http://seafarerslog.org/archives/files/original/ed13df48210413718872154cfa055690.PDF c29e8c132d074b9b6d2c7542f348e005 PDF Text Text rrf P^^BERSJjocf 1 OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE ATLANTIC AND GULF DISTRICT, ^ SEAFARERS' INTERNATIONAL UNION OF NORTH AMERICA Vol. V. NEW YORK. N.Y.. FRIDAY. DECEMBER 10. 1943 No. 36 Pilot Attack On SIU Reveals Desperation Of Curran & Co. Attention All Stewards Department Men Turn to page two for a complete analysis of NMU, MCS and SIU Stewards Department contracts on freight vessels. Read the facts which prove that the SIU leads the industry in winning conditions for your department. Joe Curran and Company are headed for the skids! If anyone still doubts that there is a deep rift between the Stalinist leadership of the NMU and the rank and file, let that person get the December 3rd copy of the Pilot and read the hysterical charges hurled against the SIU. In a front page story and in a long editorial on page two, the NMU leadership accuses the SIU of being shipowners agents, of breaking down conditions in 'sweet­ the industry by signing "sweet-* ^ heart contracts" in the middle of vert the attention of the NMU Stewards Department contract the night, and of generally sa­ rank and file from the sell-outs between the SIU and its con­ botaging the struggle of the sea­ of their leaders. The storm of tracted companies, is a "sweet­ rank and file resentment within heart contract" which was nego­ men for wages and conditions. the NMU against the double tiated in the middle of the night 13ih STREET ON DEFENSIVE crossings they have received, has and is "dangerously lowering the • reached such proportions that standards" in the industrv. I ' This outburst by the Curran Curran no longer has any hope regime is extremely significant IT'S A SWEETHEART of crushing it—he can now only for it reveals the desperate struggle to divert its fury away The facts are: the SIU Stew­ straits in which the 13th Street from himself and toward some ards Department contracts are boys find themselves within the other group (in this case the the best in the industry, and the union. They hope to make the SIU). new revisions mean even great­ SIU a "whipping boy" and diThat Curran and Company er improvements. If raising a have choosen the SIU as the fo­ Steward's wage from $157.50 to cal point of their diversionary $212.50, if raising a Cook's wage tactic shows the real desperation from $137.50 to $182.50, if rais­ of their case. For years the NMU ing a Baker's wage from $122.58 leadership has given the SIU the to $152.50 constitutes a "sweet­ silent treatment in the Pilot. heart contract," then brother: They hoped and prayed that "sweetheart contracts" are what their members would forget that we want. «r-— there was 'such "an organization Curran has the guts (or stupid­ as the SIU, and that they would ity) to call our contract "sweet­ never, never compare the wages heart" when the Stewards on and working conditions of the NMU CI and C2 ships carrying union representative to seamen two organizations. For Curran to 150 men or more are receiving being examined for venereal di­ now challenge us on the ques­ $147.50. SIU Stewards receive sease, or other communicable di­ tions of wages and working con­ $85 more per month than do seases, but insisted that any sea­ ditions can only mean that the NMU Stewards, and he screams man who is turned down be­ beefing of his rank and file is so that we are undermining the cause he has a commxmicable di­ great that he can no longer ig­ waterfront conditions. sease, measures shall be taken to nore the difference between the What we are doing is under­ take care of him until he is NMU and SIU contracts, and mining the NMU leadership— cured. Dr. Ossoford promised that must attempt to explain away that's why they scream! they shall be taken care of, and our superior conditions with a ASKS OUR WAGE advised the representatives that smear campaign against the SIU the Public Health Service is go­ as an organization and against The Pilot, in its page two edit­ ing to set up T-B wards for spe­ individual leaders of our union. orial proclaims that SIU wages cial treatment of merchant sea­ and conditions are not acceptable MISSING PORK CHOPS men, in the port of New York to the "rank and file of all sea­ and San Francisco. When men But he's spitting into the wind. men's unions." The facts are that are nearly cured they hope that The time is rapidly passing when not only, is the rank and file