http://seafarerslog.org/archives/files/original/3bd92310564943b4a81fea08c89ebf24.PDF 6f05e8a57ea4e16357980a38a62bf072 PDF Text Text Official Organ of the Atlantic and Gulf District, Seafarers International Union of North America NEW YORK. N. Y.. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 8. 1946 Vol. VIII. HAVE YOU VOTED YET? ShippingSlow But Pick Up Is Expected No. 45 All Branches Begin Voting, Show Turnout NEW YORK — Balloting to se­ lect the officials who will lead the Union during the year 1947 started this week in all ports of the Atlantic and Gulf District and will continue until Decem­ ber 31. There are 72 candidates for th« 38 open positions including the posts of Secretary-Treasurer, As­ sistant Secretary-Treasurer, 16 this condition rests with the ship­ Agents, four each Deck, Engine owners, who with their outmoded and Steward Patrolmen, and eight business methods and refusal to Joint Patrolmen. plan further than the next day, This is the greatest number of have not even yet planned any officials to be elected since the operations. Within 24 hours fol­ SIU has been in operation, and lowing the end of the action, the is an indication of the growing SIU was ready to crew up any strength and power of the Union. ships that needed manning. But It also shows that wherever SIU with the companies it was, and is, seamen may be, they will find a different story. adequate and responsible repre­ Here chaos reigns, and it will sentation available. This picfure was taken on the third day of voting in New York, The Balloting Committee be at least two to three weeks Voting started on November 1, reports that the voting is heavy and this picture bears out the statement. Word from the outports more before these big-business and all reports from the outports indicates that this election will see plenty of votes cast as Seafarers exercise their democratic masterminds have made the indicated that this election would necessary arrangements to stock right to elect the ofifcials of their choice. The SIU is controlled by the members. see the heaviest vote ever re­ ships with supplies. After this corded in the history of the SIU. happens, it will probably take Officials of the Union, recogniz­ them some time to set up the ing that the year that lies ahead extremely profitable deals they may prove to be one of stress, desire before they allow their called on all members to cast ships to sail. their votes, and to make sure that BALTIMORE LEADS other Union members exercise their democratic right to vote At the present time Baltimore for candidates of their own when the Texas tanker men fell ing of the now existing contract. is enjoying the best shipping of By EARL SHEPPARD choice. Now, fresh off this smelly deal for some phony NMU hoax and any port on the Atlantic and Gulf We Seafarers are practical sea­ hit the bricks in Port Arthur, on the Texas Tankers, the NMU Coasts. New Orleans is a close REFERENDUM second, but all the other ports re­ men. We know that the NMU's Texas, they found out that they is attempting the same phony Also on the ballot, to be ap­ port that they expect shipping to recent job action to get a con­ had to join the NMU to remain maneuver with the Cities Ser­ proved or disapproved by the tract on Texas Oil Co. tankers is vice tankers. on their jobs. They set up their boom soon. In fact, they are membership, is the resolution a rank farce, especially after they They have tied up one ship in own picketline which the NMU keeping their fingers crossed un­ brought up at the regular busi­ were certified as bargaining promptly crashed, after these Texas City, Texas, with their til that happens. ness meeting, held in the port of The Port of New York started agents by the NLRB over six men had respected the NMU (Continued on Page 4) New York on October 9, 1946. off strong, but slackened off con­ years ago. This maneuver points picketline. This resolution called for an in­ The NMU picketline was mere­ siderably after the first few days. to deliberate collusion between crease in hospital benefits from ly a camouflage to obtain a back­ This was because the initial rush the company and the NMU. $2.00 per week to $3.00 per week. Anyone with a knowledge of door contract. Being outnumber­ was caused by men who wanted Since the $2.00 weekly benefit is to return to the ships they came the situation knows that, in a ed, these Texas Tanker men were a part of the Union Constitution, six-year period, the vast majority forced to withdraw. from when the strike started. this amendment is now on the On the whole, while the pres­ of any company's unlicensed per­ ballot for a referendum vote of TURN TO SEAFARERS ent condition of shipping is de­ sonnel turns over completely. the membership. These men are now applying to cidedly slow, nevertheless, it is This fact is doubly true in the Ihe Seafarers in large numbers, STUDY BALLOT possible that a few days or weeks case of the Texas tankers. With the sweeping change in It is borne out by the fact that having already signed SIU I at the most will see a change for A copy of the ballot appears pledges and petftions, and mak­ the political set up in the House the better. of Representatives, Washington on the back page of this issue ing out affidavits by the score. Seafarers, however, are not political observers this week pre­ of the Seafarers Log. Before This proves beyond a doubt that missing meals during this period. dicted a series of Republican-led voting it would be advisable for there was company and NMU Feeding is continuing, and the investigations of Administration members to study the sample bal­ collusion, as the NMU did not meals are up to the well known lot so that they can become represent a majority of the un­ policies. SIU standard. There's no chance familiar with the names of those High on the list when the new licensed personnel. The Texas that SIU Cooks and Stewards running for office. House convenes in January is an men are demanding that the will get out of practice when they expected probe of Democratic By JOHN HAWK NLRB set aside this phony con­ The foundation of the Seafar­ prepare and serve three meals a tract, and hold an election to -give policies in the transportation ers International Union is in its day during strike action, and in MOBILE. Nov. 7 —Water­ the unlicensed personnel an op­ field, notably the shipping and democratic principles of free elec­ this case, for a while afterward. man Steamship Corporation portunity to vote for the union shipbuilding activities under ad­ tions and membership control of and Mississippi Shipping The feeding will not end until ministration of the Maritime the organization. This can only of their choice. Company today agreed to most of the men who are now on Commission and its wartime be maintained by voting on all All indications are that these counterpart, the War Shipping sign basically the same the beach have been shipped. If questions and at all elections. It men would have chosen the Sea­ agreement signed on Octo­ shipowners planned as well as Administration. is a Union duty to vote, and it is farers by an overwhelming ma­ ber 23. 194S. by the other this Union does, the situation Faces on Capitol Hill should be not the practice of the Seafarers jority if the eligibility date was SlU-contracted operators. would not have become snafued to shirk their duty. much redder this winter. set for one day prior to the sign­ in the first place. After the first flurry that fol­ lowed the end of the MM&P Strike, shipping all over the country went into a lull. That this lull is only temporary is readily admitted, but at the pres­ ent time many seamen are on the beach. • A great deal of the blame for Tankermen ComeTo SIU To Escape NMU-Operator "Representation" WSA Due For An Investigation By New Congress Waterman SS Corp., Mississippi Agree To SIU Contract �• • • • •Kj' Page Two T ^E SE AW AM EMS EO G Friday, November 8, 1946 A FIBM POONMriQiC SEAFARERS LOG Published Weekly by the \ SEAFARERS INTERNATIONAL UNION OF NORTH AMERICA Atlantic and Gulf District Affiliated with the American Federation of Labor At 51 Beaver Street, New York, 4, N. Y. HAnover 2-2784 111. r li: i, S, ^ ^ HARRY LUNDEBERG - - President 10 5 Market Street, San Francisco, Calif. JOHN HAWK - -- -- -- - Hi Secy-Treas. P. O. Box 2 5, Sution P., New York City Entered as second class matter June 15, 1945, at the Post Office in New York, N. Y., under the Act of August 24, 1912. It's Your Union •• Members of the Seafarers International Union are real believers in democratic control of the Union. In no other union are the members more active in the day to day affairs of the organization, and in no other union are the elected officials more responsible to the membership. That is why it is so important for every member to vote in the present election. SIU officials are not elected for life, nor are they put in office for a pericJ of years. Each year the men who head the Union, the men who carry out the functions as Port Agents and Patrolmen, are elected in secret ballot. That means membership control and makes for a solid Union. No union can be any stronger than the men who be­ long to it. They are the organization, they form its policies and carry the word of unionism wherever they go. It is only in unions where the members lose interest that it can be captured by either the commies or the gangsters. That could never happen in the SIU. Members of the Seafarers take a proprietary interest in their Union. They know that the organization belongs to them, is responsible to them, and only does what they want it to do. The affairs of the Union require that competent men be elected to every office. Otherwise the burden is thrown on the men who can do the job, and therefore lowers the efficiency of the whole set-up. Each man who is elected to office has a certain job to do. Elect the man who can carry out his function in the best and most efficient man­ ner. These pre the Union Brothers currently in the marine hospitals, When a Patrolman comes down to your ship for a as reported by the Port Agents. These Brothers find itme hanging pay-off or a sign on, you want to be sure that he knows heavily on their hands. Do what you can to cheer them up by writ­ his business. When you bring a beef to a Port Agent, you ing to them. E. F. SPEAR want to be confident that he will take care of it, and follow NEW ORLEA'NS HOSPITAL A. JANIVARIS through until you gain satisfaction. The only way to assure A. T.. FRENCH S. G. LOPEZ yourselves of this is by voting only for the men you are J. W. DENNIS A. GOLDSMIT LEONARD MELANSON sure can do the job. R. G. MOSSELLER Men Now In The Marine Hospitals Union elections are not popularity contests. The fact that some one who is running for office is a swell drinking partner does not necessarily mean that he would be a good man in whose hands to place the affairs of the Union. On the other hand, the man you drink with and ship with may be the right man for the job he is running for. Look around you and carefully select the men who ~ are qualified to lead you. Make sure that the man you vote for is honest, militant, and is not just out for a slice of pie.' The SIU is going to maintain its leadership along the water- ] front, and this can only be done by electing men who are willing to pitch in and go to town for the membership. Out of the muck of the dishonest and corrupt ISU j the Seafarers International Union has built an organization that is first in the fight for seamen's rights. This fight can' only be carried on by a militant membership led by militant and honest officials. ' Have your say as to who will represent you for the next year. Examine all the candidates carefully, and then VOTE. Remember, it's your llnion—keep it that way! K. PETTERSSEN CHARLES TILLER PATRICK FOX EDWARD EICAK HOMER HOFF EDWARD CUSTER W. BROCE JR. NORMAN PALLME F. RADGOILA. EDWARD MAHL J. F. BUCKLEY JR. E. WESTPHAL ROBERT OGLETREE R. M. NOLAND A. P. MORGAN A. FERRARI MAX SEIDEL L. H. HARRIS H. G. DARNELL CENTRAL MASON R. C. BETTERS 4" 4 4 STATEN ISLAND HOSPITAL C. G. SMITH P. DEODY T. WADSWORTH C, W. SMITH J. H. HARE W.'G. H. BAUSE W. B. MUIR L. A. CORNWALL J. A. FREDENSKY M. A. DODGE L. L. MOODY H. BELCHER C. M. LARSEN C. L. JACQUES F. MURPHY L.. KAY R. J. BLAKE J. B. PORTER J. H. DANIEL S. INTEGRA V. RODRIGUEZ 4 4 4 BALTIMORE HOSPITAL ROBERT PROTHERO CEDRIC FRANCIS MOSES MORRIS LEONARD PHILLIPS MAX FINftERHUT JULIUS TAYLOR Hospital Patients When entering the hospital notify the delegate by post­ card, giving your name and the number of your ward. Staten Island Hospital You can contact your Hos­ pital delegate at the Staten Island Hospital at the follow­ ing times: Tuesday—1:30 to 3:30 p. m. (on 5th and 6th floors) Thursday—1:30 to 3:30 p. m. (on 3rd and 4th floors.) Saturday—1:30 to 3:30 p. m. (on 1st and 2nd floors.) LEONARD MARSH CHARLES DUNN KARL LARSON RALPH FREY PETER LOPEZ WAYNE TROLLE WM. SULLIVAN RONALD ROMA DALE KRUSE 4 4 4 NEPONSIT HOSPITAL H. BURKE J. S. COMPBELL B. BRYDER B. LUFLIN E. VON TESMAR G. F. McCOMB E., FERRER R. BLAKE J. R. BENCHES'' J. FIGUEROA 4 4 4 BRIGHTON HOSPITAL E. MAY G. FOLEY J. CAREY J. O'BRIEN E. JOHNSTON �Friday. November S. 1346 THE SEAFARERS LOG Page Three Marine Hospital Red Tape GET THE LOG Leaves Seaman Minus Foot Back in 1937 Joseph Vargo lost his right foot as a result of a rail­ road accident. You know how those things happen. So he was fitted with an artifical foot and started to make his living in an­ other way. As soon as he had mastered getting around on his new foot, he began shipping out as a Utility Messman, and from all indica­ tions he did an excellent job. He asked for no favors, and when the war started he continued sail­ ing instead of going ashore where he could make more money with less danger to himself. Everything went along fine until the William Rockefeller, larg­ est American Tanker, owned by Standard Oil of New Jersey, was sunk in 1942. In jumping from the ship to the life raft, Vargo damaged the artifical foot,and by to six monthe. Finally he recei­ ved a letted, mailed to the wrong address, and which he received purely by accident, asking him to come in for another interview. Back to the hospital again for some more buck-passing and rigamarole, but this time something new was added. The doctor who was conduct­ ing the interview went off the deep end and told Vargo that he had "a hell of a nerve to even ask for a new foot as merchant seamen made lots of money dur­ ing the war, and could therefore pay for such things themselves." When he had cooled down. however he told Vargo to go home and wait for -rmother short while, and that this time some­ thing would be done one way or another. Last Word The Seafarers Log is your Union paper. Every member has the right to have it mailed to his house, where he and his family can read it at their leisure. If you haven't already done so. send your name and home address to the Log office, 51 Beaver Street. New York City, and have yourself added to the mailing list. AFL Convention Votes To Raise Per Capita Tax By PAUL HALL For a long time we have realized that the.war time shipping boom was coming to an end, and that sooner or later there would be more men than there are jobs. That situation is rapidly coming true right now. Up and down the coast we see seamen on th6 beach, and we know that some of them will wait quite some time CHICAGO—An increase in the before they get a ship out. per capita tax paid by affiliated Of course, with rotary shipping, all members will get a chance unions to the American Federa­ at what shipping there is, but this will lead to men working only tion of Labor was approved here a few months each year, and trying to make both ends meet on a by the" federation's 65th annual very small sum of money each year. convention. The change in the tax was recommended by the fed­ Shipowners Not Suffering eration's executive council. The shipowners will not suffer in this. Day after day they Action on the tax brought the are laying up their ships—ships that did not cost them very much only prolonged deliate of the and from which they made piles of money-and continuing opera' convention. The committee on ion with only as many ships as they can cram full of cargo each law, headed by David Dubin- trip. ° sky, urged approval of the ex­ The only way to solve the problem is to heat up our organizing ecutive'council's proposal which, drive so that there will be more jobs available for our members it was said, would add $320,000 We have an organizing campaign which goes on day in and day out. to the AFL treasury annually. This program works very well, but now it has to be stepped up to Unions have been paying IV2 take care of the emergency that is facing us. cents per member per month to the AFL on the first 300,000 mem­ In the Isthmian Line we have done a damn good job, and nart bers and 1 cent per month in of our trollies will be solved right there. But that is not the whole excess of 300,900. solution. The rest of the unorganized lines are many times the The constitutional change final­ strength of Isthmian and it is these lines that we have to crack. ly adopted provides a tax of 2 Drive Cannot Stop cents per member per month up to 200,000 members and 1% cents Just by winning the largest freight line in the United States per member per month in excess does not mean that now we have all the jobs we need for ou^ of 200,000. membership. To a large extent, it will help out, but if we stop there Spokesmen for some of the we can kiss all our gains goodbye. smaller unions protested that the The only way to really solve this problem, and solve it so we proposed change would favor the large unions. Heads of the large don t have to won-y about it every day, is to extend our organizing unions Replied that some of the woi k There is still plenty of work that can be done in those fields, smaller unions have been assist­ but,It cannot be done only by organizers sent out by the main office. ed financially by the AFL above 'The best work that was done on the Isthmian Line, and othei and beyond their dues payments"; Lines which showed a preference for the Seafarers, was done by Two alternative proposals t le men who went aboard the ships as volunteer organizers. What sponsored by the smaller unions these men did in the past can be done again. It has to be done it we expect our program to succeed. were defeated. That was the last word he heard from them. Since that time Brother Vargo has been forced to buy one aluminum and one steel foot, each costing $200, although he could not afford this expense and had to borrow the money each time, he felt that it was better to do it that way. "It's sort of like a game out there," says