in improving wages and working conditions for
the seamen of America.
With Coastwise
Ship Operators
The agreements are between the Union and the A. H.
The deadlock in negotiations
between coastwise operators and Bulj, BaltimoreInsular, Alcoa, and Raritan Steamship
the International Longshore Companies, and Seatrain Lines, Inc. These agreements
men's Association, was punctuat
not only give ail SIU men 90 cents per hour in overtime
ed this week by a new threat
from Joseph Ryan, ILA presi rate — the highest in the industry — but in the case of
dent, to strike the operators if the Bull and BaltimoreInsular lines the differential between
they didn't come to terms.
offshore and coastwise runs is eliminated. Henceforth all
The old contract expired on
Get. 31 and the union has been runs will pay the same scale. This amounts to a $12.50
attempting to get a new agree raise in scale for The coastwise men.
ment ever since. The ILA seeks
Negotiations between the "Union and many of the
an increase of 15 cents an hour
companies are continuing on working rules — but a spe
above their present pay of $1.10
an hour for regular time and an cial addendurh providing for the new scale and overtime
increase in overtime from $1.42 has been signed and in most cases is retroactive to
to $1.65 an hour.. ;
November 1st.
Joe Ryan warned that 15,000
These benefits put in the shade the loudly trumpeted
longshoremen in all North Atlan
tic ports would walk out before contract between the NMU and the American Merchant
December 1, if no agreement was Marine Institute. The NMU receives only 85 cents per
reached.
hour overtime and continues to accept*a coastwise dif
In the meantime the II.A
struck three sugar refineries in ferential.
Brooklyn and Yonkers. The com
panies affected were Sucrest Cor
poration, American Sugar Refin
ing Company and the Syrups
Sales Corporation. According to
Ryan, the freighter Agwimonte,
carrying a cargo of sugar de Dear Editor:
ment stooges who want to put us
stined for the American Sugar
By the time you get this leUer under a dictatofsbip.
Refining Company in Brooklyn,
I repeat, if you don't put damn
has put about and is reported all the nominations will be in, good men in office this year, our
heading for Baltimore to dis and it would be a good idea to
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charge her cargo there. If the have a little discussion, I think,
ship arrives at that port, Balti about the elections themselves.
more members of the Refinery I have a few ideas that I'll
Workers Union, Local 1476 of pass out for what they are
the IL.^ will be instructed not worth. I think they deserve care
to handle the sugar.
ful attention by the SIU mem
bership.
Brothers, the coming year is
As an aftermath of the Nation
going to be about the toughest
al Defense Mediayon Board's re
year our organization will ever
fusal to grant the United Mine
have to face—what with the Workers a closed shop contract
NMU's sellout for government in the captive coal fields, the Ma
regimentation and the pressure
All Brothers at sea or on being put on Congness by the re rine and Shipbuilding Workers
(CIQ) have withdrawn their dis
the beach are urged to actionary elements to have laws pute with the Robins Drydock
Company from the Board's con
wnte for the SEAFAR^S passed to shackle labor.
This year's elections may be sideration.
LOG. Beefs, e^rienoe, the last time you will have a The Shipbuilding Workers had
ideasTsend them all along chance to exercise your right of previously struck the Robins out
Control over your or fit in an attempt to gqt a pay
to the Editor. If yon have democratic
gahization if you don't put men boost and better working condi
anytldilg on j^hr ohestr in office who are able to win our tions. The workers went hack to
fight against the reactionary work when the NDMB promised
:pntit in the LOG.
^powners and their govern to m'ediate a settlement'
Free Advice Concerning
Selection of Officers
Seaman Reveals Hellish
Conditions on NM. U.Ship
• • fe.
The NMU is always sounding off about how militant it
is and what wonderful conditions it has won for the rank
and file seamen. These beautiful pictures are painted ineach
issue of the PILOT, but arefseldUm translated into real hard
facts aboard the NMU sh^s. The super super conditions
that Ourran keeps yelling about are a lot of malarky. If you
doii't believe it, ask Jim Flynn, Jr., SIU No. 2023; he just
got off a NMU ship.
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Jim hit the beach in New York
oh November 17, after a run on
the Elxecutlve of the .American
Elxport Lines, dnd he had'a story
that would make your hair curl.
But let him tell it in his own
words.
."Edy, I wouldn't have belieed
It;" Jlni said. "No air, I wouldn't
lM>Ueved It if I hadnt seen It
;my own; eyea. , The bri^
ity of the officer^ and the meek
ness of that crew was enough to
make a good union man burn up.
For a while I thought that the
men were just no good, but when
we hit New York I saw that it
wasn't the men that we're no
good; It was the NMU qffi!oials.
The crew could, have been mili
tant as hJIl, hut theywould have
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payments to the West Indies runs. All these demands were
entirely
justified and well within the ability of the operar
AHiANTIC & GULF DISTRICT tors to meet.
