http://seafarerslog.org/archives/files/original/d4589371986a435554820216cdcf84b1.PDF 9e080b19ae3da44a7be48a975b79e2fe PDF Text Text •sm OFFICIAL GROAN OF THE ATLANTIC AND OULF DISTRICT, SEAFARERS' INTERNATIONAL UNION OF NORTH AMERICA NEW YORK, N. Y., FRIDAY. AUGUST 27, 1943 No. 22 Vigilance Needed To Protect Halls We Purchase AFL Opens More War Political Bonds Campaign (This resolulion was pass­ ed last Monday night up and down the coast by member­ ship vote.) p CHICAGO, 111.—The American Federation of Labor has launched a nation-wide political drive to elect members of Congress in 1944 who are friendly to labor's cause. President William Green announced that the Executive Council had authorized a concert­ ed campaign to get out the labor vote in every city. Instructions will be sent to all affiliated unions including city central bodies and State Federations, to see "to it thdt all AFL members register in accordance with local laws so that thej' may be eligible to vote. Likewise, local campaign com­ mittees will be under orders to follow up on the membership and make certain they go to the polls on election day. A national, non-partisan poli­ tical committee .will be set up in Washington to check the records of all candidates for public of­ fice and to decide whether the AFL will endorse or oppose them in accordance with their attitude on labor questions. This committee will be com­ posed of President Green, Secre­ tary - Treasurer George Meany and the legislative representa­ tives on the AFL staff. RESOLUTION August 19, 1943. WHEREAS: The Atlantic & Gulf District of the Seafarers InternationaL Union of North Am­ erica has in the Hospit^, Burial, and General Funds more than sufficient cash to meet the ordi­ nary disbursements required of these funds, and WHEREAS: This cash is lying idle in the hank, and WHEREAS: United States De­ fense Bonds constitute the safest investment in the world, the en­ tire integrity of the government being their guarantee, and .WHEREAS: The government has urgent need of this money to finance a war in which our mem­ bers are frontline fighters, there­ fore be it RESOLVED: That the Secre­ tary-Treasurer of the Atlantic and Gulf District be instructed to withdraw $15,000 from the Gen­ eral Fund and $10,160 from the Hospital and Burial Fund, and with this money purchase war bonds, and be it further RESOLVED: That a banking committee of 3 men be elected at Wooden Lifeboats the New York Branch meeting to Banned On Tankers go with the Secretary-Treasurer to deposit these bonds in the safe Installation of wooden lifeboats deposit box. These bonds shall on tankers was prohibited by the be examined by each Quarterly Coast Guard yesterday in an or­ der effective September 1. After Finance Committee. Herbert Messervy, No. 2076 that date all lifeboats installed on tankers must be constructed of John D. Lewis, No. 477 metal. John Smalls, No. 22163 No Victory Tax Levied On Transportation Money In a letter to SIU Washington Representative Matthew Dushane. Internal Revenue Com­ missioner Guy T. Helvering ruled officially that shipowners, are not to deduct the 5% Victory Tax from the transportation money paid crews. The Commissioner made it elear, however, that transporta­ tion money must be included in the gross .income , of the seamen when filing income returns at the end of the year. The text of the letter follows: TREASURY DEPARTMENT Washington, D. C. August 19, 1943 Mr. Matthew Dushane, Washington Representative Seafarers Int. Union & The Sailors Union of the Pacific ^24—5th St., N. W. Washington, D. C. Sir: Reference is made to your let­ ter dated Jxme 15, 1943, regarding a ruling with respect to the with­ holding of the 5 percent victory tax under the circumstances stated therein which, briefiy, are as follows: The Sudden and Christsenson steamship company of San Fran­ cisco, California, operates the steamship W. R. Howells. The vessels articles terminated in the port of New York. Under the terms of an agreement between the Sailors Union of the Pacific and the American Steamship owners, of which the Sudden and Christenson steamship company is a member. Any seamen who signs on a vessel on the Pacific {Continued on Page 2) High Praise For SIU Crew Comes From Skipper Sezdarers International Union Gentlemen: I am not the kind of man that looks for praise, but when I do a job well, I sometimes like to be commended. And in as much, as when a crew gets out of line there is plenty of noise in general, I think that it should be fair to commend a crew when it stays in line. I have just brought the S.S. Sarazen in with a full SIU crew and I thought that I would show my appreciation by commending the entire crew. I have been going to sea for the past iweniy-iwo years. I have sailed in the focs'l, in every department of the unlicensed personnel. I have sailed as of­ ficer with crews from every organization, including the Ship­ ping Board and non-union ships. And I can truthfully say * that the crew of the Sarazen was the most efficient and re­ liable crew that I have .ever sailed with. If the SIU keeps putting out crews like this, they have reached the aim to make seamanship an honorable and respectable vocation which it rightfully should be. I have endeavored to do my part, and the crew and of­ ficers have shown their appreciation by cooperation. If we keep this cooperation