Vargo. "They feed you so much malarky, and give you the runaround so often, that yon give up and take care of things yourself. That's what they the time he arrived back in New want, and in that way they can York City the foot had split wide have a free hand without having open. So Vargo purchased a new to care for merchant seamen. We sure got a fine deal out of manfoot for $200.00. ning the ships in this war." First Experience If this was the first article The first experience Vargo had about the inefficiency and poor with the way the Marine Hos­ attitude of the Staten Island pitals operate was in January, Marine Hospital, it would be easy 1943, when he went to the Staten to write it. off as just a mistake Island Marine Hospital to secure that could happen anywhere, a new foot as the one he had anytime. But from the informa­ bought did not fit properly and tion that reaches the LOG, and was too heavy. The first doctors from the poor excuses that are who examined him agreed on furnished by hospital spokesmen. his need for a new foot, but when the Coast Guard Commandant Wiliam Green was reelected heard about their decision he SO^ I'M THE DOC-BtlT president after having been nom­ THIS IS MV-my OFF- , blew his top. inated by John O'Leary, vice SO ^O^J<S : president of the United Mine Although Vargo had broken a Workers of America. He has well fitting foot in an accident been president since 1924. In connected with his sea duty, thanking the delegates he pre­ nevertheless, the CG Comman­ dicted that by 1948 the AFL dant said that Vargo had a nerve would have a membership of 10,for requesting a new leg since the 000,000 as against 7,100,000 at the original injury was not service present time. connected. And so the case was to be referred to the Surgeon Secretary-Treasurer George General in Washington for ap­ Meany was also reelected, as were proval, and Brother Vargo was the 13 vice presidents. San Fran­ told that he would be notified cisco was chosen as the conven­ within two or three weeks. when they bother to reply at all, tion city for 1947. For six long weeks he waited. it seems that all the charges made Finally he took matters into his in the pages of the Seafarers Log own hands and went back to the have merit. hospital. To his suprise, he was Time To Change told that they had never heard of him, and did not want to' be The situation in the Marine bothered with him. The doctor Hospitals must be cleared up. who interviewed him said, "This Just as veterans of the Army, Steel workers and miners who is my day off and I can't be both­ Navy, and Marine Corps have have been worried about con­ ered with you." the right to decent treatment, so tinuation of the wage freeze de­ Buck Passing do the men who kept the supply spite soaring prices were given By this time the ill-fitting font lines open for the fight against reason last week to know that had caused an infection, so Vargo fascist terror. Merchant seamen the government is on their side. went to his own physician to are not second class citizens, and Announcement came from the have the pus drained off. Two Federal Trade Commission that weeks later he returned to the the Marine Hospitals must stop "Soul of Flowers" and other per­ hospital, and this time he was treating them as such. fumes represented as coming shunted to the Welfare Office. The case of Joseph Vargo is from "the famous gardens of MiaHere the buck passing started in only one of many. How long hati in Hawai, where the vari­ earnest. must this type of shortsighted­ colored hibiscus and jasmine He was told to go home and mingle with honey-suckle and or­ wait and something would hap­ ness and brutality go on before ange blossoms in riotous fra­ pen very shortly. So home he the Marine Hospitals will clean grance" were actually manufac­ went to wait patiently for close their own house? tured in New York. If You Cannot Eat, At Loast Yon Will ^ure Smell Sweet Every Man An Organizer Every SIU man should carry the good word to all unorganized seamen. Most of ttese guys are hungry for the information and help we can give them. And by helping them, we help ourselves m the long run. The SIU program and policies are good ones. It is the duty of all Seafarers to pass these points along—not only to unorgan­ ized seamen but to NMUers also. Only SIU In Fight Only the SIU can do the job of protecting and advancing the gams made by working seamen. And we intend to keep on fighting. When seamen, organized or unorganized, come to us and tell us that their working conditions are poor and their wages aie low then we have the right to step in and see what we can do to help' them. The seaman who sails an American flag ship deserves the best representation he can get. The record of the SIU proves that we are able to give that kind of service. The record of the NMU shows that they can't, or don't want to bother. In any case it leaves the working stiff in the hole. Our Record Known United States seamen know what the SIU has done to better the wages and conditions of seamen. When you talk to an unor­ ganized seaman, he is ready to listen to you. The success of the Union's organizing plan depends, to a large extent, on how manj men each SIU member talks to and convinces. One evidence of this is clearly seen in the situation in Marcus Hook. Within a few days after our Hall was established there, many unorganized tankermen came in to find out the score. Now the Hall is too small for the number of men who come around to talk over their problems, obtain literature and the Log. and meet other seamen. That is real organizing. Needless to say, the Seafarers International Union is not going to stop until all the unorganized lines are organized. There is no reason why these companies should not come into the SIU fold. If every man does his job, that is exactly what will happen. ••I % �Page Four THE SEAFARERS LOG Tankermen CoineTo SIU Te Escape NMU-Operator "Representation" HERE^MfHl ITHIRTK tf;- FHdar, Norember *8, 1946 QUESTION:—What do you think of the terms of the new agreement? (Coutiuiwd from Page I) usual amount of noise in order to create the false impression that they have a hold on themen. This is so far from the true score that it is almost funny. But this action on the part of the NMU will not be tolerated by the Seafarers. ting no representation, and to their requests that the Seafarers organize them, the SIU went out to get this outfit in line. With the ready and willing as­ sistance of these tanker men, and NMU members who were dissat- FORGOTTEN MEN BLACKIE HOFFSTEIN, AB; One of my i>et beefs has been lhat we seamen don'l get time off like other workers do. Now with this new contract we get Saturday and Sunday off in port, and Saturiday afternoon and Sun­ day off at sea. This will add years to a seaman's life, and has eliminated the most brutal way fhat shipowners still had to ex­ ploit us. Everything in the con­ tract is fine, and as far as I am concerned there is no way that it could be improved at this time. • ' 'C'. RUPERT D. DANIELS. Room Steward: We now have a better contract than we ever had before: In the SIU we always aim for higher wages and better working condi­ tions, and in this contract we have achieved something never seen before in the history of the maritime industry. Of course we should not let up on our fight for the four watch system, but like everything else that we have set our minds to, that will also come in time. Our gains are solid, and we make them because we have a strong Union. f wmm j FRED "ABNER" BARTHES, Electrician; You can fell ihe whole mem­ bership of the SIU fhat the new agreemenl is 100 per cent okay with me. I have been going to sea for a long time, but this is the best contract I have ever heard about or ever seen. The life of a seaman is a rugged one. One con­ tract does not change his life into a bed of roses, but every little bit helps, and our victory today leads lo anulher vieioty tomorrow. I bhink thai the SIU Negotiating Commiiiee deserves a damn good vote of thanks. ill True, the NMU did sign their tanker form openshop contract with Cities Service Tankers, but this was during the first paid of the war when they were heeding the call from Moscow not to interfer with the carrying and de­ livery of oil products. Since Stalin was getting the biggest share of these oil deliv­ eries, the NMU wouldn't do any­ thing to interfere with his pipe­ line, especially on orders. So they did nothing to represent the tank­ er men, whose interests and wellbeing they promptly and con­ veniently forgot. After listening to numerous crews of the Cities Service tank­ ers complain that they were get­ A PROBLEM, BUD? The life of the present day seaman is difficult and often very complicated. He is at the mercy of unscrupulous companies, government agen­ cies, brass hats and human sharks of various descrip­ tions, everyone trying lo take advantage of him. If he hap­ pens to know some of his rights, he is sneeringly refer­ red to as a Sea Lawyer. A Special Services Dept. of the Union has been set up to consult with you on all your ^problems involving the Coast Guard, Shipping Commission­ ers, Unemployment Insur­ ance, personal injury claims, your statutory rights when you become ill aboard :ship, Inunigration Laws, and your dear, beloved Draft Board. If you happen to be in New York, contact us personally, or if you are out of town, write and you will receive a prompt reply. Address all mail to SPE­ CIAL SERVICES, 51 Beaver Street. New York 4, N. Y. Your Union is your shoreside contact. USE ITS FACH.!TIES. sified with the way they were Doing pushed around, the Seafarjrs has succeeded in lining up his company for an election to ktermine a cGCllective bai-gaining igent to represent the men. The SIU does not intend to see shese men saddled again with this Company - NMU - Moscow combination, and is, therefore, making every effort to secure an immediate election in the Cities Service tankers through the of­ fices of. the NLRB. If I had been on the Negotiat­ ing Committee myself I don'l think that I could have suggested a better contract. It is all very good, and exactly what I want. From what I have heard, this is also the attitude of most of the members of the SIU. A contract like this one proves concretely that our Union really leads the way as far as seamen's rights are concerned. Ws let the other un­ ions do the ballyhooing and politicldng. We stay right on the ball, fighting for seamen every inch of the way, and we win the vic­ tories. The Isthmian election will be over, and the ballots tallied on Nov. 18. This wind-up comes af­ ter eight months of voting. The election was originally to have terminated after a six-months voting period if 75 per cent of the fieet had voted. This quota was well filled. The fact of the matter is that over 90 percent of the fleet had voted, but the NMU and the com­ pany appear to have collaborated •by filing briefs, in the same week, saying that a longer time was needed. Both claimed that two more ships would probably vote if 30 days more for voting were grant­ ed. These claims were conceded by the NLRB over the violent protests of the Seafarers. It was plainly an NMU stall and a clear attempt by Isthmian to sabotage the results. They puUed this stunt once. Just watch the ships stay in if they try it again. By JIMMY (RED) TRUESDALE PHILADELPHIA--More than a week has now passed since the termination of the MM&P and the MEBA strikes and things have slowed down _here in the City of Brotherly Love(?). We have now about 120 ships in the Port but, to date, none seem to be getting assignments. At the pi-esent time we're a bit ovei*crowded with men and would like to pass the word along for the Brothers to by-pass us till things start to pick up—which we're hoping will be soon. The way things are shaping up now with the Longshoremen, we may be confronted with another tie-up here, and as always Phila­ delphia will be closed 100 per cent should the ILA find it ne­ cessary to take that kind of ac­ tion. It appeals that the Cuiiipeasation Board awarded the mem- By CHARLES RIMBALL MOBILE—With the end of the Masters, Mates and Pilots and the Engineers strike, shipping shot up to a pretty good level last week, here in the Port of Mobile. We have had several sign-ons since the day of the settlement, and the in-and-out activity * of the port is increasing daily, with vessels of the Waterman and Al­ coa fines arriving here every day. All this sudden activity has made human buzz-saws of the Patrolmen who have been busy zooming from one .ehj^ to an­ other. Everything has to get go­ ing at one time, and these men ISTHMIAN WIND-UP By-pass PhBly For Time Being Is Late^ Word Fram The Port BoBfiluBifMt Of The BiM&P Strike Brings Good Sbyping To lAoblle GEORGE MEANEY, Bosun: If this request for action is not met promptly, other methods will have the very capable co­ operation and support of the Cities Service tanker men. hers of the ILA their unemploy­ ment compensation due to the fact they were out during the MEBA and MM&P beefs, now the stevedore companies here are trying to get out from under the payment of this legitimate com­ pensation, the boys in the long-, shoremens outfit are plenty sore about the whole thing and mean to do something about it. 'TAIN'T NICE During the MM&P and MEBA beef we had a few fast ones pulled on us by the MEBA. The said Brothers (????) had two pickets at the Launch Pier here, and before they would permit the Companies to send fresh stores to the vessels in the stream they shook the Companies down for $6.00 per picket. We reminded them of the time when, dmung our own strike, we permitted fresh daily stores to go out in the stream without any payment at all. Due to the fact that the Companies were refus­ ing to send stores out because of the action of the MEBA, a meet­ ing of the Marine Council was called here and the above situa­ tion was placed before the Coun­ cil and a stop was put to this phony action of the Engineers. Right now a lot of the oldtimers ai-e here on the beach: Blackie (The Moose) Gardner, "Old M a n" Red Healy, and otfiers too numerous to mention. Incidently the boys around here are wondering why, after an ab­ sence of five years or more. Brother Bernstein is now hang­ ing around (question Brother Bei-nie.) ai'e extending themselves to get things squared away in a hurry. They are really kept hopping trying to/- get the ships out that have signed on articles. Several Seafarers visitors came down to this Gulf port last week. We were' glad to have Brothers John Hawk, J. P. Shuler and Robert Matthews. Brother Schulei' has returned to New but Brothers Hawk and Mat­ thews are still here turning to on the contract negotiations. After this week we hope lo Patrolman R o b,e r t Jordan. is the father — very proud, of have nevws of a more pleasant course— of a lovely little girl nature from your Port of Philaborn here on Octdber 18. •| dblphia. So till then, carry on. 1:1 �Frld^. Wovember 8, 1946 THE SEAFARERS LOG Page Five Shipping Resumes With Bang In N. 0. Registering for a shipping card is the first step in. getting back to work. As soon as the MM&P Strike was settled, these men jammed the New Orleans Hall. They really want to ship because the SIU, on the strength of the new contract, has at­ tained the highest wages and best conditions of any union along the waterfront. A sailor's life is not the best in the world, but in the SIU, it's the best in maritime. After twenty-eight days of inactivity due to the MM&P Strike, these Seafarers scan the board to see what ships are going where. Plenty of good trips on the board, and with rotary ship­ ping everybody gets a chance to ship out in tu n. That's the democratic way of doing things, and that's the SIU way. These are the men who kept our Army and the other fighters against fascism supplied during the war, and these sa ne men will sail the ships to supply sugar, coffee, and other things to the people of the United States. The Dispatcher calls out the jobs and the fun begins. Some vessels have more takers than there are jobs, and other ships have a hard time being crewed up. Of course, it's good to ship out with a buddy, or someone that you've been shipmates with before, but sometimes it can't be arranged. If that happens, it's off to sea anyway, and here's hoping that it will be dif­ ferent next tim^ Getting up steam is a man's sized job, and these men look like they can do the job. This is on board the Haiti Victory, Waterman Lines, and left to right, T. Covelski, Wiper; D. Vrocher, Electrician; and C. O. Gates, Chief Engineer. By the way. Gates is a former SIU member. ' -I \I X • . f X- .