http://seafarerslog.org/archives/files/original/bff8a01ff09e958eaf3ac49463b9689c.PDF 04ce57ed81de6e203be8fcba5b84187b PDF Text Text OPFTCIAL ORGAN OF THE ATLANTIC AND GULF DISTRICT, SEAFARERS' JNTERNATIONAL UNION OF NORTH AMERICA VOL. IV. 280 WSA ISSUES RULING ON PENALTY BONUS The War Shipping Administra­ tion has ruled that a penalty bonus must be paid to seamen manning vessels which carry explosives in 50-ton lots or more, when such a bonus is provided in the collective bargaining contracts. NEW YORK, N.Y., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1942 Navy ThreatensSeamen With **Bayonets For Your Tools" MAY BUY RUBBER BOOTS ABOARD SHIP When the kind of explosives specified in the schedule are carried in the specified quantities, said Hu­ bert Wychoff, Director of WSA, there are no grounds for non-pay­ ment of the additional compensa­ tion. Members of the crew of an ocean­ going vessel operating in foreign, coast wise, or intercoastal trade mdy purchase rubber boots or heavy rubber workshoes from their ship's slopchest without getting a rationing certificate, the Office. of Argument that the agreement Price Administration announced was reached with respect to normal today. peacetime operations and applied only to commercial carriage of such cargoes "goes to the heart of the commitments which were made in.the statement of policy," Wyckoff wrote. Campaign Launched To Force Merchant Seamen Into Special Naval Reserve - Seen As Blow Aimed At Maritime Labor Unions Navy Brass Hats, notoriously anti-labor and on more than one occasion the gen­ eral strategists behind union-busting drives, are at it again. This time the Navy is using the draft boards as a club to bludgeon the seamen out of their unions and into the Naval Reserve. The Seattle Recruiting district of the Navy has issued a bulletin to all merchant ^ seamen, warning them that they are only safe from the draft if they join the Reserve. This act means that the Navy has finally laid all its cards on the table and cleared the decks for an offensive aimed at taking over the whole merchant marine. The union originally asked for a rise of 12}/2 mem­ bers. Mr. Ryan said yesterday that a rise of 10 cents an hour had been granted to longshoremen on Oct. 1, 1941, and that the addi­ tional 5 cents would make up an ' estimated 15 per cent increase in living costs. tr Since then the Brass Hats have been laying low, waiting for, the right moment to strike again. They obviously consider this to be the right moment and are attempting to use the draft as blackmail. If the Selective Service officials are a party to this plot, they have perverted their office into an apparatus for union-busting and have struck a great blow against those principles of Democracy they claim to defend. The fact that the Navy has only issued this bulletin in Seattle and in no other port, would seem to indicate that it is a trial balloon and the temper of the men and their unions are being tested. PAY RISE PROPOSED FOR LONGSHOREMEN An offer of wage increases for 45,000 members of the Interna­ tional Longshoreman's Association was disclosed jointly last week by Joseph P. Ryan, president of the organization, and representatives of steamship operators. The pro­ posed wage scale would affect workers from New England to: Hampton Roads, Va. An affirma­ tive vote for the plan was indi­ cated, Mr. Ryan said. • "3 The last time the Navy played an open union-busting role was when the merchant marine was taken over by the War Shipping Admin­ istration in April, 1942. At that time the Navy made a strong bid for control of the merchant seamen. It was the determined opposition of the SIU-SUP that thwarted their plans. Contention that seamen already are compensated by war bonuses at the rate of $100-100 per cent per month have no relation to the, question, Wychoff added, inasmuch' as "the risks which are compensat­ ed for by the decisions of the Maritime War Emergency Board do not relate to the kind of cargo carried but on the contrary to the external geographical risks due to enemy action," The shipowners and the union attempted yesterday to ascertain the standing of new rises with the War Labor Board. In view of President Roosevelt's wage-stabili­ zation plan the increase might re­ quire review by the WLB, it was held. The new wage scale increases the . basic pay of longshoremen to $1.25 an hour, a rise of 5 cents an hour. Checkers were granted 3 5 cents a day more, bringing their daily total to $9.60. A rise of 25 cents would give watchmen $6.15. a day. No. 34 The Brass Hats won't have to wait long for an answers from the men in the SIU-SUP. Their answer is the same now as it has been in the past and will be in the future — NO NAVY UNIFORMS — NO NAVY PAY —NO BRASS HAT DISCIPLINE. We will continue to sail the ships but only as free men