Yet, the Aluminum mpuopoly and theother
of the
profit swollen shipowners J%hdiandedlytrefused'itb even con
sider the • d emands.
Then came the Board. Give your dispute to us, it said,
and Weill see that justice is. dqne.
Affiliated teith the American Federation of 'Labor
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Justice was done all right: Shipownerbrand of justice.
Union
may crumble under the
HARRY LUNDEBERG, Acting International President
The seamen didn't get a boost in insurance and they didn't
110: Market Street, Room 402, San Francisco, Calif.
ebmbined
attacks ot tfie NMU
receive any bonus for the West: Indies. All they, receiyed
and
the
government
And ' 'the
was a few minor bonus increases on the runs wl|ere they had
AVBRE8S ALL CORRESPONDENCE CONCERNING THIS
shipowners. If we dp fa)l, it Svill
PUBLICATION TO:
already won them.
be many years before seamen
"THE SEAFARERS' LOG" .
Nor
did the Board act
as a "mediator."
Its decision
was
can
get back their present con
P. *0/ Box 2^, StAtioa P, New York, N. Y.
handed to the seamen in the form of an ultimatum. The jSRU ditions.
Phone: BOvtling Green 9*8346
was warned that it; had better acqept the Boajrd's findings
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You fellow workers kpow, by
. . . "or else."
experience who the olliclals arei
No, the seamen won't shed any tears at this funeral.
that have been doing a good job.
But now a new threat arises. With the resignation of the Select them and, throw, out the
010 representatives from the Board,and the calling of * a deadheads!
George E. Browne and Willie Bioff were finks at heart. strike in the . captive coal'mines, reactionary, employers and
You also have, run into som#
Although one was president and the other a West Coast of Congressmen are screaming for antistrike, legislation.
of the new candidates while you.
cial of the. International Association of Theatrical Stage Em
Onthis score there, canbe no division in labor. All Union were on the job. If you think
ployees, they had not the slightest interest in the welfare of men must oppose any legislation that will restricttheir free tliey would do better than tjio
men now. in office, vote for them
the workers in their union. Bioff and Browne didn't think dom as union men and their hard won economic rights.
instead
of the present holdera,
or act or even look like union men. They blackmailed the
To deny labor the right to strike is to deny it ALL bar,
.Hollywood movie producers with the threat of calling a gaining rights. No employer would bargain* with his em I always guide my vote hy the '
strike of the projection room operators. To them a picket ployees on an equal basis if he knew that the men were for following, rules:
1.' Don't vote for a map just
line was nothing more or less than a weapon to be used for bidden by the government to leave their jobs.
because' he has been in office' he
their own personal gain—to line their pockets.
If Congress says to the workers, "You cannot strike for fore. If he isn't doing a good job,
better
conditions and wages," it will amount; to sajdng, put a new man in.
With cold and calculated contempt for the working man,
these two leeches subverted their union and betrayed their "You can no long'er bargain collectively with your em 2. Don't vote for a man who is.
ployer."
always blasting .somebody. He.
trust. With typical gangster reasoning, Bioff and Browne
may be. sincere, but the chances
This must
not happen.
Complete labor
unity on
this issue
thought the world was divided into two classes—the suckers
are
he is trying to work off;, a
will defeat it.
personal beef. If he really had
and the wise guys. They were the wise guys (they thought),
something, he. would prefer
and they, no doubt, considered both the movie magnates and
charges instead of trying.to dis
the rankandfile members of theor own union as suckers.
credit theman. Also, if he brings
up personal matters at a Union
But like so many wise guys, they outsmarted themselves
meeting, the chances are that he
For the next ten years they will be sitting behind bars.
will carry his personal beefs into
office if elected. Personal mat
There are those in the labor movement who are rejoicing
ters don't mix with; Union busi
that the courts finally caught up with these two rats. Dear Editor:
you, and !yoii shoflld be bh every ness.
Rather it should be an occasion for deep concern; concern Since it ia around election, time jab and also in the office all the
3. DonT put a man in, office,
that the rank and file of the lATSEmre unable to take care I tliougiit yon might like to print tirn«, find at home yon are a night whcj has a poor strike record
the foUowing, little item I ran owl, never homo with the Missus,
of their doublecrossing leaders in their own manner with, across. It is titled—LIFE QP A you have lost your love for lipme We can't afford to take chances
now.
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out governmental interference. It is always, better that labor BUSINESS AGENT and was end her, you need a lantern and
was printed in "Kenosha Labor." not a bed.
4. Don't vote for a man jusj,
clean its own house.
"First be gets elected le servo ''Among the boys yoii used to because he i.s at the top of the;
The BioffBrowne case has brought home to labor once the members. That's what he work with you are a swell head ballot. Check the rnftn's record
again the necessity of union democracy. In this respect the^ lliiiiks, but soon he ffnds that and a liigli hat, the job hag gone hefpi;e voting for him.
serving the membership is a. to your bean,, you are getting too
SIU sets an example others would do well to follow. No fink • miall item.
