http://seafarerslog.org/archives/files/original/d5677b233dbdbe99501b03bc460b8343.PDF c6a9fac925f2429bd44655f4b4709be6 PDF Text Text OFFICIAL OBGAN OF THE ATLANTIC AND GULF DISTEICT, SEAFASESS' INTEBNATIONAL XTKION OF NORTH AMERICA VOL. V. w NEW YORK. N. Y.. FRIDAY. SEPTEMBER 24. 1943 PRISONERS OF WAR AND UNIONISM AN EDITORIAL — No. 26 Nominations Open; 1944 Seen As Most Critical Year Yet A second SIU ship arrived in port this past week on which German prisoners of war had been used to do sailor's HISTORIC WORDS work. This ship belonged to the Bull Line and during "The establishment of equal passage from North Africa back to New York, 15 selected prisoners chipped and painted the entire boat deck. Had pay for equal work as the un­ derlying principle in these ne­ the shipowner observed the union contract and used the gotiations is crucial to the crew for this work, it would have been necessary to break continued life of this union." out the watch below and the result would have been 800 —NMD Vice President hours overtime. McKenzie to the ship­ owners in the current In short, the crew is $720 the poorer, the shipowner is contract negotiations. that much to the good, and the German prisoners, their (Translation—If the NMU own unions having been smashed by Hitler and the German doesn't get the same wages bosses, are now being used by the American shipowners in and conditions won by the an attempt to repeat the pattern here. SIU, the rank and file is Annual nominations for officers of the Atlantic and Gulf District of the SIU opened this week and will con­ tinue through the Monday night meeting of Sept. 27. All elective offices — Secretary-Treasurer, Agents and Patrol­ men—will be filled for the year of 1944 in the elections to : •be held during November and I December. High Wage Myth This election may well turn out to be one of the most import­ ant ever held by the union. It is not out of the question for the war to end during 1944, and the union officials then in office will face grave decisions and respon­ sibilities. We all expect a full scale shipowner offensive against our conditions once the war is out of the way, and the incoming officers will no doubt be called upon to lead the most militant actions in defense of our con­ tracts—and even in defense of our very existance as a. trade union. Lockouts and strikes and picket lines are in prospect and the most steadfast and militorrt leadets will be required, membership should bear this in mind, and not conduct nomina­ tions in a routine and half-heart­ ed manner. All the hullabaloo about high wages sounds pretty hollow alongside a shocking report just issued by L. Metcalfe Walling, administrator of the Wag and HornAct. going to leave the union.) This practice of having war prisoners doing seamen's Unbelievable as the figures work and thereby undermining organized labor, is a flag­ seem, about 12,500,000 workers rant violation of the union contracts and a violation of the are employed in industries for Statement of Principle and Policy signed by the Unions and which a minimum wage of 40 cents an hour was established the government in the spring of 1942: We have no inten­ during the year, or for which ap­ tion of standing idly by while the shipowners chisel the plications for wage hikes are contracts in this manner. * * pending. Walling said. By J. K. SHAUGHNESSY Even after the 12,500,000 work­ The sight of the German prisoners on our ships is a ersare given a guaranteed 40•nie most hectic event of the Constant reniinder of what ciri happert to pien wh^n. their cent minimum. Walling asserted, season was_held last Wednesday unions are smashed by the bosses. We* have no intention of evening at the Legion Hall here there will still be many workers letting it happen here. in Fort Lauderdale. The crew of in-other fields being paid less. the S. S. Seatrain New Orleans "Despite a public impression pitched in the works and held that • wartime wages are high," the most successful dance and en­ Walling emphasized, "the War tertainment that has ever been Labor Board has deemed it nec­ As for eligibility for office, the put on, by and for seamen. essary to allow employers, with­ union constitution provides that out specific permission, to raise All merchant seamen and their rates to 40 cents an horn. This any member (who can qualify) friends were invited to attend was done because the board was may nominate himself for office in By A. W. Armstrong and have a good time, and they flooded with requests from em­ the last two meetings in Septem­ Receiving word of mouth tales of the invasions and turned out about two hundred ployers and employes who had ber. He must file written notifi­ strong. There was plenty to eat previously not been paying or re­ cation of nomination, along with the part that the merchant marine is playing. Of course, and proof of qualifications, and this plenty to drink. In fact the at this time it is impossible to tell these tales but when the boys and their friends consumed ceiving this much." must be in the office of the Sec­ Walling recalled that employer war is over there may be some first class reading printed over ten gallons of good Cana­ members on committees named retary-Treasurer not later than October 15. dian Whiskey and