under union conditions! Brother Frank Williams, New York Agent, tells Madeleine Carroll a fow soa yarns. They met at the Andrew Furuseth Club which was opened in New York City last week by the United Seamen's Service. Madeleine Carroll is devoting all her time to the merch­ Matthew Dushane, the Washington Representative of the SIUSUP, has already informed the Navy that the A. F. of L. seamen arc unalterably opposed to their shackles and will fight them to the end. Dushane also blasted the Navy for attempting to make it appear that the Unions, the SUP particularly, was cooperating with the program. "As Union seamen," said Dushane, "we certainly resent the Navy or any other government agency trying to use the name of our organiza­ tion to camouflage their union-busting policy." Following is the full text of the Navy bulletin as it was nailed {Continued on Page 3) ant seamen through the U.S.S. CONSUMERS GET IT IN THE NECK! Price "Czar" Leon Henderson ran true to form this week. In a series of new regulations he continued to give consumers the worst of it. One order authorizes merchants to reduce deliveries and compels customers to carry home all but packages too heavy and bulky to handle. Other concessioi^ permit dealers to refuse to accept re­ turned merchandise, or to fCceive orders by tele­ phone, COD orders or to deliver goods on ap­ proval. Henderson said he was "trimming out busi­ ness frills and furbelows," but he "okayed" the most wasteful and costly "frill" of all. "To forstall inquiries, I may say that O.P.A. has no intention of issuing my regulation limiting •M advertising," he declared. That also was characteristic. To obtain the support of the press, Henderson has promoted the interests and profits of publishers in every way possible. He has frozen the prices of materials they use while giving them unrestricted authority to increase prices of their publications and adver­ tising. Throughout the country readers are com­ pelled to pay from 50 to 100 per cent more for their daily papers. The new regulations will make it possible for dealers to materially reduce their operating costs, including payments for labor, but consum­ ers will not share the savings. MineWorkersVote To Quit The C.LO. CINCINNATI, Oct. 7 — The convention of the United Mine Workers voted to withdraw the miners organization, witli a mem­ bership of 500,000, from the Con­ gress of Industrial Organizations after the committee on officers* re­ ports had recommended such action and John L. Lewis, president of the miners, had told the delegates that he could not continue to represent them unless the convention ap­ proved the recomiiicudation of the committee. - With only a handful of the 2,{Continued on Page 3) 'm �V THE SEAFARERS' LOG Page Two :%• Thursday, October 15, 1942 . PuW$h*a by th0 SEAFABraS' INTEBNATIONAi UNION t>F NORTH Alt^CA Aflccntic and GuU District AfftUaM vstm th0 Amtrtcan Ftiwation o/ Labor W HARRY LUNDEBERQ, Int®matIoncd Presldsnt 110 Market Street, Room 402, Soa Francisco. Ckilii ADDREBB ALL OORREBPONDENCB OONOERNINa TRIB PVBLIOATION TO: "THE SEAFARERS' LOG P. O. 25, Station P, New York, N. Y. Phone: BOwhng Green 9-8346 i^r Wakefield Lesson AN EDITOHIAL A few weeks ago the U. S. Army Transport Wakefield, formerly the Manhattan, burned at sea. The fire was not due to enemy action but apparently to some sort of crew negligence (or ignorance). Fortunately the crew was a Navy one. We say fortun­ ately because we can well imagine the hysteria that would Delegates to the 62nd annual AFL convention In Toronto hear Pres. William Green make the open­ have been whipped up by the prostitute press if the crew ing address. Six hundred delegates, a record number, representing 5'/2 million paidup members in. had been union. Charges ranging from "incompetence" the U. 8. and Canada, attended. to outright "sabotage" would have been hurled at the crew and at the maritime unions generally. As things now stand the Navy can w^cll pause and re­ BRITISH TARS BALK view its policy of wholesale removal of civilian crews from AT BAD CONDITIONS REPORT FROM all merchant ships it requisitions. Even the reactionary STOCKTON, Calif. —Agricul­ Journal of Commerce is alarmed by this practice and sug­ tural operators in this area, who gests a policy revision. are under the domination of the "... operating men who have handled freighters and notorious anti-labor "Associated liners in foreign trade for many years say emphatically that Farmers," learned this week that By they have always considered the Navy custom dangerous," British sailors won't stand for the exploitation which has been in­ "DUKE" DUSIfANE writes the Journal. flicted on other workers in south­ "Every ship has its own habits and peculiarities, and ern California. ofi&cers (and men?) need months and even years to discover Fifty-two