http://seafarerslog.org/archives/files/original/35df6b16c3f672099e0fa47a7b466ad3.PDF 9f7de837582963d86e9c6663ce07475a PDF Text Text Official Organ of the Atlantic and Gulf District, Seafarers International Union of North America VOL. X NEW YORK, N. Y« FRIDAY. JUNE 25. 1948 COMMITTEE WHICH DISCUSSED UNIFORM REGISTRATION RULEh No. 26 SlU May Have To Vote Remaining OS Vesseis For Fuii Recognition The National Labor Relations Board has denied the SIU's request that the board reconsider its rul­ ing restricting recognition of the Union as bargain­ ing agent for Cities Service seamen to seven ships, Lindsey Williams, Director of Organization an­ nounced. The net effect of the NLRB's curious stand, Part of the committee elected by membership in Port of New York to draw up recommendations for changes in registration rules, shown shortly after they convened last Friday. Similar committees representing Deck, Engine and Steward Departments are studying pro­ posals in other ports which may lead to a Union-wide plan of job registration. h Brainh Committer Study Pnposak For Uniform M Registration Ruios which reverses its previous rul-(f —. ing in the Isthmian case, may and it also covered ships which be that the SIU will have to Isthmian obtained later. vote the remaining nine ships In its brief asking the NLRB in the Cities Service fleet, Wil­ to reconsider, the Union pointed liams said. The Union has pe­ out that, if the board's decision titioned the NLRB for recogni­ were permitted to stand, not tion on those nine ships, but only would precedent be shatter­ the company is almost certain ed but that aU organized labor to force an election. would be severely set back. Meanwhile, the SIU has noti­ The board took no note of fied Cities Service that it wishes these arguments, sending back to commence negotiations cover­ a routine rejection. ing the seven ships certified. As yet no answer has been received Despite the unexplained stand taken by the NLRB, the Cities from the company. Service wall has been breached, When the unlicensed personnel Lindsey Williams said. of the CS fleet commenced vot­ ing their Union preference, CS had eight ships. The men on seven of these ships voted five to one to be represented by the Neglotiations with the SIU. The eighth ship was mot voted because it did not touch steamship operators are con­ an American port during the tinuing and the SIU Nego­ voting period. tiations Committee is stand­ ing fast on its original de­ SEVERE SET-BACK This ship, the SS Lone Jack, mands that the issue of the is excluded from the NLRB's Hiring Hall be settled before certification order, along with other matters can be dis­ eight ships which CS has ac­ cussed. Membership in all quired since. A year earlier ports is urged to be present when the NLRB certified the at the next Branch meetings,. SIU as bargaining agent for the June 30, for a full report on unlicensed men on the Isthmian the progress of the Negotia­ ships, the order covered ships tions to date. not voted as well as those voted. On Negotiations Rank and file Seafarers com­ wish on the part of the member­ the^ "Here's What I Think" fea­ mittees were at work this week ship for uniformity in all ports ture in the current issue of the in Atlantic and. Gulf ports shap­ and to eliminate any inequities LOG (see page 4), several Sea­ that may exist under the present farers felt that the adoption of ing up recommendations which method. a uniform ^ set of registration later will serve as a basis for The committee elected by the regulations' would eliminate con­ membership action on a uniform membership in the Port of New fusion they encounter as they go set of shipping registration rules. York completed its;job last Fri­ from one port to another, where Upon completion of their tasks, day, Following a period of gen­ the rules differ. th.e various port committees will eral discussion, this committee Were similar rules to prevail forward their recommendations adjourned to allow the three in every port, they woidd have io Headquarters. These proposals groups to devise separate rulings no problem, they explained. for Union-wide registration rules, affecting their own departments They pointed out that they Will then be sifted by an elected, Their recommendations were ac­ would simply have to know and committee, representing all de- cepted by the "committee as a abide by one set ojf; registration rules in all ports. ; . partments, and presented in final whole," when it reconvened. form to the membership for fur- Serving on the committee for I thel" disposition. the Deck Department were Jack Greenhaw, Idelfonso Galindez, F. ' The membership committees C. Murray, Joseph Felton, George now laying the groundwork for vhat eventually may become (Bill) Champlin, and Roland Congress finally passed the The lack of industrial 'cargoes grams. The nations covered by I mastwise registration rules were Strom. six-biilion doUar Marshall Plan is expected to keep the Port of the Plan will tell what they I' alected at recent - branch meet- Representing the Engine De- appropriations as one of its last- New York from having more need in the three month period. jings. They are composed equally partmet on the committee were: than a moderate amount of ac­ Once the shipping has been ar­ ;of men sailing in all three de- G. Nunez, W. Manning, Leon minute moves, before adjourn­ tivity. for the rest of the sum­ ranged, they will proceed with •partments — Deck, Engine and White, Anthony Arenella and ment, and shipping spokesmen mer, at least, but New York orders and manufactiming con­ look for the relief cargoes to wiU be the big beneficiary later tracts. 'stewards. Matt Fields. on when the industrial shipments A statement by a top Marshall start gaining momentum. Stewards Department men in N. Y. PROPOSALS IN the group were: William Dun­ However, they believe the ac- commence, the shipping men say. Plan official that it might be I The committee designated by ham, i^ohn C. Drummond, R. C. cleration will be slow at first. difficult to carry 50 percent of SHIPPING BOSS NAMED the. Port of New York has al- Rickett, Leroy W. Gilmore, Ed­ It may be several months before the cargoes in American bot­ jready drawn up its proposals and ward Adampo and Mato H. large shipments other than bulk Last week, Arthur G. Syran, toms because of a shortagg^of (submitted them to Headquarters, Lorenzo. , ships was flncargoes of grain and coal begin a former Army colonel, was American flag (where they will be held pending Sentiment among the member­ to move. named Director of Transportation phatically denied by a Maritime similar action by the other port ship, who have been airing their Bulk cargoes are moving a for the Marshall Plan. Syran Commission spokesman. |committeeSp views in favor of a uniform plan little now and have been for was a shipping expediter for the The government has had to I Should the membership accept for job registration, appears to several weeks, mostly from Gulf Army during the war, and more tie-up ships, so how could there the recommendations of the final have, among other, objectives, the ports. Industrial products bought recently has been in Japan help­ possibly be a shortage, the MC' bverall committee, the proposals further streamlining of the Union under the Plan are,, expected to ing plan the rehabilitation of man said. There are plenty of will be put to a vote by fhe apparatus. Extending it to job take up the shipping slack even­ the Japanese merchant marine. ships, he added, and a great membership. in all ports. registration would be another tually, but it may be late fall Cargo aUocations under .the many of those tied up can be step in that direction. before they" arrive at the piers Mar-^hall Plan will be scheduled released ready to go on 48 hours 1 Action on the problem of in a series of thrw-month pro­ notice. /registration stemmed from a In expressing their opinions in in any. great ammmt. •1- Congress Votes 6 Billion Doiiars For ERP \2.- �Page Two THE S EAF ARERS LOG Friday, June 25, 1S48 R^y/.- SEAFARERS LOG A: »» Published Weekly by the ;''i • PROUD PARENT...* SEAFARERS INTERNATIONAL UNION OF NORTH AMERICA Atlantic and Gulf District AUiliated with the American Federation of Labor At 51 Beaver-Street, New York 4, N. Y. feii' -• -• HAnover 2-2784 if V •; ,;• Nl'- ••..• Entered as second class matter Jime 15, 1945, at the Post Office in New York, N. Y., under the Act of August 24, 1912. 267 The Way It Works This week, following a letter sent to all Branches by Headquarters Offices, in compliance with a recom­ mendation of the 1948 Agents Conference concurred in by membership referendum, all ports elected special committees to submit recommendations for uniform rules for job registration to replace the present individual port regulations. The report of each port committee . will then be forwarded to Headquarters, where an elected committee will consolidate all proposals and submit a resolution which will then become effective in all ports—if. it is approved by the membership. ir i;' We emphasize if approved by the membership. This normal SIU procedure underscores the basic democracy of our Union. Decisions are not made by any governing board. As a matter of fact, the SIU h^ no such set-up. The nearest approach to an executive board is the Agents Conference, which meets once a year to draft proposals and submit recommendations for future action. But these proposals must be passed by a coastwise referendum of the membership. The Agents Conference has no executive powers, it is purely advisory. All power lies in the hands of the membership, where it rightly belongs. Whenever the mem­ bership of the A8cG District of the SIU wishes to change any of the rules, or adopt a new policy, it is always done in the traditional SIU manner. Hospital Patients When enl«rittg lb* hospital notify the delegates by post- , card, giving your name and the number of your wprd. Mimeogm;^d poelcwrdi can be obtained free at the Social Service desk. It is by firm adherence to the democratic principles that true democracy can be guaranteed in the Union, and each individual member should at all times act as an official watchdog of the membership's rights. T. ... 