Cuban Rum. ill the LOG. I would suggest that all Agents and patrolmen On top of this there was three to consider wages in two large at this time take time to get this^ industries voted almost solidly To be eligible for elective of­ to the door and there is cross- kegs of beer that disappeared first hand information and when against establishing rates "as fice, the candidate must: some place. town service within two blocks. the war is over then we may be Most of the local officials, both high as 40 cents an hour." This 1. Be a citizen of the United I, acting for the union, offered able to compile it in such a fash­ would indicate. Walling said, that States of America. the company the sum of Fifteen city and county, 'were invited, ion that we can hand down a lower rates were still being paid but they thought that this event 2. Be a full member of the real history of our union during thousand^ dollars, subject to the would be a knock down and and that labor could still be ob­ concurance of the membership. SIU, in continuous good standing war time. drag-out affair so their dignity tained for less than 40 cents an for a period of six months imme­ hour. I expect the most interesting A few days latter a counter would not permit them to attend. The principal reason employers diately prior to the date of nom­ proposal was offered by the com­ Much to the surprise of the lo­ ination. news at this time for the mem­ pany, they were asking $19,000. cal dignitaries this turned out to are fighting the 40-cent minimum, bership is the progress being I told them this was out of the be the most well-behaved group it was indicated, is that they 3. If a candidate for Agent or made regarding a hall here in question and that we would for­ of men in the entire city of Fort know when once established the joint phtrolman, have three years New Orleans. To give the mem­ rate will "stand as a bulwark for of sea service in any one of three get the whole thing. After talk­ Lauderdale. bers a short resume, some months both employers and workers departments; if candidate for de­ ing with the city's reality expert ago we started getting a commit­ Even the newspapers gave out against competitive wage slash­ partmental patrolman must have he told me that he thought that tee together to look over various if we would split the * difference with favorable publicity. Which ing in the period of readjustment three years sea service in the de­ buildings. For quite some time we might be able to buy the is something for the press in this after the war when our soldiers partment specified. Sea service we looked at this and that and building. I took this up with the shall mean sea time on merchant come home." {Continued on Page 3) found a couple that would have meeting Monday night and this ships. done, but the members here took 4. Have no record of miscon­ meeting authorized me to offer the attitude that since we were this price in " cash. By paying duct while previously employed going to buy that it would be as an officer of the union. cash for the hall we wpuld save Boston fishermen, victim of OPA price ceilings on fish foolish to buy something that all that six pef cent carrying Think it over brothers. Plenty would not be satisfactory for all catches, will conduct a strike ballot beginning September 29. charge. of storms are blowing up and time. V o at last found this hall Members of the Atlantic Fishermen's Union, SIU, the men Since the meeting I have got a your union deserves the best of­ that has been in the minutes for line on another building in this will vote by crews as they hit the beach throughout the week. ficers. Don't make a nomination the last few weeks. This hall is same district that we are now in. The vote will be taken under the provisions of the Smithlightly and capriciously. Do make located at 1835 Magazine St. It We have looked the building a nomination with a view to Connally Act, and will be supervised by the National Labor is close to the docks but 18 over, and though it is not nearly clearing the decks for action blocks from the heart of town. Relations Board. against the enemy. There is street car service right {Continued on Page 3) Florida Branch Throws Successful Party For Seamen Agent Reports Progress u In Search For SIU Hall STRIKE VOTE! �THE Page Two SEAFARERS LOG Friday. September 24, 1943 ? : SEAFARERS LOG Published by the • •• •- '-'>1 ";l Merchant Seamen Upgrade School Functions Stick To TheirJobs Are Explained By USMS Merchant seamen and officers September 20, 1943 j are Staying on theit jcibs deSfiite Seafarers IriteTriatibnal IJnion " • weather^ eiiemy actiofl, or the 2 Stone Street constant strain of repeated sea New York, N. Y. duty, according to figures releas­ Attention: Mr. Williams ed by Marshall E. Dimock, Assis­ Affiliated with the American Pederation of Labor , tant Deputy Adihihistrator of the Deaf Sir: War Shipping Administration. HARRY LUNDEBERG ------ "President Thank you for your interest in our school. This tfairiing station* Based on figures corhpiled tvas established in order to break the bottleneck of shortages of 110 Market Stf^t, San Francisco, Calif. since March IS, 1943, there has Able Bodied fieameri. Any ordinary eearftari who is an American been an "absenteeiSni'' of