of John Bull's tars, United Seamen's Service: them all and learn to master them. Ship-wise men recog­ while on furlough, volunteered to I attended a meeting of the executive board In New York on nize the need of complete familiarity with a ship." help pick tomatoes. When they ar­ The Journal's point that men must sail a single ship for rived on the farm.s, they found October 2nd, and the problem came up of hiring the personnel foe years before they can handle it, is so much hog wash. But housing conditions so miserable and this organization. It was brought out that the U.S.S. has hired about • what is necessary is experience with all types of freight­ insanitary that they refused to 47 with previous sea experience. Some of those hired were Stewardesses ers and liners. Here is where the merchant seamen fill the work. "My men are used to better con­ who cannot go to sea. Curran of the NMU was in favor of hiring as bill and the Navy seamen do not. ditions and they can't be expected many people with sea experience as possible. I took the position that The Navy brass hats know this, but their fetish for to go for this," declared a lieuten­ seamen should not be hired if they are capable of going to sea. heel-clicking discipline aboard their transports has forced ant. We are at present trying to get the Selective Service Board to have them to sacrifice good seamanship. EX-NLRB AID, all seamen in a special class which will be exempt from the draft. Now, Anything that gives a brass hat spots before his eyes is the thought of working with a Union crew that will stand UNION HATER, SHIPS if we begin to give a lot of these guys shoreside jobs it won't sit so well ON SCAB STEAMER with the draft board. More than that, the NMU is trying to pack the up for its rights as free Americans. Better inexperienced seamen in uniform than good LOS ANGELES—Dr. Towne J. U.S.S. with its people. I maintain that the U.S.S. was set up for all the seamen in dungerees—so reasons the Navy. Nylandcr, whose 3 years as South­ seamen and no particular union should get a corner on the outfit. Seafarers' Log- HONOR ROLL J- RUBERY, No. 6485 E. JOHNSON R. BROWN W, JOHNSON M. RICHELSON K. KORNELINSSEN i $ 2.00 2.00 100 1-00 2.00 $1-00 $9.00 MONEY CURB AFFECTS SEAMEN American seamen receiving mon­ ey in foreign ports will be paid in the currency of the foreign coun­ try, according to an order issued by the War Shipping Administra­ tion. Tfie purpose of the order, as explained by Admiral Emory S. L>' •. Land, War Shipping Administra­ tor, in a letter to the National Maritime Union, is to keep United States currency from falling into tbe hands of Axis agents. FDR's WAGE FREEZE WASHINGTON, Oct. 9—The War Labor Board cited President Roosevelt's economic stabilization order for the first time today in rejecting a wage increase demand by a C.I.O. union. The board, by unanimous vote, turned' down the request of the United Automobile Workers Union for a general wage increase rang­ ing from 7 to 30 cents an hour for 800 employes at the Sterling Engine Qimpany of Buffalo^ ern California NLRB director were marked by frequent union protests against his employer bias, has gone to sea on a non-union ship of the non-union Isthmian Steamship Co. Nylander had been lecturing on labor relations since he resigned from the NLRB in 1939. Prior to that he had been suspended and re­ instated after he made a speech in Inglewood, Calif., saying "employ­ ers haven't a chance with labor." Although Nylander made few friends in organized labor while an NLRB official, waterfront union­ ists told Federated Press that they don't feel bad about his present ac­ tivity as a seaman. "It'll be an education for him working on a fink ship," a member of Sailors Union of the Pacific said, "and I hope they'll sling it in­ to him so he'll see the value of union organization." MONEY DUE Hogan, President of the MEBA, has. sent in his resignation to the U.S.S. There will be plenty of others sending in their resignations if this outfit caters to only one union in thch activities. The question was also raised as to who shall sit on the different port committee's as representing seamen's unions. The following rule was adopted—any group of seamen who have petitioned the NLRB, for an election and have been certified by that board, shall be admitted to participate on the port committee. N.M.U. Jurisdiction: The NMU is claiming jurisdiction on all ships that are launched on the West Coast and have been assigned to Luckenback, Moore McCormack and Grace lines. The SUP has agreements with the Lucken­ back Gulf line, American Republic lines (Moore Mac), and W. R, Grace & Company. The NMU claim to these ships is phoney. • . , Th^ War Shipping Administration stated that when they ass.ign,ed these ships to the different companies they did not take into consldecation the collective bargaining agreements. Crew's Quarters: Crew of the S. S. Josephine Law­ rence, paid off Sept. 21, have 3 days bonus money coming. Collect at Waterman office. The WSA is setting up a crew's quarters committee here with representatives of the different maritime unions being invited to partipate. It took quite some time to get this far with our complaints re­ Crew of 8. S. Fairisle have thir­ teen days bonus money oorping. garding quarters, but we ought to get going full blast on the problem now. r;.'