going together, we can keep them sailing. Steady as she goes, • CAPT. H. E. HELLER, S.S. Sarazen. Founder Of Labor Day ReceivesAnnualHonor Early in May of 1882 the newly formed Central Labor Union of New York City was holding a meeting that would have been forgotten decades ago but for one piece of business transacted on that occasion. At that meeting Labor Day was born. Among those present at the meeting was a man in his middle thirties named Peter J. McGuire. A native of New York City, he had gone to work in a dry goods store while still a child. Later he had been apprenticed to the car­ penter's trade, and at the age .of twenty he had become a imion man. It was McGuire who sent out a call for a conference of represen­ tatives of the various scattered groups of organized carpenters. This conference, staged at Chicago, established, the United Bratherhood of Carpenters and Joiners, now known as one of the largest and strongest of Ameri­ can trade unions. McGuire had long thought that a day should be set aside to honor "those who from rude nature have delved and carved all the comfort and grandeur we behold." So, on the eighth of May of the year 1882, he stood up before his fellow-delegates at the meeting of the Central Labor Union and proposed that one day in the year should be designated as a general holiday for the toiling PETER J. McGUIRE millions. This day, he suggested, should be known as Labor Day. The delegate from the Chicago Trades and Labor Assembly, A. C. Cameron, proposed and the convention adopted the follow­ ing: "Resolved, That the first Mon­ day in September of each year be set apart as a laborers' national holiday, and that- we recommend its observance by all wake work­ ers, irrespective of sex, calling or nationality." Keep In Touch With Your Local Draft Board, "N- By John Hawk (The following instructions were sent to all branch Agents by the Secretary-Treasurer, and are being printed in the LOG be> cause of the importance that each SIU man understand fully the positions of the Union on such questions as the RMO trainees, fink halls, pier head jumps, etc.) Let's not forget for one mom­ ent that one of the main points that the Sailors Union of the Pa­ cific fought hardest for and won in the Pacific Coast Strikes of 1934, 1936 and 1937 was the abol­ ishment of the Pacific American Shipowners Fink hall, and after that ' was accompished they blocked the setting up of Gov­ ernment Fink halls on the Paci­ fic Coast in order to preserve their own Union hiring hall. And let us not forget that militant union seamen gave their lives, and have stood many long cold and hungry picket watches in or­ der to make possible the SUP and the SIU, of today with its own Union hiring halls and the best working conditions in the history of the Maritime Industry^ MAIN LIFELINE Our main life line is our hiring hall, aU our contracts with the shipowners call for a closed shop which means that every un­ licensed job aboard contracted ships shall be filled from our Union hiring halls. At times, we might not have enough of our own members ip a certain ,port to fill all jobs, however, ratings with the exception of messmen,. ordinary seamen and wipers, ar­ rangements can be made with the operators at their expense to transport rated men from one of our Branches to another if the rated men are available in other Branches. In any event, when an Agent cannot supply a crew through the above sources, he can call the RMO and they will send their trainees or misfits to our Union hall to be dispatched to a ship. The Union has the right to reject any man the {Continued an Page 4) Far-Fetched Ruse To Ban Union Buttons A brand new wrinkle in em­ ployer arguments against work­ ers wearing union buttons, was put forward by the Campbell Soup Company. The management of the com­ pany's Chicago plant claimed the buttons might "faU into the soup" and thus "contaminate" the pro­ duct. It souglit to ban them on that ground. Rejecting that argument, the War Labor Board specfiically authorized the wearing of but­ tons, but added that both sides should by collective bargaining agree on a type that could not fall off. �THE ' Page Two SEAFARERS LOG fR€POi?T or\. ^ASHIt\GTOtV SEAFARERS Published by the SEAFARERS' INTERNATIONAL UNION OF NORTH AMERICA Atlantic and Gulf District NATIONAL WAR LABOR BOARD Affiliated with the American Federation of Labor HARRY LUNDEBERG - - - - - - President 110 Market Street, San Francisco, Calif. JOHN HAWK ------- Secy-Treas. P. O. Box 25, Station P., New York City JMATTHEW DUSHANE - - Washington Rep, 424 5 th Street, N.W., Washington, D. C. Directory of Branches PHONE ADDRESS BRANCH NEW YORK (4) 2 Stone St .••••*-« Deck & Engine Dispatcher.. BOwIing Green 9-3430 Steward Dispatcher BOwling Green 9-6786 Agent BOwling Green 9-3437 BOSTON (10) 330 Atlantic Ave Liberty 4057 BALTIMORE (2) 14 North <^y St. .^vert 4539 PHILADELPHIA 6 North 6th St Lombard 7651 NORFOLK..?. Commercial PI Norfolk 4-1083 NEW ORLEANS (16)... 