of the men will go to Fort Stanton the NMU can be kept together the NMU and MCS demanding to get hardened up. All the ex­ with Curran's crap and Stalin's wages and conditions comparable penses to go to Fort Stanton will reputation. It's pork chops that to ours, but the NMU leadership be paid by the U.S. Public Health count in a trade union, and Joe itself has been forced to make Service. just can't serve them up. these demands. Curran's cam­ The proposed standards for the Curran has dared to call our paign for "equal pay for equal medical examination are now go­ contracts phoney and to charge work" is a campaign to win from ing to be further discussed with that the SIU is undermining the War Labor Board the SIU Captain Macauley by the doctors conditions on the waterfront. scale of wages and overtime pro­ and they will be sent to all OK, since he has called the game, visions. unions for comments. It's all down in black and we intend to lay the facts on the Received and am still receiv­ line. And when we get through, white. Turn to page 6 of the Dec. ing wires on this matter, some of Curran will wish that he had 3 Pilot and you find Howard Mcthe wires were not sent to Ad­ "stood in bed." Kenzie listing the NMU's wage miral Land. In the future all The Pilot charges that the re demands now pending before the telegrams should be sent to the cently negotiated revisions in the {Confhttied on Page 4) head of the government agency involved in the dispute, copies via air mail should be sent to me. ATLANTIC AND GULF SHIPPING FOR I am of the opinion that the original standard on the medical WEEK OF NOVEMBER 22nd TQ 27th examination will be modified. Brice Holcomb, who was for­ DECK ENGINE STEWARD TOTAL •s-il merly a conciliator with the De­ EI SHIPPED partment of Labor is now in 370 200 295 865 Washington representing the REGISTERED 281 218 257 754 Painters Union (AFL) in which fRtPOWT on. ^ASHinGTOrV. • BY MATT-MEW DBSHAME-* V MEDICAL EXAMINATIONS Attended the meeting called by Captain Edward Macauley, Deputy Administrator of the WSA. The proposed medical examination will no doubt be hooked up with the RMO, as Mr. Marshall Dimock was chairman of the meeting. 'Three doctors from the Public Health Service outlined' what they-felt should be the standards. They were Drs. Blain, Fuller and Ossoford. ' Dr. Ossoford and Dr. Blain §eem to have a better and firmer footing as to what form of an examination would be better to safeguard the, health of the crew. Dr. Fuller from all indications is out on some kind of an experi­ mental expedition. One of his statements was that a seaman may be able to sail coastwise, or to South Africa, but would not be allowed to sail the North At­ lantic. Upon being pressed for a full statement on his reasons for this, his answer wasn't a very convincing one—asthma, etc. Asked'iiim how a doctor would know during the war just where a ship was going, and how any doctor would be qualified to de­ termine what run a seaman could sail on, that is if he had asthma, or some other ailment, when the Master of the vessel does not know where his vessel .is bound for. His answer on this question was very vague, and did not make any sense. Brought up the old angle that the shipowners used to blackball men. The high blood pressure angle, and whether seamen un­ der their proposed examination, would be barred from going to sea if they had high blood pres­ sure. He stated that in some cases they would not be allowed to sail. Asked him how and what ef­ fect high blood pressure would have on any person who sails as a bos'un, and did he know what is required of a bos'un on a ship. His answer from all indications, implied that he must have the physical qualifications and be ac­ tive as a half back. Advised him that any bos'un who is an ex­ hibitionist and raves and rants around a ship's deck, in most cases would not know his job. In regards to high blood pres­ sure, the union has sent several letters to Captain Macauley, and they weren't answered for weeks at a time. Upon receiving Harry Lundeberg's letter protesting the medical examination. Captain Macauley immediately wired an answer to H.L., and followed it up with a letter, in addition he gave a release to the press. He certainly must have high blood pi'essure, and although 1 would not agree that he .should be fired for hitting the ceiling on reading the letter, he probably should be relieved for his continually bungling of the hiring practices of the industry. All the unions indicated that