http://seafarerslog.org/archives/files/original/71a09631ca70b21611a28a8a5539fa04.PDF 3ff400eb0c399d3372d6d89c393e82d0 PDF Text Text pAFARBRS Jbc, OFFICIAL OROAN OF THE ATLANTIC AND QULF DISTRICT. F SEAFARERS' INTERNATIONAL UNION OF NORTH AMERICA Vol. VI. IT NEW YORK. N.Y., FRIDAY. MAY 19. 1944 No. 12 AFL Executive Council Supports SIU On Bonus U.S. Submits Plan To ILO Seamen Warned Conference To Raise World On Censorship Regulations Wide Labor Standards PHILADELPHIA.—The United States Government submitted to the national labor conference a plan of action for putting into effect the social objectives of the Atlantic Charter through measures designed to win improved labor standards, economic development and social security. Pressing for the adoption of* five concrete steps to better the parts of the world remain unsat­ lot of the working man through­ isfied." out the world, the United States The plan sets out these five plan called also for the promo­ points: (Coiithnied on Page 2) tion of a less restricted system of international trade, including freedom of the air, and for close scrutiny to make certain that the signatory governments abide by the rules. The sweeping plan was placed before the newly constituted Uni­ ted Nations committee of the The dispatching hall in the Port ILO by Frances Perkins, Secre­ of New York is to be open for tary of Labor, and Senator Elbert longer hours than formerly, it D. Thomas, Government dele­ was reported at the meeting last gates. The plan is the pi'oduct of Monday night. six months of conferences by all The hours, hereafter, for dis­ 'interested Federal agencies and patching of Union Brothers to departments in Washington. jobs will be from 8 A.M. to 9 P.M. Through ratification of the plan on week days, Monday through each signatory government Saturday, and from 10 A.M. until would, among other things, rec­ 6 P.M. on Sundays. ognize its obligation "to foster The step was taken to protect expanding production and em­ many of the Union Brothers' jobs ployment on a sound basis, free and afford them greater service from disruptive fluctuations, and during the coming period. Agents to insure that workers and facil­ of the other Branches have also ities shall not be allowed to be been requested to post this notice idle while the needs of large on their bulletin boards. New York Hall To Be Open Longer Hours Above is a picture of the banquet which was given the Workers' Delegates from all over the world to the ILO Conference at Philadelphia. Pa. i I 4.': The following wire has been received by the New York office, warning all sea­ men on the censorship reg­ ulations. John Hawk. Sec'y-Treas.. Seafarers IntT Union of North America. 2 Stone Street New York. N. Y. The office of censorship has asked us to advise and emphasize the following no­ tice for publication to your membership on Bulletin Bo2u:ds and newspapers: "Crew members are pro­ hibited under Section 303 of the first war powers act from any attempt to evade censor­ ship regulations, such as the carrying of letters for them­ selves or others without first submitting them to censor­ ship. "Any violation of this act may subject the offender to imprisonment for ten years and a fine of $10,000. (Signed) G. H. Helmbold. Assistant Deputy Administrator for ship operations. War Ship­ ping Administration." Hubert Wyckoff. Assistant Deputy Administrator for Maritime Labor Relations. Session Clears Way To Aid Union'sFight AgainstMWEB PHILADELPHIA, Pa., May 17.—The Executive Council of the American Federation of Labor, in its extra-* ordinary session, held here recently, decided to support the complaint of the Seafarers International Union of Noirth America against the action of the War Shipping Adminis-< •tration through Capt. Macauley of the Maritime War Emergency Board in reducing bonus pay­ ments to seamen who are asked to take ships into hazardous waters. Harry Lundeberg, President of the SIU and Sec'y-Treasurer of PHILADELPHIA. —The world the SUP, and John Hawk, Viceconference of labor proposed by President of the SIU and Atlan­ the British Trades Union Con­ tic and Gulf District Sec'y-Treas­ gress and