309 Chartroe SL Canal 3336 SAVANNAH 218 East Bay StSavannah 3-1728 TAM^ fr:423^Ea^^puu st.. MOBILE PUERTO RICO GALVESTON FT. LAUDERDALE ... Tampa^-1323 65 So. Conception St Dial 2-1392 45 Ponce da Leon Puerto de Tlem 219 20th Street Galveston 2-8043 2021 S. Federal Highway. .Ft. Lauderdale 1601 • • w PUBLICATION OFFICE: ROOM 213, 2 STONE STREET New York City BOwling Green 9-834^ No Victory Tax Levied On Transportation Money {Continued from Page 1) Coast and is discharged on the Atlantic Coast, or vice versa, is entitled to transportation back to the port of employment. Pur­ suant thereto each member of the crew of such vessel was paid the sum of $125.00 to cover the cost of transportation and subsistance from New York to San Francisco. The withholding for victory tax for purposes prescribed by sectidn 466 of the internal rev­ enue code, as amended by the revenue act of 1942, is applicable to "wages", which are defined in section 465(b) to mean "all re­ muneration *** for services per­ formed by an employee for his employer, *** "Section 19.465 (c) of regulation 103 further provides with respect to "wages." "Traveling and other expenses —amounts paid or reimburse­ ments made to employees speci­ fically for traveling or other ex­ penses incurred in the business of the employer are not subject to withholding." It is the opinion of this office that the amounts payable to dis­ charged seamen under the pro­ visions of the contracts outlined above are paid for expenses in­ curred in the business of the em­ ployer and do not constitute re­ muneration for services or "wages" within the meaning of the code or regulations. There­ fore such payments are not sub­ ject to withholding for victory Friday, August 27, 1943 tax pm-poses. Furthermore, under the compaiable definition o f "Wages" which is found in sec­ tion 1621 (a) of the internal rev­ enue code and the regulations applicable thereto, it is also be­ lieved that similar payments, which may he made subsequent to the effective date of the cur­ rent tax payments act of 1943, are not includible in "wages" within the meaning of the Act. However, the amounts so paid must be included in the gross in­ come of the seamen when filing income victory tax returns for th.e taxable year in which they are received, and the seamen will be entitled to deductions on such returns for the amounts actually expended during the taxable year in returning to^ the port of em­ ployment. Respectfully, GUY T. HELVERING, Commissioner headquarters of the union. The panies whereby the AB's would main effect of executive order No. receive $110.00 per month. There On July 8, 1943, the Board set 9328 in the maritime industry in is nothing that I nor any one else up a panel for the maritime in­ the offshore and coastwise trade, sitting on a ^anel can do that dustry. This panel is known as is that it sets up a supposedly can upset this ruling, unless the the War Shipping Panel and standard scale of wages—its ef­ President issues a new executive shall have jurisdiction over all fect on the SIU Atlantic and Gulf order. This does not mean that cases involving the personnel of agreements is in that some of AB's who now receive $110.()0 relief and regular crews employ­ them do not come under what is per month on some ships will ed on all ships, dry cargo, tank­ generally termed as the standard, not receive it in the future, this ers, barges and towboats, en­ and are above the code of stand­ order only applies to new agree­ ments, that may be submitted to gaged in offshore, coastwise, har­ ard wages. the Board. , Example: In the Waterman andbor, and inland waterways. The majority of the employes The panel consists of six mem­ other agreements the AB's quar­ termasters receive $110.00 per of the NWLB are members of the bers, two from labor, two from CIO, and from all indications the month, the majority of all the the employers, and two shall SUP and the SIU are being given other agreements in the inrustry represent the public. The board the works on the QT by some of the AB's receive $100.00 per may also appoint alterpates. month. If the SIU or any other the employes. For instance, the The two labor members are Union negotiate an agreement SIU signed an agreement with yours truly, representing the AFL with the operators, and they both Smith & Johnson on the 28th of and Bjorne Hailing representing reach an agreement whereby the January, 1943. The company sub­ the CIO. Both the AFL and the AB's are to receive $110.00 per mitted the contract to the WSA, CIO have alternates on the panel. month, the wage rate under ex­ which was approved by them and The board states that dases shall ecutive order No. 9328 would not sent to the NWLB for their ap­ he heard as follows: "THE LA­ be approved by the Board, and proval. This contract was not on BOR MEMBER OF THE PANEL the best that the AB's would get the agenda, and the staff mem­ SITTING IN EACH CASE would be $100.00 per month. Of ber who handles the cases stated SHALL BE A MEMBER CHO­ course the labor member wouAd that this case was not through SEN FROM THE CRAFT OR IN­ approve of the negotiated rate of being processed, and was not DUSTRIAL GROUP INVOLVED $110, but the Board would turn ready. The SUP also has cases BEFORE THE PANEL, OR it down. here for approval and-yours truly SUCH LABOR MEMBER AS HE It can readily be seen that in was given the same answer on MAY DESIGNATE." the interest of future organiza­ them, although the CIO and sev­ This panel is only an advisory tion and expansion of both the eral non union cases that were panel, and can only make recom­ SUP and the SIU, that in all fu­ submitted to the Board after the mendations to the NWLB on all ture agreements that they nego­ SUP and SIU cases were submit­ applications for wage and salary tiate, they limit their demands to ted, were on the agenda and adjustments and on all labor dis­ the employers to the^ standard some non uniSh cases were class­ putes referred to it. agreements that they now have ed as emergency cases and were The panel met on August 16, in effect. The SUP has a stand­ given priority. They were sent in 17, and 18, and handled fifty ard agreement so they would not as late as August 3rd to the board ca.ses that were on the agenda. encounter any difficulties in hav­ for approval. Ilhe cases involved Union and ing the Board approve of any LEGISLATION; non-Union requests for adjust­ new agreements that they may This completes the history of ments. negotiate in the future. However the gaUant fight led by Andrew The determination for all set­ the SIU would be stymied by the Furuseth for seamen's rights, and tlements depends on executive Board if they negotiated a wage the action that was taken at the order No. 9328, copies of which agreement similiar to the wages are being sent to the respective of the Waterman and other com­ {Continued on Page 3) f-r^^SOHfils RONALD EDNIE Stop in and see the SecretaryTreasurer next time you are in New York City. Keep In Touch With Your Local Draft Board. ATLANTIC AND GULF SHIPPING FOR WEEK OF AUG. 9 TO 14 INCLUSIVE DECK ENGINE STEWARD TOTAL m i: i '• I*' 1 SHIPPED 282 243 219 744 REGISTERED 250 231 127 608 Freddy Benson, SIU old timer known to hundreds of seamen up and down the Atlantic, is traveling in high society these days. He spent a few weeks at the USS rest home in Gladstone. N. J., and was on hand when the Duke and Duchess of Windsor came out to see how the other half lives. Freddie is third from the left, the guy almost resting his chin on the Duchess' shoulder. "So I says to the Duchess . . . �Friday, August 27, 1943 THE SEAFARERS WHArS DOING Around the Ports LOG Page Three Washington Report Although the seamen's law wai {Continued from Page 2) conventions of the American enacted after twenty years agi­ tation, during which time it was Federation of Labor. endorsed in the platform of tho 1915 known as the Mobile Press-Reg­ two great political parties, at­ GALVESTON BALTIMORE THE SEAMEN'S BILL WAS ister on Sunday, August 8th, PASSED BY CONGRESS AND tempts were already being made 1943, carried this item in a very What is this Fakeroo Curran SIGNED BY THE PRESIDNT. for its discredit and repeal. The Just about the time you get in inconspicuous place. Now broth­ coming to? Give him an inch: This measure marks a great for­ law was supposed to have gone the rut in this business, some­ ers this paper is one of the most, Joe Curran far left leader of the ward step in the march of human into effect November 4th. The thing hcippens to jerk you out if not the most, erratic reaction­ NMU has a new idea. He wants freedom and progress. It removes shipowners had eight months te .again. The beefs, growls, real and ary publication in the nation to­ the government to take up the the last vestige of involuntary prepare, and nothing was done imaginary, are the expected lot day. I am^ going to give you one seamen's papers who have been servitude from the laws of the until three days before that time. of our loc^ trio-Brothers, Dickey, little sentence from the letter and suspended by tliC^MU for what U.S. It is one of the first measures The law provides for issuing cer­ McCaulley, and yours truly Flan­ you will readily understand why he calls misconduct. By suspend­ that the AFL urged Congress to tificates to able seamen. No cer­ agan. Along with crew's quar­ the article was handled the way ing a union member, old "Keep enact into law. It wiU improve tificates were issued until within ters, grub, and milk, the current it was. 'Em Sailing Joe" can deprive him the working conditions of the four or five days of the 4th of major issue seems to be this new of working rights wherever the The letter was from Captain seamen. Opportunities for organ­ November. This caused a tre­ rider 64 issued by the WSA. A NMU has contracts. But now he ization will be extended, seamen mendous congestion in the differ­ little birdie whom is well up on Walter C. Ernest, Jr., serving in (Curran, who was against this in other countries will enj«y its ent seaports, of men who wanted maritime law h^s informed me the New Guinea in the United war until his pal Mustache Joe in beneficent influence, the general to obtain certificates. As a result this rider is more or less illegal, States Army, to Representative Russia was attacked) wants some public who travel on the high of that, or for some other reason, as it is contrary to the wording Frank Boykin, United States of the fellow moscovietes in seas will be afforded a larger the examinations as to physical of the law pertaining to the al­ Congress, his cousin. Capt. Er­ Washington to give him a hand fitness did not work altogether nest stated in the letter that he measure of safety provisions. lowed period of paying off. had taken one Engineer company to set ashore everywhere any We feel confident in asserting well or even reasonably satisfac­ The biggest jolt we got this and built a dock to work all five seaman whose conduct offends that the passage of this wise and torily in some places. In other week was when our dispatcher. hatches of a Liberty ship. He al­ old Hamhead Curran. necessary