^1 It's either painting, or chipping, or scugeeing all day long. A seaman's work is never done. Fatil Warren shows how to hold a brush for painting. Allred watches the dials and soon the Haiti Victory will be heading out on another trip. New Orleans was tied up tight due to the MM&P Strike, but that's over now. and shipping is on the upgrade. This passageway will be spic and span after B. Langley (front), and V. C. Diaz get through with it. All SIU ships are kept in good con-, dition. �Page Six TBE SEAFARERS LOG Fridaj. November 8, 1946 r ITF Led World Fight For Seamen in countries such as China, Ja­ 1946. This meeting was called While those times might not be cific. Other AFL Unions con­ (Continued From Last Week) The first installment of the pan, India, and several colonial to discuss the demands of the repeated, it is a great victory to nected with the transportation story of the International Trans­ territories, where the activities International Seafarers' Charter be able to set a floor on seamens' have indicated an interest in the port Workers' Federation <3ealt of the International were for a and to embody them in the In- earnings, and from this base, go organization. with the origin of the organiza­ long time viewed with suspicion, ternational Conventions and forward to standardize wages in In world affairs the ITF has not tion and with its early struggles. It was regarded as a body de­ Recommendations. At this con- all countries. been silent since the end of the We have seen h*ow the ITF suc­ signed to further European in­ ference, the Seafarers InternaTrade unionists do not have to war. In organizations already in cessfully overcame the apathy of terests, and as an instrument of tional Union ^was represented by|be reminded that high wages in existence, such as the ILO, in the trade union movement to any the imperialist aims of some Morris Weisberger, one of the one country are a pressure to which the ITF and its officials sort of international affiliation, countries. Vice-Presidents. bring about the same high stan- have always played a consider­ and how the ITF built up a The most outstanding decision' dards in others. Full employ- able role, the" ITF proposed that Only by its work and readiness strong movement that circled_the at all times to give all the help to come out of the meeting was ^ ment, which is our aim on an Industrial Committees be set up • world. it possibly could to the transport that fixing an international min­ international level, means high to tackle all problems, industry imum wage of $64.00 per month production, and high production by industry. The work of these Even the first World War could for ABs. By present American can only be maintained for a committees will have to be care­ not stop the inevitable growth of standards $64.00 is not even a long time if there is a rise in liv­ fully planned and studied, but it the body. While the onward modest wage, but an interna- ing standards to absorb it. Thus will obviouslj' be an organ on the surge was retarded for a time, tonal view of the situation gives it is felt that the decent wages for workers' side for performing nevertheless, the end of the war one a different perspective. American seamen will be a force groundwork and for rallying un­ found the ITF prepared for new FIRM BASE that will bring about decent ions to the tasks which confront strides forward in the field of in­ In many countries this amount wages for the seamen of other them. ternational organization. The of money for Able Seaman rep­ countries. years from 1919 to 1932 were the "When the Economic and Social resents a very great step forward. most productive in the history The only American trade un­ Council of the United Nations It is perhaps not too irrelevent ions which are affiliated to the of the ITF, and only the neces­ Organization comes to the con­ to recall that during the great ITF are the Seafarers Interna­ sity for going underground to sideration of transport problems, depression, the wages for Amer­ tional Union of North America avoid the fascists prevented the as it will soon, the ITF will be ican ABs fell to $35.00 per month. and the Sailors Union of the Paorganization from becoming even among the first to seek repre­ more firmly established in the sentation on the agencies set up international labor movement. workers' unions emerging in Asia for the purpose. This week's installment dis­ and Africa, was the ITF able to And last but not least, at the cusses the activities of the body conquer the prejudices of these International Transportworkers in the period between the two countries. Congress, held in Zurich in May, wars, the role played by the ITF 1946—the first since 1938—it was POLITICAL FRONT during World War II, and in par­ recommended to keep the head­ Political developments of the ticular it outlines the ITF pro­ quarters of the organization per­ grams and actions in regard to inter-war period undid much of manently in London, and to the good work that had been done. seamen. maintain the American office. In some countries the trade union In another year George ThornDANGERS RECOGNIZED This office, under the direction of It is to the everlasting credit movement was either wiped out hill will round out thirty years Willy Dorchain, was started as a altogether or else forbidden to of going to sea, but, if you ask of the ITF that it recognized maintain international relations, him about it, he will tell you that early the potential dangers of reactionary movements which In spite of the darkness of the it seems just like yesterday when eventually made an attempt to times which made international he first went on board a ship. And enslave the world. These ten­ trade union action increasingly in the almost thirty years, he has dencies and movements reared difficult, the ITF did not relax its worked his way up from. Room their heads as far back as the efforts. And on the eve of the Steward, qualified to sail in that early 1920s. The ITF called for second World War the headquar­ capacity on any ship. The first ship he set sail on was action even where succe.ss did ters of the organization was not seem a possibility. It did not transferred from Amsterdam to the Canadian vessel, the SS Chigshrink from organizing a boycott London, realizing that the Nazis necto. It was not until 1925 that against Hungary in 1920, or in would h5ve no compunction in he started sailing on United stopping shipment of munitions trampling small neutral countries States boats, but the opportun­ when the capitalist powers tried underfoot in their drive for world ities were so much better on^U.S. ships that he decided to stay with to use Poland for waging war on domination. the then socialist Soviet Union. The activities of the ITF adapt­ them from then on. wartime project to loo^ after the Although Brother Thornhill Against war and fascism the ed themselves to war-time condi­ many European seamen whom ITF took the initiative also. It tions, and through the assistance can sail as Chief Steward on the the war brought to these shores, spearheaded an attempt to form of the British labor movement, finest floating palaces for pas­ and also with a view of tighten­ Since joining the SIU in 1940, a committee against War and was able to continue in opera­ sengers, he prefers to sail on ing relations with the American Fascism, and" when the Nazis tion. The participation by the, freighters because there emphasis Brother Thornhill has been a vig­ Labor Movement. is on food for the crew. This gives came to power, the ITF at once ITF in the war cannot be fully orous worker for the cause of CONVENTION CHANGES resorted to the underground covered here. Suffice it to say him a chance to make sure that trade unionism. In his own Changes in the constitution of struggle. The Austrian and Span­ that it kept alive the contacts his Union Brothers are being words, "A union is the finest ish workers know that the ITF between its member unions and fed well. machinery for obtaining benefits the ITF were also recommended stood by them in thir hour of played an active and useful role FOOD FOR CREW for workers. If a man doesn't at the convention, and the offi­ darkest need, and then continued in the war effort. "When I started in 1917, I was take advantage of it, he is a fool. cial strength of the international in the fight that almost overcame paid $45.00 per month," he re­ In the SIU, we know that in or­ was officially estimated at well When the struggle for libera­ the world. calls, "and that was supposed to ganization there is strength, so over 2,000,000. Even this figure tion had finally freed the'work­ be a good wage. Now we seamen we have formed a strong union was said to be low du^ to the Membership in the ITF during ers of North Africa and Europe, are paid quite a bit better. Our that fights the between war period went up the battle for the fact that certain European Unions they were able to reconstitute had not yet the finances to pay advances are due entirely to the members, and for all seamen." by leaps and bounds, r The num­ themselves with the aid of the their full per capita, but that this ber of affiliated countries rose to ITF. Union. That's why I like to sail The lure of the sea still fascin­ would right itself in the future. more than 40, and individual on freighters where I can serve Of more importance to us as good food to the crew, and in ates him, and as the MM&P The present President of the memberships totaled more than Strike had just ended when he ITF is John Benstead, head of the 2,500,000. At one stage all Eur- seamen is the part played by the that way make their job a little was being interviewed, he spoke British National Uhion of RailITF in seamens' affairs. One of easier." about the prospects of shipping the projects which took shape •Of course. Brother Thornhill out soon. Thornhill has visited waymen, and the new General during the war period was the doesn't really mind sailing on quite a few foreign shores in his Secretary is Jacobus Oldenbroek. International Seafarers' Charter, passanger vessels. Every now thirty years as a seaman, but he As always, the Executive Coun­ which exemplifies how the or­ and then, he ships out on a pleas­ still looks forward to a new port cil, and the Management Com­ ganization conceives its task for mittee plus all the posts on these ure boat because,' as he puts it, in a strange country. the future. This charter has committees, and the jobs of Pres­ "It gives me a chance to study been adopted by the Seafarers' ident and General Secretary, are "It beats the education that other people." unions affiliated with the JTF as elective. you can get in any school or col­ Thornhill's war record is on a their common program for the With regard to the work done, par with those of other Union lege," he says. post war world. and the high costs of holding in­ members. He sailed aU through During the 1946 SIU General SEAMEN'S PROGRAM the war, and although his ships Strike, Brother Thornhill .stood ternational meetings and prose­ It covers all aspects of what were never torpedoed, neverthe­ picket duty in Philadelphia, and cuting rnatters on a world-wide the merchant seamen want in less, he saw a good portion of then came on to New York for basis, the per capita tax which is life: working hours; manning the action. On several occasions paid to the ITF can hardly be the last days of the action. opean countries were affiliated, scales; crew accommodations; hol­ the convoys were attacked and called extravagant. All affiliated Thornhill has been going to sea with tlie exception of Soviet Rus­ idays with pay; entry into the in­ only split second cooperation unions have willingly paid, and for a long time and he knows the sia. Other countries such as dustry, training and promotion; among all members of the crew are still paying, this fee which advantages of belonging to the United States, Canada, Argentina, social insurance; and also point­ .spelled the difference between a amounts to $42.50 per thousand SIU. He helped build the Union, , Australia, New Zealand, India, ed up the question of an interna­ miss and a hit. members per year. This fee has and the- Union serves him and the Japan, and China were also af­ tional minimum wage. In Naples they were not so rest of the members. It is in the been characterized by prominent filiated. At the request of the ITF, the lucky, and for four straight days •field of honest trade unionism labor leaders as a "sound invest­ ••A significant achievement dur­ International Labor Office con­ and nights they were under con­ that the Union is outstanding, ment, since it insures affiliated ing this period was the winning vened a special Maritime Labor stant bombing attacks from Nazi and that is a record that cannot unions a say in world affairs, ei the confidence of the workers Conference at Seattle in June of planes. be beat. (Continwd on Page 8) George Thornhill �•1 Friday. November 8, 1946 THE SEAFARERS LOG Pa^e Sevea Strikes Don't Stop Organizing; Port Chicago Gets Its Contracts By HENRY W. CHAPPELL CHICAGO — Herbert Jensen, the regular Port Agent here in Chicago is away on a well de­ served vacation and I'm pinch hitting for him while he is away. Herb, after a strenuous season with the passenger ships, sand boats. Midland ships, and tang­ ling with the NMU was begin­ ning to see shipowners and com­ mies in his dreams, so after the Midland election he packed his gear and headed away from the Lakes into the hinterland, but he'll be back on the job fully rest­ ed in a couple of weeks. As was mentioned last week in the Chicago port report the soli- darity and strength of the AFL Maritime Trades Council was proven when we signed a con­ tract with the Fitzsimmons and Connell Dredge Company after showing the dredgeowners our solidarity. The company didn't think we'd get tough over a contract cover­ Silence llw week from tl» ing two men, but we showed By JOE ALGINA Branch Agaols of the follewthem that it didn't matter whether ing ports: NEW YORK —Now that the jority of men who are on the it was two or two thousand men CHARLESTON MM&P Strike is over, I think it beach have been shipped. This we still meant business. PORT ARTHUR is about time for us to take up a may take approximately three Fred Farnum pointed out to the TAMPA gripe that has evisteH for a long weeks more, but if it does you company if these men were al­ HOUSTON can be sure that good food will time. lowed to work without a contract, GALVESTON In the past, a man who missed be on tap for any member who other companies would demand NORFOLK a ship in a foreign port, no mat­ needs it. the same privilege, and- this ter what the reason might be, would endanged the entire struc­ was always charged with "deser­ ture of the union, and the SIU tion." His missing the ship might didn't intend to allow the com­ have been caused by anything panies to driVe a wedge in our from oversleeping to too much armor. liquor, or to illness or accident. After seeing that we weren't It didn't make any difference. By C. J. 'BUCK' STEPHENS finks, but if it had been the Seamen'5 Town House will be fooling, but meant business they Coast Guard I wouldn't have erected on St. Charles Avenue got down to business and signed That is wrong, and it does the NEW ORLEANS — With the man and the Skipper no good to ending of the MM&P and MEBA been surprised in the least, as to replace the scratch house they on the dotted line. continue this state of affairs. The strike, shipping in this port "has they are always tryiirig to take now have on Decauter Street. GIVES LOWDOWN unlicensed seamen cooperated taken on some of the aspects of over someone's job, as they have It will accommodate three This winter the SIU is going to very well with the licensed deck normality with the shipping of done in the Merchant Marine. times the number that the put a membership drive on the officers during their striked It about 550 members in the first Surely the Coast Guard would present one will hold and it is Great Lakes in order to get men would be proper for Masters and two days after the conclusion of not let a little thing like some supposed to surpass anything of for the ships we now have under Mates to reciprocate by interpret­ the strike. All hands are glad to old garbage or some stubborn its kind anyplace in the world. contract and the new lines we ing the law on "desertion" in see peace return once more to the "seagoing hay burners" stop Construction on the new building are concentrating our strength such a way that intent is also waterfront and look - forward to will begin in two or three weeks. upon. taken into consideration. steady shipping for a while. Anything that is built will cer­ We now have in circulation miYUNf^RTD If a man fails to join a ship tainly be better than what they around the Lakes a phamphlet BAKERY STRIKES that does not mean that he has VitsWooujSsT now have, because the present entitled SIU Men Gei The Best Aside from the maritime tieCOL(.£CT)»4flP deserted. It is only when the scratch house is a disgrace, and In The Field. If none has reached up, New Orleans has seen quite man fails to come aboard, with not fit for seamen to live in. your ship you can get one at any a few strikes in the past week. the intention to desert the ship First the bakers went on strike SIU Hall. This phamplet ex­ COMMIE MEETING that the charge of "desertion", plains why unions are necessary and we had to purchase out of There was an interesting item should be placed. and compares the political NMU town bread which cost 41 cents in a local paper here showing a with the true seamens union, the ENTIRELY DIFFERENT a loaf. I've seen them pull a bot­ picture taken while a commie SIU. "Failure to join" is entirely dif­ tle from under the counter-, but meeting was taking place. The Some of you Lakes seamen ferent from "desertion". In the I never expected to see the day photo shows some of the well probably wonder how we elect past. Skippers have overlooked one would be buying bootleg Icnown commies connected with our officials. The procedure for this and it has led to having men bread in this town. the various waterfront organiza­ becoming an official in the SIU charged with a serious crime Just as the bakers won their which they had no intention of demands, the Bakery Drivers them from coming to the rescue tions that oppose the SIU. One is far different from that in the committing. Many men have lost went out on strike so the people and dive into collecting garbage. of the men in the picture was NMU. ashamed to have his picture In the NMU it is strictly polit­ pay and gear because of this. that wanted New Orleans bread NEW SCRATCH HOUSE taken so he hid his face with a ical and a candidate must first be From now on, maybe these things had to go to the bakeries them­ Good news for all of you sea­ leaflet. The leaflet read, "The approved from his political stand­ can be straightened out without selves as all deliveries were stop­ men who have occasion to stop need for unity in the Maritime point. If he is acceptable to the throwing the book at a man be­ ped. At this writing the demands off here in N. O. now and then, Industry." I wonder what unity communist cheque in power he cause of a simple misstep. of the drivers have been met and is the announcement that a new they refer to? can run for office. will resume deliveries Shipping has slowed down they In the SIU,-if a man desires to from the pace set during the past shortly. run for office he need only meet ten days, but it is still lively Then as the bread situation certain qualifications that are enough to keep the Dispatchers eased up, every one was astonstandard for the whole union and hopping. The main holdup, as i.shed to hear that the garbage the qualifications deal only with far as we can see, is that ships collectors had gone out. Their his ability as a seaman. are having plenty of trouble in strike was the cause of some real CHICAGO — Following is the disability of a wage control board QUALIFICATIONS getting enough stores on board fireworks as they were told they for any kind of a voyage. were fired because civil service formal report adopted by the which limits their attempt to obFirst he must be a citizen of the US or Canada, second he There are plenty of unrated employees cannot strike against AFL convention demanding swift lief from ever-rising prices. the government. (I thought must be a paid up member of the termination of the activities of men around the Hall—too many everyone knew about the SIUUnion for a period of six months tt'In summary, therefore, your the Wage Stabilization Board in for this port. My advice to any SUP sti-ike against the Wage Sta­ prior to the date of nomination, committee unanimously recom­ of the American the interest naan who wants to ship out is to bilization