http://seafarerslog.org/archives/files/original/70f863f81ff8fd76776cdd18f3a8e244.PDF d12cbae69e07ef3a626ca15b04a69e41 PDF Text Text m 'te '- : Is "3 jj^>RE3RS JOQ •- «• ' t% • IF ANYONE ASKS A MAN \T0 JOIN A UNION. I'LL' \THR0WHIMINJA1L/ •r! ^ OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE ATLANTIC AND GULF DISTRICT, SEAFARERS' INTERNATIONAL UNION OF NORTH AMERICA VOL. V. in NEW YORK. N.Y., OCTOBER. 22. 1943 No. 29 GULF ORGANIZING DRIVE PLANNED BY SEAFARERS & AFL Gulf fishermen and towboatmen are going to be organized on a big scale under the banner of the SIU! This was the good news that came out of the American Fe'deration of Labor's annual convention held last week in Boston. The convention went on rec­ ord unanimously to send AFL organizers into the area at once and bring the benefits of unionism to those marine workers who are now being exploited by the shipowners and Kilgore Report Toes NMU-Stalinist Line By Matthew Dushane Savannah Branch Wins Fight To Crew Ships Named For AFL Men Senator Harry M. Kilgore, Chairman of the subcom­ mittee on War Mobilization, submitted a report to Con­ gress on October 7th. This report dealt with mobilization of shipping resources. Pages No. 1 to 3 deals with "Summary of Findings." fish buyers. The request for AFL aid in or­ ganizing this area was presented to the convention in a resolution submitted by Brothers Harry Lundeberg, John Mogan and Pat McHugh. The SIU delegates point out to the convention the fact that our union did not have the funds with which to launch an organizing drive of the scale needed to cover the Gulf. The convention's committee on reso­ lutions studied the SIU request, and submitted the following re­ port to the assembled delegates: Under this heading the commit-• short, concentrating shipping tee reports on the surrender of "Your committee gave con­ in the Atlantic is three times Italy, and the crumbling of the siderable attention and time to as effective as in the Pacific. Axis powers. However, the re­ this resolution and had before Three times as many troops port lays special stress upon the it the sponsors, as well as Di­ can be transported, three times tonnage of merchant ships avail­ rector of Organization Frank the volume of munitions can able and recommends that the P. Fenton. be carried to batter down the bulk of the tonnage be diverted "The woric outlined in the more powerful enemy." Don't know whether or not you have heard about the to the Atlantic in an all out ef­ resolution covers a tremendous On pages No. 4 and 5 we find launching of a ship by the Georgia Federation of Labor fort towards the complete elim­ some more statements that are area, practically the entire salt here at Savannah, Ga., but the Georgia Federation of Labor ination of Hitler and his Euro­ very interesting. water shore line of the United -put on a bond drive to pay for a Liberty ship and the pean satellites; States, but apparently the most "The unexpected drop in It is interesting to note the po­ needs seem to be in the Gulf sinkings and the unprecedent­ priviledge of naming it and when the bond drive was over sition taken in the report regard­ area. ed ship building program in they found that they had sold^ ing the South Pacific Theatre of "Your committee recom­ the first 8 months of 1943, tem­ enough bonds to pay for two operations. mends that the Executive porarily outran the military ships and name them. The first "Today, with our military Council and the Director of Or­ and civilian transport pro­ of these, the S.S. Jerome Jones, shipping divided almost evenly ganization assign organizers to grams . . . essential lend-lease -was to be launched and the keel between the Pacific and the the Gulf Coast area to attempt supplies of munitions and food for the other, the S.S. Robert Atlantic', we can conduct only to work out an organizing pro­ have been cut repeatedly for Fechnei-, was to be laid fhat same limited operations against the gram among the fishermen and alleged lack of shipping space. day. Everything came .off ac­ Japaneg.e while mounting a cording to schedule and the Jer­ Organized labor has been major offensive in Europe. In (Continued on Page 3) (Continued on Page 4) ome Jones was launched and the proven right again in its conten­ keel for the Robert Fechner laid tion that good wages and decent in record time. working conditions will "lick" - I had taken it for granted that manpower shortages. The latest this ship would be alloted to a "proof of the pudding" is at Boe­ Company who had a contract ing Aircraft in Seattle. with the SIU but I found out that Several month? ago Boeing was the WSA had alloted the ship to in a desperate, plight .because of -the American Export Line; an inability to recruit enough work­ NMU outfit and they already had ers to meet military schedules for 'gotten a crew together and they flying Fortresses. •were here in Savannah. Although All sorts -Of propaganda meth­ ; the committee of the Georgia ods were tried in an endeavor to .Federation of Labor had been in jWashington 3 months prior to the mobilize needed help. The army •launching to get this ship liamed threatened to cancel contracts ;for. a Labor Leader in Georgia, right and left in the Seattle area the Board of Allocation claims in order to -force workers out of it was an over-sight on their part other plants, into Bpeing's. in aiioting this ship to a com­ BROWN CALLED IT pany with an-NMU-contract. "NIBBLING" \irell, I really hit the ceiling: President Harvey W. Brown of .and got busy and contacted the International Association of everyone I knew who would be Machinists, which has Boeing un-, able to hplp in straightening out der a union shop agreement, this matter. I wrote Dushane in, warned that these methods were Washington and Morgenthau, the "mere nibbling" at the problem. Sec.