leSs citizen With deck time a§ follows is qualified: JOHN HAWR. - - - _ t ^ - $ecy-TttaS, ' ' ^ • than six and one half per cent of p. O. Sox 25, Station P., New York City Six to riihe months require One month training. . ' all officers ahd then einployed by More than nirie months Will receive a maximum of fifteen American iherchailt Ships, the teMATTHEW DUSHANE - - - Washington Reff^ days' training. (Men with ability usually complete this pbrt shows. During that period 424 J th Street, N. W., Washington, D. C. training in about six days.) more than 104,000 merchant sea­ • • • men shipped frorii Uriited States Seamen who are graduates of a U, S. Maritime Service ports and only 6,600 of these haVe Directory of Branches Training Station or training ships need only three months failed to re-ship after their initial and will receive the same trairiirig as meri with more than or consequent voyages. The ma-^ PHONE ADDRESS BRANCH nine months. jority of these who did hot go NEW YORK (4) 2 Stone St BOwHng Green 9-3437 The school is operi from fl:45 A.M. to 4:00 P.M., Moriday throUgK BOSTON (lOl 330 Atlantic Ave Liberty 4057 back to sea after concluding a BALTIMORE (2) 14 North Gay St ..Calvert 4539 Saturday. Meri are efirolled as Seameri, first claSs and are paid voyage were prevented from do­ PHILADELPHIA 6 North 6th St Lombard 765 1 NORFOLK 25 Commercial PI Norfolk 4-1083 $66.00 per month plus $3.00 per day for subsistence and lodging. ing so because of reasons of NEW ORLEANS (16) ..309 ChaitreS St Canal 3336 Time spent in this course will not count against time ashore undeij SAVANNAH 218 East Bay St... Savannah 3-1728 health. TAMPA ,423 East Piatt St Tampa MM-1323 MOBILE 55 Co. Conception St Dial 2-1392 "Few industries anywhere cari Selective Service Regulations. PUERTO RICO 45 Ponce de Leon Puetto de TIerra You, who are connected with the sea can appreciate the immatch the marvelous record of GALVESTON. 219 20th Street Galveston 2-8043 FT. LAUDERDALE. .. .. .2021 S. Federal Highway... Ft. Lauderdale I Ml poftarice of this work. May we request that you send to this station our .merchant searacn," Mr. Di­ all ordinary seamen sailing as AB's and all ordinary seamen With mock said. "It is bfie of which the requisite amount of sea time. Men in other cities should apply the Unions, the companies and the War Shipping Administra­ to the Enfollirig Office, U. S. Maritime Service and their trarisporPUBLICATION OFFICE: tion can be proud. When Ameri­ tatiori will be paid upon erirollment to the Upgrade School in NeW; ROOM 213, 2 STONE STREET cans consider the risks these York, New OfleariS of San Francisco which ever is nearest. New York City BOwling Green 9-8346 men take and the conditions un­ Your fullest cooperation is requested and deeply appreciated. ' der which they sail they will xa Very truly yours, fully understand that such a low rate of attrition cari only rriean FRANK A. FLORS. extreme loyalty and courage be­ Ensign, U.S.M.S. yond the line of duty. Officer-in-Charge, (acting) "With each new invasion, with Big Business, brass bats and the government are now each new ship off the ways, the number of men in the Merchant beating the drums for the passage of the Austili-Wads- Marine will have to iricrease," worth labor draft bill. This bill would freeze workers to Mr. Dimock continued. "The Merchant Marine has a job that their jobs (their wages are already frozen) and would give grows in size every day. Sicily the Washington bureaucracy a real strangle hold bn the was double what Africa called for and the pext invasion may very lives of the workers. i call for even more. NEW YORK, N. Y.—ITF— Among the gains secured in This is forced labor based on the fascist pattern. It "There are two ways to get the Step by step the Italian workers the past few weeks is the restor­ are regaining their former rights of shop stewards and union would take from labor the rights won over many y0a.rs of increased persoririel we • heed. and febUildirig the trade union ation representatives in industrial es­ We must trairi men for the eritfy struggle. Under the guise of meeting a war emergency, it ratings arid recruit cxpeHericed movement smashed in nearly tablishments. An agfcemcflt con­ would place in the hands of the government and the men now ashore for the qualified two decades of Fascist rule, the cluded on September 2 betweeli ratings. Both of these are neces­ mairi office of the ihterriational the Ministry of Labor, Brimcj bosses, far reaching powers which they would fight to re­ sary and both are being exten­ Transport Workers' Federation Buozzi acting in behalf of the tain in peace time. sively used. These men ship feports after receipts of confiden­ Italian labor movement and the Association of Italian f Industrial­ again and again because they tial information from Italy. The excuse advanced for passing the bill is the alleged want to, not because there is any The workers' struggle for free­ ists explicitly recognized the res­ manpower shortage and other production bottle necks. To outside power forcing them to. dom centers mainly around the toration of these posts which had iridustrial cities of Milan, Genoa, beeri suppressed by Mussolini in begin with, you can't put 7 million men in uniform and and