they are opposed to any medical examination that- would be used to eliminate old-timers and mili­ tant men from the industry. No opposition was raised by any {Continued on Page 4) �Page Two THE SEAFARERS L,0 G Friday, December'10, 1943 | Read These Facts And Then Decide Which One Really Gets Conditions Here Are The Stewards Department Working Rules For Frieight Vessel^ 1 As Provided In The NMU, MCS, And SIU Contracts. YOU Figure Who Is . j Fighting For [And Winning The Best] Conditions In The Stewards Dept. Contract of the National Maritime Union OVERTIME RATE ,85 pel- hour Standard Contract Attantic & Gulf Dist. Seafarers International Union Contract of the Marine Cooks & Stewards Cooks and Stewards All Other Ratings 85 75 .90 per hour HOURS OF WORK On freight vessels the working day at sea or in port shall not exceed eight hours in a spread of twelve hours and when practicable shall be between the hours of 6 A.M. and 6 P.M.; however, no addi­ tional compensation for work shall be approved, or paid, for the performance of regular routine duties pertaining to the Stewards' Department unless or­ dered to be performed outside regular scheduled working hours (routine duties such as preparing and serving three regular meals, cleaning of quarters, galley, messrooms, stewards' refrigerator boxes, and linen rooms). The provisions of this section relating to hours of work shall apply to the chief steward. SATURDAY AFTERNOONS, SUNDAYS AND HOLIDAYS In port all work performed on Saturday after­ noons. Sundays, and holidays shall be paid for at the overtime rate. If required to work Saturday afternoons and to serve supper, they shall receive a minimum of four hom-'s overtime and if required to work Sundays and holidays and three regular meals are served, they shall receive a minimum of eight hours' overtime in addition to their regular wages. If required to work outside of regular schedule ; after 6 P.M. on Saturday afternoons, Sundays, and -^^olidays they shall be paid according to the addi­ tional hours worked. Should the ship sail before 6 P.M. on Saturday afternoons, Sundays, and holi­ days overtime shall be paid for the actual time worked prior to sailing; however, only the minimum number of men required to "perform the work will be required to stay on board. \IC PAINTING Stewards' Department emploj'-ees may be re­ quired to do painting in all rooms and quarters, ex­ cept firemen's and sailors' quarters. For this work, personnel of Stewards' Department who actually en­ gage in this work shall be paid extra compensation at the rate of 70c per hour. The principle of the eight hour day in a spread of twelve hours is recognized, and the manning scale for the Stewards Department herein agreed to is based upon this principle. It is further agreed no overtime will be paid for serving the three regular meals at regular hours or performing other ordinary work incidental to duties of the Steward's Depart­ ment work. The hours of labor for the Stewards' Department shall be eight (8) hours in a spread of thirteen (13) hours while at sea and eight (8) hours in a spread of twelve (12) hours while in port. This applies Iq freight vessels. .1.1 (The NMU calls for 8 hours •when "practicable** The MCS endorses the "principle" of an 8 hour day. The SlU contract has no such shipowner rrcape clauses and words—it is irott-clad.) J t In home ports on the Pacific Coast, all work on Saturday afternoons, Sundays and holidays, except on days of arrival and departure shall be paid for at the overtime rate. The rules set forth in (a) of Section 2 shall also apply in the Port of New York only to vessels in the Inter-coastal North Atlantic Ti-ade; in the Port of Baltimore only to all vessels engaged in the Intercoastal South Atlantic Trade which do not call at the Port of New York; in the Port of New Orleans only for all vessels engaged in the Gulf Trade; and in the Port of Honolulu only to all vessels engaged in the Pacific Coast Hawaiian Trade. In lieu of overtime on Saturday afternoon and Sundays in ports other than home ports on freight­ ers, overtime will be paid for work on holidays whether in port or at sea. (a) The regular overtime rate shall be paid id all members of the Stewards' Department for all work on Sundays and Holidays and work in excess of four (4) hours on Saturdays while the vessel is in port. (b) On freighters equipped to carry 12 passen­ gers, the Stewards' Department may be reduced on Saturday afternoons, Sundays and Holidays, and only those