-Trpas., and it wasn't two Notables at the AFL Convention in Boston which closed last week after voting to aid the 'The "real trouble," he said, is day's time before the South At­ SIU in organizing the Gulf towboatmen and fishermen. Left to right: AFL Secretary-Treasurer that wage rates were too low lantic Steamship Line called me George Meany, Under-Secretary of War Robert Patterson, Major General Sherman Miles and compared with shipyards and to inform me that they had been AFL President William Green. {Continued on Page 3) ' (Contimted on Page 2) By Charles Waid Labor Was Right; Wage Hike Solves Manpower Needs �yvT^^r^^\ ' Page Two THE SEAFARERS LOG Friday. October 22. 1943 1 Si SEAFARERS LOG Published by the SEAFARERS' INTERNATIONAL UNION OF NORTH AMmiCA Atlantic and Galf District ;fRepoT?T orv ^^ASHIIVSrOIV E-* • Affiliated with the American Federation of Labor board so that they can .enter a ILO Marine Division, Five towC. -Waid, Agent, SIU, Savan­ claim for the crew members who boat companies in Baltimore. SIU HARRY LUNDEBERG ------ President nah: G. Wakefield, field repre­ were on the ship at the time of Great Lakes, involving appr(>xsentative of the RMO, sent a let­ the attack. 110 Market Street, San Francisco, Calif. imately 32 companies. SIU, At­ ter to several S.S. companies and lantic & Gulf District, Smith & NATIONAL JOHN HAWK ------- Secy-Treas. ' the union, to the effect that the Johnson Company. WAR LABOR BOARD union ...apd the., .RMO- .had-.,.an. P. Q, Bo$-25,<g6i'':ion P., J^Iew 3ferk City -• All cases that are refercd td agreement whefeby if in any The Maritime panel will meet the National War Board for ap­ MATTHEW DUSHANE - - - yiTasdnngton JRjep, , port .there was a shortage of men, Monday and Tuesday. The proval, under the boards ruling the RMO would supply union MM&P has ten cases — M£1BA must be processed by the board's 424 Jth Street, N. W., Washington, D. C. men from the next nearest port. has eleven cases—^NMU has one, analyist. The panel is then given • V * !4PS In this case the Savannah agent case—ACA, one case — Comm.' the results of the work the ham was informed by the RMO that Telegraphers Union, one case— and eggers do, and are supposed Directory of Branches SIU union men were available Inland Boatmen, CIO, -one case, to act on the anlyist's report. PHONE ADDRESS in Charleston, and that the SIU BRANCH agent would have to get his re­ NEW YORK (4) 2 Stone St BOwHng Green 9-3437 BOSTON (10) 330 Atlantic Ave Liberty 4057 placements from Charleston in SAVANNAH BRANCH BALTIMORE (2) ,14 North Cay St Calvert 4539 the future and not the Gulf. PHILADELPHIA 6 North 6th St, Lombard 7651 WINS CREWING OF NORFOLK 25 Commercial PI Norfolk 4-1083 The union has no agreement; SPONSORED SHIPS NEW ORLEANS (14) ..309 Chartres St Canal 3336 SAVANNAH 218 East Bay St Savannah 3-1728 with the RMO as outlined by Mr. TAMPA 423 East Piatt St Tampa MM-1323 MOBILE 55 So. Conception St Dial 2-1392 G. Wakefield. Our contracts caU {Continued from Page 1) PUERTO RICO 45 Ponce de Leon Puerto de TIerra for the union to supply men to allotted the Jerome Jones and I GALVESTON 219 20th Street Galveston 2-8043 FT. LAUDERDALE 2021 S. Federal Highway... Ft. Lauderdale 1601 the employers' vessels, and they could get busy and get them a must be supplied from our crew together. Well, J had union hiring halls. Charleston enough men registered in this All American merchant sea­ has no SIU hall, therefore the port for a whole crew without men arc to receive identifying PUBLICATION OFFICE; Savannah agent has the author-; ROOM 213, 2 STONE STREET having to get one gandy dancer. ity to get replacements from the; So there she sailed, a ship paid insignia under a recent authori­ New York City BOwling Green 9-8345 Gulf. However, the agent may; for by the Georgia Federation of zation by Congress, the Wat; make some kind of an arrange­ Labor and manned by an SIU Shipping Administration reveal­ ment with the RMO to ship SIU' crew. ed last week. Seamen and of­ union men who may be in Have also heard that the WSA ficers who have served in Ameri­ Charleston. has already alloted the S.S. Rob­ can vessels since Dec. 7, 1941, or; Any arrangement that the Sa­ ert Fechner to the South Atlantic vannah agent may reach with Steamship Line, to be turned on any foreign fiag vessels oper­ the RMO would have to be ap­ over to them when she is com­ ated for the United States Mari­ proved by the membership. This, pleted. time Commission or WSA, will I feel, should be done to protect be eligible to wear the new em­ Shipping in this port for the the membership of the SIU, last couple of weeks has really blem. they should ^never be allowed in otherwise the RMO will be load­ been good. Shipped everyone Editor; The Seamen's Service Awards ing SIU ships with non-union and We, members of the SIU, the engine room and are so NMU men, who will be enjoying with pants on that I could get Committee will be responsible would very much like the slop poorly made they fall apart in a the benfits of the SIU contracts my hands on, and I mean