1 to 4- know /• .. ..r. r Shipci_* Union not only the Constitution anda the Staten Island Hospital I Afeff Hov! h The Ma-me Hospi^k " These are the Union Brothers currently in the marine hospitals, ping Rules—^he must also see to it that they are followed at all times, and be prepared to suggest changes when­ as reported by the Port Agents. These Brothers find time hanging ever times and circumstances have outmoded some pro­ heavily on their hands. t>o what you can to cheer them up by writing to them. visions. It is not enough for every member to know his rights and responsibilities. He must see to it that he receives his rights, ^nd must see to it that he assumes his ,.responsibilities. Doing these things will assure the con' tinued survival of democracy in the SIU. And because g these things are the rule, that is why democracy is a vital part of our organization, and why the A&G District has n made such great strides in the past^ten years. Send Them In The LOG is the paper for ALL members of the Union; But the LOG editors have no way of knowing what is happening on every one of the many ships con­ tracted to the Union and manned by SIU crews. That's where you come in. On page 16 of this issue, appear pictures and a story about the crew of the SS Xafayette. The pictures and the notes for the story were sent in by a crewmember, with a request that, after being used, the snapshots be returned to his home. That has been done, and the editors of the LOG will handle all pictures in exactly the same careful manner. So—Let's have more pictures and stories from the men sailing the seven seas on SlU^contracted vessels. You like to hear what other Brothers are doing,^ and they like to hear about your activitieis! ) NEW ORLEANS HOSPITAL R. BUNCH E. LIPARI 0. MABDN J. DENNIS R. F. BLACK A. LOOPER C. GREEN V. P. BALLINGS G. R. GRIMES C. ANDERSON R. GOODWIN T. J. TASSIN; M. BAKER A. MAKRENS W. J. HOULIHAN J. W. CURRAN . E. MORGAN G. WILLIAMS L. B. MILLER is, % STATEN ISLAND HOSPITAL C. O. LYNSKY F. PREZALAR J. M. GARDNER F. NERING E. OLSEN S. HEIDUCKI G. FINKLEA J. McNEELY D. DeDUISEN , . J. L. ROBERTS ' - ^f T. ZEMBRUZUSKI E. T. BROWN M. F. MORRISON , H. WHITE A. J. SACCO E. PETRICELLI H. CHRISTENSEN G. VECCHIO P. DAUGHERTY B. F. DeLIMA C. NANGLE W. J. HUNT R. PEPIN A. BJORNSSON A. DUDDE B. KOSOW W. PERRY S. RIVERA BALTIMORE MARINE HOSP. GEORGE PEDDICORD M, J. LUCAS a T. CANTRELL T. BRYANT WILLIAM H. KUMKE THOS. S. JOHNSON G. F. COBBLER / EDW. L. PIERCE EDDIE J. CAROVOUS PAUL R. SEEFOR B. J. FREDERICKS WILLIAM T. ROSS C. H. JONES CHARLES N. PAKNE ARTHUR COBB EDWARD KOML f lYION E. FOLTS fi^rARA/v: "i 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 61h floors.) Thursday —= 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. (on 3rd and 4rii floors.) Saturday —- 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. ^ (on I«t and 2nd floors.) GALVESTON MARINE HO^. MICKEY FOLAN D. B. MILLER D. B. MILLER ^ . A. J. LAPPEROUSE : ^ R. C. PAPPAN ;I TUTTLE ) 3 3 4. SAVANNAH HOSPITAL r J. NEELY ^ t W. REYNEN J. CHAFFIN TROY THOMAS J. J. FERGUSON i G. R. ANDERSON ? JAN. V. ROOMS 4. t 3 MOBILE HOSPITAL J. B. McGUFFIN " A. C. McALPIN D. w. MCDOWELL T. HENDRICKS J. W. MACKIE R. A. YEAGER M. DULflESTRB 3 3 3 - BRIGHTON MARSNg HOSP, E. J. DELAMANO JOHN J, GEAGON JOHN SCULLY ROBERT LORD �Friday. Juiw 25. 1948 ROU Scores West Coast Charter NEW YORK — The AFL Mari.time Trades Council was asked this week to officially protest to •AFL President William Green, and to Daniel Tracy, President of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, against the .granting of an IBEW chihrter to 010. Radio Officers on the West Coast. In a letter to the MTD, signed "by Fred M. Howe, General Secre­ tary-Treasurer of the ROU, it is pointed out that the AFL Radio "Officers' Union has had jurisdic­ tion over Marine Radio Officei-s since 1937, and characterizes the West Coast move as an "inva­ sion." ' Brother Howe also states that ,the "ROU has maintained three offices on the West Coast for some time and we have spent many thousands of dollars in our endeavor to organize CIO Radio Officers. Just as we are about to succeed, the IBEW, through Local 6 in San Francisco, came to the rescue of the hard-pressed CIO Radio Officers and took them in. This, if successful, will negate all the hard and costly work which we have done." • THE SEAFARERS MAKING THEIR POINTS LOG Pressure Werks Again: Aramce OpensBuilding For Men At Ras Tanura The days when seamen sailed place to relax and enjoy them­ into the Port of Ras Tanura and selves. there, within sight of land, spent It took quite a lot" of pressure one week to a month without on the part of seamen to bring shore leave, are at an end. Word about this change. For some has been received from the Ara­ time now the LOG has been bian American Oil Company running letters and articles about (Aramco), that . an air-cooled the horrible conditions in Ras . portable building is being erected Tanura—^such as the one on this on the North side of the East page by Brother Bill ChamplinPier approach for the recrea­ and it is high time that Aramco Bosun Roland Slrom,. right, an tional use of the ships' personnel made the necesseuy improve­ SlU oldtimer. took the deck : in that port. as a member of the New York ments. Committee on Uniform Regis­ The building will be sur­ The new building is supposed . tration Rules and explained to rounded by a fence which will to be in use already, and it is the group his views on what have easy access from the East expected that an SIU crew will rules should govern registra­ Pier, and will be equipped with soon send in pictures and a tion for the Deck Department. toilet and shower facilities, a story for the LOG. Brother Sftrom will be remem­ bar for serving soft drinks and bered for the excellent job he beer, as well as a gas plate for did in organizing during the preparing hot dogs and ham­ r Isthmian campaign. He was on burgers. ; quite a few Isthmian scows, In addition there will be a as a volunteer, and made many swimming pool, card and game friends during that time. room, and clothes lockers and a Another Brother who want­ change room so that the seamen American exports have dropped ed to be heard on the Rules can change into swimming to less than half the rate pre­ was William Dunham, above. vailing in 1947—which is, of , trunks. Steward. He is shown driving course, the answer to the ques­ FAR CRY home a point as the Commit­ tion, "What's the matter with That's a far cry from the old shipping?" tee heard discussions on the days. Now at least, although the Rules changes affecting the men still won't be allowed to The statistical picture can be Stewards Department. go into town, they will have a seen in the figures gathered by the railroads. On a typical day, recently, 2020 freight cars came into all U. S. ports loaded with goods for shipment overseas. A year ago the number would have been about 5,000. By G. W. (Bill) CHAMPLIN Point of Sand. However, it does American seamen are given shore shinny was the second ship to Though it may not be apparent contain excellent recreational leave freely in Jeddah which just tie up at the new dock in Man­ to seamen on the beach. New The question of shore leave in facilities which the oil men do about knocks the Ras Tanura ama. York actually is . holding up a bit . the ports of'-the Arabian penin­ not wish to share with American police chief's idea into a cocked Reverting to Ras Tanura, let better than other ports. sula is an ever reeurring one. seamen. To accomplish their end hat. In view of the obvious dis­ me admit that the oilmen are Moreover, it is an issue of they have induced the local crimination against American sea­ undeniably well within their To revert to the railroad fig­ some complexity, involving as it chief-of-police to deny seamen men in Ras Tanura, I say that rights in excluding whoever they ures, New York is getting about does Saudi Arabia (as tampered shore leave. Naturally the chief- the police chief is an outright choose from their private club. 1)00 carloads of goods each day for export compared to 900 a with by the Arabian-American of-police knows which side of his phony. That's not the point. year ago. Oil Company), and the allegedly bread is buttered." I have talked with many sea­ Thus New York is running at < ISTHMIAN PORTS independent smaU countries of The technique used by the Recently I submitted a pro­ men who would be willing to about two-thirds of last year's Yemen, Oman, Qattar, Bahrein chief to justify his rule is to posal to the effect that the chip in what it takes to erect rate, while other ports are down and Kuwait, all of which are blame the Mohammedan religion MM&P be contacted, and that a a seamen's club at Ras Tanura. to a little more than one-third. more or less dominated by Great It is alleged that the Americans joint SIU-MM&P committee be There are many men like myself Britain. The picture is further NO BUCKS drink in front of the Sons of selected to rfequest the Isthmian who would like to sail the Per­ complicated by the rules of MoAllah, thereby corrupting them. Steamship Company to cooperate sian Gulf in the winter months Just why this has happened is 'hammedan religion. Now it is true that the Koran, with us in getting short leave for but who refuse to face long fairly clear. Despite a world­ The sorest spot of all is, of the sacred book of Mohammedan­ Isthmian crews hitting Ras months aboard ship with no wide demand for American course, the Arabian-American Oil ism, forbids the use of spiritous shore leave at all, and land in goods, practicaUy nobody in Eu­ Tanura. Company (Aramco) port of Rasliquoi-s by the Faithful, and in Isthmian has a virtual mon- sight. We want the shore leave, rope, Asia, Africa or South at-Tannura, more commonly Saudi Arabia, King Ibn Saud oply of American dry cargo busi­ but nobody insists on access to America can write a check that called Ras Tanura, in Saudi rigidly enforces the Koranic law. ness in the Red Sea, the Gulf of the oil men's clubhouse. will be honored by a New York Arabian. Of course, opposition to any bank. In other words, there is Oman, the Persian Gulf and the such plan could be expected from TOUGH RAP In this port, freighters lie for an average of a month at a time, I forget whether the penalty Shatt-el-Arab area. It certainly the type of Master who makes a a severe shortage of dollar sometimes at the dock which for drunkeness is death by is to the company's interest to practice of buying beer ashore credits. they must leave whenever a strangulation or by decapitation have contented crews, and and selling it through the slop- The slowness with which the Marshall Plan is getting imder high-test tanker comes in. Away or whether it is something freighter crews are the ones most chest at a handsome profit. way has made overseas buyers from the dock they anchor and ^slightly less severe. Neverthe­ affected by the protracted lack "No shore leave" is his meat. reluctant to put out what few discharge to lighters. During less, you should see those same of shore leave/"" As a Bosun I dollars they'have. They want to this stay of 30 days or more, the sons" soak it up when they believe that any Master or any hold the credit until they know licensed personnel are ..allowed come aboard a ship and get hold Department head, licensed pr un­ what they can get under the ashore. The unlicensed crew- of a little something out of sight licensed, will agree with me in Plan. Aif, members spend the whole time of their countrymen. The "cor­ this. ET< ry member making a Another thing