5, La st, but not least, vote for,
much dough for what you do, even
or racketeer could seize and hold control of the SIU. The "His job is to get the member make more than some of the the man who will fight to protect
youK inteersts. because it is your
going in»the right, direction, members.
rank and file wou^d speak up—and when the rank and file sliip
livelihood
that is in danger.
to straigliten out the chiseling
"When you buy fi new. car, it
of the SIU speaks, people jump—and damn fast.
employer, then hear all the beefs belongs to. them; you got..'H out
Before signing off, I' want to
Now that Bioff and Browne have been picked off, the from tlm disgruntled boys, always of, their dues .they_ pay into tho say a word about supermilitants.
hundreds of good trade unionists in the lATSE will have a be ready to have an excuse,, for. union. So. all in all you are The Commies are out to wreck
the wife of the good brother who soandso if you do and :i dirty
chance to clean out the entire Browne machine and establish goes
to a union meeting at least name if you don^t. And just wait the SIU because we are mgking;
an honest and militant union. It is up to them to. reestablish twice a week, see that the boys
the "Saviors of the working.^^
democracy within their union. It is vital that they do this, pay tlieir dues. You are a soand till next elee.tion and on and on .class" look like a hunch of saps
"Wlio in hell invented tliis job,
for until the rights of rankandfile members are protected so if they don't keep paid up, and anyway?"
with our better wages and '^rotk
within the trade imlons, working men can expect no democ you are a dictator if you ask Even so—I don't suppose it ing conditions.
them for their dues.
racy jn society itself.
"Ypu should be at work at' 7 will discourage tiie boys from So, beware of the man. who
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if .some dummy wants to call
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about, something he forgot to tell
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wants to tie up the ships or take
some other action that w,ill 'dis
credit the Union. He may be
sincere, and then agpin he. maV;
he trying to make a stlnlcso that
the government will have an ex
cuse to step in and take oyer ^
the ships. If thgt ever, fiappenfi,,
we would Ipse everythipg ,wp.
have fought for.
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"dualpur
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pose" guns will be placed aboard
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only the newer ships built espe
tinues to go through the motions of "mediation," but its
cially to absorb the recoil of
voice has a death's rattle." With the resignation of the 010
these
heavy weapons. All ships
representatives it iS' nothing but a hollow shell, possessing
wiH' also be eciuipped with 50 ca:
fittle authority and demanding no respect from the working
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Ilbei antiaircraft machine guns.
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men of the United States.
watch for the first attempt to : The iargfe guns require a crew
And <18 R fina}, word—don't put,
p :f
Who will Tnourn its death? Certainly not the seamen. scuttle theii Conditions and will of from eleven to sixteen men. too much, faith in the man or of
it relentlessly.
Two of these guns will be mount
Certainly not the coal miners. Certainly not the thousands fight
While Ignoring the' labor as ed: on each ship—;one on the fore ficial whp talks big; 'Talk' is,
of workers who turned to the Board for aid in settling their pects of the situation created by .deck and one on the poop, These cheap. Make sure he is a piodulc^
just demands, only to be doublecrossed ancl driven back to neutrality revision, the Govern jflvelnch weapoi^ h.ave a, thin er before he gets your vote.
' Pmternally,
work with little or no improvement in their wages and con ment. has re:vealed a few details metal turret capable of deflect
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its
armament
plans.
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shell
splinters
and
machine
ditions.
P.S. I am, pot running for ofe
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Present' plansdo hot call for gun bullets, except those fired at
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There are occasions when the Board handed down deci arming: coastwise . ships, accordr 'close range. These guns, plus the flee. • •
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sions entirely favorable to the workers, but this happened ing Lo the. Navy Department, at imounts and handling mechan
PERSOM^feS
wken the union involved in'the dispute was , strong enough leftst not until giins have heen ism, will cost. $32,000 each.
Installed on ships Tunhiug to
At
the
same
time
President
to enforce its demands. On very few occasions did the work' England and Russia and other Roosevelt signed the neutrality
GEORGE SAUCIER: New Orr
eps get a break when their union was weak and the employer war ports. As to the guns them revision act, he sigiied another Ifeans
has been holding a.check
selves, they will be, thj^ee, four law which gaye the Coast Guard fot you for a long time, It is for
iPlPry:'' was'strong.
and five Inch weapons, depend full authority over the ' move 1148.10 from the^S, gchoh'arle.
Take the Siu beefas an example,
ing upon the structure of the ments and anchorage of ships in Pick , it up at once or notify the
iiiiPv,: SIU men hit the bricks over the question of increased ship
they are to protect.