I real­ for the issuance of the insignia, chest situation ort these Liberty month's time. That is, of course, while SIU men pound the beach ly. picked this town clean and am" which will be a circular gold and ships investigated. The case of providing they don't get wet as and be subject to induction into still looking for sailors and es­ silver emblem, consisting of a pecially ABs. Shipping surely background of a compass card in ours, the S.S. J. G. Hibben, is be­ the cardboard in them comes out the army for over-staying the al­ does look bright in this port for much faster if they get wet. gold on which is mounted a Fed­ yond description. We know :that lotted time ashore. the next couple of weeks. I will eral shield in silver with a sup­ any action taken ,by the .union Shorts are so that after one J. Flanagan, Agent, SIU, Balti­ be needing men with all ratings erimposed gold anchor with Uni­ w-ill be too late to do us any .good washing you could use them for but prompt action by the union mosquito nets and the handker­ more: Several crew members of in all departments and, don't, ted States Merchant Marine let­ officials may make it a lot easier chiefs are made to sell for ten the S.S. Walker Taylor requested have anyone registered here. Any tered around the medal. for any brothers who have the cents but they have all been re­ to be paid off of the vessel 24 of you men who are ready to The WSA has also authorized, misfortune to be caught in a like jected, so they do us the iavor hours after all cargo was dis­ ship out can come on down here under similar Congressional ac­ of letting us have them for nine charged. Master refused. Crew and do so. Don't think you will tion, ithe award of Mariner's Med­ manner. left the vessel and • they were be on the beach for long from We have been informed that cents. They have no large sizes als, Combat Bars, War Zone given a six months' suspension the way things have been going. I Bars and service fiags and but­ in kakhi shirts or small sizes in the slop chest is no longer in the by the 9.G. Have really had me on the run tons in further recognition of Captain's hands, but is now the kakhi pants. All the articles they looking for men lately. have are too large for the small This was done on the grounds meritorious war service by sea­ property of the Maritime Com­ fellows and too small for the big that there was ballast in the hold. mission. If so, we understood the men. The Mariner's Medal is to be awarded to men who are Government supported the Mari­ fellows. We do not know whether The ballast had been in the hold, wounded or suffer physical in­ time Commission pnd we want or not this has been brought to for three trips, aiid the vessel jury in enemy action. The com­ to know who is collecting the; the union'.s attention before and started to reload with the same we hope the situation is rem^ ballast still aboard! profit, or shall we say graft. EMIL DUPONT: You have 211/2 bat bar is being issued to seamen edied so it will not have to be Advised Agent Flanagan to re-i hours overtime coming from the who serve in a ship which is di­ The quality of these articles in brought up again, and we also quest a rehearing on the case and! Calmar Line. rectly attacked or damaged by the slop chest is not worth men-; would like to know the outcome also request a transcript of the' an instrumentality of war. The • • • tioning as everything is second, of this affair on our return. proceedings on the original trial. War Zone Bars will be present­ •or third hand merchandise and Crew whicli paid off the S. S. The trial was held in Norfolk. ed for service in war theatres. CREW OF THE the quantity is so small that wc; William Balterson, October 1943, Flanagan advised that, he would S. S. J. G. HIBBEN are at sea about one and a half have an attack bonus coming. The merchant marine service contact the agent there and relay Collect Bull Line. fiag and service lapel buttons months an,d the supply is running all the information he has ofi the are for display by members of out. Needless to say the prices • * • the immediate families of sea­ ADVERTISEMENT case. on these articles is not second or Regarding the food shortage on SHELTON and*DOWLING of men serving in the American third class prices but first class. the last trip of the S. S. Gebrge •Some articles are. not even on PHILLIPSBURG, N. J.. the Seas Shipping Company E. Hale, have disputed overtime Merchant Marine during the war scow, the WSA is working on . board, such as heavy underwear, October 5 — A torpedoed coming. Collect at Waterman period. The service button, of this case. enameled - metal, will carry a which is in direct violation of the Line. miniature design of the service articles we signed. This was real seaman, home on a month's M. Trainor, Agents, SIU, Nor­ • • * necessary for going around the leave, applied for a new "A" folk: Re:S.S. ( ) and crew's Deck Department of S. S. Peter flag. Horn in mid-winter. The heavy gasoline ration book to re­ claim for an attack bonus, the Zingas which paid off Oct. 1943, socks are all thirds and there are board has sent the following have overtime coming. Collect place one he lost. The OPA no white socks to be had. One said he would have to ad­ communication: from Bull Line. crew member tried to buy a * « • "We have determined that small size pair of dungarees and vertise the loss before an­ the attack on Algiers, during Steward's Department of