Turiri, arid not even German 1926 at -the instigation of the still expect a labor surplus. Such labor shortage as exists military occupation force has same Association of Italian In­ is the result of the war and forced labor isn't going to been able to halt the workers' de­ dustrialists. solve it. The employers, though out­ termined attempts to reestablish Galveston $45.66 their former organizations. The wardly conciliatory, evidently As for the other production bottle necks, the majority S.S. Virginia Dare 20.00 period between the dictator's fall hope to save the Corporation and of those are directly due to faulty planning, lack of corre­ S.S. Paft York 20.00 and the surrender of the junior Labor fascist charter out of the lation in letting contracts, allotting raw matetials, manage­ S.S. Walter Ranger i8.go Axis partner to the Allies was collapse of Fascism and with it ment inefficiency and (no small point) graft. Forced labor V. D. Dickerson characterized by a bittea under­ the fascist labor secretaries who 10.00 ground struggle which vented it­ administered the labor provisions can hardly correct these evils. S.S. Rupbert Peckham 8.00 self principally in public demon­ in the interest of the employers. 8.00 strations and stay-in strike.s in The workers are determined . It is undeniable that some areas have more manpower L. White Ij. Duerschiett ^e.oo the factories. Appeals and threats however, to regain the free ex­ of the Badoglio government prov­ ercise of their democratic tights ^J. Mafvey ed equally unsuccessful so that 6.06 labor. But this must be accompanied by the payment of Philadelphia the Badoglio regime was finally and again .become free trade 6.06 compelled to seek ari understand­ unionists, regardless of the hopes living wages, of transportation expenses, provisions for Joseph Minagro D. Wolczanski 6.00 ing with the wofkers and their of Italy's industrialists and finan­ adequate housing, health protection and recreation. J. StarikewicZ 5.60 spokesmen. ciers. SEAFARERS' INTERNATIONAL UNION OF NORTH AMERICA Atlantic and Gulf District The Labor Draft Bill Italian. LaboT Rebuilds Shattered Trade Unions Honor Roll But the Austin-WadsWorth bill does nothing to rem­ edy bad housing, poor eating and starvation wages.' It does nothing but clamp upon labor the muzzle and chain of slavery. In reality the backers of the Austin-Wadsworth bill are less concerned about production schedules than about smashing labor. They see in this war an opportunity to settle accounts with their age old enemies—the American workers. •TiX- • Labor should not be fooled by all the window-dressing designed to make the bill look like a war time measure to increase the flow of arms to the soldiers. It is a 14 karet union busting measure, and should be fought as such. • .... A, L. D. Smith Carlo Colsardo Third Assistant Eng. J. Lassister R. Rae Ev-NMU member X. Bertelson John L. Lloyd Boston J. Voliva M. J. Lyden C. Starke 4.00 4.00 3.00 3.00 2.00 ....... 2.00 . 2.00 2.00 2.00 2.00 . 2.00 ... LOO TOTAL ....$197.00 KELP CLEAR WITH YOUR DRAFT BOARD By observing the following Simple instructions you will continue to receive deferment from militaty service. Fail to observe these rules and you may tvind up in the army. WHEN SIGNING ON: Give the clerk or skipper all the information necessary to fill out RMO Card No. 47 .(Grebn v Card). WHEN SIGNING OFF; See that Card No. 48 A Is propperly filled out by skipper or clerk. Ship out before your allotted time ashore has ejqiired. If you have not yet filled out the Green Card, contact your draft bukitd diid let them know that you are sailing. �Friday^ September 24/ 1943 THE SEAFARERS LOG Page Three } sasixi Around The Ports Florida Branch Agent Reports Progress! NORFOLK Throws Successful After this incident orders were chaftged and the ship w'ent up Party For Seamen but the bay tq. Baitimofe to pay off. In Search For SIU Hall {Continued front Page 1) Shipping continues good So until later that will do fo^ now. pay-offs have slowed down some­ Several companies have tried as big as the other one, it will {Continued from Page 1) P,S= Just contacted the owner§ what, A Bull Line Liberty ar­ this before but this is the first rnake a very nice hail for our­ of this building and they teU us rived here several days ago and time they have actually succeed^ part of the state. after discharging the usual live ed in discharging all cargo and The gaiig oh the Seatraih were selves, 1 believe that this build­ that this joint is already lease4 ing deserves looking into as I so therefore we must vacate. cargo, announced that instead of still forcing the crew to stay SO pleased with the way the shin­ dig came off that they are plan­ think it cah be bought and put paying off here the ship would aboard. into first class shape at consider­ proceed down the coast and pay The whole thing appears to be ning to hold another in the near able saving. When I say first off there^ Nothing was left a patent effort on the part of the future. The only ones that were class shape I mean just that. disappointed were those that re­ aboard except sand ballast that govef-nfnefital agencies aftd the Showers, Wash tubs (with a had been aboard for three trips companies to establish a preced­ ceived invitations