legislation by the Sixty places it seems to be going along Bill Attwood, received an order so stated in the letter: "Oh yes. I Well, the NMU in Galveston Third Congress was one of its pretty smoothly. When the law for an entire crew for the SS. must tell you that one Sunday has started the ball rolling, distinctions. Nevertheless, we find shall have been in operation long • John J. Hawk. The natural re­ the ship had turkey for dinner, none other than a lady seaman it to be a painful duty to call at­ enough so that the smaller offi­ action to this was to be insulted ice cream, etc. The sailors went as dig^patcher. tention to the fact that a great cials shall be prepared to carry as the ship was an infamous Iron out on deck and each one picked Brother J. P. Schuler, who is danger still confronts this valu­ it out in an honest and faithftd Maiden (Liberty Ship), So we out a soldier who was working well known by the membership, able piece of legislation. The way. It will probably prove the get our wires hot cheeking up on the cargo and gave him his own has arrived in Texas ports aboard cupidity and greed of not only most successful legislation that the authencity of this attact on place at the table and the sailors a ship that the crew states is the the shipping interests of the U.S. has been adopted in half a cen­ our venerated Scratch, (Sec'ty.- went without dinner. These were best feeder afloat today. He but the shipping interests of the tury. Treas.) and were relieved to be the sailors of the merchant mar­ wants Casey Jones to leave Col­ whole maritime world are so 1918 informed that an error was made ine. the same old sailors down on lins in control of Philadelphia, aroused that they will leave no The Shipping Board Emer­ in reference to the name of the Government Street in Mobile. and fly down here to join his stone unturned nor hesitate to gency Fleet Corporation, fully' vessel. I withdrew our demand Don't you think that was a won­ ship. Here is a note that was stoop to any subterfuge to defeat appreciative of the fact that for an apology from the WSA derful gesture toward the ser­ handed to me by the crew of the law and the wise, humanitar­ workers must be dealt with as and Calmar Line, but informed vice? I happened to be a guest the S.S ian and safety provisions that it human beings, reached the con­ them to never scare us that way of the Captain for dinner emd "Re. Austin Brown shipped contains. A continuous, persis­ clusion that labor managers must again, and if they wanted to in­ that was how I knew it. So the from the RMO, New Orleans, La. tant campaign has been made deal with the shipping employes sult all big shots like Charlie Sailors Union isn't so bad after Brothers: The above mentioned against the measure by the great in an intelligent mamier and Schwab and such it was O.K., but all and I can vouch for it." Austin Brown has just completed financial interests of the nation thereby reduce the turnover and never to desecrate our Scratch's a trip aboard the S.S You can readily understand and has proved to be the lousiest under the management of the the causes of discontent and fric­ name on that type of ship. Chamber of Commerce. why any letters with words of man that has ever be^n or will The national Chamber of Com­ tion. Under the agreement be­ As we understand it the Vic­ tween the seamen's union and tory ships are due to be under that nature was printed in a very be shipihates with. In port he merce submitted for referendum the shipping board, schools for construction soon and in view of inconspicuous place of any Pub­ stays drunk all the time, and at vote of its six hundred affiliated training of men who wish to be­ the fact that the plans for them lication as reactionary as the sea he sucks to make up for lost local Chambers of Commerce, come seamen have been estab­ are supposed to be at least in ac­ Press-Register. This letter was time. If he gets a book there is and other trade bodies represent­ lished. However, this plan has_ cordance with an American idea too significant to get any public­ no use of ever having another in­ ing some 300,000 business men, met with difficulty as certain vestigating committee." several propositions, including of what a ship should be like. We ity in the Capitalist press. So Twelve full book members the following "Subsidies from the shipping companies have refused suggest they all be named after brothers from here on in you may to employ these men even after our seamen whom have lost their as well prepare yourselves for signed the letter, which is being government sufficient to offset they have been trained, although sent to headquarters. Have two differences in the cost between lives through enemy action in­ any eventuality that may con­ new ships out at the end of the operation of vessels under the the members of the seamen's stead of some politician or use­ front your union have asked that places be month. Need good men. American flag, and operation in made for these men. less money monger. The ship E. R. WALLACE. Agent the same deep sea trades under OLDEN BANKS. Agent owners can at least tfhow that 1919 foreign flags." The vote upon much deferance for these heros Two bills proposing to strike these propositions was over­ all. out sections 4 and 5 of the sea­ whelmingly in favor of the one Narrow-minded Westbrook men's act was