that may have aboard ship. Personally, I know nothing ruption" angle doesn't amount donation to the Union for held up shipments has been the about Yemen. There are no oU too much. POINT C SAND any purpose should receive export licensing procedure put ports there,. so I would presume an official receipt bearing into effect by the Department of I have talked with Seafarers Before the advent of the oil who have seen enlisted men from j men, the principal income around that shore leave would be al­ ^the amount of the contribu­ Commerce. The Department now lowed. As to Oman, Qattar and tion and the purpose for requires special licenses for al-_ U. S. Navy vessels on the streets those parts was derived from Kuwait, my information has been which it was mado. most everything that goes, and it of the town. And as reported services lo pilgrims to Mecca, gleaned from others. If a Union official to whom takes a lot of time to cut by this writer a couple of years the Mohammedans' sacred place. ago, the crew qf the SS Shick- And all formal rituals of religion However, the frequency with contribution is given does through the red tape. "When the Marshall Plan cred­ shinny once tried to do some­ must be maintained since reli­ which American crews are re­ not make out a receipt for portedly denied shore leave while gion itself is still big business in the money, the matter should its appear in abundance, maybe, thing about getting merchant their British counterparts are per­ Saudi Arabia. But.it is Aramco immediately be referred to they will make the difference, seamen ashore. The Shickshinny crew did suc­ in the end, not religion, that mitted ashore makes the matter Paul Hall. Secretary-Trea­ but nobody is as certain as he ceed in turning up a considerable keeps^ the seamen from having ook like an old British trick surer. SIU. 51 Beaver Street. was a couple of months ago. which is something to be taken New York 4. N. Y. About 200 miUion dollars . amount of most interesting infor­ shore leave in Ras Tanura. up with the State Department in In advising the Secretary- worth of Marshall Plan goods al­ In the Red Sea port of Jeddah mation which I have taken every Treasurer of such' transac­ ready have been allocated, most opportunity to augment during (sometimes spelled Yeddah) you Washington. would expect the religious issue From personal experience, I tions, members should state of which will be shipped from the. two-year interval. • the name of the official and the U. S., the rest of it from Briefly, Ras-Tahura is a com­ to be raised even more strongly, know the above to be true in Manama, cajatal and principal the port where the money Canada and South America. But for Jeddah is the port of entry pany town and nothing else. was tendered. for the two sacred cities of Mec-jport of -the island country of allocation is one thing and ship­ Without Aramco, it would be ca, and Medina. Nevertheless, j Bahrein. In fact, the old Shickment is another. what its Arabic naw«L-Means: US Expmis FaH To Half Of 1947 Brother Writes Of Did Days in Ras Tanura Get A Reeeipt ri �i' H E S E AFAR ERS .L O G Friday* June 25# 1948 CoRffFessK^ Shv sak h Rush Te Rhtk WASHINGTON—Measures de­ stined to bolster the ranks of the crippled American merchant maQUESTION: Do you think there should be u system ^ job vi^Strataon for all Tine through the construction of ports, instead of the present method of separate rules in jeatih port? new passenger and tanker ves­ sels made every hurdle in Con­ VEFlQIE ^ANSOfN, Steward: VIC MlLAZZO. Steward; gress but the last one. The bills 1 bislleve the registration rules The Shipping rules certainly went down the drain when the ^ould he the aame in all i>orts. ought to be uniform tor atll Senate Interstate and Foreign V/hile I have shipped only nut ports. If they were, then you Commerce Committee pigeon­ of P^hiladeU^a and New York, would always know where you holed them in the rush to ad­ where the ^rules are the same, I stood and what you had to do journ last week. believe all ports should fall in if you came into a strange Hall. Supported by the Maritime line under one standard pro­ Now if you are used to shipping Commission and the entire mari­ cedure for registration. Here's an from one Hall and, for one rea­ time industry, the bills called for -example which doesn't pertain son or another, you find your­ the construction of 18 to 20 new to registration, but I believe it self in a Hall down the coast, passenger vessels and the equiva­ is typical of the different set­ you can get so balled up you lent of 40 T-2 tankers. ups in the ports. In Mobile I don't know what's going on. Shipbuilding would have been found that 1 could reclaim my Mostly I ship out of New Vortc. encouraged by the granting of sshipping card' within ten days. so I go by one set Of rules. ®ut flat 50 percent construction subsi­ 4n New York, however, the limit I've heard a lot of discussion of dies for all new ships approved is fifteen days. A uniform set­ this question aboard ship in in the next three years. up in -all ports in this case meetings and bull sessions, and In the House the bills were would have preatly lessened I'd say that uniform rules are passed without objections, and oonfusion. what the boys want. were scheduled for quick adop­ JAMES MOORE, AB: tion by the Senaite, but the rush N. J. MOORE, Pumpman: One over-all system would cer- Cf bills at the last minute killed Sometimes it's pretty confus­ tainly put an end to 'fhe con-: any chance of their getting Tall ing when you come into a sir?,nge ^ fusion which somdlimfes comes approval, Hall to register. You don't know iii abotif as a result of one port CHANCES SLIM the local rules and you get com- ; having slightly different rules pletely balled up. I have shipped The only hope for adoption of fhaii another. It would also do out of Boston a lot, but now I'm the measures depends on a de­ away with the phssibility of a in New York where the rules cision by Congress to reconvene man finding himself unable 'to are different. 'Recently I shipped between or after the Republican ship in one pnrt after qualifying but of Baltimore under a third and Democratic conventions. in another. I'm also in favor of set of rules. It certainly is my the motion carried a couple of "Important for seamen and the x^inion that rhings would go a •me^ngs ago whereby a 9han maritime -industry in general lot smoother up and down the ean Register iin nnly nne tiaMns. were the proposals to subsi­ coast for those of us who ship Becaafse of -the 'lougfh riiipping, dize the coriSftU(Jtiari of Amer­ from more than one port if we a general tightening up of the ican-flag passenger liners, the found fhe sane rules every­ registreiidn Tifles would make one shipping category in which i^hipping nasier fdr 'fhe majority the U.S. merchant fleet is notorwhere. A lot of people agree df men, especially those not hold­ iouriy and shamefully deficient.^ ' with me accordmg to some of A number of steamship com­ ing fhe higher rdfings. the views I've heard. panies, including the Mississippi Shipping Company and a couple RdBERT FERRYMAN. AB: JOHN CHAKER, Deck Eng.; Of other contracted companies, 1 don't believe that a uiiiform Yes. All ratings above Oiler have indicated an eagerness to method of registration that ap­ Should register together, and all build new passenger tonnage, plies to all ports is necessary. ratings below Oiler should regthe stumbling block being the !'S:kr' :• The present way of handling the 1 ister together. That way it would high price df building. Tegistration problem by each in­ ' give everybody a chance to The companies want the gov­ I 'ship out. Seamen do not always ernment to pay 50 percent df dividual port seems to me to he J 'ship out of the same port, hut the construction cost for ships thn proper way. Each port has I they ail belong to the same to be used on both coastal and its own problems in -shipping, j Union. So. when they get iilto foreign runs. and -I think that the rnles -should a new port they should know If the legislation proposed •fit the pvoUems nf the various that the conditions of registra­ to '-Congress had %een en­ ports. Ais is to he nxpeHrtafl toMih acted, ^e 50 percent subsidy tion will he the same as the would become a -reality, as would : ports will have a greater nulnport they last registered in. various mew indirect .subsidies. her df men on fhe heaCh in I That way a man does not have The subsidies would have guar­ proportion to fhe jobs available, to worry about doing something anteed jobs for thousands Of and others will have less. "Fhe wrong in a new port that would American seamen, aind would rulas tor regietsetion shonld he have kept "4he American flag oil cause him trouble because of a the high seas in a Class of ships shafted acconSngly. difference in local rules.. widely -regarded -as essential to the national defense. -One remote -possibility of gain­ ing the funds necessary to build ^ needed passenger ships was the - Negligence and indifference aboard an SIU ship. He was he had fallen. Rolfe's face was Though no law or agreement method - attempted -this week by now .^requires the Carrying of American-President Lines. I ;J; -has cost the life of another sea­ well liked, :and his Violent death bruised, bis left leg broken, and pulmotor equipment at the pres- in a direct -appeal to .the Presi- ; he was bleeding from the nose was a shock to his shipmates. He man. eiit time, this mattei- has been dent they called for die -granting and mouth. .is survived by his parents, Clyde Rolfe Nelson died June 10th and Rose Nelson, Pt3, Box 15, Despite the tireless effect of turned over to flie negotiating of construction money from em- aboard the tanker SS Lake Petaluma, Calif. officers and crew, who worked, committee for reference in draw­ ergency funds in the intei-est of, for six hours to revive him. Nel­ ing up future contracts. national defense. as a result of injuries NOT TESTED son died while the ship speeded sustained in a fall while cileanThe tank had not been open toward Lisbon for help, wher-e ing tanks. very long and had not been Captain Cooper had hoadod after His life might have been properly tested, when Nelson failing to get aid from Gibraltar. saved, according to Sidney Lip- was sent below to clean It. He The Purser did all he could MOBILE — The Waterman Gulf Shipbuilding Corporation, a Irfi-v: -• sChitz, who notified the LOG of came up several times for air Corporation an­ Waterman subsidiary, for the re­ with what he had on hand, and Steamship Jv?:':' the accident, had proper tank- before calling to the AB in at­ the 2nd Assistant Engineer wore nounced that it had purchased a conversion of ships that have . testing equipment, and a pul- tendance on deck to send down himself out with continuous, floating drydock from the Fed­ been or will be purchased by the' 1 motor been aboard at the time— a hose. work of respiration. The crew eral : Shipbuilding and Drydock parent company. MS-,:or had the British authorities at Shortly after he failed to re­ feels that had a .pulmotor been Company of Kearney, N, J. Waterman, also announced that pif:©ibralter deemed a seaman^ life spond to a call. The AB on deck available at -this stage his life, The drydoclc has a lifting ca­ it expected to acquire another i TVorth sending but a plane and went into 'the tank and made a might have been saved. The SS pacity of 8,500 tons, is 437 feet such floating drydock in the neair doctor to the ship in response to quick search. Failing to find long, and 85 feet wide. It is now future. The one now being de-\ Lake George, operated by U. S. Captain Cooper's liadio pica for him, he "notified the Chief Mate, being towed from Kearney to livered will be finally located at , Petroleum Carriers, 52 Broadway,: Mobile and will arrive about Chickasaw, Ala,, six miles above • •aid. who went into the tank with a Npw York City, is outboimdim Mobil«5 pn the Chickasabpgue • July. 10. Nelson, a 20 year old exHnavy respirator mask and c^r-if^^Nelipe dock wUl be .used by the r. ;• :J than, was making his Hirst trip son from thO tank bott^it^where. ,a longitrip- 11^'' P'- WateimBi Arys RmtkR Ihdc �-r -- ••' - -.If • • .