. -V-'V �T Thursday, October IJ, 1942 THE SE4F41VEE,S' LQG 194 3 mmNATiom QLOSEDi BALLOTINa EfURING NOV, 4^: DEC, SEAFARERS' INTERNATIONAL UNION OF NORTH AMERICAN ATLANTIC and GULF DISTRICT This veek (Oct. 15th) nomin­ Moving swiftly to mpet the ex­ United States, has accepted the ations for 1943 Union ofiice were c|oscd. According to the Constitur isting immediate demand for aid post as USS Executive Officer for tjpn, any candidate that fails to for American merchant seamen in the Port of New York, with of­ mail his credentials to the oflSce of United Nations' ports throughout fices in the Andrew Furuseth the Secretary-Treasurer by mid­ the world, Douglas P. Falconer, Club, 30 East 37th Street. night of the 15 th, is disqualified national executive director of United Seamen's Service, announc­ Nearly 1,800 merchant seamen for office. ed this week that arrangements have taken advantage of the rec­ Following are the Constitutional have been completed to dispatch reational facilities offered at the provisions covering balloting in the overseas the first contingent of Andrew Furuseth Club on East pprts. United Seamen's Service represen­ Thirty-seventh Street since it was Section 3. A committee con- tatives. opened ten days ago by the United sjsting of six full book members in Eight men and women will leave Seamen's Service. ^ood standing, two from each de­ for Iceland, England, Scotland and Former Police Commissioner Ed­ partment, shall be elected, whose Wales where they will set up and ward P. Mulrooney, chairman of duty it shall be to prepare the bal- take charge of recreation clubs and the New York Cpmmittee of the Ipt. rest homes and meet other needs United Seamen's Service, said All nominees who desire to be- of officers and men of the merch­ that the club's register had cpme candidates shall have the nec­ ant marine who are braving sub­ shown 180 visiting seamen at the essary qualifications and acceptance marine-infested waters to carry club each day. "Included among in the office of the Secretarysupplies to our fighting fronts, these," he said, "were officers and Treasurer or the Committee on said Mr. Falconer. men from every State in the coun­ Candidates prior to the 15 th day of The United Seamen's Service try and others from England, Scot­ October of each year. Nominees has alreay opened rest homes and land, Denmark, Ireland, Holland who shall fail to comply herewith clubs in the New York and Balti­ and Australia." shall be regarded as having declin­ more port areas. Properties are be­ "The men were unanimous," Mred thp nomination. Ballots shall (a) ing surveyed to supply similar, fa­ Mulrooney continued, "in praising b^ar the name of the Union, the cilities in Philadelphia and Norfolk the club, and their enthusiastic re­ mpnth and year of election and in­ as well as in the Gulf and Pacific ception of the idea of a seamen's structions to votes; (b) bear the coast ports. club is a tribute to the efforts of names of eligible and duly quali­ "While we are straining every our organization to give merchant fied candidates for each office ar­ possible effort to expand our fa­ mariners the recognition accorded ranged alphabetically with voting cilities and the scope of our work to men in uniform." squares to the right of names; (c) for 'heroes in dungarees' in the The most popular spot in the have one blank line for each office United States," he added, "we are club during the first ten days was in which member may write the simultaneously making substantial the dance floor and bar. However, name of any member whose name progress in setting up our overseas the tone of the club is to undergo dpes not appear upon the ballot organization — a vital part of the a change, an official said yesterday. who must be qualified under the work of the United Seamen's Ser­ In the future the club is to be re­ provisions of Section 2 of this Ar­ vice. stricted to men during the week, ticle; and (a) be perforated at the eliminating most of the dancing. upper edge and perforated stubs Edward P. Mulrooney, Chair­ Dances, henceforth, will be held numbered consecutively, beginning man of the New York City Com­ only on Saturday nights when the with No. 1. The Secretary=TrcaS' mittee of United Seamen's Service club will hold open house. urer