Board.) he mu.st. have .at least 18 months mends to the delegates to this worker: stay in the port you're in now Immediately the city put ads in service in any one of three de­ convention that the American and ship from there. You will "The National Wage Stabiliza­ have a much better chance that the papers for garbage collec­ tion Board was created to ad­ Federation of Labor take im­ partments, Deck, Engine, or Stew­ tors offering the following; mediate and positive steps to­ ards, and he must not be guilty ' way. minister the wage control pro­ ward terminating the National of misconduct previously while Refuse Collectors and gram of the Federal Government FREELOADERS employed as a union official. Wage Stabilization Board." Truck Drivers in its effort to avoid inflation by Since the SIU ha.s won alll its You will notice that race, creed fights to better the wages and Salary: $6.15 per day for drivers regulating wages and prices. Its or political beliefs are not men­ existence, therefore, was predi­ $5.40 per day for collectors conditions of working seamen, a tioned. We maintain that a man cated upon an elective anti-inlot of men are trying to be rein­ They really had guts to come who is an American reserves the stated in the Union. Our strug­ out and offer these terras; no. flation program. right to his opinion as to political Seafarers Sailing "To day there is no such pro­ gles have forced our pay and wonder the men went out on beliefs and religion. However the gram. The steady, persistent working conditions up to where sti-ike.SIU maintains that a man should .4s Engineers emasculation of price control by they are now, the best in the not attempt to use his political NAVY FINKS All members—retired mem­ the Federal Govei-nment has re­ industry. beliefs to influence the policy of The good fathers of the city duced the need for a Wage Stabi­ the Union. bers and former members— On the other hand, shipping is could not see the garbage pile up, lization Board to zero. The time The benefits of belonging to the of the Seafarers Internation­ falling off, and it seems to me so the Mayor and around 150 has come when the organized and SIU are many as you will see on that now is not the time to take others volunteered to pick up the al Union who are now sailing the unorganized workingmen of reading the SIU constitution and back men in1;p the Union—men garbage. This did not ease the as licensed Engineers: Please America must be freed from our phamplet being circulated on who stayed on the sidelines and situation any too much, so they report as soon as ^:ssible to the Lakes now. wage controls which have become allowed others to do the fighting called upon the Navy to come to During the lay-up this fall one the Seafarers Hall at 51 Bea­ for them, and who are now try­ their aid. Lo, and behold! The an added burden upon their ef­ forts to obtain food, clothes and of the SIU organizers will contact ver Street, New York City. ing to come back so as to sop up Navy volunteered to pick up the shelter. For working people the your ship; talk it over with him, some of the gravy. Your presence is necessary in garbage. fight against inflation is at best or better yet, come down to the This Hall will continue to feed I never expected to see the a losing battle and they should a matter of great importance. SIU Hall in your port and get three meals a day until the ma­ Navy volunteer to fink on the not be made to bear the added the facts. Masters Asked To Differ Between Desertion And Failure To Report NO NEWS?? New Orleans Mayor Calls Out Navy "Volunteers" To Break Strike Of City Garbage Collectors 1 AFL Convention Report Fulls No Punches In Hitting The WSB Attention Members! �'WOT THE SEAFARERS LOG Page Eight Friday. November 8. 194S OftS A HELPING HAND So Come Down To Marcus Hook— There is Never A Dull Moment By BLACKIE CARDULLO MARCUS HOOK — Now that the MM&P and MEBA strikes are ovei", we can sit back and re•all just what went on while the larbor was tied up here in good lid Marcus Hook. I think this trikc set a record for the larg:-st number of ships tied up here. I counted 26 swinging on the rook. Just for the record I took r picture of the harbor, so if in future beefs we start arguing rbout the. number of ships tied up I can drag out the photograph qnd win a beer Here the striking members of the MM&P and MEBA. reinforced by some SIU men, have their picture taken before going down to take picket stations. The full facilities of the Marcus Hook Hall were extended to the men. At the far left is Blackie Cardullo, Marcus Hook Agent. In the background is the Hall, which is even now, after only a few months of operation, loo small for number of men who want to use it. The SIU is sure growing. We've had a lot of activity both on the ships and on the beach during the strike. One interest­ ing point of activity was Beuhla's Rooming House, which is located along the waterfront. During the strike she ran a Both Parties Must Live Up To Contract Terms One beef that was settled to the satisfaction of all was the liquor situation. With many a dry throat and an empty pocketbook, our boy Bob fixed everything up by providing a case of beer every night for the boys, for as you know, nothing keeps the morale higher than a case of 24 cOol ones. SIU TO THE RESCUE Another incident worth report­ ing concerns one of the local gals, who was giving one of the local guys the eye, when his wife no­ ticed the intrigued developing be­ fore here eyes. She got up on her hind legs and belted the little gal one right in the glimmer, closing it, but quick. The Belted Belle, in true spartan style, decided she was in disgrace and to end it all by jumping in the river. Well, she jumped, and a couple of SIU men who happened to be ambling by the river heard her screams and ran down to the By ARTHUR THOMPSON SAVANNAH—We paid off the SS Irvin S. Cobb this week and have two more South Atlanticships to 'pay off, but they are being held up. Quite a few ships have pulled in here with a load of gypsum, and the plant can only unload one ship at a time. Since there was about three ships held up during the strike, awaiting berth at the gypsum plant, they have to be unloaded before the ones that just came in. The SS Zachary Taylor and the SS Frank Spencer, consequently, will have to wait for sometime before they can unload. stewpot for the boys, and our esteemed patrolman, dispatcher, window washer, office boy, parttime organizer and lover. Bob Pohle, was kept busy settling beefs at Beuhla's. , JOIN /M,Sri^NSE(?-ITS lA FftfE The harbor in Marcus Hook looked deader than a flat beer while the MM&P and MEBA Strike was on. These ships stayed tied up until the strike was over, and no power could move them until then. Voting For Union Officials And State Politicos Occupy Boston Seafarers; Shipping Hears Normal The Cobb was a good payoff. All hands were sober; there were By JOHN MOGAN no beefs, and only one overtime item was disputed. Taking tem­ BOSTON—At long last ship­ peratures of the holds when the ping and business is approaching ship is carrying coal can't be a somewhat normal plane in this classed as overtime. Coal can burn because of spontaneous com­ port. Scheduled arrivals are bet­ bustion and, if necessary precau­ ter than average, and the fifst tions are not taken, there could vessel to arrive for a payoff since be hell to pay. the ending of the MM&P strike MATE KILLED ! on this coast proved to be the On the Spencer there was a tragedy which happened in Duig- good old Emilia. waU, N. S. The Mate had a fatal Brother Hart was the Steward accident. His body was brought on her and bought the ship in back on the ship. I haven't all I looking shipshape. It was a clean the details yet, but will give ^ payoff, without a single dispifte them to you in my next report. that couldn't be ironed out on the The SS Joshua Slocum was in spot. port for signing on, but was de­ The Branch is still taking care layed for some necessary repairs. of the West Coast sailors who When these were completed and are still tied up by the strike. the stores and slop chest were Some of these ships, on articles, checked the crew signed on un­ were scheduled to pay-off last der the new agreement. This new week; but the fly in the ointment agreement incidently is a hum­ proved to be that the operators dinger, and every member should had no intention of paying the realize that if we are to keep transportation back to the coast. . such wages and working condi­ The members, therefore, feel that tions they'll have to do their part. they can hang on just so long as is necessary to get paid off these IT'S A CONTRACT There have been quite a few ships in the proper manner. complaints about crews stopping Voting Starts work the minute the ship hits the The voting is off to a fair start final port. This is all wrong in this Branch. The balloting for When a man signs articles he Joint Patrolman should prove signs a contract, and he's bound troublesome for the average voter, to that contract until he signs with five (count 'em) candidates off. If a man wants to quit he is for the job. bound by the agreement to give 24 hours notice. These are beefs Your correspondent is also op­ which the company throws .back posed on the ballot, which goes at us, and we have to admit the to show that Boston can't be such beef is a just one. a bad town after all; otherwise so many of the boys wouldn't be so eager to do their piecarding up this way. The State election is also caus­ ing considerable concern to or­ ganized labor in Massachusetts. Not only has all labor turned out to support the Democratic Pai'ty, but also to oppose a referendum on the ballot which would re­ quire all labor organizations to ITF Led Fight (Continued from Page 6) makes important irifurrnation available to them, and at the same time makes it possible for unions to discharge their duty to­ wards the transport workers in other countries who are in need of support to raise their stand­ ards." The International Transport workers Federation exists to spread the realization that every country's welfare is ultimately dependent on that of others. The transport workers of all lands must be united for the immed­ iate object of raising their stand­ ards, and for the ultimate goal of building a world that will satisfy the highest ideals of man. Only positive action will ac­ complish these things, and only through organization, both local and international, can positive action be assured. river prepared to save this young maiden from self-destruction. When they saw her they stop­ ped pulling off their shirts and file complete returns of income shoes, for there she was up to her and expenditures (itemized) hips in rnud. It seems that she under penality of fines and im­ had miscalculated and jumped prisonment. when the river was at low tide. Such penalities could be im­ They extracted her from the posed, for example, for failure to ooze and the last anyone saw of report each item in the following her she was seen walking off manner; with a character called "rabbit" Blank Stationary Co. 1 box who was escorting her to the paper clips 10^ nearest bath. "Rabbit" must be one of those guys who believes in The referendum, sponsored by •the old saying "you can't tell a the Republican Attorney-General, book by its cover." is recognized very clearly as a KEPT EYE PEELED labor-baiting measure, designed On the strike side of the picto hamstring the local unions and tux-e we'd like to thank the office disclose to management their fi­ girl at Hueber's launch service, who reported all ship movements nancial resources. and let us know if any of the Labor Out scows were getting up steam. Incidentally, the origin of this So much for this week from referendum was in the form of a the biggest little port, on the legislative bill, which was over­ coast. Come on down boys as whelmingly defeated in both the there is never a full moment. House and Senate. The fact that There is always something to en­ this reverse did not stop the reftertain you such as weddings, 'erendum's proponents illustrates funerals, ball games, fist fights, how far they will go and how and attempted suicides. hard they will fight to destroy The best part of it all is that labor in this commonwealth—and in every other state, if it should you can get into any one of these go over here. Hence, labor will social functions free of charge. be on the line at the pollss, No­ Marcus Hook is not only prov­ vember 5. ing itself as far as the organizing There should be a few pay-offs is concerned, but it is paying its in the coming week, and the op­ own way while doing a bang-up portunity to get most of the job. As for further proof of the members back to work. This way Marcus Hook operates, the kind of activity will also provide cost per man during the recent your scribe with some badly beefs was among the very lowest needed material for his weekly of all ports—only New Orleans beat us in t.his department. article. 1 • I 'M.' 1^ -vik'Trt- U!. �11.1 THE SEAFARERS LOG Friday, November 8, 1946 More About Seagoing Characters By A Man Who Knows Them All By LOUIS GOFFIN Thinking about seagoing char acters started me off on the ar­ ticle that appeared in the Log last week, and after I wrote that one I thought that I had those characters out of my system, but good. I find, however, that it is not so. More and more I am remem­ bering the quys who sailed with me in the past, and some of the things they did that made a sail­ or's life a poorly paid, but merry one. During the old Shipping Board days I was on stand-by at Jones' Point. There were three men who shared the same fo'csle with me. There entire conversation was booze; how much each one could hold, how much they con­ sumed in their time, and how they would like a drink right now. All this talk made them very thirsty, so a tarpaulin muster was SHhW! Itrs'KiSflBT AAJD MAv'Bfw/f'/.l.GFr A C1SACKA^r^^AT d=bf2MALDFHVpg.' started and one guy was elected to go ashore with the dough. He returned a short time later with fifty or sixty small bottles of after shave lotion, and al­ though one of the men said that he didn't like to drink these "sis­ sy" drinks, the entire lot was quickly consumed. This merely whetted their thirst so they went prowlin for more to drink. Dead Drunk They tortured the dead ships looking for alcohol, shellac, or anything else that they could im­ bibe. About two in the morning, the night watchman came around on his rounds and in the fo'csle of one of the ships he found thi'ee stiff forms. He let out a yell that could be clearly heard in Marcus Hook. We all woke up fast and head­ ed for the source of the noise. We found the watchman slsaking like a leaf. "There's Ihiee stiffs down in the fo'csle," he yelled. Sure enough, there they were stretched out on the deck. The Skipper examined them' and declared them dead, and very reverently we covered them with sheets. One man was dispatched for the police. As he started to leave the ship, the dead three returned to life, and you never saw sailors leave a fo'csle as fast in your life. In one second the only people left in the fo'csle were the three supposedly dead drunks. The next day the Skipper fired the three sots, but they put up a beef, complaining that getting drunk was part of a sailor's life. The Old Man agreed with them but said scaring the life out of the crew was another thing. So the three must-get-theirs left the ship, muttering that now they could really go out and get gas­ sed. As if anyone could ever get drunker than those birds got. Pulling Rank Another interesting guy I met was one well known to the stiffs who worked the old coal burning George Washington. The occur­ ence I want to talk about happen­ ed in Bremerhaven, Germany. It was the last night we were there and all of us were broke, so we were sitting around in the fo'csle shooting the breeze, when in came an AB who called himself Captain Otto. He was half gassed, but he had a handbag full of bot­ tles. SWEET TOOTH Page Nine Proposes Plan To Take Place Of Marine Hospital By JOHN JELLETTE In the past year many justi­ fied complaints of merchant sea­ men concerning the red tape and preferences shown to Coast Guard and civil service personnel at the various Public Health clinics and Marine Hospitals from coast to coast have appeared in the Log. Complaints against this practice have been filed by the Seafarers, but excuses and eva­ sions have been the only answer.' HAS PLAN Do we have to stand for this just because the treatment given He had a top bunk, and in is free? After all, these insti­ order for him to mount to his tutions are supported by us as bunk he got on the rail of the tax-payers, and we are not ac­ bottom bunk. The strain proved cepting charity by going there. too much for his belt, which part­ I think we should do something ed, and his trousers fell to half about this condition, as soo.i as mast. possible, by authorizing our Un­ ion officials and a committee Some of the boys rushed to Two reasons to be thankful. One is that the MM&P Strike ' from the membership to investi­ help him, both to hold his pants gate the possibility of securing has been settled with the union winning a major victory. The up, and also to throw his bag up ' a plan of health and hospital other reason is that now the longshoremen are back at work into his bunk. So he .struggled treatment for our members and and unloading the sugar and coffee that is needed. This picture with them, all the while arguing, all maritime workers who might was taken ihe day after the action ended, and already the sugar "Buy your own liquor, I ain't a desire to take part. is on the move. gin mill for common sailors. I have sailed as the Master of ships, Such a plan should be formu­ lated to cover the continental so I don't furnish liquor for com­ United States, and a man or mon sailors." woman engaged in the maritime All this conversation while he industry, upon presentation of a was still doing his darndest to get hospital plan card at any hos­ into his bunk. When we had pital or clinic of his or her choice laughed ourselves out, we dump­ would receive prompt treatment ed him into bed. covering medicine, operations, The next day we were sitting and a bed in a ward. in the fo'csle and I walked over Should convalescence be and asked him if it was okay for recommended after an operation a common sailor to sit next to a or prolonged illness, the patient By JOE VOLPIAN man who had sailed as Master on should be sent to a suitable rest ships. His face got as red as the Until April 1943 when the Sup­ ship's business. Incidentally, home at no extra cost. Such a reme Court of the United States wages must also be paid the sea­ program, to my mind, would ben­ decided the cases of Aguilan vs. man until the end of the voyage efit a seamen in more ways than one. CA?'