-'••s.t^-^-'^ -Jl Friday, June 25, 1948^ THE. SEAFARERS LOG Page Fire ^^•m' Not Pisyoffs, DM MOkNo Gets Itself TW» Fevietf Dp^ij)s By CftL TANNER MOBILE—Last week shipping, here awhile before going out in this port reached a new low,' again, and we will take the opWith this branch shipping exactly portunity to get her completely 81 men. straightened out. There were four payoffs, two -Ehe- Houston: was fouled U0 sign ons and two ships in tran-' just, as badly. There was a 1,50Q sit and that was all. hour beef, in, the Deck. Departs The four ships paying off. were ment involving gangway watches. gress they tried to move _ all I The committee met and drew 1^ JOS: ALGINA, the Cape Edmont, Alcoa,, alcmg The crew stuck together in a with the Governor Bparks, Gov­ fine display, of. SIU solidarity. goods in foreign, bottoms, but up a report which -will be subNSW WBK — Seamen have Congress stipulated that, half mitted to the membership for apernor Houston, and the Morning The boys just refused to pay off heard-; a, lofe of double-talk, lateli^ would go in American ships;, now proval at the next meeting, Light, all Waterman vessels. The until the beef was settled. on the use off American; ships, in, they think they've found another This same procedure is being sign ons were the John Isaacson thecarrying, of Miarshall; Flan means for getting around the followed in- all outports. Rank BUILDING: TSADBa QUfB and the Runner, both Alcoa. The goods, but the latest news out ships in transit were Maiden It looked at the end. of last, law. and file committees are meeting of Washington, tops it all. A Maybe somebody will tell this and will make reports to the local Creek, Waterman, and Isthmian's week as if we were going to spokesman for. the agency set. Steel Recorder. have- a strike of the aluminum up to handle the fiow; of relief, "spokesman" that the coastal membership for approval. Follovv^ing this, the reports will The payoffs, on the Morning workers at the ore plant, here. goods to Bwope says that due to be forwarded to SIU Headquair J,ight and. the Cape Ediinontr the growing shortage of Amer­ ters where a rank and file com­ were very smooth, but we found ican; ships it will be difficult to mittee will meet to consider the the two Governors, Houston and . -rn05e,F&\-lHe84malse sure that 5Q. pement. of the recommendations fi'om all poi^ Sparks, as fouled up as Chinese goods are carried in American and submit a standard procedure ii^TtCKterodft boat driU. ships. T-Zoue/: for registration in all ports. On the Sparks, the Skipper If. the guy wasn't serious it This, too, will be submitted to tried to run the Stewards De­ would be good, for a laugh but, the membership in all ports for partment; As a. result, the ship unfortunately, this talk of a approval. came in with 1,1.(10 disputed"shortage" looks like another Action on registration in all meals. We settled them for half; scheme for transferring all goods ports has come about as a result because the crew had- failed to. in foreign bottoms. of the Agents Conference, and is keep meal tickets for the re­ In pushing the bill in Con­ expected to clear up a lot of mainder. rivers are full of slilpa rusting misunderstanding and confusion, away for lack of cargoes and This ship was also reported' along the coasts. they can be fitted out for duty out of chow and out of smokes. WAIVER EXPIRES within 48 hours. .Where smokes went to was the Of course, that, would have bean a matter of concern for the sea­ While on the subject of jobs, sixty-four dollar question. DECK MEN Don'l forget to- be there!men on Alcoa's bauxite shipsit might be wise to point out When the ship left Mobile, As was reported last week The next regular member­ How.ever, at the last moment, the now to the alien brothers that on here, shipping in this port re­ she was amply stored, with- ci^ ship^ meetinge wHI be held strike was postponed. July 15 the shipping waiver on: arettes for a voyage of the length mains at- a standstill. The only Wednesday evening; June 30 aliens expires. scheduled, A check on the slop- . A work stoppage affecting a at* 7 P. M. in all ports. With men to enjoy any sort of good chest revealed, that, no member lot of AFL. members, in Mobile the exception of New York, shipping are the bookpiembers After that date aliens will bq allowed to constitute but 15 per­ of the crew had'received more is the strike of the Building aR brancdies. hold; Iheir* meet­ shipping on deck. than, a carton and a half a Trades Council of the Mobile ings in their own. halls. We've managed to send out a cent of a crew instead of 25 Central Trades. Council to which week. New York meetings axe good number of deck department percent as is the present rule. the SIJJ belongs. The men have held' in, Roosevelt: Aui^or.- men, but- men in other depart­ The Union fought a long battle WHODUNITr been: out a, couple of weeks since ium; ItWl East 17tlt Sfceal. ments have had a long spell of for citizenship for aliens who sailed during the war. Nothing, The Skipper was the only man'their contraccs ran out. Right corner of Fourth Avenue, coaling Hieir heels. who possessed a key to the slop-;now they are negotiating with A few of the good ships in this unfortunately, was done in their These sessions: are a good chest. Haverthelesa, an awful lot the companies. We'll help them chance for you: to hit the week were the Andrew Jackson behalf by. Congress. The only of cigaratt, s did disappear, and" t^hey ask us to deck and speak your piece. and Wacosta, Waterman; and the thing that can be done now is aliens eligible to immeditoward the end of the trip the xhere are plenty of. oldtimers From the meeting place Steel Navigator, Isthmian. AH three paidoff in good shape and ^tely take step toward procuring boysr -wara sniping butts from around^ Charlie Kimball) who comes the ideas,, rules, and their citizenship papers. will be ready to go out again in the deck. regulaticHie responsible for used to be Agent here, Elmo Shipping, for aliens has beea The Sparks was also hungry. Bailey, Joe Crawford, Butter- the effective functioning o£ a short while. touih Wd with the reductiott The P>atrolmen also handled a The crew claimed that the Skip­ bean Davis, J. Albrilton, J. Mc- our Union, soop; tq go in effect they'll find Take an active- part in the few Bull Line vesels in from per refused to buy food when iNellage, L. F. Davis, D. Stokes, themselves slowly squeezed oft he had the chance to, and that- A. Milne, Geechy Burdick, Red SI,U. Make sure you-'re. at the Island run. These ships runthe ships. It!s a hell of a situar the Steward did not do his job Whidden, W. Graddick, J. W. the meeting,. Bemenaber,, the like clock work and rarely give tion-, but, one the Union cari do the Patrolmen any trouble. All Brothers right. In fact, charges have beem' Johnson, J. Reilly. They aren't time is, 7litjtle about) The Evangeline is back in the brought against the Steward. the only ones. "We have aboufrj, must shoyt up.; promptly. service, too. She's cruising the Jji^- a couple of words on up-r The Sparks is going -to be 700; men on the beach. southern waters once again. Her usual situations before signing crewing up helped take a few of off; . BUM, BEEF the men off* tke beach here. In the past we have always Over aU, the shipping scene here is not- too bright, and there urged, Seafarers, not to beef whem. By WILLIAM (G-url») RENT^ thought, he was. getting away Even when we have a fair is little hope of- it-improving in'^ ^he overtime pay. •With something. When. thO' ship- week we can't make much of- a the near future. It- looks like BALTIMORE—We have, to pg he found out different. hole in the shipping list- with so we will be reporting slow ship-! We didn t thinlc it would be many mem piling into- town all- ping for several weeks to come, necessary to say this, but make sure the Mate is aboard ship 1 J 1ft J .^^iiand that IS when the fun start®!. the- time.. when putting in for work done. ^ w ^ that "I- 'Ehe- boys in the; Baltimore • At- the l^f regular membership Deck men from an SIU ship ei^rOn . that jhfli ttangs. evfixy last; hQun And: Hospital are getting; along fine, meeting in New York a rank and. •nen on, the .h«ell recently put in for overtime and looking forwawi', to ship­ filn commitrnc was. elected- tpi we pretty tqugh. work, done by the Mate on deck. a ijttle hesitant, ^ut tcying. to ping again. They get good care draw up new rules for registra­ It backfired, though, when it wqs / As usual, when things are on- I'make flunkies out of Seafajcers nt the-hospital here. tion in the Port of New York, proved that the Mate was ashore. Mm US Has Ship Shortage i Bcaitcit neetmgs Crowdeit Besnh ts Ko^l|t TG NaRlmGre ly fair or worse) iti* is the Olre^froni now on.. Line that is saving us from dis ^ One bit of trouble we hed: aster. There were three Ores wasr on the SS Marine Runner, paying off and signing- oni which a Rpbin ship. The Stewards. Del­ made all the difference in the egate was gassed up for the past seven days. The LOG has received several letters recently, asking, for 'payoff:-and, if it hadn't been'a clarification on Stewards Department men, painting. The Of course there have been for the. Steward -himself) the deanswer is: N01 THEY DON'T! partment overtime would have some ships in transit, Alcoas for The Stewards Deearlmenl has. plenty ta do to take case tlie most part, which touched: been in. a bad snarl. here to load. This is an import­ . Luekily, the Stew.ard. was able; of their, own work without taking, on. a, iph. entirely alien, to ant loading port fOr Aleoa;to lay his banA on all the rec­ their normal duties. This mattec was. devly discussed on page ^ There were plenty of beefg. ords and, had, thq.