shall cause to be printed, and announced that Rear Admiral Al­ The seamen were entertained shall forward to each Branch and bert B. Randall, USNR, the first last week by more than 200 vol­ retain for use at Headquarters, a merchant marine officer to attain unteer hostesses who worked in sufficient number of ballots, and this rank in the naval forces of the shifts from 3 P.M. to midnight. shall keep a record of the numbers of the first and last ballots so for­ warded and retained. None but of­ ficial ballots shall be used in any general election. Section 4- Balloting for officers (Continued from Page 1) shall be .secret and shall take place each day during the month of up around the Seattle harbor. Read it carefully. It is written with soft November and December, 60 Day and logical words—but it is one of the most vicious documents yet to Referendum provided that there come out of Washington. are five members in good standing elected from the meeting present U. S. NAVY RECRUITING STATION to look at their books and guard FEDERAL OFFICE BUILDING the ballot box; and no ballots shall SEATTLE, WASHINGTON be accepted except those cast in Attention Maritime Men: the regular manner. A committee of Election com­ Is your draft number likely to remove you from the duties posed of six (6) full members in you have chosen as your life's work at sea? good standing, two (2) from each Are you confronted with the idea thai the war is going to department, namely ov,e judge, haul you ashore and place you high and dry with a bayonet for two tellers and three clerks, shall your tool of vyar? be elected in each port to conduct the election and to canvass, the re­ That worry need not haunt you. There is a way out! turns. Ballots shall be distributed The United States Navy has opened class M-T for just such in the order of their numbers, com­ men as you, so you can stay on your ship and do your, regular ' ) mencing with the lowest number. job. By enlisting in ^n active status with the Navy's M-1 pro­ Section 5. Members shall be en­ gram, you can remain aboard the ship you are now on until such titled to vote upon presenting their time as the Navy may have to take over that ship. You will not membership certificates showing be subject to call by selective service. You will be in the service that they are in good standing, and of your country. have not previously voted at the No other procedure could so adequately protect the person­ same election. Members shall mark nel and guarantee the operation of much needed merchant their ballots with pen and ink, or marine. That's why the Navy has opened its M'1 branch. indelible pencil, and shall signify At Navy recruiting headquarters. Federal Office Building, their choice of candidates by mark­ Seattle, there is a special enlistment officers to see to it that ing a cross (X) in voting squares men of the merchant marine are handed quickly and efficiently opposite names, or by writing in in the process of. enlistment into this new Navy reserve unit. the blank line the name of their It's your only chance to safeguard your job at sea! choice if such name be not printed (signed) ROBERT S. DOLE, the ballot. Lead pencils shall \be used in marking ballots. Ensign D. V. (S), U.S.N.R. M-1 Enlistment Officer \|hfin '>a member hat marked his NAVY THREATENS SEAMEN WITH "BAYONETS FOR YOUR TOOLS" {CoHi'jftued on Page 4) Page Tlire« Seattle Recruiting District, Secretary - Treasurer's Office ROOM 213 — 2 STONE STREET, NEW YORK CITY P.O. Box 25, Station P. Phone: BOwling Green 9-8346 Directory of Branches BRANCH NEW YORK BOSTON PROVIDENCE BALTIMORE PHILADELPHIA NORFOLK NEW ORLEANS SAVANNAH. TAMPA... MOBILE PUERTO RICO GALVESTON ADDRESS PHONE 2 Stone St Dispatcher's Office BOwling Green 9-3430 Agent. . BOwling Green 9-3437 330 Atlantic Ave Liberty 4057 465 South Main St Manning 3572 14 North Gay St Calvert 4539 .6 North 6th St Lombard 7651 25 Commercial PI Norfolk 4-1083 309 Chartres St Canal 3336 218 East Bay St Savannah 3-t?28 208 So. Franklin St Tampa MM-1323 55 So. Conception St.. ... Dial 2-1302 45 Ponce de Leon. ...... .Puerto do Tierra 219 20th Street Galveston 2-8043 Around The Ports • * 'S. I ' fJ TAMPA Things here in Tampa are very slow as we don't have but one or two ships in here every month. I have so damn many OS on the list that I get sick every time that I look at the list. should do, I would advise that you try and vote this election for the one that can cut the mustard. I have noticed that some of the branches are raising hell about the telephone bill here being so high. Well, when there was a ship in I couldn't find one sand crab that would ship, they are always wait­ ing for their dream ship. Now, if some of you fellows will get a map and study it for a while you will see that we are way to the hell South and East of any hall, and it