S. S. bad to settle for a pair of navy other could be issued. the .morning of August 27th, Kofresi, which psdd off Oct. 1943, CARL JACOBSON dungarees that was traded in to He placed the following ad 1943; consequently, port attack have money coming for extra the slop chest. Even these were in an Easton, Pa., paper: bonus is payable to the crew meals. Collect Waterman Lind! See Mr. Williams, Rooln 1045, two sizes too large. Tlie shoe, menibers of the S.S. I ) "LOST —In Mediterranean 42 Broadway, New York City. situation tops them all; we are if this vessel was at Algiers at Steward's Department of S. S. Bea, "A" gas ration book. paying $4.12 a pair for shoes that the time of the attack on this Peter Sanger, Voyage No. 1, see NORMAN RENNINGER could be bought ashore for one Horace A. Smith, 574 Con­ date." New York Patrolman Hart con­ gress St., Phillipsburg." half that price or even less. They Advised all Agents to tack a cerning extra meals and bonus Contact Miss Ada Harrison, Are all rubber soled and heeled— copy of this on their bulletin money coming. 3819 Manila Ave., Oakland, Calif. New Insignia For Merchant Seamen E£tor's Mail Bag I u; U Crew Benounces Slop Chest Chisel MONEY DUE • .1 -'-'i t m Mii'f " 1^' " • •-i) "O ; �;Fj;iday,October 22, 1943 THE SEAFARERS LOG Pag© ThxM 7 Gulf Organizing Drive Launched jor operators in the peacetime {Continued front Page 1) Jow boalmen in lhat ierrilory period, and WHEREAS, It now develops' on a Ixial basis." Brother Frank Fenton will now that these new oil barges arc to'^ consult with Lundeberg and East be operated on a twelve-hour! Furuselh, also Harry Lundebeig, BOSTON Coast officials, and organizers work day baisis, and Duke Dushane and Whitey •will be appointed and sent to •WHEREAS, They find that the I attended the AFL Conven­ Hawk. •work in the very near future. Government agencies have tion that was held in Boston the I would like to remind the Already requests for aid have awarded these barges to compan­ past two weeks, along with members of our union to stress %een coining into SIU headquar­ ies having a twelve-hour work; BOSTON, Oct. 7—^The mem­ Brother Pat McHugh, Secretary the importance of the Social Seters from towboatmen and fisher- dhy and no union relations, and bership of the American Federa­ of the Atlantic Fishermen's ciurity Act to the members of tmen throughout the south, indi- WHEREAS, The Seafarers' In-, tion of Labor was brought to 6,- Union. their family or dependents, that ,eating thai these workers - know ternational lUnicn is unable to' 564,141, the highest in its history, Your union, the SIU had a res­ in the event thai-they pass on to .the score on unionism and what attempt this widespread organi­ today by the return of the Inter­ olution requesting the AFL to contact the' nearest Social Se­ 4t can do for them. Hundreds of zing campaign at this critical national Association of Machin­ put on organizers to organize curity Board and put in a rlainfiT ists. •workers are merely waiting the time, and the fishermen and towboatmen If they fail to make a claim with­ .appearance of an BIU man to WHEREAS, Their sea-going; Announcement that the machr in the Gulf. As a delegate to the in a certain period they wiU lose sign them up. members are being shifted from inists' union, which left the AFL AFL Convention, yours truly, all rights under the Social Secur­ But make no mistake, the one part of the nation to another, on May 27 because of a jurisdic­ along with Brother Pat McHugh, ity Act. tional dispute with the United had to appear before the resolu­ The Port of Boston is experi­ tshipowners are waiting also—de- and Brotherhood of Carpenters, was tions committee to show cause encing the heaviest shipping rec­ •termined that their workers shall WHEREAS, Because of the war -not receive decent wages and they are compelled to establish ready to return to the fold was why these organizers were need­ ord in history. We are having made by George Meany, AFL ed. After explaining to the com­ quite a few West Coast ships working conditions. There is a temporary offices and "inove out secretary, at today's convention mittee the geographical outlay here and I believe there should stiff struggle ahead, but" we are to little ports never before hearc session. and the territory that must be be a West Coast representative .certain that before long the Gulf of, which has involved an in­ After long applause the dele­ covered, the committee recom­ stationed here in Boston as they •coast is going to be union!' crease in personnel and a corres gates ratified a report of the ex­ mended to the executive council have as many as four to six Following is the text of the ponding increase in overhead ex­ ecutive council which contained that our resolution be concurred ships here daily. SIU resolution presented to the pense, and a letter from Harvey W. Brown, in. At this time I would like to AFL convention: WHEREAS, They find that the president of the machinists' It was brought out at the Con­ mention that the five Flaherty WHEREAS, The members of amount of revenue the interna­ union, stating that his union was vention " that over two million Brothers, John, Cy, Bill, Eddie, I the Executive Committee of the tional has on hand with which to withdrawing its resignation. members of organized labor are forgot the other boy's name, have Seafarers' International Union of operate renders the situation to now serving in the armed