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OF NORTH AMERICA
Atlantic & Gulf District
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SecretaryTreasurer's Office
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Room 213 2 Stone Street. New York City
P. O. Box 25,; Station P
Phone: BOwling Green 98346
mw oRtEAm
conditions for men that man the
SAVAISNAH
ships.
If and when the rank and file Editor, Seafarers Log
DIRECTORY OP BRANCHES
of the NMU take the power
Editor, I Seafarers Log
Dear Sir and Brother:
away from the Commies that
BRANCH
ADDRESS
PHONE,
Dear S^r and Brother;
Shipping around Savannah is
now have it, than they nvgy be
NEW YORK
.2 Stone St.
. BOwling Green 98346
The ijohin item of the week Is able to keep up with the SIU in still good. Ships are still leaving
Dispatcber'a. .Office . .BOwling Green 9<3430;.
BOSTON
330 Atlantic Ave. .. .LIBerty 4057
that t^e major Gulf companies the matter of pay and conditions. here shorthanded. The S.S. City
of Savannah came in the other
PROVIDHNCB
465 South Main St. . .Manning 3572
have all, agreed to the raising of
At this year's negotiationB, the
day with the sailors demanding
BALTIMORE, ... 14 North Gay St .. .Calvert 4539
the wa^es and overtime rate of NMU was the skeleton in the that they be moved out of their
PHILADELPHIA 6 North,6th St.,
.Lombard 7651,
25 Commercial PI. . . Norfolk 41083
NORFOLK
pay..The new rate is ten and ten closet that plagued the commit old quarters. This beef has been
tee down here, and I'm sure the
NEW ORLEANS 309 Chartres St. ... .MAguolia 3962
hanging for a longtime. Due tn
over th<j! old.
Same goes for tthe West Coast. the cooperation of the Quarter
SAVANNAH .... 218 East Bay St. ... .Savannah 31728
JACKSONVILLE .136 East Bay St. ... .Jacksonville 51791
This, is not included in the If instead of having to fight this masters, Oilers and Watertend
TAMPA
206 So. Franklin St. . Tampa M1323
base pay rate at this time, but «.sort of thing, a committee cpuld
65 So. Conception St. . Dexter 1449
MOBILH
the forner emergency increase go in knowing that all hands ers aboard this ship, we were
very successful in placing the
TEXAS CITY ... 105 4th St., N
.Texas City 722
is now' included as base pay. were fighting together, then we
1348 N.E. First Ave. • M
MIAMI
A.B.'s two men to a room.
iami 22950
Thei'efo|e, if you want to be would have the world by the tail.
SAN JUA^I
8 Covadonga St, ... .San Juan 1886
Also had the S.S. Alcoa Puri
technica|l,. the. present score is a
So, any day now we can ex
tan in here. This ship came from
sevenfifty increase in the base pect to see a blast against the
the Pacific Coast via Chile. This
pay and| the'ten to be carried as SIU for again "disrupting the
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the whr rate raise for the industry" by raisingi the wages
tion to the Alcoa Steamship Co.
of the workox, while Mirtton
present,;
fleet,'there was a lot of disputed
Any ^ay you look at the ques head was talking to the English overtime aboard this ship. After
tion, still the fact comes up that workers instead of talking for taking it up with the three de
the SIIJ takes the lead again. the American seamen that pay partment deeigates, the Chief
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delegate a n d demanded that
Even thpugh the Pileit devotes his freight..
Mate and the . Chief Engineer, been sold out by the piecards if union charges be brought against
I: cousiderttble chatter to Jipw and
When will the men that are thi.s was cleared up, so there they had raised a beef.
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the fireman for carrying con
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why thCj NMU is willing to, take sailing the only big company in won't he any delay in paying off
"But I'm getting ahead of my cealed weaopns and for attack
flve uiidj five. At the time of the Gulf get tired of taking a in Norfolk, Va., as" they all have self. because the story starts in ing a union brother. AgaLi tlie
writing ihis, I would like to point horsing around and come over transportation back to th'e Paci Singapore last June. I was taken
delegate sniveled around and re
out thai the NMU's ' overtime to the .SlU? If Lykes here in the fic Coast.
off my own ship, the S.S. City of fused to do anything about it. I
clarifications are tho same as Gulf were SIU, then, my chil
Also had the S.S. Helen of the Alma, with typhoid fever. When said that the least the union
the SlUihas been collecting for dren, tile indiistry woul.d he solid, Bull Steamship Co. in here. All
I recovered from the fever, I could do was to demand that the
the past yeai'. For instance, for this would eliminate the beefs on this ship were settled, couldn't find any SIU ships. Fi
skipper send ashore for a doctor
when the fireman on watch after coastwise differential and the and she sailed for Jacksonville, nally, after waiting a couple of
to patch up the knife cuts. But
five and ibel'ore eight, has to sup present differential being paid twQ . AB's and one Oiler short. weeks, I shipped on the Execu
the crew took absolutely no ac
ply steaiin for the winch, etc., by the companies. The ten and Right now I'ni hunting for an tive, an American Export rust
tion,
and the oiler continued to
they col ect and have been col ten would look just as big to the AB and an Oiler for the S.S. bucket manned by a NMU crew.
worlc
without even receiving any
lecting for some time. Now, li Lykes sajlors as it does to all City of Birmingham. After an ab I signed on as fireman.
shots for lockjaw.