cost like hell to call Mobile or New Orleans for replacements. But if you insist, I will let the ships go short-handed. We have quite a few on all three list and believe me when the boys get together there is lots of B.S. flying thick and thin. All I can hear is, "When are we going to have any ships in? Well, I tell them that if they will grab a ratler and head for the Yankee Land it would be possible for them to ship. But I really think that this warm climate suits them better, I am dojng my damdest to keep and after ail we have to gab about this hall on an economical basis, something. but it takes a certain amount to operate. I don't have a patrolman Brothers, the time has come so I am trying to organize, two when you will have the privilege of ships here and it takes some of my voting for your officials for the time to do that, and when there coming year. As of the past, some are any of the ships that we have of you would not keep in good under contract in, I have one hell standing or had neglected to vote of a time trying to settle beefs and and the result was that some of the collect dues and various other officials, in your opinion, were a big things that goes with pie carding. bunch of heels. So please take these things into As agent of this port I have consideration, and give me a rest. heard so damn much about agents Fraternally, and Patrolmen of other ports and D. L. PARKER, also my self not being compentent and not doing the things that we Agend. RESOLUTION TO APPEAR ON 1943 BALLOT Whereas: At the present time the seamen of America are making more money than ever before in the history of the seamen; Whereas: When the present war is over the seamen will again be engaged in a figEt for existence with the shipowner who at the present time is filling his war chest in preparation for the coming struggle, and Whereas: The history of the seamen's labor movement proves conclusively that after such an upheavel as at present is going on in the world, they are always throttled and browbeaten— as for instance 1921 and the Lake Carriers set up, and Whereas: The 1934 and 36 and 3? strikes proved the need of ample funds when engaged in a major strike, therefore BE IT RESOLVED: That the Constitution shall be amended by adding a section to Article No. 26, this section to be known as Section No. 8. A strike fund shall be maintained, the strike fund to be kept seperate and apart from any or all other funds in the Union. An annual assessment of $3 shall be levied for this fund. And further, BE IT FINALLY RESOLVED: That if the members accept this resolution, it be published from time to time, as space permits, in the Seafarers' Log before the time of the election. This is to acquaint all members with the intent of the Resolution. And further, that the resolution shall be placed on the -.annual election ballot. (signed) Alfred Stewart Adalbert Gawronski William IlumiUon Harry J. Collins Arttmr Thompson No. No. No. No. No. 764 21265 3400 496 2888 �= ;r.7--:tn?...r'*-;-- ' Page Four •iJ Thursday, October IJ, 1942 THE SE AF ARERS'VLOG Greek Maritime Seaman Nails Philly Unions United Paper's Phojiey Logic By JOHN FARQUHAR Rides on Personal Effects: s IF YOUR SHIP IS SUNK AND VOU LOSE YOUR GEAR„ YOU ARE ENTITLED UP TO AND INCLUDING 9250 COMPEN8.ATI0N ONLY IF YOU H.AVE MADE OUT A LIST AND VALUATION OF YOUR BELONGINGS AND FILED IT WjTH THE SKIPPER BEFORE SAILING. FAILING THIS, YOU ARE ENTITLED UP TO AND INCLUDING 9150. IF YOU FAIL TO LIST AND FILE YOUR GEAR, THERE IS NOTHING THE UNION CAN DO TO AID YOU TO COLLECT MORE THAN THE $150. NEW YORK, N.Y.—Unifica­ (The folhu^ng letter was sent to a Philadelphia newspaper by tion of the Greek seafarers' move­ Brother FarqnJjor. It effectively answers the "seamen heroes deserve ment after months of negotiations If uniforms" propaganda.—^EDITOR.) ;; ft *'as announced recently by the New the heroes at sea, dared to beef York OflSce of the International about something on this ship, the Transport "Workers' Federation. Editorial Staff, Master and his stooge, the Chief The agreement for the unifica­ Philadelphia Record, Mate, would suddenly realize there tion of the Greek seamen sailing in Philadelphia, Pa. ALWAYS NAME A BENEFICIARY FOR YOUR $5,000 was a war. Whereupon, the men the cause of the United Nations GOVERNMENT INSURANCE IN CASE OF DEATH AT SEA. Gentlemen: involved were threatened with the MANY CASES HAVE BEEN HUNG UP FOR MONTHS BEwas signed last week in Cardiff, In reply to your recent editorial Coast Guard and induction into CAUSE OF THE FAILURE OF A MAN TO NAME A BENEEngland, by representatives of the Sept. 30, 1942, with its impressive FICIARY. PROTECT YOUR FAMILY BY NAMING A BENE­ the Army. Union of Greek Seamen in Great title, "Gold Star Heroes of the FICIARY! Britain and the Greek Maritime This systematic antagonizing