^ bqaks ready, four of the LOG for Masch 2fi. by, New York. Patrolman*. on tlie slhps we've had, but roctat.'although, the Delggatfr was. out Freddie Stewart; but. just fox the zecmul, the LQG has again of them have. been. on. the Cal- eold) When/ the Delegate eame checked with the Headtjuarters office and bare is the '^pp'v The Union has fought to free the. Stewards Department, mar scows. On one ship,, the ;to he found a^ goqd. stiff fine from the responsibility of painting, in addition to their regular Mate wanted the OS on watch against him.to. bring him a cup. of coffee Things are in good shape here, duties. At the same time the Union has obtained many im­ when, he woke, him up in the except for the big; number of provements in the working conditions within the Stewards men on the beach. We don't Department which allows for a fair proportion of, overtime. morning. That, coffee was, to be there, know where they come from. SOi. to protect your working conditions and your contract do the Mate insisted,, as soon as. he Anybody who told them shipping: your own work, and let the other departments do Iheirsr-which ^qpened his eyes. Well, he got w.as good in Baltimore ggve them includes all of' the painting| ijscoffee, and we guess he "a bum steer." Stewmids BPfiartnent Ant PdM - I - There were some very red; faces otthat payoff. In another case on the Andi'ew Jackson, a small firq broke out while the ship was in the Far East. In battling the flames some of the cargo was heaved ovec the Mdo. . The Skipper, seeing the stuff floating in the water, collaoed. one of. the deck men and told him to jump overboard and., rescue the cargo. He wanted it for evidence, he said. The man jumped overboard and reclaimed the cargo aU ri^rt. The question then arose as tohow he was to claim overtirae for his. feat. Should he put ihfor jumping overboard or for ; bringing: stores aboard ship*^ He settled for the latter and CQL lected. .: �TUE SEA FA RE RS Page Six Port Galveston Keeps Hoping ERF wni Boom Gulf Shipping LOG Wants Uniform Rules FMday, June 25. 1948 Philly Convention Festivities Leave Local Seafarers Cold By LLOYD GARDNER By KEITH J. ALSOP PHILADELPHIA — There mayj There they would find plenty GALVESTON — Shipping here good shape and looked every bit be a lot of happy hooting and of cargo going aboard ships, but • iias been very poor and doesn't like an SIU ship. hollering in this convention town'the ships wouldn't be American, _/ look very promising for the fu­ TANKERS ONE-SIXTH this week, but none of it is com-^ For that they could pat themture. That is, imless the long ing from the Hall of the Sea- selves on the back, delayed Marshall Plan goods That organizing thet anker com­ farei's International Union. Bum' start moving now that Congress panies is a very wise move is PROTECTED NO ONE shipping doesn't make for cheers. These, our elected representa­ has finally put up the money. shown by the tanker activity in Shipping in this port has drop- tives, are supposed to protect If the ERF goods start fiowing this port. After a little volunped to almost zero, with not a the interests of the American to Europe, we stand to benefit a single ship in for a payoff this people, but the deliberate scuttlgreat deal by it through grain week. The Dispatcher's board ing of the promised large postshipments. has never been so bare. war American merchant rnarine In the meantime, though, we As long as we cannot report damn poor protection. They are not enjoying the slack ship­ anything on shipping — other did a better job of protecting the ping. Payoffs for the week here than we hope for a pick-up next transfers of American ships tb were the Zebulon Pike and John week—a word about the boys in Panamanian and Honduran regCandelario Ramos, FWT, LaFarge, both Waterman, and Congress, a good number of istry. says he would like to see one the Cahaba, Navy tanker oper­ set of registration rules ap­ whom are here this week, seems Nope, nobody around this Hall ated by American Pacific. is particularly concerned about plied in all ports. With vary­ appropriate. The only trouble encoimtered They are out of school now what is now taking place in this ing procedures in several of 'on these ships was a belligerant, the ports. Ramos says, it* is and are running to their con­ fair city. It doesn't matter which wrench-swinging First, who had easy to get fouled up. Com­ ventions to make pretty their faker they put up for the na­ 'been chasing crewmen around tion's , biggest . „ job, Joe American the deck brandishing his trusty teer scouting around by the Gal- mittees are now preparing pro­ dirty work over the past months. We wish a couple of them would,®"? especially Joe Seaman will stillson. jveston membership, it has been posed changes which may lead the^neck. He may be still lugging the found that one-sixth of all Amer- to uniformity in registration, take a breather from the" smoke-, filled rooms and walk along the' to depending on final action by wrench with him, but" if he is his ican shipping in this port is by Philly waterfront. 1®®^ ®'"® ^^st enjoying the membership. only targets are ginmill mirrors; unorganized tankers. It just ^ some very fine weather, also he's no longer on the LaFarge. | takes time, but we'll soon train some very fine ball games. We AJong with the sign-ons the ='Shte on these outfits too. • don't care to say si .ything about Zebulon Pike and Cahaba, we' The Texas State Federation ot !our amazing Athletics until we also sent nine men out to the Labor is hojding its annual eon^have seen how they make out By STEVE CARDULLO jin the Cleveland Series this Mostank, tanker of a newly-or- vention in Fort Worth this week . J and representing the Seafarers oeaiarers is new week-end. (Ed. Note: Hang out canized company. She came in m ana ^ ° iiie . . SAN FRANCISCO — Isthmian broke ground for their ® j Val James, who was nominated is tying up some ships out here, building the other day. •\ffQ the crepe, Blackie; Cleveland and elected by the membership This week the SS Rider Victory hope they have better luck with 3-0.) here to serve as our delegate. was brought down from Seattle, the new location than they had By next week Brother James and will pay off with transporta­ with the other one. will return with his report of tion to the East Coast. The SS the convention's proceedings. This San Angelo Victory will dtf the Roy Pierce called from Van­ couver about a beef aboard the Cheek the slop chest be­ should be interesting, inasmuch same. SS Kenyon Victory. We'll check fore your boat sails. Make as the Taft-Hartley Act is now On another ship, the SS Henry thoroughly when the ship • sure that the slop chest con­ causing a lot of trouble in labor K. Lindsley, there was an odd reaches this port where she tains an adequate supply of circles in this State. By SALVADOR COLLS situation that didn't look too originally crewed -up. all the things you are liable Unions down here are not any good. As soon as the ship hit We'll see what all the facts are to need. If it doesn't, call the SAN JUAN — A week of no more receptive to the law now the dock, the men disappeared and tell you about them another Union Hall immediately. payoffs for this port will confe than they were a year ago, when into the woods and returned at time, to an end tonight when the SS it •was passed. In fact, now their own leisure. Ponce arrives in San Juan. That that the full effects of the law There were plenty of beefs on news alone should make it evi- are being felt, they're plenty the SS Kelso Victory, most of dent that shipping is very slow gore. them against the crewmen who fw in this area. No matter how sore they get. had fouled things up and been Vf We did have some ships in. they're no sorer than we of the logged. The payoff was a little The Kathryn, Morning Light and SIU are. Every meeting here better than the one on the Carolyn hit port, but the re- sees a good number of members Lindsley, however. We had one One of the more vicious pro-; fact that the Court said there placements called for were few. 'hitting the deck to comment visions of the Taft-Hartley Act was nothing unconstitutional A&G man present! On the Carolyn the Chief Cook (that's the polite word) on the took a beating from the Supreme about the provision barring un­ There is a bright side to things Court of the United States the became ill but* didn't want to law. ions whose officials do not file get off. We convinced him that Every Seafarer in this port is out here. We crewed up the SS other day. However, because the non-communist affidavits from he would be well taken care of ready for an all-out fight for the Strathmore, formerly the A. J. majority of the Court refused to using the National Labor Rela­ here on the Island, so he went Hiring Hall, and they're ready to Berres. This is the first tanker face the issue squarely, labor will tions Board. Many officials who ashore. go down the line for nothing less of the Strathmore Shipping Com­ have to recognize that it cannot have had no personal misgivings pany. count on the Supreme Court in to filing signing these statements In the shoregang department than what we now have, down here, we have been en-! Just in case you're curious as General Steamship is handling fighting the obnoxious law. have felt that the oaths violated countering some difficulty with to who some of the men are the ship for them on this coast. Specifically the Court dis­ their legal rights. the men sent out to do the work down here at the moment, here The boys expect to make Cura­ missed an indictment against the on the ships. For some reason are a few: William Baker, J. J. cao, Buenos Aires and plenty of CIO in a test case brought by the performers on the beach Word, F. Cooper, Willie Speaker other good ports, the lucky stiffs. the Government. think shoregang work is just a and G. Ellebracht. We understand that the SUP Department of Justice lawyers lark and an excuse to do a little' contended that the CIO vio­ hell-raising. lated Section 304 of the T-H Act Last week several men work­ by publishing in its paper an en­ SAN FRANCISCO — The long ing on the Kathryn were canned dorsement of a candidate for projected "free port" area was for not doing their work. They opened here on June 10. It is Congress. deserved to get the sack. Maybe the third "free port" in the This section says that labor or­ this will serve to teach the other United States. About 200 of the people aboard ganizations — and corporationsgashounds around here that The free area is at Pier 45, and shoregang work is the same as coasts of Europe so far as sea- were reported to have been cannot spend money in connec­ it was opened with a civic cere­ that aboard ships, and that the'*"®^ concerned, and it will asleep when the mine exploded. tion with Federal elections. mony during which the Collector SIU does not tolerate foul baUs'.'