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hally, this if; to include the, Com the rest.
sence of two years we are hav
"Well, the. scow took on oil at "Weil, this hell ship pulled
Pr.'iteinally,
mie boysl. This, my children, is
ing the S.S. Shiekshinny in hei'e Calcutta and then set for Hono anchor and headed for the Canal.
ARM.Y
the NMlf's 1941 style, of making
tomhrrow from the Far East.
lulu. About a day out of Calcut But before we lost sight of Hono
Brother Biggs dropped in here ta, when I'm on watch, tthe Sec lulu Another fight broke ouL
the other day for the purpose of ond Engineer comes down to me
MONEY DUE
A.F.L. Urges Union signing
"This time a cooky little
an addendum to the new and says, 'Get up there, and clean
S.O.B., who wa.s Deck Cadet,
agreement,
and
we
were
success
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the forepeak where the oil • started to beat up the pantry
The fotlowing Goamen each has Label Christmas
full in getting the same adden slopped over.'
a check for $41.66 in the New
man. The thing boomeraii.gtMl,
dum as the Waterman Steam
"I explained to him that I was and the pantryman gave him a
Orleans Hall. This money is from
ship
Co,
on watch, but that didn't make
Wiishiuglon. D. C. — T. M.
the P. & O. strike settlement.
That's all for now. Steady as any difference. 'You heard me, real shellacking. It so happened
Oruhuru, SecretaryTreasurer
I'JA':
that the Deck Cadet was the first,
J. BARBER
get up there,' he yelled. I warned cousin of the Chief Mate. The
of the Union Label Trades she goes,
J. JOY
CHARLES WAID, Agent
him that it was oveitime. work. Mate ' couldn't stand seeing liis
Department, announced the
Et SHAW
Savannah Branch
annual drive urging Christ
'We'll see about that,' he said. relative getting beaten up, even
R; S. ABREU
mas
shoppor.s
to
buy
only
"When I finished my watch, I if he did start the fight, so he
i:
N. R. RUDNiCK
took my overtime to the engine plied in on the pantryman from
union label gifts.
The following brothers have
delegate and asked him to behind, knocked him to the deck,
Because of the increased
money coining from the Alcyone
straighten
things out. 'Well, you grabbed him by the feet and
for standing by. Collect from sales of merchandise dhring
are
not
a
union
man,' he said to damn near threw him over the
Rolnick «1 Asofsky, 11 Broadway, the holiday season, the A. F.,
me, 'and so I don't think there is port rail. He really beat that
of
Ix
asks
members
of
labqr
New Yorit City.
much we can do about it.'
lyiipns, their families and
poor pantryman until he couldn't
JOSEPH MILLER
" 'What do you mean, I'm not stand.
friends to demonstrate the
a union man,' I said, 'I belong to
» C. SERRANO
Dear Sir and Brother:
value of the union label mar
"This time I thought I'd wait
J, VELASAQUEZ
the SIU.'
Weil, the minute I men
I
sure
am
glad
about
the
raise
ket by purchasing Christmas
and
see how the crew acted. I
G. WINFIELD >
presents only from firms that of pay the boys got on the hrmus. tioned the SIU, this bozo threw waited—but no action. Finally I
G. M. LAURIE
up
his hands
in
horror
and
would
display the union label, shop I head about it in a copy of the
spoke up and asked why the
W» PARREL
Log you sent me here at the have nothing more to do with crew didn't take some action—
card and service button.
P. POWERS
.k>....
Army post: Say, does the union me. Later I ^ras to see thqt me why they didn't prefer charges
L. BOYER
hear much from the other broth beiijg a member of the SlU was against the Mate for. corporal
only an excuse with him for
GARCIA
ers in the army?
Seafarers' Log
punishment.
GEORGE BROWN
It seems to me that it is about, dodging the beef. He never want
"The Mate heard me make that
A SANCUSKY
ed
to
speak
up
to
the
skipper,
time the shipowners and. the gov
ernment started to put some ar even on legitimate NMU beefs— demand, and came running up to
tillery on the ships for the pro and there were plenty that me and said, 'I'll push your face
in if you don't pnll your nose
LOST
should have been brought up.
tection of the boys.
Me—I'm running land ships ' "So T can't get any satisfac out of this.'I asked him who he
CREW OF 8. S. GREYLOCK
A dark brown suit case dis
now, and not so good either. I tion from the delegate. So I fig thought he was talking to. . .