men required to remain on duty for nor­ mal freight ship requirements of the Company shall receive overtime. (c) On all freight vessels of the Company, ex­ cept as provided in (b) of this section, the Stewards' Department shall not be reduced on Saturdays, Sun­ days and Holidays. {The MCS contract provides overtime only in home ' ports—and then not on days of arrival or depart- I lire. NMU and SIU receives overtime ht ALL i ports.) Members of the Steward's Department shall not be required to paint staterooms or salons, but may be required to paint such as crew's quarters, messrooms, galley and salon floors and waterways. This rule shall not prohibit employers carrying men to do all such work. Members of the Stewards' Department shall nol be required to chip, sougee, scrape or paint, uplei|S. the regular overtime rate shall be paid to members actually engaged in performing the work, for the aglual hours worked: however, spotting up with sougee shall be done within the regulsur working hours. No Overtime I?: BAKING BREAD All bread is to be made aboard ship by the second-cook-and-baker. within his regular hours. No Provision In Continental Ports of the United States bread shall be supplied from shore when available for port use and if not supplied two (2) hours' overtime shall be paid to the Second Cook and Baker for eadi batch of bread baked. MEALS IN PORT For lunches or meals served to officials, guests or shore labor in port, regardless of number, the sum of 30c for each meal served shall be paid and equally distributed to the men actually engaged m the prep­ aration and serving of same. ($1.20 for 4 meals) i For lunches or nieals served to officials and/or guests numbering from three to not more than six persons, one hour overtime shall be allowed to each of those actually engaged. No extra compensation for less than three guests at any one meal. When the deck officer orders meals served to longshoremen or other shore labor on board any vessel the sum of thirty (30) cents for each meal served to each long.shoreman shall be paid and shall be equally distributed to the men in the Steward's Department actually engaged in the work. ($1.20 for 4 meals, under second paragraph) When extra meals are served to other than regu­ lar members of the crew signed on articles, gun crew, passenger and/or pilots when carried, over­ time shall be paid to not exceeding three (3) mem­ bers of the Stewards' Department at the rate of one (1) hour each for every four (4) meals prepared and served. The amount of extra nieals served shall he to­ taled and computed in accordance with paragraph (a) of this section at the end of each voyage. (SIU contract adds up to $2,70 paid for each 4 meals served.) No meals or coffee will be served to anyone other than crew without written authority of the Master or officer in charge. Cooks, Messmen or those engaged in serving 9:00 p.m., 12:00 midnight or 3:00 a.m. hot lunches will be allowed three (3) hours' overtime each for preparing and serving each liinch. Two Messmen will serve 9i:00 p.m., .12:00 midnight or 3:00 a.m. cold lunches and will be paid two (2)r hours' overtime each for preparing and serving each lunch. Members of the Stewards' Department actually engaged in serving hot midnight or 3 A.M' lunch are to be allowed three (3) hours' overtime each for preparing and serving same and when serving iundt at nine (9) P.M., two (2) hours' overtime shall ba paid for preparing and serving same. , MIDNIGHT SUPPERS Employees actually engaged in preparing and i;!.. serving hot midnight suppers sh^I be paid two hours' overtime for same. (Continued on Page 3) I'' �S Friday, December 10, 18'£3 THE SEAFARERS LOG Page Three i MORE FACTS ON NMU, MCS & SIU CONTRACTS {Continued from Page 2) CARRYING STORES Members of the Stewards" Dep?-tment shall not he required to carry on board heavy stores, provis­ ions, and laundry. However, mernbers of the Stew­ ards^ Department shall be required to carry on board working stores within their regular working hours. They shall also be required to stow away all stores and provisions placed on board by a shore gang, longshoremen, or the Deck Department and placed convenient to refrigerator bdxes and storerooms, without payment of additional compensation if per­ formed in their regular hours of duty. They shall "also stow away all laundry placed on board by long­ shoremen or the Deck Department. Members of the Steward's Department shall not be required to carry heavy stores and provisions ex­ cept laundry on board, hut all stores and pro\.'isiohs shall be stowed by the Steward's Department. N • MANNING SCALE There shall be no. change in the present man­ ning scale of the Stewards' Department. On freight ships in trades where occasional passengers are carfied, the members of the Stewards' Department serv­ ing such passengers shall be compensated by .an amount equal to five dollars ($5) per passenger for the trip provided the trip does not exceed five days in duration. In the event the trip exceeds five days in duration then each member of the Stewards' De­ partment engaged in serving the passengers shall receive five dollars ($5) per passenger per trip. How­ ever, the owner shall have the option of placing -additional men in the Stewards' Department when deemed necessary, and when so assigned no extra compensation will be paid for such service to pas­ sengers. (a) Members of Ihe Stewards' Department not be required to carry any stores or linen to or from ihe dock, but when stores or linen or delivered to storeroom doors, meat or chill box doors, they shall place same in their respective places and over­ time shall be paid for such work to all men required to put in more than eight (8) hours' work that day. (b) Daily supplies of provisions such as milk, bread and vegetables shall,.be stored away without the payment of overtime. {Overtime is paid for ALL work under paragraph (a) of the SIU contract because this is not coti~ sidered routine work.) No Extra Compensation Provided, If is agreed thai meals served passengers will not be considered extra meals. When passengers are carried it is agreed that if one to three passengers inclusive are carried, one (1) hour overtime per day will be paid to each of fou* (4) members of the Stewards' Department (including the Steward). If four (4) or more passengers are car­ ried the payment shall be two (2) hours' overtime per day. This section does not apply to those freighters regularly carrying passengers where the Stewards' Department Personnel exceeds six (6) persons. No Overtime No Overtime When meal hours are delayed or shifted on ac­ count of crew being occupied and unable to eat at their regular meal hour, all necessary members of the Stewards' Department will be paid at the regu­ lar overtime rate for the time delayed. LIGHTING STOVES No Overtime No Overtime On vessels which still have coal burning stoves the man who starts the fires in the morning shall be given one-half (Vi) hours' overtime each day. No Overtime Overtime shall be paid to all members of the Stewards' Department actually engaged in cleaning meat box and chill boxes. DELAYING OF MEALS CLEANING MEAT BOXES No Overtime SORTING LINEN Work performed by any member of the Stew­ ards' Department, other than the regular routine work as defined in this agreement, shall be paid for at the regular overtime rate. This clause is added due to the fact that the Stewards' Department has a required amount of routine duty to perform within their 8 hours. Sorting and counting linen, cleaning spare rooms not occupied by crew or passengers, shall be paid for at the regular overtime rate. No Overtime \ No Overtime C\<-SHIFTING SHIP No Overtime No Overtime WAGES — OFFSHORE Chief Steward Chief Cook Second Cook Mcssman Crew Messman WAGES — COASTWISE Chief Steward Chief Cook S^ond Cook Messman Crew Messman - The day vessel arrives from sea at a port of call shall be considered the day of arrival, and smy sub­ sequent moves from thcd port occurring in inland waters, bays and sounds, shall be considered as shifting ship and overtime shall be pciid for Satur­ day afternoons. Sundays and holidays. (ALL WAGES $147.50 132.50 117.50 87.50 82.50 INCLUDE BASIC SCALE PLUS EMERGENCY INCREASES) Chief Steward $152.50 Chief Steward Chief Cook 137.50 Chief Cook Second Cook 122.50 Second Cook Messman 87,50 Messman Crew Messman 82.50 Utility $157.58 137.50 122.50 87.50 87.50 Chief Steward Chief Cook Second Cook Messman Crew Messman $157.50 137.50 122J50 87.50 87.50 $140.00 125.00 110.00 80.00 75.00 $152.50 137.50 122.50 87.50 82.50 Chief Steward Chief Cook Second Cook Messman Utility All provisions in the MCS and SIU contracts apply to both offshore and coastwise runs. However, the NMU gets overtime for Saturday afternoon, Sundays and holidays on coastwise run only when the ship is in its home port — and not then on days of arrival and departure. Hiese finky rules apply to all three departments. The NMU contract rea'ds as follows: The boatswain and carpenter