and didn't at­ scrubbing board not Washing tend. across and back, but the WSA ent whereby they Can keep crews The crew of the Seatrain de­ machines) proper and decent and the Company decided to call aboard indefinitely. serve a lot of credit for thinking toilets, committee rooms, offices it cargo although three separate A Mississippi ship came in the up and putting over such a pro­ away from the racket of the men, crews had been paid off while other day looking like a tele­ gram. if nothing else, they prov­ a library where we can have Eddie Ford the same ballast was carried. The •1 phone booth in distress. The Cap­ ed to the people in this vicinity reading rnaterial at all times, James Vaselakos ship moved over from Newport some decent games in a place John Hamilton News to the oil dock for bunkers tain had allegedly whipped a guy that the Merchant Seamen are as with wire, the Chief Engineer well-behaved and well-mannered where they can be played, in Jesse W. Gray—TC 1235 and additional stores and the other Words just what all you Maurice Gray—TC-1233 Captain refused any shore leave. had locked another in an ice box as any other group of men in the old timers who rode from place M. McGovern Six members of the crew who and in general the whole outfit world. to place often thought of but was haywire. The Captain also Alfred Lopez were pretty disgusted went over The Entertainment Committee never had. A place where a guy J. Pinir painted over the side at sea and was composed of Brothers Wm. the side and onto a tov/boat after when he needs it can come and Rix Naegle the gangway was in, although did general Work all over the F. Kuschke, Wm. E. Boyd and clean up, knowing that there is James Brady ship. This would be buck has Louie Daray. These men worked they had been advised by the soap and all the gear on hand. M. Neville luckily been replaced with an­ for over three weeks to make unions to stay aboard. They were The pie'-cards here in New Or­ Lenhardi Eisele other skipper but be on the look­ this blowout a success, and they charged with desertion and had leans have spent a lot of time L. Chamberland out for him—^His name is ANdid a fine job. their certificates suspended for talking this thing over and when C. R. Michael BREASSON (no relation to his Sik months despite a fight put up Everything was Union, the we do realize on it, we want to counterpart "Red Lead" Ander G. Patrice the union to get them taken printing of programs and invita­ start something that all the other son). A. Brazcnic back aboard the ship which was tions was given to a local Union halls can set their sights on and . MARTY THAINOR, Agent printer, the music was by art or­ Teopesta San Juan stiU in the stream. | try to compete with. We might chestra from the Miami Federa­ start this haU buying set up here, L. L. Miller tion of Musicians. Even the beer but the members that I have George Eraser was Union Made and deliverec talked to are all very enthusias­ Lloyd D. Moullon by a Union driver. The Master of tic about it and all hands state S. Josephson Maurice Romans CM-emonies, althought he is not that it is time that we get our Leo Garfield a Union' member, was selected own halls. Laurence Kelly because of his fairness to Union Estill Fr_ances That hall in Wilmington seems seamen and also his ability to Albert Huard help the people get lined out and to have hit all the boys who have been on the coast, and when we Norman Johnson have a good time. (After the Ohe of the ILA men made a trip to Bermuda on a sea-going tug third rum and coke they didn't start talking hall they all say, and when he came back the company informed him the FBI was need any help). "O.K., let's get ours. What's a ten buck assessment now. It will Keep In Touch With lobking for him. He showed the FBI that he was not delinquent repay itself a thousand fold." Your Local Draft Boccrdy with his draft board. So they called his draft board and tell them that this man gave them his change of address. The draft board calls up the U. S. District Atiorney and so he insists upon seeing him The FBI men take him over there and they insist that the man was not delinquent and was not trying to dodge the draft, but the At torfley tefused to see the man's papers, insisting that he was dclin qUent. He holds him on $500 bail, and since he couldn't get anyone Central Registering and Dispatching Office to bail him out he rested in jail for two days, and was finally in WASHINGTON — The WLB Open in SUP Headquarters at San Francisco ruled that it will not and cannot dticted into the Navy. use its powers to nullify decisions For SIU Members and T. C*s in The FBI Agents regretted the action of the U. S. Attorney but of the NLRB, since to do so there wasn't anything they could do about it. The only action the Deck, Engine and Steward Departments would nullify an act of Congress. tow boat man had was to sue the draft board for false arrest, but For this reason, the Board unani­ Increased shipping on West Coast by SIU members he Was disgusted, and took no action against them. Here is the case mously refused to take jurisdic­ has made it necessary tp open a separate and complete of an active seamen having the works put to him, and all the facts tion of a dispute at the Morenci, business