Some NMU stumble bum? H[e
appfared from the Boston
$.200 turned my truck over three ured that I'd wait until I.got,to
Niels Kastrup
calmed
down when he,saw I
hall. It had the Initials on the
New
York
and
saw
the
agent.
times
the
other
night •
during
2,00
G. E'hmsen ..,
•
wouldn't fold.
side, J.T.W. The, owner of the
"We tied up at Honolulu be
2.00 maneuvers when I was driving
Hodges
bag is ndt so much concern
3.00 40 miles an hour without lights. fore heading for the Canal, While "For the rest of the trip that
M. Ludwick; ..
ing aboiiti the loss of the bag
1.00 We were being attacked from in port theie, a fight broke out Mate terrorized that crew, and
J. Spaulding . .
itself, but rathsr about the
1.00 the aii;, while riding, along on a between a fireman and an oiler. acted if he lifd never heard of a
Phillips
personal lapers that Were In
2.00 convoy of about 15 trucks. It was The fireman, who had been get trade union.
C., Barthlum .
it. These papers are the prop
"When we hit New York, the
2,00 so dark I couldn't see a foot in ting the worst of the fight, sud
I. Welnstein .
erty of John T. Welsh, SUP
NMU
patrolman showed up. I
denly
pulled
a
sixinch
knife
and
front
of
my
fenders
and
when
a
5;0Q
J. Ochab ...
No. 2258,
Anyone 'coining
4.00 turn came, in the road, I went lunged for the oiler's throat. His began to tell him the beefs, but
L, Gallo
across these papers, please
' 1.00. straight ahead into a ditch and reach was a little short and in he turned on me and said that
J. Cataldo
forward them to the owner in
stead of stabbing the oiler in the he couldn't do anything about
2.Q0 turned over.
^H. De Bpor .,
care of tl(e Seafarers Log.
Well, nothing more to write throat, the knife split his chin, them. He ,spent practically his
1.Q0
L. Basner
2.0P about except ta say, keep up the I was standing midships when entire time on board bawling oijt
O. Leary
2.00, swell work, guys. I sure wish 1 this happened., When I saw the some guy that was back on his
Toy
2,00 was back Ah the hall ready to knife work, I jumped on tthe dues.
Ai Macmupn .
"It makes me laugh when I
fireman who was below mO on
1.00 sail out again to sea.
L. Donovan • • •
hear
the NMU piecards sound
the
well
deck.
The
force
of
my
I
still
say
that
the
chow
here
1.00
0. Cooper ..
Contact Glenn F. Waugh, at
2.00 is lousy. Never could bo like the jump knocked him to tlie deck ing off about how wonderful
J.. CroniiT
•
'
•
•
•
•
torneyatlaw, First Natl,onal
and the^icnife out of his hands. their union is. What crap! If I,
1.00 chow we get out at sea.
T. Shea
Bank Bldg., Fairsburg, .Ne,
Once he dropped the knife, the had to ship through the NMU, '
So.
keep,
hpr
steady
as
she
1.PQ,
Bolger
foraska. Tfhe attorney states
1.00 goes for a hell of a long time to rest of the deck, gang piled in I'd probably leave the sea;
J." Mucphyj,,';
ho has information thatwill
'"Thank God "for the SIU . , .
and tied bin" up.,
come. .
prove to your advantage.
"Again I went to the K'MU that's all I got to say."
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THE SE Al^ ARERS* LOG
oveniber
Candidates for 1942 Ofifrce US. Freighter Government to
Requisition $0
BALTIMORE STEWARD'S PATROLMAN
SECRETARYTREASURER
i
(Vote for 1)
(Votfe for 1)
i PAUL GONSORCHICK .. ............... ^741
! SIDNEY GRBTCHER ....
#6700
j JOHN HAWK
#2212
CARLTON DOUGLAS
WM. HAMILTON
JOHN F. RYDER
JOHN VECHIO
#4911
#3400
Rear Admiral' fiSnory' S. Land,
Moving swiftly after' the pas
#1114
sage
of Neutrality Act" amend
chairman
of
the
Maritime
Com
#1616
mission, released figures
this ments, the Maritime Cdinmiss'ioa
week on the progress of the U.S. is preparing to virtually' requisi
tion the 80odd merchant vessels
ship building program, which is operating in the Red Sea and Pa
#3135 aimed at the creation of a mer
cific defense runs in order to ac
chant fleet "second to none other celerate the delivery of lend
lease cargoes and the receipt of
in the world."
strategic
and critical materials
#647
"The original plan for the con
from abroad, it was leaihed from
struction of 500 ships," said Ad reliable information.
"
'
miral Land, "has now pyramided
The new measure of control,
because of the national emei' .superimposed on the control the
gency into a composite' program* commission aheady exerts.through
#190 involving the construction of ap the Ship Warmnts Act, will re
#G13 proximately 1,606 ships from the sult from a revision of pre.sent
#1002 inception of the program In 1937 charter arrangements between the ,
#G153^ until approximately the end of commission and the owners of
these vessels.