shall perform their usual duties in connection with mooring and un­ mooring between the hours of 8 A.M. and 5 P.M. on such days of arrival without payment of overtime. In the event of a vessel sailing on day of arrival, the above conditions shall apply. Section 2. The oiler on watch, if not required in the engine room, shall oil and care for, the deck machinery while cargo is being worked, on such days of arrival, without payment of overtime. Section 3. Working Hours, Stewards. The Stew­ ards' Department personnel shall perform their nor­ mal duties within eight hours on freight vessels, and on passenger vessels if no passengers are on board, Recognizing the critical economic situation which confronts the coastwise trade, and the absence of any Governmental subsidy, it is distinctly under­ stood and agreed that the following provisions shall apply on "days of arrival" at all ports other than the home port, on all vessels engaged exclusively in the ynited States Atlantic Gulf and Puerto Rican coast­ wise trade (that is, all such vessels not touching any foreign ports). V Seclion i. Days of Atxival. "\yhen "days of ar­ rival" fall on Saturdays, Suntlays or holidays, the watch on duty shall not be paid overtime for the normal watch duties. In the Deck Depm-tment nor­ mal duties sliall include gangway or anchor watch. mi!: V-ki:;.!,: without overtime, on such days of arrival except that if passengers ai'e on board, all members of the Stewards' Department shall woik their regular sea schedule of hours without the payment of overtime; provided, however, that no maintenance or repair work shall be performed on Saturday afternoons, Sundays or holidays of such days of arrival without payment of overtime, and provided further, that aU work performed by Deck or Engine personnel in excess of regular eight hours and all work perform­ ed in excess of regular hours of duty in Stewards* Department, shall be paid for at the regular ov^time rate. l| ^ il �m >age Four THE SEAFARERS LOG Dushane's Report On Washingfton Friday, December 10, 1943 SEAFARERS LOG contain no clause regard blowing smoke up their member­ he is a member. Made ieveral Published by the decisions on SIU cases. Know ing a medical examination, and ship alley. They now have fhc membership wishes him luck I am of the opinion that this is case before the National War La­ SEAFARERS' INTERNATIONAL UNION a matter for them to take up bor Board. It is a request to the in his new job. OF NORTH AMERICA with the operators, as it effects board that they be granted the REPORT OF DECEMBER 8, 1943 the SUP agreement, when they same conditions that the SIUAtlantic and Gulf District December 15th is the final wine supply men to the operators, and SUP are at present enjoying. up to compute and file your a third party determines whether Affiliated with the American Federation of Labor Will close this with a little in­ amended income tax, if the tax a person dispatched to a vessel formation to our new members was under estimated from the can be employed. This seems to who do not know me, and may HARRY LUNDEBERG ------ Presideni September 15th report made to be a violation of our agreements be misled into believing the Pil­ 110 Market Street, San Francisco, Calif. the Internal Revenue. There is one way that this ot's bilge water. In the Fall of Internal Revenue penalizes a move may possibly be beat, a nineteen hundred and thirty six JOHN HAWK - Secy-Treas, person six per cent if they under brief submitted to the appropri­ P. O. Box 2f, Station P., New York City was storekeeper on the S.S. estimate their tax. If you can't ations committee in Congress Quirigia of the United Fruit guess your tax within twenty may cut off the proposed revenue Company. This was the only MATTHEW DUSHANE - - - Washington Rep. per cent, you will have to fish that the WSA intends to pay the ship of that company that the 424 Sth Street, N. W., Washington, D.C. out the penalty. Internal Rev­ Doctors for every examination. crew went out on strike in the • w w enue states that ignorance of the The WSA is now drafting an ap­ port of New York. Was out on law excuses no person. Listing propriation for the coming year, the picket line all during the Directory of Branches the four catergories of persons maybe Congressmen will see the 1936-1937 strike. Shipped out as BRANCH ADDRESS who must file on or before De­ light, and cut the money bags of Bos'un Mate on the S.S. Presi­ PHONE cember 15, 1943. ^ BOwUng Green 9-3437 the WSA. dent