protested against quoted. It is therefore necessary Pegler is at it again. He takes a by the AFL. Both failed of pas­ that our membership be alert to couple of isolated cases of mis­ sage. Called upon the committee the dangers confronting the peo­ conduct by crew members to use ple of the U. S., because there is on merchant marine and fisheries INGEBRITSEN: You have 61 Crew of S.S. Able Stearns can as a basis of calling all seamen, no question that the vested inter­ to investigate violations of the particularly American seamen, collect port bonus for Sydney. hours overtime coming from the ests will exert themselves to the seamen's act and take such steps TRASH. I would like to invite See Captain Respess. Bull Line. Robin Line. fullest extent to defeat the mer­ as would compel its enforcement. this jerk to make a trip on one New York City. MCLAUGHLIN: YOU have 8 itorious principles contained in of .these ships as member of the J. Pantoja has money coming hours overtime coming from the the seamen's act. crew or even as a passenger, from the Bull Line for the last Robin Line. The licensed officers bill also don't think he would work up voyage of the Eleanor. becomes a law. It affords greater enough -courage to do so. I don't Any members of crews of fol­ protection to officers in the mer­ even think he would have enough The following crew members lowing vessels at time of attack, chant marine when complying bafekbone to work in some war of the S.S. Ironclad have bonus should collect $125 attack bonus with their necessary public duty industry. Mr. Pegler, this coun­ money .coming from the Water­ from companies: Benjamin La- in reporting defects in their ves­ try doesn't need useless jerks like man Line: L. Hall. A. DeFelice. trobe. Robin Gray. Panama City. sels to the proper federal inspec­ EDWIN L. WEAVER you to write trash. You can't help E. Bright. J. Lafaso. J. Narovas. Richard Henry Lee. John Daven­ tion officials. The act also more EUGENE C. RICHEY to win this war by sitting on your G. Small. J. Naylor. J. McKenna. port. Pan Gulf. Kofresi. John clearly defines and extends the CLIFFORD F. GRIFFEN fannie and criticizing the real and E. Talbot. Sevens. Francis Marion. right to licensed officers in the RICHARD D. FRANKHAUSER backbone of this war effort. So merchant marine to quit the ser­ SAMUEL A. FOWLER nerts, Mr. Pegler, to you. FRANKLIN G. HENDERSON vices of the shipowner at the ex­ KEEP CLEAR WITH YOUR DRAFT BOARD piration of their contract with­ LESLIE B. REED JOSEPH FLANAGAN FRANK GREENE out intimidation or risk of im­ ..Agent By observing the following simple instructions you will JAMES THOMPSON prisonment. It is believed that continue to receive deferment from military service. Fail LEROY LONNON all of the former elements of to observe these rules and you may wind up in the army. WILLIE SMITH compulsion on the part of the MOBILE WHEN SIGNING ON: Give the clerk or skipper all the WILLIE NELSON shipowners against the licensed information necessary to fill out RMO Card Na. 47 (Green WILLIAM BAKER officers have be?n removed by Card). Well, Brothers it seems like we the passage of this measure. This JOSE HERNANDEZ struck the doldrums in this port act is a valuable addition to the ARTHUR YOUNG WHEN SIGNING OFF: See that Card No. 48-A is propas far as shipping goes. THOMAS W. DIMMWIDE legislation contained in the act perly filled out by skipper or clerk. G. KING protecting the I'ights of seafaring But here is a little item I want Ship out befoio your allotted time ashore has expired. G. KASE men and extending greater safe­ printed in a conspicuous place for If you have not yet hlled out the Green Card, contact your J. CLAHERTY ty measures for those who go , the benefit of the men. The mon­ draft board and let them Imow that you are sailing. W. CHAWONICE down to the sea in ships. opolistic capitalistic publication MONEY DUE .-vr, �Page Four THE SEAFARERS LOG Fridays August 27. 1943 Vigilance Needed To Protect Halls —\ ! Union Or Collection Agency—-Which? for^snipping, paid- fine, 6/24/43. Formerl; ^ Vilbeieto.'E. S, —1715 — Okayed not com .. for to carrych**^ bctotc 5. . — slfftce " Eote* fn^ing, •®Pn/43, 'charges Filed, Trials Pending, De­ cisions of Trial Committees, etc. Baresic, Frank—Contact National Treasurer before registering or shipping regarding $125 owed Lyfces Brothers. Barker, William—Charges: Anti. conduct; refu 5S.\« \ tiona or sh: Lykes Fr Ch Not to be issued a union book or shipped through NMU. or . shipp . Beer, H. W.—8832—Charges: De­ Lykes Brl serted ship after signing foreign GniazdC Articles. Action: fi tnnnthg' nrnha- National '' tinn: alloweiiiim ing or ^ in six months wasnig^t the trial. Iress, IMM IT ,for 99o;^'-^ Behmer, George S.