repudiated by the Am­ urer, appeared before the Coun­ erican Federation of Labor will cil in a full-dress session and not be held, it was officially an­ laid the details of the Union's nounced here. The meeting had fight on the reinstatement of been scheduled to open in Lon­ bonuses to the pre-April 1 level, and increased war-risk insurance don next month. for seamen. The AFL had opposed the con­ Full history of all the bonus ference on the ground that it disputes was laid before the would not be truly representative of the free trade imion move­ highest body of the AFL and ments of the world, which were Brothers Lundeberg and Hawk not consulted before the plans for disclosed the minute details of MWEB Chair man, Macauley's^ the meeting were announced. British labor delegates to the manuevers on the matter. Harry Lundeberg told the ILO here said the transportation Council that more than 1,900 of blockade, imposed because of the the Union's members had been impending military drives by the killed by enemy action since United Nations, made the gather­ Pearl Harbor. ing impossible. It is understood, however, that interest in the pro­ The Council also plans to issue posed meeting turned lukewarm three new charters to Internaafter the AFL repudiated it. {Continued on Page 4) London Labor Parley Suddenly Abandoned This was attended by Brothers Harry Lundeberg. Matthew Dushane. and John Hawk, advisors on maritime affairs to Robert Watt (AFL). American Workers' Delegate to the member of the Executive Labor Orgcmisation. Delegate Watt is a of the International •y iiiiisias •^1 �Page Two THE SEAFARERS LOG Published by the SEAFARERS' INTERNATIONAL UNION OF NORTH AMERICA Atlantic and Gulf District Affiliated with tlx American Federation of Labor HARRY LUNDEBERG ------ President 110 Market Street, .San Francisco, Calif. JOHN HAWK - -- -- -- - Secy-Treas, P. O. Box 25, Station P., New York City MATTHEW DUSHANE - - - Washington Rep. 424 5th Street, N. W., Washington, D. C. Directory of Branches BRANCH ADDRESS NEW YORK (4) 2 Stone St BOSTON (10) 330 Atlantic Ave BALTIMORE (2) MNorthGaySt PHILADELPHIA 6 North 6th St NORFOLK 25 Commercial PI NEW ORLEANS (16). .. 324 Chartres St SAVANNAH 218 East Bay St TAMPA 423 East Piatt St MOBILE 7 St. Michael St PUERTO RICO 45 Ponce de Leon GALVESTON 219 20th Street PHONE BOwling Green 9-3437 I,lberty 4057 Calvert 4539 Lombard 7651 Norfolk 4-1083 Canal 3336 ' Savannah 3-1 728 Tampa MM-1323 Dial 2-1392 Puerto de Tierra Galveston 2-8043 PUBLICATION OFFICE: ROOM 213, 2 STONE STREET New York City (4) BOwling Green 9-8346 267 Those NMU 'Victories' AN EDITORIAL Wonderful and mysterious are those heralded gains of the NMU officials carried in streamer banners across the front page of the Voice of the NMU??.^ the Pile-it. Never a week passes but we are entertained to a display in the art of publicity—i.e., covering things, up through the use of words. After reading an issue of the Pile-it, one is immediately tempted to start counting the money, and a marvelous feeling creeps over the uninitiated and the innocents. "God's in his Heaven, all's well with the world" the Comfnicals are sure on the job looking after his interests. He can order another beer any time on the strength of the headlines in any week's Pile-if. But, if he sticks around long enough to get some use out of the fee that he paid to the NMU officials as an ^'Initiation Fee" (This explains why it is appropriately called an Initiation fee), he will find that the heralded gain he celebrated months ago, has vanished like the snows of yesteryear. Nothing in fact, -has been changed! The Yogis of 17th Street are still spinning their mysterious victories in headlines which never materializes. It's the old Indian rope trick we have heard so much about where everything disappears before your very eyes -a-fter you bet your last dollar on the vision being a reality. Aye, it's a bonny feeling. Many an NMU member has spent his last dollar cele­ brating his union leaders' victories which he vicariously deemed his "victories" and felt rich in the spending. Why didn't the gains of the Commicals mean that further gains were in the offing, and wasn't he richer today than he was the day before? And, he would be richer tomorrow than he is today by the same logic derived from the NMU Pile-it. A horrible feeling is the morning after the ,night be­ fore. That terrible dark, brown taste and the pounding headaches. "Never again." We are off it for life. The elixir of Life has turned out to be an adder in our bosum. We are^ through. Never agaifi! Well, Brothers, it's the same with the Pile-it and the I ^ •hNpr {Continued on Page 4) SEAFARERS LOG Friday, May 19. 