forces. all received their tickets and are The machinists, said Mr. North America has petitioned the an impossible status, and Joseph P. Ryan, President of sailing as mates or engineers. I WHEREAS, They further fee Meany, had 625,160 members and the International Longshoremen's believe this makes some sort of American Federation of Labor were now restored in full stand­ for assistance in organizing a that unless the American Feder­ ing, as they had paid their per Association, took the floor and a record. large group of 30,000 worrkers in ation of Labor can come to their capita tax for the months since gave quite a talk on what the A salute to our galldnt mem­ •the fishing industry from Browns­ rescue in this war emergency May. The amount was $45,281. seamen were doing and paid bers. ville, Texas, at the Mexican Bor- that some dual or would-be dual great tribute to the late Andrew JOHN MOGAN, Ageni President William Green, who <Jer to Norfolk, Virginia, and union is likely to intervene, and throughout the Pacific Coast and WHEREAS, A Federally own­ welcomed the machinists back, Alaskan territories, and ed Corporation known as Federal said that the negotiations which WHEREAS, The Seafarers' In­ Barge Lines, which operates all preceded settlement of the juris­ ternational Union of North Am­ traffic on the Mississippi River dictional dispute proved that good erica has established local unions has established an eight-hour day sense, tolerance and fairness in MANPOWER PROBLEM EXAGGERATED •throughout the Nation, some of with overtime in excess of eight negotiations usually resulted in IN ORDER TO SMEAR AMERICAN LABOR ending such disputes. which have been operated with hours, therefore be it only partial success, while local RESOLVED, That the Ameri­ Inasmuch as the United Mine Have the "brass hats" and 1943, to July, 1944, to replace men unions in the New England can Federation of Labor now in Workers are assured of reinstate­ other government officials delib­ inducted into the armed forces states and Pacific Coast Ports convention assembled at Boston, ment in the AFL within a rea­ erately exaggerated the serious and to supply additional workers -have been operated with total Massachusetts, goes on record to sonable time, delegates today ex­ ness of the manpower situation to war industries. •success, and give the Seafarers' International pressed satisfaction that the fed­ in order to foist shackles on the Thus, if Princeton is right WHEREAS, The Seafarers' In-' Union of North America the ne­ eration would have a member­ nation's workers? and the enormous waste it cites assistance to ship of 7,164,141 once the 600,000 -ternational Union has striven cessary financial On the pretext of a critical were eliminated, the country diligently to organize the fishing carry through to a successful miners were back in the fold. scarcity of labor, army and navy would have a surplus rather conclusion an organizing cam­ industry, and , chiefs, with.the backing of Tories than lack of workers . WHEREAS, Their financial paign among the fishermen, in Congress, have been clamoring Princeton's report blames the .ability is so limited as to prohibit bargemen, and towboatmen in for a so-called "national service" appalling squander of labor di­ , an organizing drive on a large the above mentioned field. law, under which workers would rectly on managements. "Ineffi­ •scale, due to the fluctuating opbe drafted for the profit of pri­ cient managerial conditions, poSr vate employers. lerations such as confront the sea- AFL MEMBERSHIP plant layout, lack of cooperation jnen, fishermen and fish cannery However, confidential figures between department heads, in­ SHOWS BIG GAIN workers during the war period, circulated among research men terruptions of work caused by and in the War Production Board and poor scheduling" are among BOSTON — The dues - paid {Continued from Page 1) . War Manpower Commission, abuses listed in the report. , WHEREAS, They have exten­ membership of the AFL at the sive information regarding the end of its fiscal year, Aug. 31, other war industries in the re­ which LABOR was privileged to Bad working conditions are al­ see, revealed this week that the so described as a major factor in fishing industry, and 1943, stood at 5,939,021, Secre­ gion. WHEREAS, They have defin­ tary-Treasurer George Meany re­ After attempting every other manpower shortage, for the coun­ wastage of labor. Lack of ade­ ite proof that wholesale exploita­ ported to the convention. nostrum, government officials try as a whole, is much less crit- quate grievance machinery, untion is taking place relative to This represents a net gain of finally decided to try Brown's ical than the public has been led healthful ^surroundings, tyrannic­ al foremen, complicated wage the fishermen who deliver the 457,440 members since the last remedy." Army chieftains des­ to believe. An even more sensational dis­ setups, failure of management to •catch, and annual report made to the Tor­ cended on the National War Laclosure as to manpower came take workers into their confi­ WHEREAS, Large groups of onto convention in 1942. jor Board and demanded that it these fishermen live on incomes However, the total does not grant a substantial raise to Boe­ from Princeton University. No dence are evils recorded by the •y which are actually lower than include the membership of the ing workers ,regardless of "hold one needs be told that