/Vl OT'TOl Standard Oil and Jones vs. Water­ if ha is under articles and receiv­ PROPER REPORT man, maintenance and cure was es his injury on or near the dock. Under the present set-up a man always denied seamen unless his WILL BE BROADENED in this industry who suffers an injury or illness was caused on I believe that this interpreta­ accident during the course of his the vessel on which he was em­ tion of the law protecting seamen work goes to a Marine hospital ployed, or unless he was injured will someday be broadened so and asks for a fair abstract. Does ashore while performing some that it will cover seamen injured he get it? I'm not so sure that specific duty for the ship. a considerable distance from the he always does. In the plan I This was the common practice ship. suggest he could be reasonably on the part of the shipowners al­ I say this because I believe that be sure of a proper report from though there was no direct pro­ a seaman is in the "service of the the hospital or clinic of his choice. vision of the law to back up this ship" when he goes ashore on Of course, I understand there policy. The law has always been liberty, and there is no reason commie flag, and he didn't get would have to be a small month­ drunk or say much for the i-est that the shipowner is liable to pay why this should be confined to ly or yearly charge to each one maintenance and cure if the in­ the immediate vicinity of the'ship. of the voyage. of us for this service since it jury occurs while the seaman is would be in the form of a health In this view I am backed up by Captain Otto and the three "in the service of the ship". But policy, but I for one would be some very sound reasoning on drinkers were only some of the the catch was: What does the more than glad to take advantage the part of Mr. Justice Rutledge men who sailed the seven seas in phrase "in the service of the of it should a suitable arrange­ of the U.S. Supreme Court when search of adventure and because ship" mean? ment be made by the Union he said in deciding these cases: they refused to act and live like Shipowners contended that "in committee. "To relieve the shipowner of other more commonplace indi­ the service of the ship" meant Thus, any town or city in the his obligation in the case of in­ viduals. that if the seaman was ashore juries incurred on shore leave U. S. A. under such a plan, If you have any stories about his injury must be caused while would cast upon the seamen haz­ could give a man proper hos­ people like those, send them into he is on some duty; or at work, ards encouraged only by reason pital care upon presentation of the Log. where they can be pub­ doing some task connected with of the voyage. The assumption credentials, whether he was lished for the enjoyment of all the ship's business. is hardly sound that the normal ashore one day or one year. As MORE LEEWAY who read the Log. uses and purposes of shore leave long as he is a member of the The seamen's contention was are exclusively personal and have plan he would be admitted that as long as he was under no relation to the vessel's busi­ promptly and not told he was on articles he was in the "service of ness. Men can not live for long the beach too long and nothing the ship" even though he happen­ cooped up aboard ship without could be- done. ed to get hurt ashore on liberty, substantial impairment of their NOT ALONE ^ unless his injury was caused efficiency, if not also serious dan­ When your ship docks, if I'm not alone in this idea as^I through his own misconduct. ger to discipline. Relaxation be­ have, talked with many of our is a good idea lo have a list Now the law seems to be settl­ yond the confines of the ship Brothers and they, like myself, of necessary repairs io give ed that "in the service of the is necessary if the work is to go would be glad to get away from to the Patrolman. This will ship" covers a seaman injured on on, more so that it may move the Marine hospitals and the help in letting the comp'any the dock or other premises which smoothly. No Master would take government red tape. know exactly what has lo be must be traversed in going from a crew to sea if he could not I strongly urge all who read done to get the ship in tip­ the vessel to the street or return­ grant shore leave, and no crew this and who would like to have top condition. ing from the street to the vessel. would be taken if it could not the Union look into such a plan In other words, the courts are obtain it. In short, shore leave for the membership to write to Seafarers don't have to sail getting away from the hard and is an elemental necessity in the the Log, and if there are enough beat-up ships. Do your part fast rule that injury must occur sailing of ships, a part of the busi­ letters I'm sure some plan will to make every ship a clean, on the ship, or that seamen going ness as old as the art, not merely be devised and put before us to well kept vessel. ashore must only be goin^ on a personal diversion." consider. Attention Members! All Departments :^l �•w THE SEAFARERS LOG Page Ten • - '•> , • '^^-snir -.3^^ v PxidaF' November 8, 1946 SHIPS' MIMUTES AMD MEWS I. U^'i- Message Tossed Overboard Is Found On French Coast Joliet Crew Suggest Spots For Log Pick-Up a . Success has finally capped the bottle-throwing efforts of Seafarer Albin Carlson. For the first time in the year he has been throwing bottles containing messages over the side into the deep blue seas, Carlson was rewarded last week with an answer. It came from a M. Martineau, a Frenc'i- iiiaii who lives in Vauvillc, u® _^ • '" "^ Following up their recent rec­ small coastal town near Cher­ The letter, as translated from the ommendation of a plan to dis­ bourg. M. Martineau had picked French, said: "I am returning the paper tribute the Seafarers Log to men up one of Albin's tosses on the sailing up and down the South beach near his home. In the bot­ which I found in a bottle. It is and East African coasts, the crew tle he found yoimg Carlson's of­ enclosed herewith. "I found it at Vauville (near of the SS Joliet Victory has cho­ fer of a reward if the finder re­ sen four of "the bright spots turned the message to him at his Cherbourg) on Aug. 13, after two along the coast" as likely points home address in Los Angeles, days of a heavy wind which had come up from the southwest. of distribution. The places cho­ Calif. "With cordial greetings to you, sen came after discussions at the QUICK REPLY "M. Martineau Oct. 5 shipboard meeting. M. Martineau, probably with Vauville, France'.' The suggested distribution juicy visions of American choco­ points, which the Joliet men say late bars and cigarettes, appai-TOSSED OVER JULY 11 "seamen arc sure to hit," are: ently lost time in replying to As Brother Carlson displayed The Boston Cafe in Capetown, Carlson. A very neat note ad­ the letter in the Log office, he The Trocadero in Durban, Swan's dressed to Albin arrived Oct. 21 recalled that the bottle found by Tavern in Beira and the Palace at the New York SIU Hall via M. Martineau had been tossed Cafe in Lourenco Marques. the Los Angeles address. Sketch­ overboard somewhere off the Carlson (right) points out to Log man spot on map where The Joliet plan, previously ed in M. Martineau's letter was a coast of England on July 11, as his note was found. published in the Log, suggested small map showing the location his ship, the SS James Gunn, that Delegates of Robin line ves­ of the Frenchman's discovery. was on the way to Antwerp from has produced any results," Carl­ tic and Pacific oceans. On every sels, leaving weekly from New Philadelphia. Despite the lack of success, son, a Second Cook, commented trip he has made he managed to York on the South and East throw at least a few into the. Africa run, carry bundles of the ed be made distribution points, it Carlson doggedly exploits his sadly. water, he said. 400 BOTTLES latest Logs and leave them at is-suggested that members of the hobby. On the Gunn, he tossed Getting back to the successful In fact, he said, it was the only spots visited by Seafarers plying Joliets crew furnish the Log with about 30 bottles—at the rate of those coasts. The Joliet crew the complete addresses of these one a day—into the drink on the one that brought a response in bottle, Carlson said that as soon says that there is "nothing a sea­ four spots. way over and back. The bottles the year he has been pursuing his as he is financially able he will men would rather get than a Log Meanwhile, Delegates on Rob­ were empty catsup containers, hobby. He estimated that since have Martineau's reward in the full of news." in ships should take Logs to the and Carlson put notes promising strating it, he has tossed about mails. Meanwhile, he intends to con­ In line with crew's proposal four ports recommended by the rewards in each. 400 bottles overboard vessels he that the cafes and bars mention- Joliet men. "Of the 30, only Martineau's had sailed on both in the Atlan­ tinue his hobby. 'BANANAS' SLIPS THE KIDS A SEA STORY John A. (Bananas) Ziereis, Bosun on the SS Tristram Dalton, which recently delivered a full cargo of grain to Finland, is the proud possessor of a mo­ del of the Parma acquired on the trip. In a grain ship race in 1932, the Parma led a fleet of square-riggers through the raging gales and irksome calms 16,000 miles from Australia to England, Jack says. Above, as he displays the rig­ ger, he is telling admiring towheaded kids of Manhattan how the Parma picked up a golden cargo of more than 5,000 tons of wheal ripened on Australian farms, and then, blown entire­ ly by strong winds did 256 miles one day. Beset by a hur­ ricane and broached to, the in­ domitable sail-ship shook off the clutch of doom as she rounded Cape Horn and finally reached Falmouth, 103 days af­ ter the starting gun. Black Gang Hails Plattshwrg Galley Crew The dietary delectables whack­ ed up by the able Stewards De­ partment on board the SS Plattsburg bring the Black Gang boys "a little closer to home." And for that the bunch below are grate­ ful to the galley crew. In a statement attached to the Oct. 20 ship's minutes, the En­ gine Department men say the Steward's men have their grati­ tude. They are a "swell bunch of men," Engine men say. Being away from home, the statement continues, gets pretty monotonous. "But when you sit down to a well-cooked meal it seems to bring a fellow just a little closer to the thing he loves most—home." Special plaudits go to Chief Cook J. L. Osbourn, who, the statement says, "can really dish out the southern fried chicken and candied yams." It also plugs Steward A. A. Gowder, crediting him with this commendable theory: "There is nothing too good for my boys. Give them anything they want." If anyone should doubt that Gowder doesn't carry his preach­ ings into practice, "just ask Agent Blackie Cardullo in Marcus Hook," says the statement. The entire Black Gang signed the commendation. ' r ii^i-1•• Boots, Boots, - - There's None On The Ouachita Victory WANTED: One crew of midgets. Normal-sized men better not apply. That's the way they ought to sign them up for the SS Ouachita Victory, according to the ship's minutes of Voyage No. 5. The second shipboard meeting was the scene of hot and heavy discussion on that ever-present sore-spot—the slop-® chest, which appears to have were available in the average been much more notable for what sizes, and that shirts and under­ it didn't have than for what it wear in the odd sizes specialty shop were too large. did have in stock. In other words, if you're an Brother Suska, the assistant electrician, whose underpinnings average guy with average dimen­ require substantial foundations sions one trip to the SS Ouachi­ found that he might have to do ta's emporium and you'll come away looking like a sack of some­ thing tied*in the middle. Attempting to get everything back to normal. Seafarer T. M. Griffith made a motion "that a committee be formed to check the quantity as well as the va-> riety of stores "in the slopchest before .signing on for the next" trip, so that there will be no re^^^ currence of. this matter." . In the period devoted to good and welfare, the stores situation ca.ught more hell. This time itwas the soap which the crew was as George Washington's men did receiving. It had a very high at Valley Forge—wrap his feet in sounding label, "Sierra Pine rags. The thought didn't set well Face Soap," but its quality was so he raised a well-heard com­ nothing you'd shout about from plaint- at the. meeting scoring the the mountain tops. The only slopchest for only having shoes element of accuracy in the name of the "soap" was that the needles in size eight or smaller. Someone thought they heard were still in it when it was Suska say, "What do they think brought aboard. Brother Gerner, we are, pygmies?"" FWT, stated that the Steward But shoes were not the only should refuse to accept any fur­ shortcoming of the Ouachita's ther shipments of the Sierra slopchest. Chief Electrician Ray stuff. The Steward said that was Carlson charged that no pants already understood. ' • -f- ' �THE SEAFARERS LOC Page Eleven THE MEMBERSHIP SPEAKS COOL AS A CUCUMBER . •= sc-v •* •y / V 4 . ^^ ' • ' ^ ^ ' 'J > ' i » y» ' •• • •"' ^ ^ S ' Displaying scalps fresh and clean from the razor's edge, these crew members of the SS Webb Miller brave the sun's rays long enough for the camera to record their self-imposed baldness. Kneeling is one of the Webb's Wipers; standing, left to right, Manuelo. 3rd Cook, Solomon Harb, Chief Cook, and John, 2nd Cook. Reason for the skin-heads, said Brother Harb, was the excessive heat during a recent Mediterranean trip. 'Duchess Of South Street Is Dead Rich Woman Was Friend Of Seamen Dear Editor: Last week in New York one of the best loved old ladies of the merchant seamen, Mrs. W. B Scaife, passed away. To all the seamen who knew her she was known as "The Dutchess of South Street," and there wasn't a finer woman on the waterfront. What makes the whole thing so un­ usual is that she came from New LITTERING DECKS CREATES HAZARDS, SEAFARER SAYS Dear Editor: I should like to address this letter to all Seafarers. I would like to see the Union take a poll — to find out how many of our men were brought up in a clean home. Being on temporary duty in the N. Y. Hall as a porter, what I have wit­ nessed sometimes makes me doubt if there are many. All of us, including tffe writer, have at various times thrown butts, newspapers, etc., on the deck. This isn't a nice habit, but my chief complaint is ihat many of us have also dropped an "oyster" either right where we are standing at the moment, or in some corner. Besides this being a health haz­ ard, it is a potenl^al danger other­ wise. Have you ever slipped or fallen because of that "oyster?" If you haven't you're lucky. And when leaving the head, why not take your newspaper along with you instead of leav­ ing it on the deck? After all, it is just as much your home away from home, as it is mine. Henry Beckmann York's upper crust. She lived in the Park Avenue neighborhood, but in her relations with us sea­ men she was down to earth and didn't ,^put on any airs. During the war she worked at the An­ drew Furuseth Club for seamen and she was likjs an aunt to many seamen, in fact lots of us used .to write her letters from all over the world. When we heard that "The Duchess" was dead we went up to Campbell's Funeral Home on Madison Avenue in the heart of the silk stocking district to pay our last respects. She was ad­ mired by many seamen and New York notables as well, for there among us were many of the up­ per crust paying their respects as well. While she was alive she took great interest in seamen and their affairs, one of her main in­ terests was the Seamen's branch of Alcoholic Anonomous in which she played an important part. We are sorry to hear that "The Duchess" has left us; we feel that she was really one of us. So we say: Steady as she goes. Duchess! Friends of the Duchess LOG Rates High As Union Paper Dear Editor: I would like very much to re­ ceive the Log at my home. What few copies that I have taken home with me have received the highest acclaim as a Union or­ gan. I think that is quite a boost for our newspaper after reading some of the local unon papers. Thanking you in advance A. Lavoie Swansea, Mass. I Walsh Cites Bosun's Case In Comparing Rates Of Pay Dear Editor: With the signing and putting into effect of the new wage scale and working conditions won in recent strike and JOS' actions, we begin to enjoy the highest wages ever paid in the indiii^try, coming within close range of the total monthly payments made during the war period, when the bonuses augmented the monthly wages of our brothers who helped win the war against Agression. During that period the Bosun was lucky to pay off with as much as a 4 to 8 AB, and just a little more than the average entry rating (OS, Wipers, Messmen). In view of the fact that all agreements were frozen during the War Emergency Period, no­ thing could be done to alter the differences in pay, with the end in mind of adequately compen­ sating the Boatswain for the heavy responsibility placed upon him by vi^ue of his being in charge of such valuable gear and stores as are aboard all contract­ ed ships. GRATEFUL While I am grateful for the fact that my actual take home pay as Boatswain has been raised, the fact still remains that I (as Bos'n) will still be in the same pay grade as the 4 to 8 AB's, due to the fact that they are being paid for the Sundays at sea while the Bos'n was raised a larger to­ tal increase in Lieu of Sunday overtime. What I am trying to get at is that I am still no better off than I was before in regards to ade­ quate compensation for the re­ sponsibility placed upon my shoulders. I would like to im­ press it on our Brothers that what is fair is fair. If your job called for extra effort, either physical or mental, YOU would want to be paid in ratio to the added bur­ den. I feel that I am entitled to extra compensation for my job as Bos'n, and want to plug for next year's agreement negotia­ tion to stick out for the Bosun's right to get a lot more money than he is at present. If you have Log -A' Rhythms College Knowledge By ERNEST KAPRALL u )'.1 I'm a man of the World, And I know a good deal Of Philosophy, Science and Art. And when I'm asked to discuss sex appeal, I can certainly do my part. BUT When it comes to the knowledge. That you get from going to col­ lege. Or t.alking of engine proficiency, I'm most surely stumped. Whenever I'm pumped About volumetric efficiency. II. any thing to suggest in this line of endeavor