1944 WHArS DOING Around die Ports this Port something that will men whom they were blasting prove highly beneficial in com­ were at sea making it the hard batting the WSA fink Halls and way. That is a damn sight more This Port just had the largest from preventing them from load­ than the NMU Agent is going to week for any Branch in the Sea­ ing our ships with phonies on do—you can bet ypur Aunt Su­ farers' history. As a result, the week-ends and after 5 p.m. sie's Blue Bonnet on that! officials up this way have strictly We are now You can't push the Commy open every been in high gear. day from 8 a.m. until 9 p.m., in­ line at sea—not only that—it's al­ Since the Patrolmen here be­ cluding Saturday. We will be so dangerous, even for "pinkos." lieve in settling beefs at the point open on Sunday from 10 a.m. to Yours iill Ihe commies go to of production, right on board the 6 p.m. sea. vessel at pay-off-time, we have The membership here have PAUL HALL, Agent avoided any accumulation of made up their minds that to real­ unsettled beefs, which usually ly fight the WSA and RMO fink occurs in busy times, and which tactics we must make it a fullties a port down for some time time fight rather than a 5% day after. a week fight. In the future, we We have put into practice in will save at least 40 jobs every week in this manner. It should pi-event our member­ ship from becoming top-heavy for the amount of jobs that we have. The most important part Because the law requires that is that we won't have good union seamen's papers, identification ships polluted with anti - union and efficiency certificates, as well fakers and WSA stiffs. as Coast Guard passes and pass­ Every man paying off in this ports be turned over to their re­ (Continued from Page 1) Port who has charges placed spective authorities when they against him on boai'd any vessel have become lost, the Union has "1—Opportunity to useful and regular employment of all per­ for anything, by the Coast Guard, returned to such offices in New sons who want work, at fair is advised to contact the Business York the particular items as list­ wages or returns and under rea­ Agent as soon as possible. Thus ed below. They will be returned he can have someone to represent to the individual seamen upon sonable conditions. "2—Establishment of minimum him at the heai*ing in the Coast application thereto. standards of employment to pre­ Guard Examiner's Trial. CERTIFICATE OF We have been very successful vent exploitation of those workIDENTIFICATION ei's, whether - employed or self- here, by defending our members, Bureau of Marine employed, whose opportunities in avoiding having a whole Inspection & Navigation for high' wage employment are bunch of them tied up with 60 42 Broadway and 90 day suspensions which limited. EDWARD ARTHUR MURPHY "3—Provision for child welfare. could have been easily avoided "4—Raising standards of living by proper representation at the SOCIAL SECURITY ACT to provide adequate nutrition, right time. The only thing re­ Social Security Board 45 Broadway housing, medical care and edu­ quired of any Seafarers member to get repi-esentation here at this cation. JOHN JOSEPH CROSS "5—Provision for a regular Branch, is that he be sober. No. 140-18-9105 I noticed in the last issue of the flow of income to all those whose DISCHARGES employment is interrupted by Pilot that the New York Agent of U. S. Commissioner's Office sickness or injury, by old age or the NMU was blasting some of 42 Broadway by lack of employment oppor­ our members for being phony— while at the same time the same THOMAS E. THOMPSON (15) tunity." NEW YORK U.S. Submits Plan To ILO Conference ToRaiseStandards Get Your Papers If Your Name Appears Below Above: Harry Lundeberg, President of thb SIU of NA. confers with Madame Francis Perkins, U.S. Sec'y of Labor at the ILO Conference in Philadelphia. ^ ^H|' y i A �•vr,! '• Eziday, May 39( 1944 THE SEAFARERS LOG Page TlixM ' l^-l l> I? NMU Conditions Back To Impression Day Style SlUer Says 68 More Tankers Seamen's Security Plan To Be Constructed Is ApJ^oved By^erchant WASHINGTON — Contracts Marine Committee '.