Princeton university. "Do not expect the employe to those of the sharecroppers of the International Association of Ma­ the line" regulations or other or­ is not a champion of organized labor, yet, in an independent accept unnecessary hardships in deep south, and chinists which paid per capita ders. The board complied, re­ study made by its department of the working environment just WHEREAS, The officers of the tax on 328,500 members in 1942 classifying the workers so as to economics, the university arrived because it is war-time," the uni­ Seafarers' International Union of but withdrew its affiliation in the give them increases of about 15 at the conclusion that employers versity emphasizes. "In encour­ North America, further petition past year. Thus the gross gain in cents an hour, Tt did so, it said, are wasting the equivalent of 5,- aging employes to give steadily the American Federation of La-, new members for the year was only as an "experiment." 000,000 workers. the .maximum ..in - ..production, for to lend assistance in a prob­ actually 785,940. This week, it was revealed the That's at least a million more management must maintain lem involving Towboatmen, Mr. Meany also submitted a "experiment" has been a spectac­ than the very highest govern­ working conditions conductive to which problem has ari.sen in the detailed financial report for the ular success. "Business Week," a ment estimate of labor needed employe well-being." past few months and is due sole­ year, showing receipts of $2,- magazine of industry, far from for the 12 months from July, —Labor ly to the war effort and enemy 422,934 and expenditures of $2,- partial to workers, made a .submarine activities, and 010,029, with a balance on hand checkup and found that workers WHEREAS, The United States of $1,680,076 at the end of the are flocking into the Boeing plant ATLANTIC AND GULF SHIPPING FOR •Government has construe ted fiscal year. Receipts and expen­ at so rapid a rate thgt the com­ some 5d0 new tug boats and large ditures are broken down into pany may soon have to put out WEEK OF SEPT, 27th TO OCT, 8th numbers of oil barges which are separate and detailed categories. "no help wanted" signs. DECK ENGINE STEWARD TOTAL to be operated on otir inland Reports received from affili­ Whereas employment previous­ waterways, and ated unions showed that they ly was dropping, the company in SHIPPED 680 344 582 1606 WHEREAS, They have been had paid out a total of $22,965,- three weeks was able to make a successful in establishing a Tow- 611 in death, sick, unemploy­ net gain in its rolls of 1,518 REGISTERED 530 397 380 1307 boatmen's Union in New Orleans, ment, dir ability and other bene­ workers, and the rate of increase Louisiana, with some of the ma­ fits to members during the year. is growing each week. iVfachinists Return To Fedemtion Around The Ports JhiL. ^tahcA, fiMAAu — .1 » Labor Was Right; Wage Hike Solves Manpower Needs I • •m i'l-l �m- ' Page Four THE SEAFARERSLOG Friday, October 22, 1943 WAR PROFITS GO UP AND UP Kilgore Report Toes NMU-Stalinist Line The table below sets forth a comparison between the wartime profits of twentynine prominent American corporations and the profits they made before the war bo6m' developed. It is a question of great concern to all Americans whether our distribution of war income is disproportionately increasing the size of incomes received by wealthy individuals and large companies. i no other branch of wat indus­ • In addition, workers have a (Figues are in thousands of dollars) I* IW {Continued from Page 1) justified grievance against large In the case of Russia, shipping try has there been a manpower Per- First Half 1943 profits at a time when their own space has been allocated for agency so well equipped to 1936-39 eentage compared to incomes have been subjected to only two-thirds of the muni­ meet its responsibilities. It has Company Average severe controls . tions and food promised under done a good job." American Car ft Foundry 72 $ 7,056 9700 Unavailable The above quotation on the American Locomotive the protocal." 1,462 7,552 417 + 175 Many of the companies listed The repoi't then goes on and committee's report deals onl;' Atfl^rican Rolling Miii Co 4',346 9,231 114 + 12 in the table have inultipliedgives a great plug in for the War with the WSA division, headed American Type Founders, Inc. 131 2,161 + 86 their pre-war profits so rapidly 1550 Shipping Administration. It by Captain Edward Macauley. American Woolen Co 6,824 + 37 that taxes have been unable to -—831 states that the WSA should have The committee, in putting a plug Aviation Corp + 1 catch up with them. Fourteen of 5,324 —599 charge of all shipping from the in for Captain Macauley's di­ Bath Iron Work 3,743 1340 + 129 the twenty-nine companies made . 