^e until the last drifting mine Some of them, traveling steerage, A lower court declared this of Customs cut a white tape is swept from the water. were sleeping in deck chairs. The provision to be unconstitutional. stretched across a warehouse en­ in either job. Four members of the Supreme trance. Time and again since the end ship was proceeding from Copen­ ILA TO STRIKE Court, Rutledge, Black, Douglas A "free port" is one through of hostilities, new"spapers have hagen to Aalborg. On - the local labor scene we carried stories of ships blown up The accident recalls many an­ and Murphy, said that it was un­ which goods can be transshipped are awaiting the ILA strike call, by mine.s. Last week disaster other of a similar nature occur- constitutional. without going through" customs. The operators have coldly re-' struck again. A Danish passen- ring in the nearly three years But the remaining five Jus­ Thus, a cargo of chemical prod­ fused iall of the Longshoremen's' gc vessel, the SS Kjoebenhavn, j since the war's end, some .of tices, a majority of the Court, ucts from Belgium consigned to demands, so it seems only a struck a mine in the Kattegat them to SIU ships, simply said that the Government Shanghai could now come into matter of time before they'll be early one morning and as many That a ship should strike a had no case in this particular San Francisco on one ship, be out on the bricks. Needless to as 150 of the 400 passengers and mine at this late date in the busy instance. They even implied that unloaded in the free area and say, we'll be supporting them crew may have lost their lives. waters of the Kattegat should under other circumstances the be loaded on another ship bound A small ship of only 1,668 tons, make seamen wonder what the law might be perfectly okay. In for China without incurring any all down the line. To cap the week's report here the Kjoebenhavn sank in 10 International Mine Clearance Au­ short, they were pussy footing. customs charges. . are the names of a few men tak­ minutes: There was time to thority is doing. Two years ago, What seems to be the truth is San Francisco obtained a ing life easy down here at the launch only two life-boats, and the Authosity, whose headquar­ that the majority of the Supreme' charter for such- an area in an moment: T. Chambers, C. H. people leaped into the water in ters is in London, assigned areas Court is prepared whitewash the'effort to build up shipping. Other' Hawley, Johnny Dean, Juan an effort to save themselves. for the world's .navies to clear, Taft-Hartley Act right down the free ports in the United States Rios, A. J. Thomas, Juan Sanches Most of those who died were but apparently the job is not Tine. More evidence that this are, in New York and New Or- ; and J. Negron. 'drowned. finished. may be the case appears in^ the leans. ' ' Isthmian Ties Up Two On Coast SS Ponce Ends Shipping Dearth For San Juan Check It—But Good High Court Throws Out T-H Gag Test Case, But Dodges Full Issue Frisco 'Free Port' May Help Shipping TSO Passengers Drown As Danish Ship Strikes Floating Mine .<• A] �TBB SEABABKRS t0Q Friday. Ju&» 25< 1946 PHILADELPHIA — Chairman. Lloyd Gardner. 9S97; Reading Clerk. W. Gardner. 42941; Secre­ tary. Don HalL 4S372. Moved and carried to accept all minutes except Boston and Gal­ veston. One Brother, G. W. Jacobson» recorded as opposed to ac ceptance of Savannah minutes. Agent spoke on progress of ne gotiations with operators and the maritime situation in general. Report accepted. Motion carried to concur unanimously in resolu­ tion 'calling for .the opening of SIU Hall on the West Coast. Motion Jt)y R. Gates to open Halls in all ports 6n West Coast. Amended to read: open Hall in Frisco now, and in other ports when business warrants it. Mo­ tion as amended carried. Motion carried to send all ships' minutes to SEAFARERS LOG. Trial committee ' reported findings in two cases. One man fined $50 for refusing to do ship board duties and the other put on pro­ bation for one year for being re­ peatedly gassed up. Membership accepted and concurred in com­ mittee's findings. One minute of silence for departed Brothers. Motion carried to adjourn with 152 members present. 4. 4. 4. BALTIMORE — Chairman. Rents. 26445: Reading clerk. A1 St^nsbury. 4683: Secretary. Ben Lawson. 894, B. R. Mears took Oath of Obli­ gation. Charges read against L. Gates and trial committee elected to hear case. Motions carried to accept all other Branch minutes except Savannah. Motion car­ ried to non-concur with that part of the minutes concerning pull­ ing book men off the ships, due to fact that the Agent in Baltimore'and the Steward who had been pulled off investigated the matter and found that it was a company error. Motion, carried to unanimously concur in resolu­ tion calling for SIU Hall on West Coast. Amendment: that Balti­ more go on record as favoring establishment of Hall in Wilm­ ington. Unanimously adopted. Agent Rentz reported on Calmar suit against the Seafarers con­ cerning a ship in Boston. Suit is for $12,500. Secretary-Treas­ urer is now working on it.. Un­ der Good and Welfare various members spoke on the good job the hospital committee is doing in the port of Baltimore. One minute of silence for Brothers lost at sea. $> 4" 4 NORFOLK—Chairman. While. 56. Reading Clerk. Ben Rees. 95: Secrelary. Bullock. 4747. Paga Seveit ^ A&G Ship/mg fnm Am 1 To June IS PORT REG. DECK Boston New York Philadelphia Baltimore Norfolk Savannah Tampa Mobile I, New Orleans. Galveston San Juan Grand Total 42 307 83 212 57 53 26 218 222 67 15 1,302 NOTE: REG. ENG. 27 251 66 143 37 39 18 ' 245 175 52 4 1,057 REG. STWDS. 17 269 49 96 27 28 16 229' 220 40 14 1,005 TOTAL REG. SHIPPED DECK' 86 827 198 451 121 120 60 " 692 617 159 33 3,364 12 128 60 181 54 33 22 110 162 77 16 855 SHIPPED SHIPPED ENG. STWDS. 6 121 46 158 29 32 23 85 128 96 4 728 7 157 32 70 21 25 19 70 153 39 14 607 TOTAL SHIPPED 25 406 138 409 104 90 64 265 443 212 34 2,190 A8tG men shipping on the West Coast are not included in this report. of men awaiting jobs. Isaac Van Per Hoeven, C. P. Wingfleld and J S. Copeland took Oath of Obligation. One minute of sil­ ence for Brothers lost at sea. Meeting adjourned with 123 members present. 4 4 4SAVANNAH — Chairman. C. Slarling> 6920: Secretary. S. HeiniHng. 5369; Reading Clerk. W. L. Smith. 6970. Motions carried to accept Branch minutes of aU ports. Mo­ tion carried to accept and file Secretary-Treasurer's weekly financial report. Resolution call­ ing for the opening of an SIU Hall in- San Francisco carried un­ animously. Motion by W. J. Morris that no SIU man should sail with Captain Shaw of the Felix Grundy — carried unanimoiisly. Good and Welfare: Dis­ cussion on new West Coast Hall. On Savannah Hall, Agent ex­ plained that when lea^ is ' re­ turned from Headquarters the Savannah Branch will transfer to its new quarters. Motion by Harris to have Savannah Agent contact the MoTiile ^Agent in re­ gards to the supposed contraet on run jobs. Motion by J. W. Parker, carried, that a fine be placed against any man who hangs around a company office with port steward and port cap­ tain with the motive of "finding out about replacements on vari­ ous ships. Motion carried to ad­ journ. several Brothers and turned over to trial committee for action. Mo­ tion by Ferdensky, carried, that aU lay-up jobs be considei-ed the same as stand-by and only one be allowed each member imtil all have been given a chance. Under Good and Welfare it was pointed out that SIU men should refrain from riding Yellow Cabs while in New Orleams as they are finks. Agent instructed to take under consideration that the Hall be air-conditioned. Meeting adjourned with 360 members present. 4 4 4 TAMPA—Chairman. Bob HsU. 26060: Recording Secretary. E. R. Smith. 20057: Reading Clerk. R. L. Duke, 143. Motion carried to read only new business of Branches holding regular meetings. Motions car­ ried to accept minutes of other Branches. Agent reported ship­ ping had picked up considerably. Reported that contractor had been called in for estimate on remodeling building. Motion car­ ried to concur in resolution call­ ing committee was elected to check the books, bills and re­ ceipts. Robert Rivera, Guy Whitehui-st and Antonio Cruz c<mstituted the committee. The committee found everything in order and was dismissed with a vote of thanks. Agent reported to men present that reason for quorum lack was due to better shipping during the week. 4 4 4 GALVESTON — Chairman. W. W. Bryant, G-177; Recording Secretary. R. Wilbum, 37737: Reading Clerk. K. Alsop. 7311. Galveston minutes, financial report, .Secretary-Treasurer's re­ port, and Headquarters report read and accepted by member­ ship. Motions carried to accept and file minutes from other ports. One minute of silence for Brothers lost at, sea. Motion carried unanimously to accept resolution calling for opening of SIU HaU in San Francisco. Mo­ tion carried that Galveston Branch buy a new Hall. Motion by McCann that former Boston Agent Mogan, who was defeated in the last general election for office, discontinue his disrupting of Union meetings for the sole purpose of campaigning, and, fur­ ther, that he be brought up on charges of conduct unbecoming a Union member. Motion car­ ried. Good and Welfare: Discus­ sion by the membership relating to the purchase of a new Hall. Meeting adjourned with 225 members present. ing for opening of new Hall on West Coast. Voted unanimously. One minute of silence for Broth­ ers lost at sea. Good and Wel­ fare: Numerous guys hit the deck and had something con­ 4 4 4 structive to say on port activities 4 4 4 NEW ORLEANS — Chairmaxu BOSTON — Chairman. Ray and remodeling. of building. LeRoy Clarke, 23062: Readiag Meeting adjourned with 67 mem­ Quean. 34594: Racording 'Secre­ Clerk. Buck Sleph^is. 76: Re­ ber present. tary. R. E. Gonaales. G-174; cording Secrelary. Herman Trox4 4 4 I Readiag -Clerk. H. Cashman. MOBILE — Chairman. Jeff clair, 6743. 