of War at Sea," I wish to point out Union in the United States. the crew and the representatives of The move was hailed by spokes­ some very erroneous reasoning the crew breaks the morale of the men of the Greek Maritime Union which is prevalent in some quar­ men aboard the ships. In their ef­ in New York as " a great forward ters. forts to break the unions, the com­ step towards uniting the two Why do some people think that pany's stooges are endeavoring to unions into one strong organiza­ the solution to the problem of the provoke the crews to some overt {Continued from Page 3) tion and thus furnishing effective forgotten heroes at sea is to put action which will necessitate gov­ {Continued from Page 1) 800 delegates dissenting, the con­ ballot, he shall deliver it folded to and great help to the war effort of them in uniform. For the past few ernment intervention. vention, after debate in which a the Judge, who, after ascertaining the United Nations." It was also years, our unions have been fight­ Since Pearl Harbor the seamen small minority pleaded against dis­ that the member is entitled to vote, announced by G. Gregoriades, sec­ ing this reactionary idea with all have foolishly - promised not to affiliation, voted to take the miners shall tear off the numbered stub retary of the union, that a special their strength. During the last strike a ship. This has led to some out of the C.I.O. The action fol­ and deposit the ballot. The com­ membership meeting would be couple of years every effort has unprecedented chiselling in the lowed an hour's address by Mr. mittee shall ^hcn stamp the mem­ called within a -few days to ratify been made to dragoon the Merch­ matters of food, overtime, and Lewis in which he charged the ber's certificate of membership in the agreement and put its clauses ant Seamen into the Naval Re­ conditions in general. leaders of the C.I.O. with waging the proper column for the year and into effect. The agreement will serves with its "finky" pay and Since its inception, the collection a campaign designed to destroy the month of election. Such stamp also be published in "Ergatis Thal- "finky" working conditions. The assis," the Greek seamen's paper in suggestion that the seamen deserve of overtime has always been a United Mine Workers and of "def­ shall bear the word "voted," the New York. a uniform all their own, smacks sorespot. The shipowners cannot amation or vilification" against initials of the voting place, and the date of the voting. If the /tt a general meeting of the veiy much of the insidious propa­ get it into their heads that one him personally. member is not entitled to vote, the Greek seamen in England on Sep­ ganda that reactionary employers should collect for services rendered The recommendation of the Judge shall cancel and destroy his tember 13, the merger of the two have been using in their efforts outside of working hours. With committee, headed by Frank Hefballot. The Tellers shall count" the organizations was unanimously and opce again to bring the seamen the advent of the war, the com­ ferly of Colorado, president of Dis­ panies' stooges have redoubled their trict 15, was that in view of "the ballots as they are deposited, and enthusiastically approved and new back to slavery. chiseling in this matter. While policy of public opposition to the the clerks shall keep record of the officials were elected to carry out The seamen will fight this with they consider it unpatriotic for United Mine Workers of America count. the provisions of the agreement all their strength. We do not need seamen to collect it in times like and its officers" by the C.I.O., the Section 6. Balloting shall con­ The newly elected general secre­ uniforms in order to deliver the these, the companies feel that it is mine workers "now officially with­ tinue until every qualified voter tary George Koufoudakis also com­ goods. We are well satisfied with their patriotic duty to hog all the draw from the C.I.O. and direct municated to the Greek seamen's present has had an opportunity to our present apparel—old dungarees gravy possible. its subordinate units and members office in New York the appoint­ and khakies. vote. TTie Judge shall then count What really interests the sea­ to withdraw from any official par­ ment of Antonios Ambatielos as As for the medals which the men is higher wages, more adequate ticipation in the aaffirs, or affilia­ the numbered stubs to verify the national organizer of the unified movement. Ambatielos ( a former Maritime Commission is so gener­ bonuses and war risk insurances, tion with any unit of the C.I.O. count of the Clerks, and shall en­ union secrtary in New York) rep­ ously trying to pin on our chests, preservation of the unions and the until such time as the C.I.O. sees close them in a sealed envelope