office to be devoted solely to registering- and car­ in the world was not going to help him. Now at 38, this man is in ing for the needs of SIU members in all departments. Arizona, mine of the Phelps Service because his draft board wanted him there. So brothers, Dodge Corp., brought up by the All SIU members in San Francisco are required to im­ doh't feel too secure because you're sailing ships. Keep in touch mediately register in SIU office at 59 Clay St. SIU members Clifton Morenci Metal Trades with your draft board every time you return from a trip, and you'I Council (AFL). in SUP Branches,on the West Coast are to register in the save jjourself a lot of headaches. respective SUP Office and receive an SIU shipping card. The dispute arose when the SIU shipping cards will have preference on SIU ships and NLRB certified the International will be i^cognized by all SUP Dispatchers. SIU Deck mem­ Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter bers will have second preference when SUP members are Workers (CIO) as exclusive bar­ The WSA has issued a guide book to all seamen. They must available. gaining agent for the approxim­ want to give some of the boys a lesson in geography. Some of them ately 2,000 employees at the mine. For Further Information: don't even know where they are when the trip is over, but the The AFL Council contended WSA wants them to be worldly wise. They have a new USS center that the recent large-scale influx Call your union offices and tanker organizers at the ih Trihadad. The beachcombers will be glad to hear about if. They of non-skilled workers into the addresses listed below. You will always finds somebody at these numbers excepting at night. have accommodations for 50 .seamen. It is located at 1 St. Ann's niines gave these workers the dominant voice over skilled Road. The stockade in the Persian Gulf is getting filled with U. S. SEATTLE, WASH.—86 Seneca St.—Phone Elliott 6752. workers in any industrial bar­ seamen. Those who quit their ships down there are incarcerated gaining unit. Other Phelps—'E. Coester or Johnson. by the Army and are not allowed to lea/e the stockade until they Dodge mines in Arizona, it alleg­ PORTLAND, OREGON—111 West Burnside St.—Phone sei ve theif term. So get wise fellows, the union can't help you on ed, have craft units. After the Beacon 4336—John Massey or C. Atkins. election, the AFL petitioned the that beef. RICHMOND, CALIFORNIA—257 Fifth St.—Phone Rich­ NLRB for reconsideration of its mond 4021—^Louie Glebe or Banks. decision and direction of the Out of the Focs^l by JC. t) WLB Won't Nullify NLRB Past Decisions ATLANTIC AND GULF SHIPPING FOR WEEK OF SEPTEMBER 7th TO 11th DEC)K ENGINE STEWARD TOTAL SHIPPED 320 268 290 888 SeGISTERElD 24^ 2l8 ' 165 630 election. The petition was de­ nied. In the meantime, the dis­ pute had been certified to the WLB, and the AFL requested a public hearing, which was held August 20, 1943. Keep In Touch With our Local Draft Board, SIU And Tanker Members On West Coast VANCOUVER, B. C.—340 B. Cambie St.—Phone Pacific 7824—Hugh Murphy.' WILMINGTON, California — 440 Avalbn Blvd. — Phone 4449. NEW YORK CITY — 105 Broad St. — Phone BOwling Green 9-9530—^Morris Weisberger. SAN FRANCISCO—59 Clay St.—Phone Exbrook 8229— Phil donley. �THE Page Four SEAFARERS Friday, Sepieimber 24, 1943 LOG Constitional Provisions For Nomination And Election Of Seafarers Officers (All Agents: Please clip this page and post it prominently in the hall for all members to see. This will eliminate many beefs and misunderstandings on election procedure.) ARTICLE XIII Nomination and Election of Officers. Atlantic and Gulf District Section 1. The regular officers shall be elected annually and shall hold office for one year, or until relieved by their regular successors in office. I ^'"Zr fied candidates for each office ar­ ranged alphabetically with vot­ ing squares to the right of names; (c) have one blank line for each office in which member whose name does not appear up­ on the ballot who must be quali­ fied under the provisions of Sec­ tion 2 of this Article; and (d) be perforated at the upper edge and the perforated stubs numbered consecutively ,beginning with No. 1. The Secretary-Treasurer shall cause to be printed, and shall forward to each Branch and retain for use at Headquar­ ters, a sufficient number of bal­ lots, and shall keep a record of the numbers of the first and last ballots so forwarded and retain­ ed. None but official ballots shall be used in any general election. Section 2. Nomination of reg­ ular officers shall be made ht all branches in the regular meeting held during the last two meet­ ings in September. Any member who can qualify may nominate himsefffor office by submitting, in writing, accompanied by the necessary proof of qualifications listed in sub-sections (a), (b), (c), and (d), his intentions to run for office, naming the particular of­ BALLOTING fice. Such notification to be in Secretary-Treasurer's office not Section 4. Balloting for officers before September 1st, and not shall be secret and shall take later than October 15th of the place each day during the month year. of November and December, 60 Day Referendum provided that The names and roll-numbers of there are five members in good