260 factories to the final destination. vision of the WSA, follows the Bendix Aviation Corp 15.890 505 + 3 ten times as much in 1942, be­ 2,627 It blasts the Army and other usual line that is carried in the Bethlehem Steel Corp 38,188 + 5 fore taxes, as they averaged, in 98 19,269 government agencies, and throws Pilot. + 34 1936-39. Almost all multiplied 2,276 81 Blaw Knox Co. 1,257 When a fisherman who knows Orchids at the WSA. + 17 their pre-war income, before tax­ 9,716 74 Borg-Warner Corp 5,585 he Then the East Coast Long­ his business goes fishing, 5,222 2113 —35 es, by four. In several cases the Budd (Edw. G.) Mfg. Co 236 shoremen are taken over the would use the bait most appro­ Crosley Corp i:738 574 ^599 percentage increase was num­ 258 hurdles, and the set-up on the priate for the fish that he intends Crucible Steel Co. of Am. 8,308 337 —3 bered in the thousands. Inas­ 1.901 West Coast under the domination to catch. In the final analysis of Fairfield Aviation + 23 much as a corporation may not 1,131 313 274 of Hdrry Bridges is given the the report, it boils down to these 62.081 41 —11 be required to pay a tax in ex-'' General Electric Co 44,115 green iight and is supposed to be simple facts: 11,143 605 —2 cess of 80% of its total profits, a Jones ft Laughlin 1,580 1. The committee went out of a bed of roses and is recommend­ 4,488 —5 1000% increase in profit, before 624 Mack Trucks, Inc 620 ed for the East Coast. However, thpir way to lay the ground­ 9,659 363 Unavailable taxes, leaves the company with Martin (Glenn L.) Co 2,084 in regards to the wage question work on the Commies argument + 46 double its normal income. 5,273 96 Otis Elevator Co 2,696 no mention is made that Harry for a second front. Which was 173 —19 17,042 6.232 Bridges is pleading that the picked up and published in the Pullman, Inc + 91 7.354 521 1,185 Ship Built By AFL Meh wages of the East Coast Long­ Daily Worker the same day that Remington Arms Co., Inc —26 20,187 248 Republican Steel Corp 5,801 shoremen are receiving are high­ the committee's report was made Presented To Chinese + 77 99 7,945 Sperry Corp 3,986 er than the West Coast and that public. + 152 2,548 145 1,040 2. The plug for the WSA, and Studebaker Corp they should be granted an in­ + 47 RICHMOND, CALIF. — The 307 20,994 United Aircraft Corp 5,161 crease. This is being done under when mention is made regarding 115 Unavailable United'States has transferred to 96,819 45,098 the usual ballyhoo of stabiliza­ the WSA it means Captains Mac­ United States Steel Corp + 86 the Chinese government a Lib­ 45 21,216 14,674 auley's division, certainly fur­ Westinghouse Mfg. Co tion. —6 erty Ship built here at the Per100 13,564 The Merchant seamen are then ther leads us into the belief that Youngslown Sheet ft Tube Co. 6,785 manente Metals Corp. yard by given a flock of orchids, but it the Captain's division has and is mary" will analyze the election ing on the above mentioned let­ AFL workers. The ship, named is interesting to note in what di­ playing ball with the Commies returns at a meeting of Labor's terhead with Athern were — for Generalissimo Chiang Kaiof the NMU. rection the_ line runs. Louise Bransten, Germaino shek, "was presented to Chinese Non-Partisan League's club. "The men who man our mer­ 3. The plug regarding the West Bulcke, J. Vernon Burke, Revels representatives by Edward R. chant ships are doing a magni­ Coast longshoremen, under the 6/21/40 i,s.sue of the San Fran­ Cayton, Rikc-e R. Elesser, Lou Stettinius, Jr., Lend-Lease Ad­ ficent job. The crews are ef­ Control of Harry Bridges, and cisco Chronicle named him as a Goldblatt, Sam Jaye, Alex Noral. ministrator. It will enter the ficient and their morale is the particular stress laid on the sponsor of the "Peace Ballot' All the others appearing on the trans-Pacific trade as a training high. Adequate number of sea­ NMU activities in this war, lead conducted by the San Francisco letterhead are active fellow vessel for merchant seamen. men have volunteered or have us to the following conclusions: Coordinating Council for Peace, travelers, known to us here in been recruited so that ships That some members on the which was branded by the West the Bay area as such." all as I suggested. Further, sail fully manned and with staff of the committee are either Coast police as Stalinist in­ Plunkert reported weekly, durspired. Affidavit of Arthur James only negligible delays. The Commies or fellow-travelers. ng the legislative session, to the Mr. Harper L. Knowles, Chair­ Kent, County of Los Angeles, tops fraction of the Communist number of seamen on Ameri­ The report states that Henry can ships has nearly doubled H. Collins, Jr., is the executive man of the radical research com­ State of California, to the Con­ Party," namely, Schneiderman, .in the last year. There have secretary; other staff members mittee of the American Legion, gressional Committee on Un- Spector or Gannet, Athern and been no strikes. Discipline has included Lincoln Fairley and Department of California, testi­ American activities, dated 11/2/38 myself." (Hearings, pages 2983been excellent in spite of the Leigh Athern. These three staff fying before an executive hearing* —(Excerpts from this affidavit 2984). difficult living and working members are cited by the attor­ of the Congressional committee are as follows) "1 make this af­ Henry H. Collins, Jr., Washing­ conditions imposed by wartime ney general as being members on Un-American activities at fidavit voluntarily, at my own conditions. Despite high casu­ and sponsors of subversive set­ San Francisco, Cal., on 8/2#/40; initiative. In the years 1932-33- ton Committee for Democratic alties from enemy attacks, la­ ups fronting and controlled by (Executive hearings, page 1496 34-35-36 and until Sept., 1937, 1 Action. National Federation for was a member of the Commun­ Constitutional Liberties, Panel bor turnover has been lower the Communist Party. Leigh and 1497). than in war industries ashore. Athern was connected with the THE CHAIRMAN — "Do you ist Party; and in the years 1936- member