Garfield in April, 1937. BOSTON (10) 330 Atlantic Ave Liberty 4057 ' .1 Anyone who expects to have E. R. Wallace, SIU Agt., Gal­ BALTIMORE (2>......,I4 North Gay St Calvert 4539 PILOT ATTACK PHILADELPHIA. ...;.. .6 North 6th St. Lombard 7651 during the calendar year 1943 NORFOLK 25 Commercial PI Norfolk 4-1083 The December 3rd issue of the veston: Your Congressman may more than $100 gross income NEW ORLEANS (16) ..309 Chartres St ...Canal 3336 Pilot carried an editorial, in send you the Congressional Rec­ S^AVANNAH 218 Eaet Bay St Savannah 3-1728 from a source outside of wages ord free. Subscriptions may be TAMPA .....423 East Piatt St Tampa MM-1323 which yours truly was given a MOBILE 55 .So. Conception St Dial 2.l3Sa which are subject to withholding paragraph. Usually a blast in sent to the Superintendent of PUERTO RICO. 45 Ponce da Icon....... .Puerto de TIerra tax and who also expects suffici­ Documents, Government Print­ GALVESTON 219 20th Street Galveston 2-8043 the Pilot is not worth the time FT. LAUDERDALE 2021 S. Federal Highway... Ft. Lauderdale 1601 ent gross income to require filing ing Office, Washington, D.C. (One to c'^swer, especially when it •W W V an income tax return (S500 for a dollar and fifty cents per month. comes Tom Blacky Myers. single person, $1,200 for a mar­ PUBLICATION OFFICE: New England fishermen are This article carried the same ried couple, or $624 for a married still out on strike against the ROOM 213, 2 STONE STREET old bunk about the SIU-SUP be­ person.) ing a shipowners set-up, and that OPA's ceiling prices. Pat McNew York City BOwIing Green 9-8346 2. Any single person expect­ we curry favors with them. The Hugh is in town trying to •267 ing wages of more than $2,700 record shows that when the SIU straighten things out. Looks as during the year. members struck the Robin Line though Triggs of the OPA, who 3. Any married person or mar­ ships for an increase in War Risk formerly was a fish buyer is set ried couple expecting individual­ Bonuses, officials of the NMU on letting the fish buyers con­ ly or together more than $3,500 dispatched a crew" for one of tinue to reap a harvest. from wages during the year. The NMU has been pressing these vessels, and they sailed her 4. Any person who was re­ the WSA to get me to go along to South Africa and return. quired to file an income tax re­ with them to try and high pres­ The record also shows that turn for 1942 and expects their sure Congressman Rampsbeck when the NMU crews had some wages in 1943 to be less than in of their vessels tied up for an for action on unemployment in­ 1942. waterfront, it takes picket lines, {Continued from Page 1) increase in War bonuses, the surance for seamen. Advised the I know its a headache, but I officials of the NMU, upon re­ WSA that I would not walk WLB. The NMU is asking for it takes uncompromising opposi-' Just thought that a reminder turning from a conference ih across the street with the NMU wages and working rules which tion to the shipowners and all may help to eliminate the pay­ Washington with officials of the skunks. Will contact Congress­ have been part of the SIU con that they stand for. The NMU ment of a penalty. propaganda machine serves the Maritime Commission, sold their men on this bill with only AFL tracts for years. representatives, and not with the political ends of the Stalinist membership -a bill of goods on MEDICAL EXAMINATION IN BLACK AND WHITE NMU representatives. clique which runS the union, but the Maritime Commission's twen­ Admiral Marshall Dimock of ty-five per cent bonus. it, does not serve the economic Curran and Company have put The the WSA, has sent me a notifica­ SIU-SUP crews were then re­ on paper a lot of wild and loose needs of the membership—a fact tion that another meeting is go­ ceiving thirty-three per cent War charges against the SIU—slan­ they are rapidly coming to un­ ing to be held on December risk bonus. derous, all of them. We don't in­ derstand. Fifteenth, on further discussion We don't intend to shadow box tend to engage in an endless Another gander at the record . of the WSA proposed Medical shows that these vultures in the with Curran, we intend to place campaign of character assassina­ HENRY RUSSELL QUIRK in printers' ink an analysis of ouT^ exam. tion (the Stalinists would win in labor movement condemned the Get in touch with your sister. conditions and his conditions. Their second proposal also was SIU-SUP for striking ships for such a fight anyway). What we Jessie