1943."
The effect of the revision would
The Admiral further revealed be the equivalent" of Government
that in the naval program there requisitioning of the ships In that
have been 2,831 ships ordered complete direction of operations
#2198
will be In the commission's hands
since1940. They will cost a total without further ado.
#G16
of 17,234,262,178.
According to Washingtofn au
#054
thorities, • t he revised agreement
provides for a time charter of
vessels for the length of the ernier '
gency, t^t a rate acceptable to the
commission and the owners.
ATLANTIC REPRESENTATIVE
NORFOLK JOINT AGENT
(Vote for 1)
: HARRY COLLINS
i CARL M. ROGERS
#496
#G2
BERGER HANSEN
NORFOLK JOINT PATROLMAN
BUD RAY
GULF DISTRICT REPRESENTATIVE
PUERTO RICO JOINT AGENT
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BOSTON AGENT
JOHN MOGAN
#216
BOSTON DECK PATROLMAN
VINCENT YAKOVONIS
I.
DANIEL BUTTS
A. E. QUINONES
cHico SOLAS
JOSEPH WAGNER
:
#1774
SAVANNAH JOINT AGENT
BOSTON ENGINE PATROLMAN
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(Vote for 1)
(Vote for 1)
f
i CLYDE R. COBURN ...
J. E, SWEENEY
#106
#1530
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BOSTON STEWARDS PATROLMAN
.
ALTON V. DAWSON
CHARLES B. MARTIN
CHARLES WAID
...T.
Joe Curran Has
Labor Troubles
JACKSONVILLE JOINT AGENT
(Vote for 1)
^ S. E. BAYNE
; HAROLD BURKE ..,
#13
#1077
; ! (Vote for 1)
; JOSEPH E. LAPHAM .........
J. L. MCHENRY
#427
#425
NEW YORK JOINT AGENT
fi
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L. O. BAKER
W. A. (BILL) O'BERRY
JOHN LOPEZ
J. K. SHAUGHNESSY
MARTIN TRAINOR
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#G14
#G127
#G118
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TAMPA JOINT AGENT
(Vote for 1)
iS
MIAMI JOINT AGENT
(Vote fori)
PROVIDENCE JOINT AGENT
DON RONAN
PRANK WILLIAMS ............
#1374
#6161
<NEW YORK JOINT PATROLMAN
(Vote for i)
E. L. GREENWELL
D. L. (JACK) PARKER
RAY WSWEENEY
#§85
#G160
'.. #G20
(Vote for 2)
L
GEORGE (GUS) JOHNSON ..
CLARENCE E. NORMAN
#2025
#987
(Vote for 1)
MOBILE JOINT AGENT
OLDEN BANKS
I • • •
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#G1
MOBILE DECK PATROLMAN
NEW YORK DECK PATROLMAN
'
LOUIS GOPFIN
DOUGLAS MUNCASTER
#4526
#297 MOBILE ENGINE PATROLMAN
ROBERT A. MATTHEWS
....#G154
NEW YORK ENGINE PATROLMAN
MOBILE STEWARD'S PATROLMAN
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A. J. COBB
' CLAUDE FISHER
FERDINAND HART
#371
#362 NEW ORLEANS JOINT AGENT
#488
(Vote for 1)
JOSEPH FLANAGAN
f
, .#G1S6
, .#G308
#542
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NEW ORLEANS DECK PATROLMAN
PHILADELPHIA JOINT PATROLMAN
(Vote for 1)
Vote for 1)
I ROBERT HILLMIN
EDWARD M. LYNCH
#3188
#3693
BALTIMORE JOINT AGENT
.
.
T LEROY P. DEUTSCH
DURWOOD STOREY ..."
• •
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BALTIMORE DECK PATROLMAN
REXPORD B. DICKEY
C. J. (BUCK) STEPHENS
#Gf6
v.... #2860
#3012 NEW ORLEANS STEWARD!8 PATROLMAN
TEDD R. TERRTNGTON
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#652 TEXAS CITY JOINT AGENT
(Vote for 1)
BALTIMORE ENGINE PATROLMAN
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PETER P. JASON
#G11
M. C.(JAKEALOtJ) STAMPLEY ..... .#G347
E. (JACK) VOREL
#G10
NEW ORLEANS ENGINE PATROLMAN
XVote fori)
. 30BN
...i.»#G15
#G21
#G6
A. W. ARMSTRONG
H. J. (SMOKEY) SCHREINER
PHILADELPHIA JOINT AGENT
I
(Vote for 1)
CHARLES E. TURNER
EDISON WALKER
NATHAN W. WELBORN
NEW YORK STEWARD'S PATROLMAN
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J. iL (JOHNNY;) DABM08 .1;
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Recently the NMU opened a
nevy headquarters and accom
panied the occasion with typ
ical Curran. bombast. The
building was called the "best"
and the 'biggest" and the
"most modern," etc., etc. The
PILOT damn near broke the
typewriters In an ecstasy of
selfpraise.