40363. Morrison, 34213: Recording Sec­ Motion carried to accept new Motion carried to accept the business portions of all other retary. C. L. Siringfellow, 125: minutes of all ports.except San Branch meetings. Under Boston Reading Clerks H. J. Fischer, 59. Francisco and to non-concur with New Business: Motion carried Motions carried tb accept min­ that part of the Frisco minutes that port accept Boston New utes of all ports having meetings. concerning charges. Agent re­ Business' but the SecretaryMotion carried to read the West ported on the beef on the SS Treasurer be instructed to have Coast and Great Lakes minutes Marymar, Calmar, which had charges filed against former from the wall. Branch agent's been held up because of a food report given and accepted. Mo­ tion carried unanimously to concim with resolution calling for openiltg of new Hall on West Coast. New Business: Motion by Patterson to instruct the Agent beef. Company agreed to fur­ Motion carried to accept min­ Agent Mogan if the cirewmto buy a new water cooler, sound nish necessary stores. He also utes of all other A&G Branch stances warrant such action. Un­ system and radio—carried ua- reported on the negotiations for meetings. Unanimously adopted der discussion it was brought out animously. Motion carried to ac­ resolution calling for opening of that the membership is damn cept trial committee's report, ex­ new contracts by Headquarters Negotiating Committee. Resolu­ SIU Hall in San Fi'ancisco. Voted tired of this man's dissentioncept in case of A. Richards. Due tion introduced by Thomas Flemspreading actions since being de­ to reinstate Herbert Lassiter up­ to new evidence Brother Rich­ on presentation of proof that feated for office. Agent reported ards wiU be re-tried. Motion car­ ming calling for the issuance of serious illness of both parents affairs of the port as being in ried to adjourn. 239 members books to men transferring from an­ other maritime union, who have necessitated his being at home good order. Agent stressed im­ present. clearance from the 1946 and and taking care of the home'and portance of disregarding ginmill 1947 strikes. Motion by R. E. 4 4 4 family. Agent reported on ac­ rumors concerning a strike and SAN JOAN—Not enough mem­ Gonzales, carried, that this reso­ tivity of Port of" Norfolk during urged all men to get their in­ bers to constitute a quorum so lution be referred to the 1948 past two weeks. Good shipping formation straight from the Unno meeting yras held. An audit- Agents Conference. Resolution has somewhat, relieved backlog]ion Hall. Charges read against ."r. calling- for the opening of an SIU Halbin San Francisco con- ' curred in unanimcmsly. H. Yoimg took the Oath of Obligation. Proposed agreement between SIU and Boston-Provincetowh Company, which owns the Si Steel Pier, a seasonal ship, rati­ fied by membership. Meeting adjourned with 182 memben present. 4 4 4 NEW YORK — Chairman. Charles G. Haymond. 98: Record< ing Secretary, Eddie Parr. 96: Reading Clerk. Robert A. Mat­ thews. 154. All reports and other branch minutes accepted. Motion by Colucci that communication from Seafarer who had been tried in Mobile be sent back to that port for clarification. Once clarifica- ' tion -is received, matter will be reintroduced to membership for action. Motion carried. Resolu­ tion from San Francisco concern­ ing the opening of a new HaU' concuried in unanimously. Res- . olution from Fort Bridger cre'w put, to membership for discus­ sion. Resolution called for the Seafarers to "give all moral, • physical and financial assistance ; possible to any boni-fi.de labor . union embattled with the TaftHartley Law, and the forces be­ hind it, to maintain a Union Hiring Hall and a closed shop." Th€>se who discussed resolution felt it was of g,ood nature, but because it is not specific it puts the. Union in the position of writing a blank check for all unions. Also, due to the fact that the Seafarers has already pledged its support to other labor unions engaged in beefs of an economic nature, it is not necessai-y to reiterate the Union's position. Motion by Sanford that resolution be filed. Motion car­ ried unanimously. Under Good and Welfare several matters dis­ cussed: possible affiliation of MFOWW to SIU, and the neces- • sity of cooperation between dis­ tricts of the International. Meet­ ing adjourned with 1,268 mem-' bers present. Movie Schedule "Second Chorus," a fastsl^^ing hit loaded with music, dance and comedy, and starring Fred Astaire, Paulette Goddard, Burgess Meredith and Artie Shaw and his band. Also "Music In America." a March of Time documentary revealing the births of the tunes pe­ culiar to America. This program will be pre­ sented for the membership on the 3rd deck of the New York Hall tomorrow: SATURDAY. JUNE 26 •at 12 noon. All hands are invited to attend the movie tomorrow and every other Saturday. Enjoy the best available in sound film enteriainmenl —. at no cost — in the comforts of your own Union hall. Watch this space each Fri­ day for the announcement of the following day's prognm. •'lii �Page Eight 10 I - THE SEAFARERS t OG Friday/June 25, 1948 SHIPS' MlNlinS AMD MEWS Afoundria Men Blast Use Of 'Slave Labor' On U.S. Ships In Hamburg THE WHOLE GANG ON ISTHMIAN*S STEEL RECORDER I'i- The Waterman Steamship company, and perhaps other American companies, are using what amounts to German slave labor in Hamburg, in the British zone of Germany, three crewmen from ^ "Shipping is not what it used Waterman's SS Afoundria charge to be, and here is the very ui communications received by ir\ chance to create new jobs. At the LOG. Twenty or more German work­ one time there was a lot of talk ers are brought aboard each ves­ about a four-watch system. If sel and paid about 16 cents a ever we are to have such a sys­ day apiece to paint, chip, scale tem, we will have to stop this i; and sougee. ' The result is that work on American ships by for­ American seamen are out eign labor in foreign ports. money and the Germans, far "The membership of this Union from being "liberated," are should be made aware of the pushed into virtual economic danger there is in 'slave labor.' This may be only a beginning servitude, it was stated. The three Afoundria crewmen, and now is the time to stop it." Stressing the same point fi»om E. Anderson, Johannes Norgaard A good picture .of the Steel Recorder crew sen,^ H. Tillman, R. Herald, D. Reynolds, M. and Jerry Palmer, pointed out another approach. Brother An­ taken at sea while enroute to the Far East. Mayoski. E. Corral, B. F. DeLima, J. Simmons, that the work done by the Ger­ derson said: Shot was submitted to the LOG by Joseph J. Perez and S. Cruz. Third row, standing: mans at coolie' wages could be "The great danger is that let­ Simmons. Kneeling in front, left to right: D. R. Hackes, M. Hinson, H. Cap, G. Woods, J. done by the American seamen ting them (underpaid Germans) Coppolei. E. DeBourbon. V. Mlynek, M. Rod­ Camera, A. Fernandez and H. Applegate. Last themselves at American pay. If do one type of work at those riguez, V. G. Orencio, R. Figueiras, G. M.olnar, row, seated: P. Gerrigan, M. Greenwold and any work was left over, there is wages — namely painting, chip­ C. Peterson. A. Torres and F. Ayson. Second J. Celeste. Send pictures of all your voyages no reason in the world why it ping and scaling—^will lead to row. standing: F. Wegescheide. E. H. Ander­ to the LOG. couldn't be performed by shore- letting them do other types of side union labor in American work. If this .slave labor is allowed to continue, manning ports, they said. At the request of the three scales will be cut down." Brothers from the Afoundria, the Brother Palmer declared that material they submitted has been { Waterman followed this practice turned over to the Negotiajang' of bringing German workers aboard only in the British-con­ Committee. A new species of man-eating shark has been found in Caribbean waters, claims The Afoundria men, analyzing trolled zone. In the Americanthe possible consequences of this' controlled zone, the company is Seafarer Luis Ramirez in a letter to the LOG. Though known to Panamanian fishermen vicious practice, say that it is of. barred from doing it by law, he for some time, Ramirez believes his report of the new shark family is the first to reach a lot more than local concern to said. Palmer stated that the pos- the outside world and the attention of American fish experts. [ifcrews touching at Hamburg. sibUity of a imiversal four-watch The discovery of the alleged new type marine creature was made when crewBrother Norgaard put it this system is dimmed by this ex­ members of. the Arizpa, Japan-;; ploitation of cheap labor. way: bound Waterman ship, hauled port of another new type shark by the LOG to the museum for Iff one aboard from waters near Co­ found off the Bahamas was veri­ study. Maybe, if it is a new lon, Canal Zone, after a furious fied. The snapshots taken by the species, they'U name it the tussle and consulted Panamanian Arizpa crew will be submitted "sharkus marinus arizpus." fishermen for its identification. According to Ramirez, the shark has been seen at frequent "Cut and Run" Hank won't be running this intervals in Caribbean waters 'Brother Edmund since the end of the war in item in column for awhile; 1945. Edgington, the Electrician, just Startling to the Panamanians, blew into town with his mous­ relates Ramirez, > is the fact that tache after a long trip," 'cause some of those taken in tow were Brother Edgington is all' set to about to spawn, yet their teeth keep his feet on dry land for at shoived therh to be only two least twelve months, riding herd years old. A shark adds a new over a power plant for a con­ row of teeth yearly. struction company in Venezuela. Taking an "extended vacation," PANAMIANIAN VERSION as he put it, he'll fly down to The true origin of the sharks Venezuela immediately to super­ is not known. The Panamanians, vise the power plant of an LST however, maintain that the new being used to supply current for species developed from a less port construction* apparatus. belligerent species aroused by eating well-seasoned Spanish After piling off the Knox Vic­ seamen and passengers lost on tory in May after ten months ships hundreds of years ago in aboard, Ed decided to see what the Caribbean. there was to the world besides Chances are that the experts salt water. He found that a on marine life won't accept the construction company needed a EDMUND EDGINGTON Panamanian theory, but it makes Chief Electrician in South Amer­ an interesting tale. ica. The deal sounded like a A veteran in the SlU, Brother good one so he put in for it and COULD BE Edgington joined the SlU at When informed of the Arizpa was hired. After signing a one-year con­ Philadelphia in 1938. During the crew's findings, the Museum of tract with the company he put war he was torpedoed while Natural History in New York his SlU book in retirement, but aboard the SS Carrebi^le, off the stated that it was entirely pos­ that doesn't mean, he's through coast of Puerto Rico. A holder sible that they had found a new sailing. "This deal might be of clearance for all strikes, he species. From the Caribbean re­ Surrounded by fellow crewmen and Panamanian fishermen. good, it might be bad," he said, served on the Norfolk strike gion the museum has received "but 1 intend ^ to keep going committee during the 1946 Gen­ many, reports of new species of Seafarer Bob High kneels by the crew's prize shark and dis­ plays some of the heavy line used in its capture. -Men to sea until they bury me in the eral Strike. When in the States all types of marine life, some of which have been found to be standing are, left to right: A Panamanian fisherman, Anthony briny deep. My book's in re­ Tanski, another fisherman. Bud Benson and "Whitey," Shot tirement but it won't gather he makes his home in Yonkers, true. New York, Only a few months ago a re* taken by Luis Ramirez. much dust there." Arizpa Men Claim To Be First Americans To Spot New Species Of Shark Off Canal Edgington Takes Shore Job, 3ut Union Won't Lose Hint • �Friday. June 25. 