—Contact Na­ uillen tional Treasurer before registering Or shipping regarding $125 ov/ed t®ial Tr shippi Lykes Brothers. lykes Brv. Blsquerra, Amada — 61309 Gnlston/ es: Inefficien ' National ^' 5ne year; during probation to ob­ OT shippii/ tain letter from ship's ,committee I'egarding work and conduct^ Bodenes^^Tripca te H Bugh NMU. Heel Boone, Kirby D. —Contact Na­ tional Treasurer before registering TreaSuii r shipping regarding $125 owed .shippir Broth ' ykes Brothers. Sby'^e.Brinton, Charles—38737—Charges: Of, Conduct unbecoming a union mem^ ripping. " 3ot do his wotr Herold, III, I, . leave. A«ion. ExpeTiea indefinite­ tional Tr> or shinni ly frbm Union. Pto £ °Ofr; Believe it or not, seamen in the NMU are being prevented from shipping put if they owe the shipowner dough. Take a look at the above clippings—and they are only part of what ap­ peared in the Aug. 20th issues of THE PILOT. In all, 28 men were listed to be beached if they didn't pay off the shipowner. Several of them owed as little as $1.50. Just what in hell is this NMU—a trade union or a collection agency for the shipowner? Curran and his cabal are trying to get the check-off-from the shipowners. It looks like the ship­ owners already have the check-oR from' the union. Dear Editor: Here is a little article I read in an AFL paper which I think it would be wise to print. All the brothers should call it to the at­ tention of the WSA , trainees When they ride our ships. It has some good common sense in it. Yours, R. G. L. Would you give odds of a thousand to one against your­ self? Nb? Well, you're doing it when you "buck the boss" alone. Here you are, one of a thous­ and employees under one man­ agement. Your pay, we'll say, averages $1,200 a year. But the corporation is capitalized at, we'll say, two or three or four millions of dollars and is pay­ ing, let us suppose, five, six, seyen or eight per cent on its cap­ italization. If it is run on conventional business principles, it has a "bock log" of half a million or more. That is, theoretically, to provide for dull business periods, etc. Actually it is seldom needed for those dull business periods, for then wages are slashed, help is ruthlessly laid off, and ex­ penses are cut in many other ways—all of which result in un­ employment. YOUR GRUB STAKE You, imorganized, have per­ haps been so thrifty as to have Editor's a month's pay saved up; perhaps even two or three hundred dol­ lars in the bank — if so, you're the lucky exception — probably you're just a hop, skip and jump ahead of three or four install­ ment collectors. So what? So, the boss decides to cut your pay—just as you ex­ pected a. raise—or he decides af­ ter consultmg a "deficiency en­ gineer" to make two persons do three persons' work, or he finds business is too good and orders you to work overtime with no extra pay or at the regular drawing for your daily eight hours. TRUMP TAKES ACE What can YOU do? He has a backlog of half a million dollars; you may, as we said, have as much as a himdred for your lit­ tle old ace in the hole! What'Il chance have you got? You are la free-bom American citizen; you can^tell the son of a packsaddle that he is a son of a packsaddle and then quit. Sure! It may cost him a few nickels to break in somebody to take your place—and how these capital-management boys can squawk about the "cost of labor turnover," and how much it takes out of the corporation bankroll to train new help! But he'll stick to his "principles" and tell you to go to hell. Which you may do—go to the hell of the jobless and broke— for the old days of easy-to-get jobs have gone. Oh, yes! Today if you're in a town full of war industries tand you're not "fro­ zen," it's fairly easy to get some­ thing else to do; but, remember, that's purely, even damnably, temporary. When this war is over, we'll go back more or less to things as they were in the "dirty thirties," as they even were In the early twenties. So, you see, the odds against you are at least a thousand to one. You—poor little you, with your hundred bucks — are up against a bankroll of two or three millions, with half a mil­ lion or so handy just to "take care" of little things like you. BE A BLUE CHIP But, suppose you join a union! Then you are not one little white cliip up against a big stack of' blues—you are part of a big to the RMO Fink hall. And in {Continued from Page 1) RMO sends and can call for an­ most every port you can take it ' other man in the rejected man's for granted that they are making every sneak move that they can Every Agent should check the with the hope of eventually un­ discharges of men other than dermining breaking the Union in trainees that the RMO send to order that their fink halls and them, because here is where the their fink herding jobs will be RMO stooges for the NMU and sure. ALL THROUGH HALL there are plenty of them in this There is no excuse for allowing outfit, sneak over thpir dirty work on the SIU by sending the RMO to dispatch men direct­ NMU commies to us or directly ly to our ships at anytime. It is ' to the ship to disrupt the ship up to every Agent to be on his and attempt to organize the crew, toes to safeguard our hiring hall this is exactly what happened on rights by demanding that the the 2 ships that paid off here with companies live up to their agree­ the NMU organizers aboard. The ments and order all men through RMO slid these men through our Union hiring halls. If we need when our Agents were not on the RMO men then the^Agent can order the men from the RMO di­ job. rectly with the absolute under­ JERK ALL PHONIES standing with the RMO that they On examining a guy's dis­ are to send the men to our Union charges you can get a line on a Hall and we will dispatch the guy if he looks the least fishy. The men ^ to the ships. If the Com­ Agent should immediately reject pany or the RMO dispatch men him. It might be a better policy directly to a ship, take these men to reject every man that the off the ship and make them go to RMO