W h a t WASN'T revealed
during all this horn blowing
was the fact tbat when the
NMU went tq renovate its
"supercollossal" headquarters
it ran into, labor trouble. This
fact only leaked out this
week'.
Curran hired, AFL electri
cians and .. plasters and car
penters and painters to fix up
h^s headquarters before he
moved in.' The ^CIO,.which has
been trying, to muscle In on
the' building "trades in' New
York, heard this and raised
Kell.;.
7
Curran Is vicepresident of
thfecip, dhd he ip |be7ng ac#
cused of sabotaging " his own
organization.
: Hm, bm, hm. What have we
heard . thaat accusation be
fore?
DO NOT SHIP
November 14, 1941
Editor, Seafarers' Log:
Dear Sir and Brother:
L am in receipt of a letter from
the .ship's Dejegata of tbe S.S,
Edith of the Bull Lines. In which
he states that there is a man
named C. Gorddhi perhiit 944, on
that vessel, who has not paid any
dues since April of this year.
Prom the letter I get the impres
sion that Gordan " hangs around
the docks in small ports where
there is no Union 'Hail and ships
off of the dock. He always quits
before the" ship reaches a port
where there is a Union Hqll, This
way he Is a hard man to catch.
In the regular meeting held iri
Mobile' on April 28, 1941 the
membership voted tor revoke this
man's permit and to refuse him
membership In the Seafarers' In
ternationalUtilon; of N. A.
"This action has bee^concurred
In up and down the coast. IVill
yoa^.please; pidot Udd.:jnfpnnation
Ca'the Log.'; • • • :
'
OLDEN BANKS
In
Sea
'V
• IS
1.
f w v;
Ickes' Gas Scare
ProWs Fake Alann
•
'. • .J '• /
• • ...... . . •
p
Well, one scare Is over—
the scare of a gasoline shorL,.^^'
age. Not that many seamen .
have automobiles tp whiz.',,
around in when they are on
the beach, but Secretary of .
the Interior lakes let out such
bellyyells about the' ghs
shortaage that It could be
heard by a blackgang ten'\ '
miles at sea.
• '
iNow Mr. Ickes reluctant
ly admitted that it was ail: ^
a mistake. There's plenty'As
of gasoline after all. • In the
meantime, of course, the bif)'
oil companies cleaned up.
They threw about 100,000 em
"^^7i1
ployees out of work and,
f
many. Instances bposted.
price of .fuel, •
v
V"V'
Somehow the employers air j
waysiseem to come , out on .top ' ) ^
In: tbpw "nathmtalemerfpnoj^f*^ i j
'• Itoatloos, ,.• •
"' • • X
.u,
•
Three Finnish tankers' which/
were familiar tO American ports
before the war, #erc sunk last
week somewhere In. the Baltic.
Sea. •
.
d
The ships were iTie 4,360tott
Hogland, formerly in service be
tween Petsamo," Baltihiore and
Norfolk; the 2,517^i Taurl,
which formerly traded between
Havana and Newport Nejypi and
the 1,848ton Cisil. ^iv5eiity*nea
meii lost their lives on the three
ships.
When the ships were stink'," they
were reportedly aiding the Nazis
in. their war on the SOvleit Uhlbh.
It has also been reported thai;; .
three other Finnish ships that
used to run between Gulf' and
Southeastern American ports,
have been captured by the Bflfr V
ish. These ships were'
'
desta, Rolfsberg and Solbritt'
"
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NEGOTIATING COMMITTEE WINS 10&10 ELIMINATES COASTWISE DIFFERENTIAL
1942 NOMINATIONS CLOSED; SIXTY-FOUR CANDIDATES
ILA DEADLOCKED WITH COASTWISE SHIP OPERATORS
SHIPS TO SAIL ALL SEAS; GUNS NOW BEING INSTALLED
FREE ADVICE CONCERNING SELECTION OF OFFICERS
SEAMAN REVEALS HELLISH CONDITIONS ON NMU SHIP
BIOFF AND BROWNE
NO TEARS
AFL URGES UNION-LABEL CHRISTMAS
SEAMAN FINDS ARMY TRUCKS LIST TO PORT
CANDIDATES FOR 1942 OFFICE
U.S. FREIGHTER CONSTRUCTION SPEEDED UP
GOVERNMENT TO REQUISITION 80 MERCHANT SHIPS
JOE CURRAN HAS LABOR TROUBLES
FINNISH SHIPS SUNK IN THE BALTIC SEA
DO NOT SHIP
ICKES' GAS SCARE PROVES FALSE ALARM
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