how about putting it in black and white and letting the rest of our Brothers hear about it. It takes time to prepare re­ quests for changes in agreements and serious requests such as this should have piles of statistics to back such claims. We must be prepared and there is an old saw that really covers this: "IN TIME OF PEACE, PREPARE FOR WAR." "Windy" Walsh THE SAILOR'S DREAM OF HELL By "STEAMBOAT" O'DOYLE On a summer's night, by the moon's half-light, I lay me down on the lee. My mind to roam and dream of home, and a girl who waits for me. But a vision came, all smoke and flame of a hell down under the sea. Where forever burn and twist and squirm. Those who won't let the sailor be free. With flames all red and the screams of the dead, a horrible thing to see. Where the flesh did roast and singe and toast, 'mid screams of misery. I looked around and quickly found, faces I knew I'd see. The Maritime blue and the Coast Guard too, and the mate of the Nancy Lee, On some red hot coal est the poor lost souL of First Assistant McGee, Of the Baltimore Line, scratch­ ing -overtime, and laugh­ ing wickedly. There was Admiral Land with with his butt suntanned, and bureaucrats piled by three. But 'twas Curran I sought, so I stopped for naught, past McAuley and Cherbonn-ye@. To Hell's last brim, and there saw him, the master of treachery. In a crowd of finks, and reds and pinks, all laughing fiendishly. While Blackie and Jack, and Bridges and Slack, danced 'round with horrible glee. And the music of Hell, like a terrible knell, echoed fearfully. Then miy arm was shook, and I woke to look, at my buddy. Tommy Lee, "Old paly, you're screaming, you must be dreaming. Tell me, what did you see?" Then I told him too, what I've told to you, and he looked at me wonderingly. And we looked at the sky, and the Skipper on high, and we prayed for poor McGee. With Socrates and Plato I'm at ease quite comparative. And I'm at home with Kant's categoric Imperative. I'm acquainted with Spengler's "Decline of the West," Spencer and Nietzsche I quote with some zest. BUT Give me a quiz with the Ohm, watt, and volt. And to figure percentages gives me a jolt. When of boilers and turbines 1 try to think. Reciprocating engines give my brain a kink. CONCLUSION But all that I've learned was a waste of time For the knowledge I have could­ n't earn me a dime. I find myself now in a good situ­ ation Where I can advance myself. And at the same time serve the nation. So I'll trade all I know of Philosophy, Science and Art, For that 70 per cent and a chance to do my part. And I hope to be a credit To my country and the war ma­ chine— With the good old U.S. MerchcUit Marine. —Written in 1942. Ft. Trumbull, Conn. 4- i i Nothing Is Gratis By VIC COMBS We pay for love with pain. For mistakes with regret. For knowledge with fear. For intellect with criticism. For concern with ingratitude. For prosperity with protest. For opinion with opposition For security with poverty,' For modesty with corruption. For confidence with conaeiiDnation. For comprehension with doubt. For friends with tolerance. For experience with refribuliOD, And for Life with Death. �THE SEAFARERS LOG Page Twelve Digested Minutes Of Sill Ship Meetings PREEPORT SEAM. July 4— Chairman Thomas Bowers; ^ezeiaxy Bob Jones. Chairm^ read a copy of leiler to be senl to Baltimore. New York and Tampa agents in regard to oar ventilation system. Crew insists it is for cooling as well as healing, with Chief Engin­ eer contending otherwise. Let­ ter also refers to condition of burner in galley stove. Agreed unanimously that letter should be forwarded as read. Motion carried to have the three dele­ gates and Steward pass on all foods coming aboard. iSc b b b RUFUS CHOATE. Sept. 14— -Chairman Ed. Kelly; Secretary J. VanDemark. Delegates re­ ported that portholes need re­ pairing; mattresses need repair­ ing and the ship needs to be fumigated. It was suggested that three keys for each foc'slc be provided. Steward depart­ ment has prepared a fist of re­ pairs for the galley and should be taken care of before next voyag|3. Overtime beefs are recorded and to be given to Patrolman. As a whole trip was a commendable one with a fine crew aboard. 4- 3^ 3^ Foreign Exchange Rates Motion The guys on the SS Marin Hills want their money back. In case you don't think their request is justifiable, go into some store in the States, ask for a pack­ age of cigarettes and try to pay for it with liras, pesos, shillings, francs, milreis or what have you. To prevent international com­ plications, and to relieve them­ selves from carrying so much deadweight, a motion was car­ ried by the crew members to have the delegates see the Pur­ ser about changing the crew's surplus foreign currency back to American money after leaving overseas ports. y, X & " OUCHITA VICTORY, June 24—Chairman Cohen; Secretary Lerner. New Business: Minutes of June 10th read and accept­ ed. Motion carried that Chief Mate jHid Engineer be request­ ed tO' hve the extra scutlebuli installed back aft before ship sails on next voyage. Motion carried that Patrolman c|ive "^Chief Mate a fist of repairs. XXX EDWARD S. HOUGH. Sept. S—Chairman Frank Christner; Secretary H. B. Noonan. New "Rainess: Deck Delegate re­ ported 10 hours of disputed overtime. Engine Delegate re­ ported many hours of disputed overtime. Disputed overtime was tabled for action when pa­ trolman comes aboard. Bosun wants hole in concrete in his foc'sle repaired. All crew quarters badly need painting and dusting with roach powder. Screens needed for ports. Black Gang wants ventilator over the escape ladder at end of shaft alley. Fire escape panel needed in'deck 4-8 foc'sle. All milk and coffee was condemned by crew ' and is to be put ashore. Reqtiest that Chief Engineer be barred from all SIU ships. A vole of thanks was given the Steward Department. be installed; that ice cream freezer be placed aboard; that delegates list all repairs necesasry and turn them over to de­ partment Heads. SAMUEL GRIFFIN, Aug. 4 —Chairman Joe Sortini; Sec­ retary Lloyd Fitch. Strike in­ structions were read by the chair. Suggestion that Patty McCann inform tbe Captain that the crew wished a payoff by 12:00 Aug. 5. Suggested by the Chairman that all foc'sles be cleaned and left neat and clean in SIU style. Electricians Ease Out of Tight Spot To boar some people talk you'd think the New York subways were the only places you can't find a seat these days. That theory was knocked into a cock­ ed hat with the receipt of the SS Selma Victory's latest set of ship's minutes. '•Things got a little crowded in the- crew's messroom, according to the minutes. In fact, when someone sat down at the center of the table, the two guys at the end of the table were pushed out of their seats. No matter how the order of things was juggled around, there were always two seats short. To remedy the situa­ tion, the ship's delegate o.ffered a suggestion at a membership meeting. Have the Electricians eat in the officer's mess, suggest­ ed the delegate. The two Electricians, hearing the proposal, blared forth a un­ animous "No." You might shove us off our seats at the table but you can't shove us out of the messroom, were their sentiments. Besides, they didn't want scrambled eggs with every meal. XXX MONROE. Aug. 18—Chair­ man R. J. Rose; Secretary B. J. Power. Motions carried: to ob­ tain two water coolers; that more than one order of two eggs should be had at break­ fast; that crews- messroom should carry messman and utility; that cooks wear coats and aprons while working in the galley; that one gallon cof­ fee urn be obtained for erew mess; that piping in crews quarters be repaired or replaced; that larger variety of fruit juices be carried on next voy­ age; that new style toilet seats tfou CAWTteUOW weARTH€'BM)se/ Friday, November 8, 1946 SEAFARER SAM SAYS 3;- S. 3;. CAPE SANDY, Aug. 25 — Chairman L. Foskey; Secretary E. Giza. Motions carried: with consent of Steward allow last stsmdby of each watch access to the chill box; that Engine and Deck Delegates see heads of their respective departments to have man make coffee; that all men ei^ring messhall wear shirts at mealtime; to request larger lockers for the proper stowage of crc-w's personal cf fects; fiiat all non-members file their intentions with their re­ spective department delegates. One minute of silence observed for brothers lost at sea. XXX LAREDO VICTORY, Sept. 15 —Chairman Whoski; Secretary Smith, New Business: Motions carried: that each crewmember be issued a strike clearance card at the ball for the recent strike; thai delegates check all foc'sles and see that they are shipshape for the d^w. Stew­ ard Department complimented on their fine cooking. XXX Maybe It's Nothing But a Smokescreen The crew of the SS Falmouth decided at a recent shipboard meeting to show their apprecia­ tion to the men who pounded the bricks during the recent strike, while the Falmouth was at sea. They decided that each man donate one carton of cigar­ ettes apiece for the SIU men who were on the beach. '' No fellas, we wont tell you where the SS Falmouth is going to tie-up. It's a secret the crew hasn't let us in on yet, but we'll be there when she ties up. Puff. Puff—LS-MFT. XXX FAIRPORT, Aug. fr—Chair­ man A. R. Hindntan; Secretary John Cobb. Motions carried; to have delegates see Ch. Engineer about installing a steam fine in laimdry; that fines be imposed on men dirtying up mess, and leaving soiled laundry in pas­ sageways; to hold meetings once a month on Sunday after­ noons; that Steward orpen slopchest as he sees fit, date and hour to be posted on messhall bulletin board, and that dele­ gates check all books before the next meeting. XXX FELTORE, Sept. 15—Chair­ man George Meaney; Secretary Riverly Brown. New Business: Motion carried to admit WSA crewmembers to the meeting. All delegates reported every­ thing okay except for some dis­ puted overtime,^ Motion carried to bring disputed overtime to the attention of Patrolman up­ on arrival and refuse to payoff articles until such overtime is paid off. Motion carried to recommend Deck and Engine WSA men for membership. One minute of silence observed for members lost at sea. Brother J. Colpe delegated to interpret and inform Spanish speaking crewmembers in regards to maritime strike situation. \ CUT and RUN By HANK Well, the best contracts on any waterfront,, and other big and important things crowded us out last week but we're back again this week—^running for another "gassy" column, of gossip . . . Sam l.uttrpll says that it looks like he and his wife will have to sail out of their apartment—so that One Eye Pete DiPietro can keep on stowing his cargo of peppers. Sam also has a suspicion that his wife is tired from stringing those peppers up on the walls. Well, Sam, there's only one way out—tell Claude Gautreaux to shanghai Pete to some country full of peppers—unless Cuba has them growing just special like for Pete . . . Last week, Brother Willie West, who is anxiously waiting to renew his career as a Robin Line stiff, introduc­ ed us to his shipmate, William Murphy. Brother Murphy sure look­ ed full of youthful pep under that gray fedora, after going to sea for about fifty years—and happily celebrating his seventy-first birthday last November on a trip to the Pacific. Well, all we can say, afte^WQ shake the thin coat of salt off ourselves is: Many more trips and birthdays to you. Brother Murphy, and may your anchor never get too much rust and mud, indeed. Leo fhe Lush Mannaugh doesn't mind being nicknamed'in such style. He always gets along—and so have his palsv During the strike he had the lUckiest luck of all the guys on the bricks. Leo had an apartment—and a few of his pals, including William Blakely sure were glad Leo was alive in such a manner .... Dutch Bokc was laughing and shaking hie head last week, re­ membering how he and Pete McCosfcey, the Irish Polack, left each other bow-legged from some celebraling down in Mobile not long ago, Dutch sure would roar with joy if Pete sailed into New Yorie right now! Joe Filipek and Marv Selsvik are anxiously waiting for some ship going to China. Ah,, fellas, don't be so stubborn . . , We don't know if Omar Ames is still in town but his shipmate, Rocky Benson, one of the best Isthmian organizers, just finished painting some First Assistant's rooms, in between washing dishes, too . . . Scotty Borland, just went back on the SS Colabee, after enjoying his vaca-tion and seeing his sister Betty from Scotland, after 25 years . . . Brother John Bigley keeps on laughing at the idea that Fred Ski Sweder is going aboard son'ie South Atlantic ship soon and feed those rubber winches with steam. It's an art, John, that's all! Well, here's a list of oldtimers in a%w ports: In MobileRobert Cale, John Elliot, G. Lawrence. T. Lehay, George Ro­ mano, J. Stringfellow, Joseph Fawcelt, J, G. Avery, Alfred Layne, Edward Blackman, D. M, Saxon, and D. F. MacGregor; New Orleans—James Biehl, Jmi Engelhardt, Frank Findley, Frank Rodriguez, Fretz Raymer, J. A. Scava, P. Swing, Ralph Subat, John Gersey. Ramon Viloria, F. Kendricks and; Jose Vilar. Philly—Herbert Maekey, Thomas Smifh, John Sarrfos, Sylvester Furtado, and Karl Krislensen. New York—^Harry Singleton, Joseph Hoslen, William Jenkins, James Murphy, Alton Clement, George Mitchell, Henry Bonilto, R. J. Masedale, Benjanvin Bail­ ey, and Adolphus Watson. �Friday, Novem2>er 9, 1946 THE SEAEARERS LOG Fage TbMtem ^Beachcomtere' Hold Fortli Hell-Raising Should Be Confined At New Orleans Round Table To Shore Spots, Says Shrintpton part of the game to get to the their beef, and now is the time, it along to our brother members Dear Editor: first gin-mill, smell the bar­ as never before, to really build in other ports who may perhaps It is not often that you hear be waiting for the bare necessit­ from me in a serious vein,, but maids apron, and then come back Union Brotherhood with them, ies of life which our system has after listening to Capt. Nash of to the ship and play the 'tough and it can only be done by both thus far so abimdantly provided. The Master Mates & Pilots at the boy', and some of their antics of us having, and earning, each The only discordant note so far last general meeting I feel that are anything but funny. Quite others mutual respect as men and encountered was occasioned by a word in season may possibly do recently I shipped aboard a Wa­ •seamen. terman C-3, and during the ten Fern one day demanding a buck some good. If you find that you have a months I was aboard her we had confirmed gas-hound aboard your of the take to buy butter, pota­ This is the first time in mari­ one murder, two knifings, and a toes, and milk which she coolly time history that the licensed of­ suicide, and all of them the di­ ship, give him every chance to trotted topside and converted in­ ficers have ever held out the rect result of booze. This is not settle down but if he insists on to mashed potatoes. However, sincere hand of Union friendship a pretty picture fellers, and I for causing, trouble in port, deal with an investigation by an indignant to lis, and if they mean what they one do not want any part of it, him yourselves at the ships meet­ committee disclosed the fact that say, namely, that-they will help and I don't think any real sea­ ing, and if he still plays up, then she had just had six teeth ex­ bung the - character on Union us to break the power of those man does either. tracted and so we have all char­ charges and make them stick—^its phony bunch of brass-bound, itably concluded that it was a NO CRUSADE the only way. chair-born commandos, the Coast case of medical necessity rather Go ashore and get tight by all I am the last man in the world than any naturally depraved means, its your priviledge to do (and the least qualified) to preach oooOOH!^ taste that prompted this deplor­ so, but if you feel the urge to go a 'pussyfoot' crusade, but I do IT'S THAT S." able waste of community funds. looking for Ole Man Trouble, just maintain that if we are going to SKiPFBR WOT Brother "Red" Carolyn made hunt him ashore. Remember have a new deal with the Offi­ OON6 THIS the mistake of dropping into the cers, and wish them to respect Bernard Shaw's advice to the bar after paying off the scow us and our Union, then we have drunk: that repatriated him from San­ got to cut out this hell raising "Its much better to keep your tos, where he spent a pleasant aboard ship. We are now on a mouth closed and be thought a sojourn beachcombing until the new footing with the MM&P. We fool than to open it and remove consul caught up with him and have proved our solidarity right all possible doubt." bundled him off for home. Be­ down the line in our support of I Jack 'Aussie' Shrimplon ing fat as a .goose, he was, con.seguently, easily led into spring­ ing for sir many beers that we finally were compelled to grope 'Guard, then I think it's up to us our w.ay to o.ux' respective rooms to meet them half-way. In other FARFY SUPPORTER with a rather confused idea of words, if we want them to stop HIS BIG MOUTH our own names. But a good time reporting us to the Gestapo lets GETS McNASTY HITS OPPONENT IN was had by all for Brother Caro­ give them less to report about. 