nominees, if obtainable at the standing elected from the meet­ time shall be recorded in the ing present to look at their books minutes. The Secretary-Treasur­ and guard the ballot box; and no er shall prepare a list of names ballots shall be accepted except of nominees for each office and those cast in the regular manner. forward copies thereof to each Branch. Such lists shall be con­ A committee of Election com­ spicuously posted in each qffice posed of six (6) full members in or hall. All full members shall good standing, two (2) from each be eligible for any regular office, department, namely one judge, provided: two tellers and three clerks, shall be elected in each port to con­ (a) That he is a cituen of the duct the election and to canvass United States of America. the returns. Ballots shall be dis­ (b) That he be a full member tributed in the order of their of the Seafarers' International numbers, commencing with the Union of North America, in con­ lowest number. tinuous good standing for a pe­ Section 5. Members shaU be riod of six (6) months immedi­ entitled to vote upon presenting ately prior to the date of nom­ their membership certificates ination. showing that they are in good (c) Any candidate for Agent standing, and have not previous­ or joint patrolman must have ly voted at the same election. three years of sea service in any Members shall mark their ballots one or three departments. Any with a pen and ink, or indelible candidate for departmental pa­ pencil, and shall signify their trolman must have three years choice of candidates by marking sea service in their respective a cross (X) in voting squares op­ departments. Sea service as spe­ posite names, or by writing in cified in this article shall mean the blank line the name of their oh merchant vessels . choice if such name be not print­ ed upon the ballot. Lead pencils (d) He has not misconducted shall not be used in marking bal­ him.self previously while employ­ lots. When a member has mark­ ed as an officer of the Union. ed his ballot, he shall deliver it Section 3. A committee con­ folded to the Judge, who, after sisting of six full book members ascertaining that the member is in good standing, two from each entitled to vote, shall tear off the department, shall be elected, numbered stub and deposit the whose duty it shall be to prepare ballot. The committee shall then the ballot. stamp the member's certificate of All nommees who desire to bc= membership in the proper column come candidates shall have the for the year and month of elec­ necessary qualifications and ac­ tion. Such stamp .shall bear the ceptance in the office of the Sec­ word "Voted," the initials of the retary-Treasurer or the Commit­ voting place, and the date of the tee on Candidates prior to the voUng. If the member is not en­ 15th day of October of each year. titled to vote ,the Judge shall Nominees who shall fail to com= cancel and destroy his ballot. ply herewith shall be regarded The Tellers shall count, the bal­ as having declined the nomina­ lots as they are deposited, and tion. Ballots shall (a) bear the the clerks shall keep record of name of the Union, the month the count. and year of election and instruc­ FORWARDING VOTES tions to voters; (b) bear the names of eligible and duly quali­ Section 6. Balloting shall con­ ^V'::. tinue until every qualified voter present has had an opportunity to vote. The Judge shall then count the numbered stubs to verify the count of the Clerks, and shall enclose them in a seal­ ed envelope in the baUot-box. He shall then announce to the meet­ ing, and the Secretary-Treasurer, or Agent, shall record in the min­ utes, (a) the number of ballots last distributed; (b) the number of ballots canceled or destroyed, and (c) the number of ballots de­ posited. The baUots shall then be placed in an envelope provided for the purpose and a slip of pa­ per, also specifically provided, shall be signed by each member of the Committee on Election and pasted on the back of the envelope. The sealed envelope shall then be placed in the bal­ lot-box. The ballot-box shall then be locked and sealed, and the key thereof shall be sealed up in an envelope, also speciaUy provided for that purpose, on the baick of which each member of the Committee on Election shall again sign his name. The envel­ ope so signed and sealed shall be given in charge of the SecretaryTreasure, or Agent, or some other member designated by the meet­ ing. No candidate for office shall be a member of the Committee on Election. BRANCH COUNTING Section 7. In the regular meet­ ing held in Branches during the first meeting in January, the mittee on Election shall open the ballot-box, count the number of ballots therein contained and count the number of votes for each candidate. The result shall be noted in the minutes. The Committee shall then forward to Headquarters all used ballots (i.e., aU ballots taken from the ballot-box, including blank and disqualified ballots), together with a copy of the tally sheets, under sealed cover, marked "Bal­ lots for Officers." In case no regular meeting is held during such week, the Agent, in the presence of the Committee on Election, or, in their absence, be­ fore five other full members, shall open the ballot-box and count the