•ik that have been awarded for the construction of 68 large ocean­ WASHINGTON, May 10.—The through a 3 per cent pay roll tax Editor of SEAFARERS LOG: going tankers, the Maritime House Merchant Marine and on employers." The report said that the com­ Commission reports. Certain ex­ Fisheries-Committee has released Paid off an NMU tanker about a tentative report approving leg­ mittee was not in sympathy with isting contracts have been rear­ three days ago. Signed on that CREW OF SS WILLIAM islation looking toward the es­ charges made by employers that ranged so that the tankers may job in Feb. in the Port of Recife, STEWART $20.00 be delivered by July 1, 1945, tablishment of a system of un­ the use of union hiring halls as Brazil. BS JAMES DUNN 10.00 employment compensation for normal places of registration for The conditions on that, ship B. V. LUSTAGO lO.ITO Twenty-four tankers will be maritime labor which would call employment of union members were no different than those of J. T. BUTLER ID.OO constructed by the Sun Ship­ for a 3 per cent pay roll tax to be would constitute administration the old days. Port-holes leaking WING'S CAFE 9.00 building and Dry Dock Co., of paid by employers. of the scheme by labor unions. in all the rooms, overheads were WOOD SURVIVORS 7.00 Chester, Pa., (lUMSWA - CIO). Covering a detailed history of Applications for benefits, the so bad several of the crew had SS CHARLES S. FINGER.. 7.00 This is part of a total of 50 tank­ pending legislation on marine un­ committee said, should be filed in damaged suit-cases. ES THOMAS GREGORY .. 7.00 ers to be constructed by the Sun employment compensation which a Goverment office and processed One shower for nine men, also BALTIMORE MEMBERS .. 5.00 Co. during 1945. To allow for the has been before Congress for six by Government emplyoes. three men in the Stewards' Dept. SS ROBIN GRAY 4.00 full use of the Sun yards for years, the committee suggests "The committee does not be­ tankers, a contract for 30 trans­ that there should be imposed up­ who used the black-gang wash­ L. W. JAMES 4.00 lieve it to be the function of un­ port vessels has been withdrawn. on the steamship industry the room. The crew's mess had a F. W. DE HANEY 2.00 employment insurance to destroy coolerator, which had to be filled CARL HOWELL 2.00 Contracts for construction of 38 same taxes as are imposed on or interfere with the systems of with ice ^very night to keep the R. RAE 1.00 tankers have been awarded to other employers subject to the employment which have been es­ night lunch from going bad. G. GORDANO .: 1.00 the Kaiser Co., Inc., Swan Island Federal Unemployment Tax Act. tablished in the industry by the 1.00 Yard, at Portland, Ore., (Metal The Steward was strictly a N. a STONE "Escape" From Taxes process of collective bargaining," 1.00 Trades-AFL). A contract for six Declaring that in the period the report asserts. "On the con­ conapany stooge, had it not been G. J. EISENHAIDT tankers has been awarded to the since 1935 maritime employers trary, the committee believes that for the militant stand of the Bethlehem-Sparrows Point Ship­ have escaped not less than $35,- the union hiring halls should be TOTAL $101.00 Chief Cook, we would have been yard, Inc., Baltimore, Md., 000,000 in unemployment taxes, used where they exist, with safe­ on the two-pot standard. The (lUMSWA-CIO). the committee concludes after guards sufficient to insure that Steward used to^ issue fruit juices careful study of the records in the unemployed are promptly re­ one cup to a man. The blackOf the vessels removed from connection with the maritime ferred