30 DAYS ON FARM THE POCKETBOOK lyn not only provided the beer, DEMON RUM but he further enlivened the pro­ Dear Editor: Dear Editor: It is an undoubted fact that (Whether the fact that Brother ceeding by trying to explain how Well, I haven't seen our can­ After having read that awful Huff is always elected treasurer he happened to ship out as an most of the trouble aboard ship didate for president, Mr. Mcbilge written about our good is caused by too close an acquain­ is to be interpreted as a tribute electrician and returned as a pot Nasty, since the night we cele­ friend Farfufnick I felt that I tance with 'Old John Barlycorn,' to his honesty, or to the fact washer. brated his nomination. should come to the front for him. that he invariably occupies the He reports that Santos is rapid­ ,and I for one think that the time Larry WooGwarQ ana I went has come for those -of us who are Who is this character "Dirty?" center table where all can con­ ly becoming the sailor's paradise around to the bar thinking we xeal Union men to show a lead to Just the name hung on him would veniently keep an eye on him is of old, what with "Cockeyed would find him there, and though something we do not feel called Helen" holding forth in her old the irresponsible gas-hounds in we did not find Mr. McNasty, we indicate that he is not the type upon to decide.) It is then usually spot in the American Star. "Mus­ our ranks who come aboard a did meet one of his friends. This of person we should have for found that the muster has pro­ solini" is reported getting a fresh ship with a chip on their should­ guy said that Mr. McNasty was President. Even attempting to duced enough for a round and so start and Martha "is cuffing beers ers and then raise hell, while un­ working for the city now; thirty run him against Farfufnick—a person with such sterling char­ a round is noisily called for. again in that hoity-toity empor­ der the wind, at the first port days up on the farm. they touch. acter—is sort of ridiculous. AU Meanwhile Brother Huff has ium, the Mickey Mouse. From the way this guy told the this "Dirty" seems to have is a Now, the right to go ashore and story I gather Mr. McNasty is cleverly baited the table with So the gang has decided to bunch of "green" for his cam­ get good and drunk, and to visit some twenty cents or so and he amble down Rio come peace to paign, whereas our friend Far­ with the ladies of the night pa­ devotes his time fo alternately the waterfront again. No use fufnick has a definite platform trol, has always been the im­ sipping his beer and supervising hui-rying to get there though fel­ WE C36?TrA GLEAN ' and his entire platform is for the memorial right of a seaman, and the dispatching of Fern, Babe, lows, Red says the bloom is gone UP WM Tourcl^^ betterment of the Laboring Stiff's and Jean to tap the "live" ones from the peach, the dew from •nothing is ever going to stop it; —• No MOftt floRSFas they happen along. ANP-SUGGN'DAysi ^ Wages and Conditions. the rose—seems Kilroy's been but the right of a guy to come aboard the ship and start fight­ Not meaning to be nosey but This set-up is so successful there and gone. where does he get his gelt. Is it that we feel called upon to pass The Beachcombers ing and playing up generally, never has existed and never will possible that there might be a •exist, and it a matter of small wonder that some Skippers get tough about such- incidents, and feel that the only way to handle their crews is via the Log Book and the Coast Guard. It is an unfortunate fact that a bunch of men is always judged by the rot­ really getting up steam for his ten apples in the barrel, and campaign. It seems that Mr. Mc­ Brothers, some of our rotten ap­ Nasty was in one bf the local pool halls hoisting a few beers ples really stink.. and giving the boys the lowPRE-WAR MEN KNOW down on local politics, He also Those of us who are pre-war told the boys of some of the iseamen know this, and if you changes he would make if he take the trouble to watch a real held political office. He told of hint of "Red" to his "Gi^een?" I OVERTIM IN DEPARTMENTS old-timer coming up the gang­ how he would pave streets, raise can see nothing in his campaign plank stewed to the gills, you SHOULD BE DIVIDED old age pensions, and last of all that might be used for a plank, will also notice that he at once In the minutes of Sepleiubei 29, aboard the SS Diamond Ilitc-h •steers a zig-zag course straight to how he would give the racket­ unless you can call rabble-rous­ fault with the it w|s mentioned that the pantryman aboard felt that the Steward Ihis sack and hits the hay im­ eers now in office a long stretch ing and finding other guy fit for planks. Neither on the farm. One of the men lis­ was discriminating against him in giving out overtime work. At mediately. He doesn't go gunthe beginning "nf the trip the Steward ordered the Pantryman to uing for the Old Man or the tening to Mr. McNasty just hap­ does he give an answer to Farclean the pantry under the Steward's direction. The Pantryman did Bellyrobber or any of his ship­ pened to hold a political job and fufnick's proposals nor does he the work and put in seven hours overtime. When the man handed mates that happen to cross his shortly after his speech Mr. Mc­ submit any plan to help the in the seven hours overtime, the Steward disputed it and threatened bows, he just turns in, and if Nasty was arrested on about working stiff. Brothers, please remember to cut him off without any more overtime work. Since that time some of you guys would just re­ eight different counts; di'unk, dis­ the Pantryman has done very little overtime work and is far behind member that, I'm damn sure we orderly conduct, resisting arrest, these things and don't listen to the rest of the department. would have less trouble aboard thi-eatening public officials and any rabble-rousing propaganda disturbing the peace were a few against the peoples' cherce. ANSWER: and would find it easier to pull of them. On to the Presidency on FarIn the opinion of the Steward Patrolman contacted here, with, and be respected by, the When the case came to trial fufnick's bandwagon. the Pantryman has a just beef. Although there is nothing in 'midships crowd. Young mem­ Johnny Weir black and while calling for the equal division of overtime work bers, who have learned by bad Mr. McNasty pleaded not guilty. The judge couldn't see eye to in the Stewards Department articles as there is in the Deck 'example, now think tbat its aU eye with him and gave him 30 emporium. There is N^nothing Department agreement, it has been the custom and practice to days to prove that "time changes quite so enlightening as a pqUdivide as equally as possible all work in the three departments. everything." The judge may be tieal meeting in a beer parlor. Aside from the fact fhat this is the democratic method of divid­ right, hut we hope that Mi\ Mc­ Don't you agree Ed? • ing the work, it also leads to a more harmonious relationship Nasty returns shortly so we can Edward R. Kafars between all members of the have a few more meetings at the Augusta, Ga. Q«ar Editor: As everyone is necessarily beachcombing these days the gang here in New Orleans feel duty-bound to compare notes with other ports with a view to assisting our brother members set up a system comparable to ttie one which is so abundantly providing the local boys with the necessities of life. The gang drifts into the hall bright and early every morning to get the latest strike dope, then they promptly drift out again in their respective directions which fey somp quirk peculiar to the nautical mind leads to the Mar­ ine Bar. Once gathered around the tab­ les, the regular morning tarpaul­ in muster is made and the pro­ ceeds turned over to Brother Huff who acts as treasurer. The Mud'Slinging Continues Nl �THE SEAFARERS LOG P«ge Fourteen •' '.v •;s- N.Y. Clarifies Ruies On Unempioyed Pay .I'Y,' f Jr Cv / Friday. November 8, 194G NEW YORK—The subject of unemployment benefits for mar­ itime v/orkers has been a subject of speculation for quite some time, and it was with this thought in mind that the Special Service Department of the Union held conferences with the New York State Department of Labor. These conferences were very fruitful, and the following article is a brief guide for seamen who may be eligible for Unemploy­ ment Insurance. If, after reading the article, there are any questions that still remain, the Special Services De­ partment of the Union will make every effort to find out the lack­ ing information or clear up the questions. Following is the official state­ ment, as released by the Division of Placement and Unemployment Insurance of the New York De­ partment of Labor: Unemployment Insurance has If the wages paid in the calendar quarter in 1945 ill which your wages were highest amounted to been paid by the State of New York for ten years. It is only within recent months, however, that maritime workers in foreign and coastal commerce have been brought under the coverage of this protection. The Division of Placement and Unemployment Insurance which , administers the Unemployment Insurance Law in New York State has assembled the following information for these newly covered seamen for their guidance if it becomes necessary to file a claim for Un­ employment Insurance Benefits. A maritime employee who worked during 1945 for employ­ ers who paid taxes on their wages to the State may qualify for Un­ employment Insurance Benefits provided the wages are sufficient to meet the eligibility require­ ments of the Law. The eligibility requirements of the Law, insofar as wages ai-e concerned, are given in the following table: AND You earned the corresponding amount shown in this column during the whole year 1945 $100241— 263.99 264— 286.99 310333- 355.99 356- 378.99 379— 401.99 402— 424.99 .425— 447.99 . 448— 470.99 . 471 and over You would be eligible to re­ ceive the corresponding weekly benefit amount shown below, for 26 weeks, be­ tween the period June 3, 1946 and June 2, 1947' $10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 $300 330 360 390 420 450 480 510 540 570 600 630 'Subject to a one week waiting per­ iod which is not compensable. Employment for the Govern­ ment isn't covered by Unemploy­ ment Insurance. As a conse­ quence, a seaman employed by any of the agencies of the Fed­ eral Government, such as the War Shipping Administration, could not have wages paid by the WSA used as a basis for paying Unemployment Insurance Bene­ fits. The Social Security Act Amendments of 1946 passed by both Houses of Congress on the last day of the session, provided that as of July 1, 1946, the serv­ ices of officers and crewmembers on American vessels on nav­ igable waters will be covered by the Federal Unemployment Tax Act. The Act was also amended to provide that the State iq which is maintained an operating office controlling a vessel may require the employer to pay Unemploy­ ment Insurance Taxes. Thus, the employer must pay taxes to the Federal Government if he does not pay them to the State. Another amendment made pro­ vision for payment of benefits on the basis of wages earned by employees of the War Shipping Administration, the benefits to be paid under the terms of State Laws, by the States, under agree­ ment with the Federal Security ft.dministrator. Such benefits are not payable, Aowever, for weeks of unemploy­ ment occurring prior to the time when Congress makes funds available for payment. While it is expected that Congress will do so during its next session, those funds are not now available, so WSA employment cannot result in benefits at this" time. trhtil Congress does make funds available, no claiatB for benefits based on service with the ... . • •' War Shipping should be filed. Administration State which receives the taxes as regards each vessel, it is apparent that a maritime employer tnay pay his taxes to several States. Accordingly, his employees will be eligible for Unemployment Insurance Benefits in different States, dependent upon the loca­ tion of the office which directs the operation of the several ves­ sels. The individual seaman should file his claim against the State in which the office is located which operated and controlled the vessels on which he was em­ ployed when he earned his qual­ ifying wages. following States, then wages charged upon the termination of earned in the base period could a voyage will not be considered result in the payment of Unem- ^ to have left employment volun­ ployment Insurance Benefits: tarily because they fail to sign articles for the vessel's next voyCoverage of States Seamen Started age. Benefits are suspended for Alabama July 1, 1946 seven weeks if claimants lose California Sept. 16, 1945 their employment because of mis­ Nebraska July 1, 1946 conduct, strike, lockout or other New Jersey Jan. 1, 1946 industrial controversy. New York Jan. 1, 1945 A severe penalty is imposed Pennsylvania .... Jan. 1, 1945 for wilfully misrepresenting facts Texas Sept. 1, 1945 about employment or unemploy­ Virginia July 1, 1946 ment. Washington July 1, 1946 When filing a claim the sea­ There are other important man sliould have with, him his points on the subject of Unem­ latc.it discharge and his Social ployment Insurace Benefits that Security Account Number Card. seamen should understand. NOT ALL STATES Seamen who are unemployed STRIKE PENALTY and who are ready, willing, and Not all States cover seamen The New York State Unem­ able to work may file a claim for employed in foreign commerce. Those which do pay benefits have ployment Insurance Law pro­ Unemployment Insurance Bene­ entered int-o reciprocal arrange­ vides that claimants are disquali­ fits at the nearest insurance of­ ments with respect to each other fied from receiving benefits if fice of the New York State Di­ State to which a maritime em­ they leave their employment vol­ vision of Placement and Unem­ ployer will pay taxes on wages untarily without good cause, or ployment Insurance. Most tele­ earned by seamen on each ves­ refuse to accept an offer of suit­ phone directories, list these offi­ sel. If the vessel is operated by able emploj'ment without good ces under the heading, "Unem­ an office located in one of the' cause. In general, seamen dis- ployment Insurance." ATTENTION! If you don't find linen when you go aboard your ship, notify the Hall at once. A telegram from Le Havre ox Singapore won't do you any good. It's your bed and you have to lie in it. Commie Attempt To Capture N.O. Port Is Expected TOTAL UNEMPLOYMENT New Orleans, one of the coun­ Benefits are paid for weeks of try's great seaports, is at present unemployment during which the "the number one organizational seaman is ready, willing, and able objective of the Communist party to work, has filed a claim for in this nation, with the water­ Unemployment Insurance, and front unions the immediate tar­ has reported to the insurance of­ get of operations." This disclo­ fice of the Division of Placement sure was made by The Item, New and Unemployment Insurance of Orleans afternoon daily, after an the State of New York as in­ extensive four weeks investiga­ tion of the "ruin or rule" acti­ structed. Total unemployment is defined vities of the communists in the in the New York Unemployment waterfront city. It was disclosed that the com­ Insurance Law as "the total lack of employment on any da^ munists are consolidating their caused by the inability of a claim­ forces in the Crescent City as ant who is capable of and avail­ they are in other principal ports able for work to engage in his of the Harry Bridges-sponsored usual employment or in any Committee for Maritime Unity. other for which he is reasonable Their "rule or ruin" efforts to get fitted by training or experience a death-grip of this economically . . ." The statutory week for strategic port ^ touching off measuring days of unemploy­ open warfare on the New Or­ ment runs from Monday through leans waterfront between bonaSunday. fide. trade unionists and the op­ Cooperative arrangements have portunistic followers of the party been made between states, includ­ line disguised as working class ing Hav/aii, Alaska and Canada, leaders. whereby one state will act as the Some of the principal leaders agent for another state in the of CIO waterfront unions have taking of claims for benefits. If attended, and are attending the a claimant receives his discharge party's meetings at its headquar­ in a New York port, for instance, ters in the Godchaux building. and was employed in 1945 by an "Two union officials who joined employer who pays taxes to Cali­ the communist party to get first­ fornia, that seaman may file his hand information on the set-up claim in a New York insurance to undermine their unions, were office. _ informed that they should com­ A maritime employer pays bat any opposition to the com­ taxes to the State where his of­ munist party within their union fice is located which directs, con­ membership by labeling it as anti­ trols and supervises the opera­ union or "labor baiting." tions of a particular vessel. That Many CIO officials in New Or­ State is not necessarily the one leans aided the investigation. in which the vessel is registered, Fred Pieper, regional director of nor the one where the employer's the CIO, personally ordered an main office is situated. investigation of his own water­ Inasmuch as the location of the front local on the basis of the indirecting office determines the' formation released by The Item. i.'- Old Ropeyarn Charlie Ties Up Once More Again In Snug Harbor Carel Christian Rappold, bet­ ter known among Seafarers as "Ropeyarn Charlie," is retiring his book and tying up at Snug Harbor after one of the most colorful seagoing careers that could come to a seaman. Old "Ropeyarn Charlie" will take with him to Snug Harbor tales of the sea that go back 60 years to the days when he first started sailing full rigged ships out of Holland. KNEW FURUSETH Bofh in 1873 in Holland he started sailing ships when he was 14 and after several voyages from European ports came to the United States when he was 22years-old. One of his fondest recollections is the time he went up for his AB ticket. For it was Andrew Furuseth, himself, who was in Phila­ delphia at the time,, who went with Charlie while he got fixed up. Since those early days he has sailed on every stretch of water in the world and has been on ships flying flags of every nation on earth. "Ropeyarn Charlie" got his name from the hobby he de­ veloped in his early days of sail­ ing. He made a practibe of col­ lecting ropeyarns and weaving them into mats and other fancy pieces of work. He developed a skill at this work that was soon recognized and he used to pick up a few dollars on the side by selling them around the ports. Whenever "Ropeyarn" had a few minutes to him.seilf he was al­ ways to be found busily engaged in turning out his latest creation, and even after 60 years of sail­ ing and rhaking ropeyarn objects he still is interested in the work. CAREL C. RAPPOLD Every once in a while he comes up with a new idea and takes out his ropeyarns to weave them into a new pattern. LAST TIE-UP "Ropeyarn's" last trip was on the SS Kyska as Bosun, and after the payoff two months ago, he started toying with the idea of retiring from the sea to take a berth in Snug Harbor. Snug Harbor is not unknown to "Ropeyarn" as. he has been there off and on for six years, but during the war the call of the sea was too much, for him so he came back to make many trips when he felt his services were needed. Now that the big job is ^one he feels that his is the time to tie up at Snug Harbor for good. So after 60 year's spent sailing the seas "Ropeyarn Charlie" has retired his book and taken a berth at Snug Harbor. ATTENTION, MEMBERS! SEAFARERS SAILING AS ENGINEERS All members—retired members and former members—of the Seafarers International Union who are now sailing as licensed Engineers: Please report as soon as possible to the Seafarers Hall at 51 Beaver Street, New York City. Your presence is neces­ sary in a matter of great importance. �-'"• •= Friday, November 8, IMS THE SEAFARERS LOG Page Fixi'eeti • . -i ii BULLETIN Notice! PERSONALS SlU HALLS The following books now be­ : J. Kirk Book 35917 JOHN FOLLIS ing held at Norfolk Branch F. Kodelja SUP Pro. 2364 Please get in touch with your These books will be held in Nor­ J. W. Lassiter Book 36705 wife. folk for ninety days, and if they J. J. Landaishe, Jr BALTIMORE 14 North Gay St. Book 37519 Calvert 4539 t X X are not picked up during that Jacob Lauer Book 1457 BOSTON .............. .276 State St. NEW YORK time they will be forwarded back E. C. Lewis Boudoin 4455 Book 41712 PAUL PALMER SS VICTORY LOAN 10 Exchange St. to Headquarters. A. M. Leach Book 34066 Please contact Mrs. Hensley, BUFFALO Cleveland 7391 Jones. $5.00; W. Pardue, $5.00: H. J. Acosta Book 37770 G. Levkulich Pro. Book 40614 B. J.B.E.Fuller, 68 Society St $5.00; B. S. Rapier. $2.00; 1190 Pine Street, San Francisco, CHARLESTON Phone 3-3080 B. J. Akers Pro. Book 49145 A. J. Lebel Pro. Book 43121 J. G. LeVasseur, $5.00; J. Vestal, $5.00; Calif. CHICAGO 24 W. Superior Ave. C. C. Acuin Pro. Book 100195 A. F. Lingle ,... Book 33092 Wm. B. Stokes, $1.00; R. Soohn, $5.00; Superior 5175 XXX CLEVELAND . . 