ballots therein contain­ ed (but shall not count and tally the votes), and forward same to Headquarters in the manner hereinbefore prescribed. H. Q. COUNTING Section 8. The. Committee on Election at Headquarters shall count the number of ballots re­ ceived from each Brsinch and cast at Headquarters, and shaU count and tally the votes cast at each voting place. They shall prepare a report showing the number of ballots cast and the number of votes received by each candidate at Headquarters and each Branch, also the total number of ballots and votes. They shaU carefully preserve and place under sealed cover all bal­ lots, keeping separately the bal­ lots cast in each voting place. Tally sheets shall be kept on file by the Secretary-Treasurer for the inspection of members, and the report of the committee shall be spread in.fuU upon the min­ utes.. The candidate receiving the highest number of votes for any office shaU be declared elect­ ed, and shall assume office within thirty days after notification. If the candidate fails to comply with the foregoing provision, the office may be declared vacant, and the Union shaU proceed to fill the office in accordance with Article 14, Section 3. Any mem­ ber who desires to be present during the canvass shall be ad­ mitted upon showing his mem­ bership book in good standing. INVALID BALLOTS Section 9. Multilated or disfig­ ured ballots, or ballots marked with lead pencil, shall be deem­ ed invalid. Ballots torn in such a manner that part of the names e< candidates or voting squares is destroyed are to be regarded as mutilated ballots. " Where the choice of any member for any of­ fice cannot be determined with' certainty, the vote for such of* fice shall not be counted. This also applies where a member has voted for more than the desig­ nated number of candidates to be elected to any office. AU bal­ lots cast at any time, in any place and manner, except as herein" provided, shall be deemed inval­ id. 1 Section 10. All committees mentioned in Article XIII shall consist of six fuU book members in good standing; two members from each department. 9n Tybunohiam ARANT, JAMES C .. Messmari .. Messmani Steward Oilen O.S. D|eck Eng. - — A.Bw Wipe? ... ^lid Cook A.B. BELFORD, ERNEST L. CHASE, HARRY COUNCELMAN, CARVILLE ENGLISH, COY LEE GENTH, FREDERICK E. PAVILONIS, JOHN KROTZER, RALPH P. WILTZ, EDDIE B WOOD, FRANK L MONEY DUE Ciew of have $125 Collect 17 ippi Line, the S. S. Benj. Bourne attack bonus coming. Battery Place, Mississ­ New York City. * ' * * Extra meals money coming to foUowing crew members of S. S. Woodridge Ferris: J. Davis, J. Dedicatoria, Fred Williams, Harry Harris, John Brown, and William Davis. «t « STANLEY R. YODRIS Get in touch with Richard M. Cantor, 51 Chambers Street, Nevr York City. • • • ARIE L. PRONK Your wallet and Coast Guard pass is at the office of the Secre* tuy-Treasurer in New York. « EARL GILMAN Overtime iS| coming to foUow­ You have a telegram in the of­ ing crew members of S. S. fice of the Secretary-Treasurer in Charles Aycock: Paul Huffer, Leo New York City. Manaugh, J. M. Hughley and A." » » » Langly. IRVING PAULSON Communicate with Richard M> Cantor, 51 Chambers Street, New York City. More U-Boats Sunk Than Merchant Ships • • • I VICENTE VILLACION WASHINGTON—^Fewer enemy Your social security card and U-boats'were at sea during Aug­ union book have been found. Call ust and shipping losses continued for them at Room 213, 2 Stone to decrease, a joint announce­ Street, New York City. ment by the OWI and the British see , Ministry of Information discloses. BERNARD GOTTHARDT Your social security card is in More U-boats were sunk than Room 213, 2 Stone Street, New merchant ships. York City. » "It is significant," the Ameri­ BERNARD MICHAEL can arid British agencies stated, ROMANOFF "that the enemy made virtuaUy Your passes and papers are in no attempt to attack North At­ lantic shipping, and opportunit­ the office of the Secretary-Trea­ ies for attacking the U-boats have surer, New York City. » * * been relatively few. Neverthe­ less, U-boats have been hunted WILLIAM ASKSON relentlessly on alj stations wher­ Your book and papers are. beever they have appe^ed and a ing held for you by the Philadel­ heavy toU has been taken." phia Shipping Commissioner. • � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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Title A name given to the resource September 24, 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. 26 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: PRISONERS OF WAR AND UNIONISM NOMINATIONS OPEN; 1944 SEEN AS MOST CRITICAL YEAR YET HISTORIC WORDS HIGH WAGE MYTH FLORIDA BRANCH THROWS SUCCESSFUL PARTY FOR SEAMEN AGENT REPORTS PROGRESS IN SEARCH FOR SIU HALL MERCHANT SEAMEN STICK TO THEIR JOBS UPGRADE SCHOOL FUNCTIONS ARE EXPLAINED BY USMS THE LABOR DRAFT BILL ITALIAN LABOR REBUILDS SHATTERED TRADE UNIONS WLB WON'T NULLIFY NLRB PAST DECISIONS SIU AND TANKER MEMBERS ON WEST COAST CONSTITUTIONAL PROVISIONS FOR NOMINATION AND ELECTION OF SEAFARERS OFFICERS MORE U-BOATS SUNK Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 9/24/1943 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Seafarers International Union of North America 1943 Periodicals Seafarers Log