sends to the Union except the Union Hall if you see fit to bonifide trainees. At least we clear these men or else reject know the trainee isn't a fink or them and chase them off the ship. The ships generally sail in disrupter and we have a chance convoy now days and are in port of making him a good Union man and a good seamen. On the •long enough so that plenty of other hand, any guy thats been time is available to crew up even up with around the waterfront a year or if you have to fill trainees. Don't let the RMO hold more knows what the score is you off for a pier head that is and if he continues to ship out one of their main angles to look the RMO Fink hall he is a fink at heart and he is a detriment to for the excuse that our hall was us, therefore, we don't want that closed. For they know that once their trainee is shipped through type. One thing for all Agents to re­ our Union hall that man is lost to member is that the RMO fink them and 9 chances out of 10 ha hall is supposed only to supple­ will become a member of this ment the Union hiring hall man­ Union. Bring it to the attention of the power needs and also the man­ members that it is their duty as power needs of non-union com­ well as the ship's delegate to panies such as Isthmian and make sure that all crew members Standard Oil. of the ship they are on have Of course, I know that some cleared through the Union hall RMO officials try to impress the and if not notify the local Branch Union officials that the Union Agent. ' , Hiring halls are supplementary DOUBLE CHECK Do your duty and make it your stack of blues yourself. You have a trained man to fight for your business to see that all replace­ rights. You have two or three ments for SIU and SUP ships in hundred, or perhaps a thousand your port are shipped and cleared fellow "chips" in the stack, all through our- Union hall. Every month the RMO sends bound togethei; by the iwwerful out figures on the number of tie of labor unionism; Able Seamen, Oilers, Firemen Behind you there is a collec­ and Cooks, etc.; that • they have ' tive bankroll, amassed from the dispatcher to SIU ships. In order initiation fees and dues you and to check on the accuracy of their your fellow workers have paid figures, I am hereby requesting into the local's treasury. When trouble comes you carry that every branch Agent forward your "beef" to the union's busi­ to me weekly the RHiO shipping ness agent. He goes to see the. cards that they give to each man boss—or ex-boss, as'the case that they dispatch to our Halls. . may be—and says: "See here, mister! You can't do that to a member "of Local 1313!" WASHINGTON, D. C.—Presi­ And if the Big Boss Man gets dent Roosevelt imposed sanctions all swelled up and says,' "Why against unions refusing to comply not?"—^why, then, the business with decisions of the National agent gets him told, and in no War Labor Board. uncertain terms. In the case of labor refusing to "Because," he says, "I'm not comply with WLB directives, the just speaking for Bill Jones. I'm Selective Service System was speaking for all of the thousand authorized to cancel draft defer­ members of Local 1313 who are ments of recalcitrant individual employed here. Either you give employes. Power was also grant­ Bill la square deal or else—!" ed to withhold in escrow ,union Then Bill gets a square deal dues collected under union agree­ because the odds were even in­ ments by employers in plants stead of a thousand to one. seized by the Government be­ That's why you, brothers and cause of strikes. The latter provision was wide­ sisters, lare better off in the union, and that's why your fel­ ly interpreted as an attempt to low workers who are now unor­ forestaU any further strike action ganized are fools to give odds by the United Mine Workers when they could have an even Union whose case is , still pend­ ing before the War Labor Board. break. FDR Puts Teeth ..III � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Seafarers Log Issues 1939-1949 Description An account of the resource Volumes I-XI of the Seafarers Log Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Paul Hall Maritime Library Microfilm 1939-1993 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Seafarers International Union of North America Document A resource containing textual data. 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Title A name given to the resource August 27, 1943 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Seafarers Log Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Paul Hall Maritime Library Microfilm 1939-1993 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Vol. V, No. 22 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Newsprint Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Description An account of the resource Headlines: VIGILANCE NEEDED TO PROTECT HALLS WE PURCHASE MORE WAR BONDS AFL OPENS POLITICAL CAMPAIGN HIGH PRAISE FOR SIU CREW COMES FROM SKIPPER FOUNDER OF LABOR DAY RECEIVES ANNUAL HONOR NO VICTORY TAX LEVIED ON TRANSPORTATION MONEY FAR-FETCHED RUSE TO BAN UNION BUTTONS NO VICTORY TAX LEVIED ON TRANSPORTATION MONEY FAR-FETCHED RUSE TO BAN UNION BUTTONS FDR PUTS TEETH Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 8/27/1943 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Seafarers International Union of North America 1943 Periodicals Seafarers Log