in resented the Greek Maritime Union let them help us, instead, to settle union hiring hall, with less chisel­ fit to correct its errors, desist from the ballot-box. He shall then an­ at the unification conferences in our beefs with the shipowners ling on overtime, food, and condi­ its policy of denunciation and an­ nounce to the meeting, * and the more to the satisfaction of the men tions. England. tagonistic attitude toward the involved. With the scarcity of Instead of medals and uniforms, United Mine Workers of America Secretary-Treasurer, or Agent, shall record in the minutes, (a) the metal, the medals could do a more let those patriotic and public spir­ and recognize its valid financial lasting service as bullets to be used ited citizens who are interesting obligations." number of ballots last distributed; on those people who profit by war. themselves in the welfare of the The last reference was to the (b) the number of ballots cancel­ seamen use their influence to help debt of $1,685,000 which the ed or destroyed, and (c) the num-_ Even before Pearl Harbor, with us retain the conditions which we United Mine Workers claim is ow­ the slogan of National Defense, her of ballots debited. The bal­ have obtained through years of ing to it from the C.I.O. on loans John Shipowner has been hiding lots shall then be placed in an en- ' years behind the American Flag to cover struggle. Let the seamen and citi­ advanced during the five NEW YORK, N. Y. — ITF — up his chiseling of the heroic men zens of the U. S. keep faith with when Mr. Lewis was president of velope provided for the purpose those unsung and much maligned that organization. The C.I.O and a slip of paper, also specifical­ The training school for young who go down to the sea in ships. heroes who, during the strikes of contends that the money was a ly provided, shall be signed by each American seafarers established a Since Pearl Harbor the steamship '34, '35 and '37, spend long days "gift'' in the campaign to help or­ member of the Committee on Elec­ year ago on the West Coast by the companies and their stooges have on the picket lines; often hungry, ganize the mass production in­ Sailors' Union of the Pacific has made every effort to bring back and who, too, often, bled and died tion and pasted on the back of the dustries. met with great success. pre-1934 conditions at sea. envelope. The sealed envelope shall for the abolition of slavery at sea. Mr. Lewis denounced the C.I.O. The school which is located in I have recently returned from a Very truly, and its leaders as having betrayed then be placed in the ballot-box. the SUP building, Clay Street, San five moiuhs' trip to sea. On this J. E. Farquhar the miners' organization, whose The ballot-box shall then be locked Francisco, Cal., has been in con­ ship, on which I was an ordinary help and money, he said, had made and sealed, and the key thereof shall tinuous operation since last sum­ seaman, a callous disregard was the C.I.O. possible. be sealed up in an envelope, also mer. Over 500 ordinary seamen shown for the health, safety, and and others desirous of qualifying welfare of the crew. specially provided for that purpose, , HERBERT N. LLOYD for A.B. tickets have been trained on the back of which each member When the departmental dele­ Get in touch with Sol Berenholtz and most of them are already sail­ of the Committee on Election shall gates, the elected representatives of as you case Is coming up. ing on American vessels. again sign his name. The envelope Editor, Seafarers' Log The union's contribution to the so signed and sealed shall be given Dear Brother: American maritime effort before in charge of the Secretary-Treasurj:^ Tell "Whitey and the Gang that and after the actual entrance of the Vou can not stop the clock, 'tis said. I deeply appreciate the expressions er, or Agent, or some other membet\ United States into the war has For now you live but you'll soon be dead. of sympathy upon the death of" my designated by the meeting. No bwn substantial and its training But we have seen that times does linger mother. candidate for office shall be a mem­ At the twist and turn of the Second Mate's finger program was conducted without fanfare or publicity. What is Joe Lewicki ber of the Committee on Election. You can not hurry time, some say, more, the union training pri^am For night is night and day is day. did not cost the government a But wouldn't these people have quite a shock cent.; if they saw the Second advance the clock. school will ft^un now on be ' icnown as the Andrew Furuseth Now if God up in his atmosphere School of Seamanship in honor of Governs time as his own special sphere. ENGINE STEWARD Then the Second Mate must rate a lower berth Andrew Furuseth, veteran Ameri­ Shipped .. 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