to employment and other gang delegate and myself soon the schedule of the Sun Co., 20 put a stop to that, even though will be constructed by the Kaiser unemployment question that, al­ work as may be available." we had damn little backing from Co., Vancouver Yard, at Van­ though the cost of providing pro­ Trust Fund the rest of the crew. couver, Wash., (Metal Trades- tection against the hazards of un­ In addition the committee con­ Here again Curran of the NMU AFL). The remaining 10 vessels employment in industry, trade cluded that it is desirable to es­ Attended one meeting while on is shown off the beam, for he de­ will be built by the Kaiser Co., and transportation other than tablish an account in the Unem­ that scow, and it was a joke. The clared before a Congressional Richmond, Calif., Yard No. 3, maritime transportation is borne ployment Trust Fund in the Bos'n ruled the set-up, he elected Investigating Committee in favor (Metal Trades-AFL). Thus it will at least in part by the employer, Treasury into which taxes levied his own chairman, made and sec-^ of Liberty Ships. He "experted be possible to complete them in the employers in the maritime on the part of the maritime in­ onded his own motions. He tried to such an extent that the Army 1945 without conflicting with the industry now bear such costs only dustry not subject to the Federal to pass a rule that we have per­ exposed him and declared they tanker program. to a minor degree, and, "for the system should be covered. fect silence in the crew's passage most part, in the past, escaped way at 8:00 p.m. sharp, as he was wouldn't allow troops to be trans­ The committee said that under ported in such vessels. Here Tlie award last February to the entirely." existing emplojnnent conditions Kaiser Vancouver Yard of a con­ (Continued on Page 4) again, Curran, who declared that In suggesting provisions for an in the maritime industry, and for the Liberties were good enough tract for 60 coastal cai'go vessels appropriate Federal measure, the so long as such conditions con­ for seamen is exposed by another has been rescinded to make room committee concludes that a scale tinue, contributions under a mar­ CIO Union — and he's supposed for the transport vessels. Award of benefits producing an average itime unemployment insurance to be a vice-president of the CIO. has been made to the Kaiser Car­ benefit approximating the aver­ system would be relatively heavy go Co., at Richmond, Calif., (Met­ age now paid under State laws al Trades-AFL) for construction would be a reasonable scale for a while benefit payments would be 'Workers Protest of nine of the coastal vessels, Federal maritime unemployment extremely light. Liberty Ships "At the 3 per cent rate, the to­ which, with 12 already on the insurance system. tal annual contributions would "SEATTLE, May 3. —Mem­ ways, will all be completed by (I.T.F.)—In a seamen's broad­ bers of the United Cannery the end of March, 1945. amount to $4,777,192," the com­ 3% Tax On Employers cast the German radio station Agricultural and Processing "The committee concludes," the mittee said. "According to this Deutschlandsender on 19th De­ report states, "that it is undersir- calculation, the excess of bene­ Workers Union has sent a reso­ cember gave German seamen the lution to the War Shipping Ad­ able, at present, to provide any fits over contributions in a nor­ ATTENTION! following warning: "In German •"'i revenues apart from those raised mal year would be $1,174,964." ministration protesting the use ships there are now a number of of Liberty ships to transport Agents in the Branches are foreign seamen, some even be- labor northward. The union x| Jonging to enemy riations, replac­ says its members will not sail asked to please post the va­ ing Germans serving with the in Liberty ships unless they are rious Boxes containing news on Draft Deferment, Bond Forces . . . It would appear that strengthened." Buying, and Payment of As­ foreign countries have not sent Curran says the Liberties are sessments to Keep in Good tvs their best seamen. This has good enough for seamen — al­ Standing, etc., on the Bullet­ led to certain difficulties. though they are shown to be not in Boards. "Although the foreigners are good enough for the Army, and This will help to keep some members of the crew, with their now. for Cannei'y Workers. of the members well inform­ rights and duties, they do not be­ ed on -these questions. NEW YORK^ May 18—The Atlantic and Gulf Dis­ long to the ship's eommunity. —SEAFARERS LOG Foreigners are foreigners; one Keep In Touch With trict is to invest in more War Bonds, it was learned here does not want to take up an at­ today. Plans for an intensified drive to sell War Bonds in Your Draft Board titude of superiority towards the current War Loan Drive and thus aid the war effort them, but . . . our ties of com­ are being undertaken by the Branch offices and the headmunity must on no account be undermined by false sentiment. f.!!!!*Drive was $75,000, (matured SIU of NA, the quarterly finance Of course we should treat the value), which, with the $102,000 committee recommends. foreigners decently—at least, as (matured value), on deposit prior Plans are going forward to to that purchase made an aggre­ decently as thej'- deserve . , But The following men have money Bull Line Office, New York. muster all possible support for gate of $177,000. (matured value). • • national community is national due them as listed on the TUG the sale of bonds among the in­ POINT SUR: Collect at Moran SS RUFUS PECKHAM; Messcommunity. . . With the current purchase tlie dividual members of the organi­ • "It is therefore important that Towing Sompany Jlffices, New man and utility man wages to be John'total will stand at a round figure divided among Theodore, Smith, zation, Sec'y - Treasurer John,' of $200,000, (matured value). the training of ship's apprentices York: Hawk declared. He pointed out should be undertaken exclusive­ 8-12 Oilers Peter Drvas and Oran Sistes, Calvin Hester, All bonds purchased are de­ the mounting need for such sales George Chamberlain. Leo Dun­ ly by German seamen. And, of Hilber Desplas 122 hrs. relieving posited immediately in the safety to keep the war effort in full course, apprentices must not be 4-8 watch for supper; Steward can. vaults and held subject to the * * * swing. detailed for any personal service Israel Kavner. 160 hours for will of the Union's membership. An investment of an additional to any foreign member of the dumping garbage: Bos'n. Chas. Bonus attack due the crew Assisting in the pm'chase of $11,000. from the Hospital and Orew, with the exception of the Kolodgy, 180 hours for dumping members of SS JAMES WAYNE. the bonds — which are to be Burial Fund, and $5,900. from the galley . . . German seamen should garbage, and for doing sanitary All hands will be paid $375 each bought through the Union itself General Fund will purchase for atiacdc bonus. Can be collect­ never discuss orders in the hear­ work, 25 boicEs. —is Mrs. William J. Dwyer. Mrs. bonds with a matured value of ed at Waterman Line Offices, ing of foreigners on the afteiCDwyer is the widow of a member $23,000. This makes a grand to­ deck. Officers must never repri­ SS RUFUS PECKHAM; John New York. tal of bonds purchased this year of the Sailors' Union of the Pa­ » mand German members of the H. Evans, Chief Cook and George cific who was lost with his vessd^ crew before foreigners. It would Price, 3rd Cook. Cook^s wages For any further information on of $98,000. without trace during the war, as The last pui'chase of bonds outrage our national, honour and and bonuses to be divided be­ above see Eddie Higdon, Counter were all hands on the same ship. tween these two men. Collect at Patrolman, New York Branch. made in the Fourth War Loan community ..." Honor RoU "Expert" Curran Shown-Up Again I I 1 Germans Fear Foreign Seamen's Ship Sabotage f SIU Plans Drive To Sell War Bonds; District Buys More MONEY DUE EJ" .