1014 E. St. Clair Ave. P. Allgeier Pro. Book 47440 E. Manning Retiring Card J. D. McCann, $2.00; G. Salmor, $1.00; Main 0147 D. W. Lamberson, $1.00; H. L. Lowe, P. M. Onderson, Jr Book 35310 H. F. Martin L. M. MILLER Pro. Book 36488 $1.00; CORPUS CHRISTI . .1824 Mesquite St W. Shelton, $2.00; R. E. Parker, R. L. Auman Book 48806 H. F. Martin Corpus Christi 3-1509 Book 36488 $2.00; D. Shuler, $3.00; Tom Allen, Your book is held for you on DETROIT 1038 Third St. S. A. Ballance Book 2719 A. B. Mason .... Seaman's Papers $2.00; J. P. Davis. $5.00, J. J. Lynch, Gth floor of New York Hall. Cadillac 6857 $1.00; R. L. Slataper, $1.00; D. Klose, S. M. Barbe SUP Book 5077 H. 'E. McDonald .... Pro. Bk. 39Q30 DULUTH 531 W. Michigan St. XXX Melrose 4110 N. A. Barbour Book 41620 C. W. McCambridge Bk. 36070 $5.00. GALVESTON 30514 22nd St SS C. F. PECK JAMES C. FLANAGAN R. B. Beale Book Pacific 435 W. D. McMillan Book 42984 2-8448 F. Caney, $2.0n0; j. E. McCormack, Book 4S126 HONOLULU 16 Merchant St F. S. Bell Book 33103 C. McGuirt Book 33776 $2.00. 1515 75th Street A. Bellavance Book 6117 W, L. McLellan .... Pro. Bk. 47414 Contact C. Fisher, Patrolman, HOUSTON SS VAKA Phone Wentworth 3-3809 T. Belmore Book 1965 E. M. Medford Retiring Card R Smith. $1.00; W. Roz.nlski, $1,00; at the New York Hall on the JACKSONVILLE 920 Main St Phone 5-5919 L. H. Blizzard Book 36251 H. Mobley Pro. Bk. 100264 L. Bugajewaki, $4.00; P. R. Stacofffe, fifth floor. There has been an er­ MARCUS HOOK 1'/, W. 8th St $1.00; R. Beach, $2.00; L. Grossman, M. T. Blizzard Trjp Card B. F. Moore Book 100263 ror concerning receipt number Chester 5-3110 $1.00; E. Howell. $1.00. C. B. Blue, Jr Retiring Card J. T. Morton Book 27732 35012. MOBILE 7 St. Michael St. SS J. GALLUP 2-1754 J. W. Boutchard Book 44058 J. Morton Book 41641 Ed Norris, $1.00; W. B. Saylors, NEW ORLEANS 339 Chartres St. D.. C. Breashears Book 23334 R. Morris Retiring Card" $1.00; B. M. Siadc, $5.00; R. A. Blune, MagnetU 6112-6113 NEW YORK 51 Beaver St. M. M. Brickey Book 28549 W. E. Morris Retiring Card $2.00; A. Wasstrom, $1.00; G. W. Baker, HAnover 2-2784 J. Broermann .... Pro. Book 41511 H. A. Murray Permit P3 3392 $1.00; P. Howard, $2.00; E. B. YoungNORFOLK 127-129 Bank Street blood. $1.00. David Bright Pro. 36398 L. L. Murphy 4-1083 Retiring Card HAROLD PETERSON INDIVIDUAL DONATIONS PHILADELPHIA 9 South 7th St. G. L. Brown Trip Card C. A. Newman Book 20981 M. A. Gonzales, $2.00; N. G. Johnson, Phone LOmfaard 3-7651 THOMAS F. DUNPHY H. W. Brown Book 5820 W. Nedelkoff Book 30905 $1.00; D. E. Sherwin, $1.00; Peter GonPORT ARTHUR 445 Austin Ave. Phone: 2-8532 Each has $2.30 due for reim­ A. Q. Brown Retiring Card J, Olwemeru F*ro. Bk. 49456 zalis, $1.00; V. Pueraro, $1.00; W. FunPORTLAND Ill W. Burnside St. derburk, $1.00; L. A. Walton, $1.00; bursement of launch fee. Write J. B. Callis Book 23047 E. W. Olsen Book 36543 RICHMOND, CaUf. ; 257 5th St. P. Scarpitto, $1.00; E. Giza. $1.00; D. Cincore ..., Pro. Book 46309 J. Owens Book 35151 B. H. Lcvine. $1.00; Paul R. Smith, to American-Hawaiian SS Co., SAN FRANCISCO 105 Market St. Douglas 5475 - 8363 90 Broad St., New York. A. J. Carmen .... Pro. Book 36734 M. Owens Receipts $1,00; T. Wypior, $1.00. SAN JUAN, P. R 45 Ponce de Leon W. L. Carraway Book 36596 L. G. Pack Book 33762 San Juan 2-5996 % % t NORFOLK SAVANNAH 220 East Bay St. Philip E. Carter Book 29531 F. Pepito Pro. Bk. 100191 3-1728 SS PANAMA CITY B. O. Cartwright Book 30279 A. B. Peterson INDIVIDUAL DONATIONS Book 21328 SEATTLE 86 Seneca St. F. M. Shiperdek, Alf Johnson, Main 0290 L. J. Colombo Trip Cd. A8242 R. Pierce G. Bell, $20.00; E. Stone, $50.00; T. Receipt 1809-1811 N. Rranklin St. R. C. Coons '. Book 28167 W. R. Pollay Book 43512 Johnson, $10.00; N. Ward, $10.00; J. John M. Gibbons, A. T. Bernard, TAMPA M-132.'; W. Metcalf, $50.00; G. Wilhidorp, J. V. Ferraro, S. A. Esposito, F. WILMINGTON 440 Avalon VIvd. C. R. Cottle Trip Cd. A10016 J. S. Pomianek Book 27108 $10.00; H. Walsh, $4.00; J. Edgerton, Terminal 4-3131 W. C. Craven, Jr T. C. A10051 J. Poggioli T.C. A10435 $11.00; W. Brown, $11.00; H. W. Davis, J. Promwaski, C. B. Thurnur, H. VICTORIA, B. C 602 Houghton St. R. Creef Book 4244 J. W. Prescott Book 114G $10.00; T. M. Griffith, $5.00; J. Nor- C. Winter, C. H. French, W. J. VANCOUVER ....144 W. Hasting. St. Lumas, C. W. Murrell. R. F. Davis, Jr Book 30198 F. F. Randolph .... Pro. Bk. 36609 garard, $1.00; H. S. Rose, $2.00. a C.. M. Day Book 3290 L. Ramirez Book 31582 P. G. Daugherty Book 43233 W. H. Riley, Jr Pro. Bk. 45306 G. Daniels Permit P3 4754 C. E. Riddle Book 29982 W. R. DeVanc .... Pro. Book 46964 R. Rice Retiring Card Kirby O. Digman .... T.C. A11392 B. F. Rollins Book41732 H. S. Dean Book 24829 C. A. Roberts Book 1838 J. L. Easton Trip Cd. A5663 M. T. Rogers Book 31669 M. W. Eayers .... Trip Cd. A11338 B. J. Robertson Book 39539 1936-37 maritime strike. (For the ated CMU encouraged the MEBA R. H. Eagle Permit P3 4661 J. M. Rule Bk. Pacific 230 Dear Edilor: record, the SUP remained on on the East Coast to accept what F. Edgett SUP Permit 7916 J. H. Russell Book 29590 I have just been reading the strike five days longer than the the U. S. Maritime Commission W. A. Eby Book 31345 , F. B. Rosenbaum Ret. Card Oct. 25, 1946 issue of the People's D. M. Ellington Pro. Bk 36558 I L. Ross Blue application World, the Communist Party other maritime unions on the offered them in the way of an west coast in 1936-37.) To read agreement, the Masters, Mates J. H. Ferguson Book G66 j M. R. Salvador .... Pro. Bk. 100190 mouthpiece. this, one would think it was and Pilots on the East Coast were R. J. Flynn Pro. Book 100247 L. D. See .\ Ret. Card In the "Picket Line Patter" wrong to sign an agreement. also forced to accept this offer or J. Freeman Book 2600 B. T. Shaw Book 34545 column I read of the SUP being However, let us look at the leave themselves open for a raid P. J .Frango Book 23871 P. Simpson Book 24055 condemned for playing the .ship­ on the bridge jobs by the CMU. maritime strike today on the West O. P. Gentry Book 40902 J. K. Skrzypowski Bk. 36838 owners' game, and being first to Coast. Prior to the strike, we Out here on the West Coast we R. W. George Book 36330 G. G. Smith Pro. Bk. 46397 sign an agreement during the saw the CMU propaganda ma­ find the Engineers and Mates F. A. Garcia Retiring Card J. L. Smith Pro. Bk. 45164 chine at work daily on the Em- battling it out with the shipown­ Joshua V. Gibbs T.C. A11369 L. E. Smith •.... T. C. 12827 barcadero. ers—a complete split in organi­ W. Gibson Pro. Book 36265 D. Smith zation. The workers were being as­ T. R. Glenn Permit P3 3904 L. Spitzer Book 32060 sured by the CMU speakers that Where is that CMU unity now? T. O. Ginn Book 32790 J. Staniec SUP Bk. 6237 at last there was unity in the As "has happened to evei-y other J. J. Goodin Book 29766 D. Stickerod The Pan Atlantic Steam­ Book 33240 maritime field, that the East and maritime move the commies have R. M. Godwin Book 36385 Ed. Sturgis ship Company is ready to Book 28888 West Coast maritime workers had their fingers in, so goes this pay retroactive wages and L, W, Gray Book 23218 T. J. Stone Book 45179 had at last joined hands and were move. Rule or ruin is their pol­ H. C. Gulliksen Book 25721 J. P. Thrasher overtime on the following Ret. Card out to fight the shipowner. Sink icy, Brothers. W. C. Griffin Book 6693 L. Tottentor ships: Pro. Bk. 49459 or swim, there would be no East W. E. Hayes Pro. Book 46610 J. Tuteviler Pro. Bk. 42274 Keep the SIU as it is, a good SS ANTINOUS and W»st Coast agreement. H. E. Hacker , Book 27765 H. Vincent Pro. Bk. 39741 clean Union for the membership. SS TOPA TOPA In short, there would be an Don't give these rats a chance P. Heon Book 36554 E. Vlahos Book 23679 SS DE SOTO agreement to cover the both to rip it apart by sneaking and J. F. Hill Book 39022 R. D. Vick Book 6151 SS IBERVILLE coasts. That is the way the com­ boring from within. T. E. Hyatt Book 44025 J. R. Voliva Book 28345 Crew' members due retro­ munist party works. Build the H. W. Hunt Book 31998 R. J. Watts Pro. Bk. 100235 active wages and overtime T. F. M. workers up for a big let-down. W. G. Hughes Retiring Card E. E. Walker Pro. Bk. 44994 can collect same at the Pan Create dissension to gain their J. Ireland Trip Card A9338 R. B. Ward Book 26342 Atlantic Steamship Com(the CP's) own selfish motives. J. Jackson Book 33124 G. B. Warren Book 39696 pemy's office. 352 Govern­ S. C. James Retiring Card C. E. Waters Book 45168 How do things stand with the ment Street, Mobile, Ala. B. C. Jumper .... Pro. Book 1002714 J. Wells ... Book 6843 Gear for Leroy McK. Titus, strike today? Well, the com­ E. Johnson Pro. Book 41658 O. E. Weekly Book 36061 munist party has succeeded in Deck Engineer; Howard M. Kem­ D. Johnson Pro. Book 45601 H. C. White Pro. Bk. 49575 creating dissension again. Once Book 6607 W. Wills per, and James T. Nolan, Bosun, A. Johnson Book 33077 W. M. Whitbee Pro. Bk. 36586 again the West Coast Engineers Book 6001 T. A. Williams W. E. Jones Retiring Card S. H. Williamson Book 39704 are condemning the East Coast left aboard the Benjamin Fisher, Book 33300 A. Wroton W. L. Kenley Pro. Book 48394 H. A. Williamson Book 39532 Engineers for leaving them to can be picked up at the Mobile Book 3520 N. E. Wroton Pro. Bk. 100205 hold the sack. H. E. Kelly Book 43802 S. J. Wright Pro. Bk. 41667 W. L. Zeeb Hall, 7 St. Michael Street, Mobile, E. L. Knowles ! Book 27523 J. D. Wise When the communist-domin­ Alabama. Pro. Bk. 45304 F. A. Yarborough ........ Bk. 37999 MONEY DUE Commiesf Are Still Up To Their Old Game Of Splitting Labor For Their Political Ends NOTICE! NOTICE! / -'i| �•• • • Official Baiiot For Election Of 1947 Officers Seafarer's International Union of North Amerira ATLANTIC A GULF DISTRICT 1846 ELECTION OF OFnCEHS FOR 1947 VOTING PERIOD NOVEMBER Jst THROUGH DECEMBER 31. 1946 INSTRUCTIONS TO VOTERS — In order to Tote for a candidate, mark a croes (X) in voting squoro to the left of name. If you vote for more candidates for office than specified herein your vote for such office vrill be invalid. YOU MAY WHITE THE NAME OF ANY MEMBER WHOSE NAME DOES NOT APPEAR ON THE BALLOT IN THE BLANK SPACE PROVIDED FOR THAT PURPOSE UNDER EACH OFHCE. Do not use a lead pencil in marldng the boUoL Ballots marked with lead pencQ will not be counted. MARK YOUR BALLOT WITH PEN AND INK OB DimiBLE PENCO. SECRETARY-TREASURER Voto for Ono • JOHN HAWK, No. 2212 ASSISTANT SECRETARY-TREASURER u Vote for Ono n E. S. (EDDIE) HIGDON, No. 182 • JAS. TRUESDALE, No. 3517 WM. McKAY, No. 8 r~| JAS. (BLACKIE) CARROLL, No. 14 • ROBERT JORDAN, No. 71 WM. RENTZ, No. 26445 L. F. (WHITEY) LEWIS, No. 2029 Vole for One U STANLEY R. GREENPJDGE, No. 1863 n JEFFERSON MORRISON, No. 34213 I WILLIE C. (BILL) THOMAS, No. 12 REX E. DICKEY, No. 652 • • E. (ONE-EYED PEI'E) DiPIETRO No. 35 • • Vole lor Two NEW ORLEANS ENGINE PAIROIMAN Vota for Onn JOHN (HOGGIE) HATGIMISIOS, No. 23434 i fl NORFOLK AGENT JOE ALGINA, No. 1320 PORT ARTHUR AGENT Vote lor One LEON (BLONDIE) JOHNSON, No. 108 S^ JUAN AGENT ' Vote lor One DANIEL BUTTS, No. 190 SALVADOR COLLS, No. 21085 JOSEPH WAGNER. No. 153 a SAN ERANCTSCO AGENT Voto lor Ono I • W. H. SIMMONS, No. 215 LOUIS (BLACKIE) NEIRA, No. 26393 C. J. (BUCK) STEPHENS, No. 7« 'FOREWORD E. (SKIPPY) GUS7CZYNSKY, No. 3100 JAMES SHEEHAN, No. 306 • • NORFOLK JOINT PATROIMAN J. H. VOLPIAN, No. 56 n NEW ORLEANS DECK PATROLMAN Vote lor One RAY WHITE, No. 57 B Vote lor Two JAMES PURCELL, No. 27124 PETER GAVILLO, No. 21001 Vote lor One BEN REES, No. 95 B • • • • CHARLESTON AGENT Vote lor Two R.AMON E. GONZALES, No. 174 HOWARD GUINIER, No. 478 • • EARL (SNUFFY) SMITH, No. 20057 ERNEST B. TILLEY, No. 75 • • SAVANNAH AGENT B NEW YORK JOINT PATROLMAN Vote lor Two ROBERT (RED) BUNCE, No. 7165 • • • JOE UDILJAK, No. 7163 ' WM. J. BRANTLEY, No. Ill I I R. W. BIRMINGHAM, No. 390 CHARLES E. TURNER, No. 13 JAS. L. TUCKER, No. 2209 HOUSTON PATROLMAN Vol* lor Ono BRIGHTWEIX, No. 7279 JACKSONVn.T.K AGENT n CHARLES (COTTON) HAYMOND, No. 98 CHARLES STARLING. No. 6920 fl JIM DRAWDY, No. 28523 LOUIS GOFFIN, No. 4526 FRANK (SULLY) SULLIVAN, N<v 2 HOUSTON AGENT Vote tor One Vote lor One CHAS. L. STEVENS, No. 7036 CHARLES KIMBALL, No. 32 B WILLIAM HAMILTON, No. 3400 Vote ior One • G. (TEX) SUIT, No. 4931 HESOLirnON WHEREAS: The present rate of $2.00 per we^ Hospital Benefits is the lowest amount now being paid by cmy Union of unlicensed personneL and WHEREAS: Iniiated prices now make it virtu­ ally impossible for patients in Marine Hos­ pitals to purchase necessary hospital sup­ plies for $2.00 per week, ond JOHNNY JOHNSTON, No. 33 NEW ORLEANS STEWARD PATROLMAN Vote lor One Voto lor Ono NEW YORK STCWARD PATROIMAN C. E. GIBBS, No. 2341 ^ At a regular business meeting held in New York on October 9. 1946 the following resolu­ tion was submitted to tho membership for action up and down tho coast icmd it was passed that this resolution should appear on the next referendum ballots to be voted on at the some time as the voting on elections of officials. Vole for One NEW YORK ENGINE PATROLMAN B RAY W. SWEENEY, No. 20 STEELY WHITE, No. 54 BALTIMORE STEWARD PATROLMAN Vote lor One NEW YORK DECK PATROLMAN LLOYD W. MicDONNELL, No. i43 B NEW ORLEANS'AGENT Veto lor One G. (CURLY) MASTERSON, No. 20297 B PAUL HALL, No. 190 m • • • • • • • • Vole lor One JAMES E. SWEENEY, No. 1530 JAS. J. Devrro, No. 185 PAUL (HAYWIRE) WARREN, No. 114 BALTIMORE ENGINE PATROLMAN EDDIE A. PARR, No. 96 Vote lor One • • • • I ^ B 115 NEW YORK AGQiT • • • MOBILE JOINT PATROLMAN Voto lor Two BALTIMORE DECX! PATROLMAN STEPHEN CARR, No. 22217 B • • • CAL TANNER, No. 44 Vole lor One B Volo lor Ono Vote lor One LLfDIE (Lt.lKE) COLLINS, No. 3 BALTIMORE AGENT • • • • • GALVESTON PATROLMAN JOHN W. PRESCOTT, No. 114 • THOMAS (ROCKY) BENSON, No. 7297 BOSTON jomr PATROLMAN • I CHART F.S H. BUSH, No. 127 B JOHN MOG.AN, No. 216 CLAUDE (SONNY) SIMMONS. No. 348 MOBILE ACXNT Veto lor Ono Vote lor One Vote lor One THEO.(RED GRIFF) GRIFFITHS. • PHILADELPHIA PATROLMAN J. P. SHULER, No. 101 BOSTON AGENT • • • • • TAMPA AGENT Volo lor Ono B • • • PHILADELPHIA AGOTT Veto lot Ono WHEREAS: The income of the HospitoL Burial and Shipwreck Fund far exceeds the ex­ penses. and WHEREAS: This fund now stands at around $90,000. and WHEREAS: A small increase in the omount of Hospital Benefits would not reduce the pnndpsi mnount now in the fond.- end WHEREAS: Many unorganized seamen are in Marine Hospitals and opposing Unions seize upon tlus situation to inlluence these men; THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED: That we oitieiid Article 25. Sectioir 1. of the Con­ stitution to increase the present Hospital Benefits of $2100 per week to $3.00 per week, and BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED: That this amend­ ment be placed on the official ballot of the Annual Electiona. and BE IT FINALLY RESOLVED: That we begin payments of $3.fM) per week upon passage of this Resolution. JAMES H. MANNERS, No. 256 B Keep this page with you, so that you can study the candidates and make your ARE YOU IN FAVOR OF ABOVE RESOLUTION GALVESTON AGENT Vole lor Ono D, L, PARKER, No. 140 selections before you go to cast your vote. It is important that every member votes YES • NO • —^but more important that you vote after; you have made an unhurried choice. � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Seafarers Log Issues 1939-1949 Description An account of the resource Volumes I-XI of the Seafarers Log Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Paul Hall Maritime Library Microfilm 1939-1993 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Seafarers International Union of North America Document A resource containing textual data. 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Title A name given to the resource November 8, 1946 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Vol. VIII, No. 45 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 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 Headline: SHIPPING SLOW BUT PICK UP IS EXPECTED ALL BRANCHES BEGIN VOTING, SHOW TURNOUT TANKERMEN COME TO SIU TO ESCAPE NMU-OPERATOR "REPRESENTATION" WSA DUE FOR AN INVESTIGATION BY NEW CONGRESS WATERMAN SS CORP., MISSISSIPPI AGREE TO SIU CONTRACT IT'S YOUR UNION MARINE HOSPITAL RED TAPE LEAVES SEAMAN MINUS FOOT AFL CONVENTION VOTES TO RAISE PER CAPITA TAX IF YOU CANNOT EAT, AT LEAST YOU WILL SURE SMELL SWEET BY-PASS PHILLY FOR TIME BEING IS LATEST WORD FROM THE PORT CONCLUSION OF THE MM&P STRIKE BRINGS GOOD SHOPPING TO MOBILE SHIPPING RESUMES WITH BANG IN N.O, ITF LED WORLD FIGHT FOR SEAMEN MASTERS ASKED TO DIFFER BETWEEN DESERTION AND FAILURE TO REPORT STRIKES DON'T STOP ORGANIZING; PORT CHICAGO GETS ITS CONTRACTS NEW ORLEANS MAYOR CALLS OUT NAVY "VOLUNTEERS" TO BREAK STRIKE OF CITY GARBAGE COLLECTORS AFL CONVENTION REPORT PULLS NO PUNCHES IN HITTING THE WSB SO COME DOWN TO MARCUS HOOK--THERE IS NEVER A DULL MOMENT BOTH PARTIES MUST LIVE UP TO CONTRACT TERMS VOTING FOR UNION OFFICIALS AND STATE POLITICOS OCCUPY BOSTON SEAFARERS; SHIPPING NEARS NORMAL MORE ABOUT SEAGOING CHARACTERS BY A MAN WHO KNOWS THEM ALL JOLIET CREW SUGGEST SPOTS FOR LOG PICK-UP MESSAGE TOSSED OVERBOARD IS FOUND ON FRENCH COAST BOOTS, BOOTS -- THERE'S NONE ON THE OUACHITA VICTORY BLACK GANG HAILS PLATTSBURG GALLEY CREW N.Y. CLARIFIES RULES ON UNEMPLOYED PAY OLD ROPEYARN CHARLIE TIES UP ONCE MORE AGAIN IN SNUG HARBOR COMMIE ATTEMPT TO CAPTURE N.O. PORT IS EXPECTED Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 11/08/1946 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Seafarers International Union of North America 1946 Periodicals Seafarers Log