Poiriei, 428 Pleasant St., sent to me. In the first proposal, an increase in War Bonuses. do propose is to put in black and The test of a union is what it any seaman who was turned However, after the National Me­ Melrose. white a detailed analysis of the does for its members. Let the « * » down by a Doctor could go to diation Board granted us a War SIU and NMU contracts, and to seamen of all unions read the LORIN F. HOUGHTON the U.S. Public -Health service Bonus of eighty dollars a month, show the rank and file members facts and judge for themselves. Contact Attorney Ranny Drap­ of the NMU just what sort of a for a re-examination—Under the these misleaders of labor shout­ new proposal, "The case shall be ed to high heaven for stabiliza­ er, Bank of America Building, rooking they are receiving. decided by the Public Health tion on bonuses. That, my friends Manrovia, California. In this issue, on page two and • • • Service Officer who has been ap­ led up to the present Maritime three, we have analyzed the IRVING PAULSON pointed as Port Medical Repre­ War Emergency Board. This NMU, MCS and SIU Stewards VINCENT COSTER: You have Communicate with Attorney Department contracts on freight 50 hours overtime coming from sentative." At the last meeting board was advocated and pushed the majority of the opinion was by the NMU, and it owes its Richard Cantor, 51 Chambers vessels. In future issues we shall the Bull Line. • • that in any examination for con- birth and present powers to Street, New York City. break down the contracts as they * * * tegious disease all the Doctors them. apply to other departments. We R. H. TAURIN has overtime MIKE DIKUN should be from the U.S. Public urge all seamen in all unions to coming from the Calmar Line. The record also shows that the Your papers and discharges study these breakdowns and to See patrolman Sheehan about if. Health Service, and that they be NMU supplied crews to the Ex­ free from any entanglements port Line when another of their have been turned into the Phila­ understand what they mean. No * # * with the WSA. amount of Curran bull will be (CIO) affiliates, the MEBA, delphia hall. R. McLAURIN has overtime able to cover up the fact' that coming from the New York of­ The WSA moving into the pic­ struck the Export Line for an in­ the SIU leads the industry in fice of the Calmar Line. ture and trying to compel sea­ crease in Bonus. The NMU was winning conditions for the sea­ * « • men to submit to a medical ex­ returned this favor by that com­ men. amination, wherein the WSA pany, in that they were granted Crew which paid off S.S. Alcoa SS ROBIN DONCASTER $15.00 sets lip the standard for the exam. the same bonuses that the SIUVoyager in Sept. 1943. has $10 PROPAGANDA NOT SS WM. MERIDITH This is contrary to the state­ SUP was then receiving. ENOUGH linen money coming. Collect 17 7.00 DECK DEPT ment of policy signed between This editorial goes on to state, Battery Place, New York City. the unions and the WSA. I am "As Far as the NMU is concern­ SS GEO. Some NMU rank and fliers » » » 7.00 will no doubt begin to wonder WESTINGHOUSE of the opinion that the standards ed, conditions which might be The logging of the Steward's to be set up is a matter for col­ acceptable to the SIU are cer­ O. VALLEY .: 5.00 why it is that their outfit, with lective bargaining under the tainly not acceptable to the rank KEITH BRILL 4.00 all its high-power publicity and Department of the S.S. Daniel terms of agreements held with and file of all seamens' unions." 4.00 propaganda departments, lags be­ Willard has been reversed by the L. REAVES the operators, and I feel that the I suppose they mean that the hind the SIU so badly in win­ 2.00 ning conditions aboard the ships. Commissioner after a lengthy WSA is duly bound to respect conditions now enjoyed by the GEORGE BOOKS 2.00 It is because it takes more than trial. The men involved can colthe terms of the agreements re­ SIU-SUP, are not acceptable to R. W. 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Title A name given to the resource December 10, 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. 36 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: PILOT ATTACK ON SIU REVEALS DESPERATION OF CURRAN & CO. READ THESE FACTS AND THEN DECIDE WHICH ONE REALLY GETS CONDITIONS Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 12/10/1943 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Seafarers International Union of North America 1943 Periodicals Seafarers Log