- 'yM • 'Iht iaL:'' �Paga Four 'ii, f •' t THE A F L Executive Council SiippQuts SIU On Bonus {Conliiiuei from Page I) tion^ Unions in the near future, President William Green reveal­ ed at the close of the Executive Council meeting here. The proposed new unions com­ prise the chemical workers, office workers, and fabricated metal workers. At the same time, SecretaryTreasurer George Meany an­ nounced that the dues-paid mem­ bership of the American Federa­ tion of Labor reached the alltime high of 6,606,173 as of April 30, a gain of 546,485 members in the past 8 months. Mr. Green said that the char­ ters would be granted to the new international unions as soon as a few jurisdictional matters are straightened out. He expressed the hope that the charters would be issued before the next con­ vention of the AFL in November. Before adjourning, the Execu­ tive Council adopted a resolution favoring reduction of the cabaret tax from 30 per cent to 10 per cent. The high tax, the council was informed, has hurt cabaret and night-club business to such an extent that thousands of en­ tertainers and catering employes have been thrown out of work. The Executive Council also called upon the Order of Railway Telegraphers to abandon its in­ junction suit against the Brother­ hood of Railway Clerks. The litigation involves a jurisdiction­ al dispute betwee* the two unions. The Council declared the matter should be referred to the American Federation of Labor adjustment and decision in ac­ cordance with the laws of the Federation. Cafe Donates To SIU Log A note to the Seafarers Log from Wing's Cafe, 360 Cambie Street, Vancouver, British Col­ umbia, encloses a donation of $10.00 Canadian money, which is $9.00 in American currency. Wing, a Chinese, who has been an active trade unionist aU his life, declares in his note: "Please accept this donation for the Log. I have been an ardent admirer of the Seafarers Interna­ tional Union and the great work it has been doing in this great war effort." NOTICE SEAFARERS Friday. May 19, 1944 LOG NMU Conditions Wonders Of 17th Street Back To Depxessioii "Stenographers" to the right of them. "Editors" to the left of them. them. Travelling on high. Day Style SlUer Sayj g % Multigraphs and mimeographs. Telegraphs, addressographs. Visiting Commie phy.«copaths All are standing by. Telegram: so clear the way Cablegram: that cost real hay; Moscow, Chungking, Mexico way. Day and night they fly. Resolutions fall like hail. Typewriter batteries must not fail. We're agents for Stalin's Holy Grail; Let us do or die. "Blueprint" for every worker's life. Codes of Slavery are our right. All are planned and here in sight; Onward! is our cry. Party stoolpigeons are our Might. Basking in our friendly light; Fingermen busy day and night. Can you wonder why? V Moscow! Cairo! and Teheran! Warbles of the Rights of Man! / Ship 'em with musak and the old khan-khan "Keep 'em Sailing" cry. Millions of dollars on us pour. Millions for Commie schemes galore; Yet hungry Commie hordes yell "more". Pumps are sucking dry. Yet, for all this energy and the dough No honest gains can the "leaders" show; Political razzle is all they know; WE ARE ASKING — WHY? t —Top'n Lift. ATTENTION! RUDY BONICH Please contact John Orman. 1905 Longwood Street, Baltimore, Md. This is important. Help Yourself to Help Campaign For Silence! Yourself — Buy Zip the Lips and War Bonds and Stamps. SAVE THE SHIPS! (Contimied from Page 3) uridei a terrible nervous siraiJ^ (mostly from booze). That's when I was asked tfli leave the meeting, because of my objections to his dictatorship, tht motion was lost by the Bos'n. (The King was dead. Long live the King!) In Rio de Janeriro, with th# help of the black-gang delegate; we succeeded in getting the pork* holes repaired, plenty fruit juicel and an assortment of food-stuff that had been lacking all trip. The ex-king Bos'n paid off id Aruba, as the 1st mate had fileff charges against him for assault* ing the Chief Mate (73 years oldl. —^not much credit to the bos'n. The steward got tough during the trip by trying to hit to# saloon-messboy with a cleaver, the messboy got clear. He later came for me, was successful in taking the weapon from him ang poking him in the jaw. The steward was not drunk, al* though that was his excuse, wheti the crew demanded he be given 99 years upon our arrival in thn port of New York. The NMU tanker agreement fa worse than the old ISU agre^ ment, it's simply a ship-owner^ contract, signed by the union of­ ficials. The crew were a pretty deceni gang of kids, though very igno]> ant of the labor movement; thn NMU keeps them that way, it ll easier to shear the sheep at pafw off time. JOS. S. BUCKLEY, , Book No. 312 ex-SS Malabar C, D. Mallary Tanker. Those NMU ^Victories' AN EDITORIAL I^ Sis-. lu'-- u •I {Contimied from page 2) NMU "leaders" so-called victoreis that vanish like smoke from a funnel rim. Yet, next week we study the headlines and call for another beer on the strength of further "victories." If we would only take the trouble to read carefully and think hard over every sentence, using cold and calculating logic, somewhere in the middle of the long article we would stumble upon the truth showing that these "gains" are only NMU demands presented, but not yet granted, etc. Take the Pile-it of May Jth, 1944, where 'we see Comrades Myers and McKenzie coming in from their Washington hunting grounds with a glorious bag of gains. We would judge from the report that only Myers and McKenzie were on the War Shipping Panel, instead of represen­ tatives of other Unions and the employers, etc. The Panel is purely Advisory and can grant ^nothing. Only the War Labor Board can grant con­ cessions, and the WLB is held down by the Little Steel Formula in its operations. Now what was the victory? Aye, Brothers, it is another case of the froth disappearing from our beer while we have our heads turned, studying demogogic headlines placed before our eyes to delude us. The victory? The proposal that the tem­ porary wage of $17.50 be incorporated into the base pay. Now the seamen are already collect­ ing that and hold it in their hand. (Organized strength can hold it and as long as it is paid, the precedent is established. With organized strength and Unity in the industry under honest leadership, we do not have to fear the loss of the $17.50, Can it be that the Comrades realize that they have no organized strength and that the NMU membership has lost faith in their politic­ al fakers and are looking towards the AF of L, unity and organized strength, to hold the line on xvages and conditions in the post war period? Have they no faith in the seamen or their own leadership ?Or, in case this is refused by the WLB are they contemplating a sell-out.in line with their stand on the Bonus question which they threw over the side in favor of ah indefinite and hazy perspective wage raise by the War Labor Board. This is NOT a wage raise'or a raise of any kind, nor is it a gain in that sense of the word, even if granted. For not one cent will be added now or in the post war period to a seaman's earnings. We can hold the line and, we can, through organized strength, backed by the AF of L, and this has been proven. We can dispense with the Communist hocus pocus and thei)^ windy victories which mean nothing. Yet, they have deliberately thrown away and cast aside the genuine gains and standards of tfoe seamen as a whole by their refusal to figh^ the MWEB bonus cuts which they admi$, slashes a seamaids overall wages 12%. Who art^ they tvorking for? That is answered by the NMU, which somiS weeks ago, called a meeting of the shipowner^ in the NMU HEADQUARTERS and there of­ fered to turn the NMU dispatching and hiring over to a representative of the shipowners. Thd photo of the Communist NMU leadership and the shipowners was published on the front pagd of the Pile-it for all to see. To see and read only part of the job—to think and anaylse is thei real crux of our problems when we luonder whai is happeiftng to our wages and conditions and, the role of the NMU officials. That is how we tell the froth from the beer# Brothers. And, wMe we are paying for the beeii; we find that we Have been served up froth In Pile-it headlines and find out too late that the froth has disappeared while we were engaged in reading all about Teheran, Moscow, the Red Army, Bolivia, Mikt Quill or Lombardo Toledano, etc. Yea, Brothers, it's a great racket that the NMU has. ' - 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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