at conference—^DescendAmerican seamen have deliv­ "YANKS ARE NOT COMING" know any other official whose 37 1 was a membership director ents of the American Revolution, ered the goods." movement on the Pacific Coast. name is on this letterhead who is of the Communist Party at San Member National Council. From the above it would seem And that, my friends, is how a member of the Communist- Francisco, and in charge of po­ Marian Anderson Citizens* that the seamen are at last get­ Russia operates. Party — Mary Moore, for in­ litical activity of the Party. I Committee — Member, Forest was personally acquainted with ting credit from a government stance?" Glen Md. . American Committee committee on the splendid work HERE'S THE RECORD Mr. Knowles—^"I am not in a the leading members of the Com­ for protection of Foreign Born-r that they are doing. However, position to verify her member­ munist Party in California in Member, board of directors. ON MEMBERS OF THE ' there is a reason for the above ship in the party. You are look­ those years. For almost a year KILGORE COMM. build-up, and here it is. Lincoln Farley, member Wash­ ing at the face of the letterhead. prior to June 1937, a strategy "American seamen are he­ On the reverse side ai'e other committee of the Communist ington Book shop, cited as a C.P. roes. Thousands have died LEIGH, ATHERN — Graduate names. Dr. Thomas Addis is a Party would meet with certain front by the Attorney General. under bombardment and tor­ of University of California and known commuhist; Leigh Athern members of the California Legis­ Member, American League for lature, and sometimes also with pedo attack. They and their Harvard Law School. In 1938-39, is a known communist." other sympathetic persons who! Peace and Democracy, cited a? t| Attorney for Lafollette Commit­ ' organizations, particularly the Mr. Stedman —"Wasn't Leigh ' " • a C.P. front by the Attorney' were not actual membei-s of the tee hearings in California. In National Maritime Union, have Athern attorney for the LaFolGeneral. • Party. 1939, labor relations counsel and " acquitted ^themselves with hon­ lette committee on the Pacific or. The appreciation of Ihe administrative assistant, Cali­ Coast?" 1 was also ,in 1936-37, fraction The above persons; Henry H. fornia State Relief AdministraAmerican people is theirs.' Mr. Knowles—"He was inves­ secretary of the conference for Collins, Jr., Leigh Athern and Well, there, you have it, no' tion. January, 1941 to date, prin- tigator ' for the LaFollette Com­ progressive political action, the Lincoln Farley, are staff mem­ •mention is" made of the AFL cipal Attorney, Office of Price mittee in their California hear­ fraction being all party members bers of the Subcommittee to in­ -Unions. The committee put a , Administration,'Washington, D.C, ings, and according to informa­ in,various Caiifornia Cities who vestigate the National Defense •plug in for the unions affiliated j The Western Worker 2/11/37 tion supplied me, was active in were leaders in political action. program. ' . . ; with the CIO, and praises in shows him a member of the Citi- gathering official information. As such secretary, I was instruct­ -particular the NMU. Now let's [ zens Committee for Repeal of the That is, information in offcial ed by the leaders of the com­ The Chairman of the Commit­ see what the committee's views San Francisco Anti-Picketing Gr­ files for the committee and also munist party — Schneiderman, tee is the Hon. Harley M. Kil­ ave on the WSA. dance. Notice of a meeting of the the Communist Party. Much of Spector, or Gannett, what legis­ gore, Senator from West Virginia "The War Shipping Admin­ People's Legislative Conference, the material that , he covered lative bills were to be pushed and on October 7, 1943 SubcomI istration, in the office of the held 2/27/37, named Athern as during his' investigation showed and by whom; then I would con­ mitte Report No. 3 was Submit­ deputy administrator for labor Secretary. up in communist literature. For tact Leigh Athern, official secre­ ted to Congress, on Mobilization ^ gelations, manning, training Articles appearing in Peoples instance, in the Harry Bridges tary of the conference, and he of Shipping Resources. and recruitment has been op- World, 5/14/40 stated Athern, a deportation trial." f. would contact those assembly­ erating an adequate recruit- j delegate on Ellis Patterson's slate Keep In Touch With"Other known Communists men, or Plunkert would do so, or ment and training program. In in the "recent presidential pri­ mentioned by Mr, Knowles as be­ Leo Geyer would contact them, Your Local Draft Board, i; 5b •. A •K'y • . •< � 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 October 22, 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. 29 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: GULF ORGANIZING DRIVE PLANNED BY SEAFARERS & AFL KILGORE REPORT TOES NMU-STALINIST LINE SAVANNAH BRANCH WINS FIGHT TO CREW SHIPS NAMED FOR AFL MEN LABOR WAS RIGHT; WAGE HIKE SOLVES MANPOWER NEEDS CREW DENOUNCED SLOP CHEST CHISEL NEW INSIGNIA FOR MERCHANT SEAMEN MACHINISTS RETURN TO FEDERATION AFL MEMBERSHIP SHOWS BIG GAIN LABOR WAS RIGHT; WAGE HIKE SOLVES MANPOWER NEEDS MANPOWER PROBLEM EXAGGERATED IN ORDER TO SMEAR AMERICAN LABOR WAR PROFITS GO UP AND UP SHIP BUILT BY AFL MEN PRESENTED TO CHINESE HERE'S THE RECORD ON MEMBERS OF THE KILGORE COMM. 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