1948 THE SEAFARERS LOG Pige Iflne Digested Minutes Of SiU Ship Meetings I JOHN BARTRAM, April 13— ALEXANDER WOOLCOTT. Chairman Bill Hall; Secretary C. • |day 2—Chairman Perez; SecreKowalski. Delegates reported on iary H. Worm. All departments number 6f books and permits. shipshape. ~ Voted to notify New Business: Motion carried Patrolman of Second Mate's that all delegates make up repair neglect of medical care. Minute lists to be turned in at proper of silence for Brothers lost at time. Motion carried that ship's sea. delegate speak to Mobile Port 4. 4. Steward for better toasters and TULANE VICTORY. May 1— mattresses. William McKay Chairman Cox: Recording Secre­ elected ship's delegate. tary Fabricant. Deck reported 60 hours' disputed, 24 of them 4. i 4. EVELYN. May 19 — Chairman blanket overtime. Engine re­ Harry Langen; Secretary George ported 60 hours disputed. Stew­ IME SEAf=A«ERS' HALLS ARE BElMG Swift. Delegates' reports ac­ ards department okay. Motion ARiZPA. May 14 — Chairman cepted. Engine Delegate Willis OUTFITTED WITH ALL KINDS oF OEAR by Brag, seconded and carried that trial committee be elected Bob High; Secretary and Red resigned; William Gorman f=DR YOUR COMFOF5TAA/D ENTEI?TAIli//viEMT to handle allegedly offending Benton. Delegates' reports ac­ elected in his place by acclama WM\L^ You ARE. ON THE BEACH- OAMES^ Brother. Motion by Grebe, sec­ cepted. New Business: Motions tion. Lengthy discussion on re­ carried: to prepare repair list; pairs as ship is due to go to onded and carried that perform­ LIBRARIES, COFFEE POTS, RADIOS, AA/P ers be fined $25, that men miss­ to have ship fumigated; to have shipyard at end of trip. Steward (f IN SO/VIE HALLS^ TEteVlSlOAJ SETS AMD ing payoff be fined $50, all fines ship's delegate and steward explained food spoilage has been check quarters' for cleanliness. caused by ice box operating at going to hospital fund. Vote of thanks to Stewards department. Motion carried to elect a com­ high temperature. One minute ARE YOUR HALLS Minute of silence for departed mittee of four brookmen to of silence for brothers lost at draw up a resolution to be sub­ sea. AND YOUR GEAR — USE TMEM AND Brothers. mitted to Headquarters concern­ TAKE CARE OF THEM ^ ing the replacement of book men when they have accepted trans­ portation money. Benton, John­ ston. Benson and Bunco elected to committee. A vote of thanks to entire stewards department for 4 4 4 ' FRANCES — Chairman George MOSTANK!^ May^S—Chairman a job well done. One minute of E. L. Molina; Recording Secre­ silence for brothers lost at sea. Clark; Recording Secretary Wil­ By HANK liam Janesch. Ship's Delegate 4i 4' 4< tary Jacob Merepelshie. All de­ ALLEGHENY VICTORY. May Clark. Deck Delegate John Lin­ partments shipshape. Stewards This is good news. A drive, sponsored by the joint steamship and Deck showers to be fixed. 16—Chairman John Kari; Secre­ coln. Engine Delegate J. Colon and railroad committee of the New York Maritime Association Hot water to be maintained at tary Lahaderne. Deck and Stew­ and Stewards Delegate Juan will begin this week (it's about time these maritime experts and all times. Foc'sles to be kept ards Departments reported okay. Rivera reported no beefs in de­ millionaires woke up) to secure more cargo for N. Y. because clean. Departments to rotate re­ Engine Delegate reported 200 partments. Voted to make repair of the general shipping slump hitting all ports. A special part sponsibility for recreation room, hours of disputed overtime to be list. Dan Butts gave talk on of this campaign will be to get ECA shipments which are ex­ week by week. Minute of silence held for Patrolman. New Busi­ strike technique. Discussion of pected to begin flowing soon to Europe due to financial appro­ ness: Brother Smith, referring to Arroyo beef. ^ater to be for Brothers lost at sea. priations allowed by the Washington politicians... If this Marshall charges in previous meeting ac­ checked and tanks cleaned in SEATRAIN NEW YORK—May Plan didn't exist it seems we would have permanently large un­ cusing him of carrying tales top­ New York. All crewmen to. be 19—Chairman R.. Sweeney; Sec­ employment for the seamen and hardly any merchant marine at side, insisted that he be brought preserit at next regular meeting retary C. Goldstein. New Busi­ all... Over in England thousands of longshoremen struck and up. on charges or minutes be cor­ in San Juan or pay five dollar ness: Motion carried that Seaover 200 ships are tied up. train Lines and the SIU be in­ rected. Ship's Delegate stated fines to hospitals. Minute of formed that the new bunks be­ that issue is personal and not silence for brothers lost at sea. 4 4 4 ing installed are very unsatisfac­ ship's business. Vote taken and Recently we read there are 100.000 active American seamen tory., Motion carried that the by unanimous agreement the MARINA. Mar. 30 — Chairman as of April 1948. The news item, which further revealed how company have keys made for minutes were changed. Ship's William Elliot; Recording Secre­ this nation and the world vitally depends on our disgracefully each foc'sle. Brother Woods Delegate told crew that voyage tary Andrew Newsad. Depart­ small merchant marine, didn't mention however the big un­ elected Deck Delegate. Good has been good, but company has ment delegates said there were employment hitting the seamen or the way they are being de­ and Welfare: Brother Thompson taken advantage of the one hour no beefs at aU. List of repairs suggested imder Good and Wel­ nied weekly unemployment payments because of ridiculous voiced thanks to the membership sailing rule. fare. Elected Edward Shields to interference by the shipowners. Since the shipowners are for helping to keep the laundry serve as Ship's Delegate. Messacting in this cheap , and cowardly manner and since all clean. Good and Welfare: Sev­ hall to be kept clean with de­ sailors can't be on the ships at one time, the only solution eral brothers expressed their partments rotating responsibility is to double the manning scales for all ships—which is a opinions of twa brothers who for recreation room. Vote of necessary factor in safely and efficiently operating the ships, walked off the ship without se­ thanks to Cooks for excellent anyway. curing ^placements. One min­ food. Suggested that more books ute of silence for brothers lost be obtained. Keep everybody at sea. but crews out of passageways. it 4i Brother Joe Barringer has been in town two weeks now and. Minute of silence for Brothers ROBIN DONCASTER. May 19 hopes all those ships repair their leaks and sail into port sO' lost at sea. —Chairman D. Stone; Secretary there'll be jobs...Vic Milazzo, the Steward, just stopped intO' M. Miles. New Business; Motion 4 4 4 town to say hullo to the boys before sailing into the Boston 4 4 S by Wargo that crew not to pay MARINJ»;. AprU 24—Chairman STEEL RECORDER. May 16— hospital. Vic recently finished a four month trip on a tanker off until a patrolman comes W. Elliot; Secretary Andrew Chairman George Molnar; Sec­ hitting Far East and Persian Gulf ports. Anyway, congratulations, aboard. Motion by Miles that Newsad. Delegates reported no retary Joseph Simmons. Depart­ Vic, and a smooth, voyage of matrimony. Don't raise too many" any charges against a crewmem- beefs. Robert Goodwin elected ments' shipshape. Molnar gave chickens on that Georgia peach farm of yours... Big "Dutch" ber not be discussed at the meet­ ship's delegate. Suggestions made talk on cooperation aboard ship Bolz says he just seen his shipmate, Pete McCoskey, the "Irish ing but be referred through the that men bejnore quiet when re­ SIU style, working rules and the Pollock" also on the beach... Leon "Chink" White just sailed delegates to the boarding patrol­ turning from ashore. Sugges­ Taft-Hartley Act. Too many into town from a long Far East trip... From Brother Jack man. List of repairs made up tion that mess and recreation dishes being lost.. Asked new Dietrich, fireman watertender, aboard the Robin ship. Marine «md approved. One minute of room be kept cleaner. percolator for P.O. mess. Min­ Arrow, we received a scenic postcard of Basutoland, somewhere ute of silence for Brothers lost at in Africa. How's things ashore for a sailor, Jack? Did you pick silence for brothers lost at sea. 4 4' 41 sea. up any LOGS? How about a story? SEA TRADER. May 7—Chair­ man Ralph Hampson: Recording Secretary Roy Tompkins. Elected William W. Moore to be Ship's Plenty of oldtimers in town: E. Robinson. J. Aguiar, Stew­ Delegate. Voted various repairs ard A. Gomes. J. Garcia. J. Masonsong, S. Yodris. Frank Burns. 4. 4. 4> CAPE SAN DIEGO. May 9— and cleaning operations to put G. Rourke. Steward J. P. Doran. C. Patraiker. E. Blaha. S. 4 4 4 Chairman H .Clemmens; Secre­ ship in real SIU shape. Cruz. G. Aronson. Bosun J. Gates, F. Martins. J. Downie. STEEL INVENTOR. April 18— tary A- Tremar. Deck and Stew­ 4 4 4 E. C. House. Bosun T. Cepreano. F. Palume. M. Arroyo. A. Chairman H. Arlinghaus: Record­ SEA TRADER. May 16— ards Delegates reported disputed Caligiura. J. Sotomayor. V. Strong. J. C. Mclntyre. R. E. overtime. Engine Delegate re­ Chairman Syphet; ' Recording ing Secretary E .F. Potts. Stew­ Lanoue. E. Ekiund. Steward J. Lomas. A. Partmen. H. M. ported all smooth. New Busi­ Secretary Tompkins. Voted for ards Delegate, Engine Delegate |Kbinson. W. McClure- and A. P. Hannan. ness: Motion by C. Terry that fresh milk and other stores in reported no beefs in depart­ crew refrain from wearing only first U. S. or Canadian port. Deck ments. Elected Steve Shack t underclothing in the messhall; Delegate Rydon said not more be Ship's Delegate. Two Can Also T. Shavaham, S. Bosmente, G. W. Johnson, N. Joseph, tropical shorts are okey. Discus­ than one set of gear to be raised adian seamen taken aboard in" H. V. Nielsen, R. De Fretes, V. Remolar, C. Murray, jE- Cantin, emergency believed to be okay sion on officers' interpretations of or lowered without calling watch H. Dirt, C. Berg, N. L. Mark, H. Wilson, E. R. Crowell, A. Schiadespite fact they're now non­ below. Engine Delegate Tomp­ the agreement, especially part vone, M. Soto, A. Swenson, J. Barron, J. Stickney, G. Ledson, A. union. Messman placed pro­ kins and Stewards Delegate concerning "work done by per­ Montemarano, N. Clifton, Carmelo Melendez and M. J. Feeheney sons other than the unlicensed Hampson reported all was well. bation for singing to .Captain. ,.. There are many more, too, of the oldtimers on our New York personnel." Crew agreed to Will ask for Ass't Electrician. Messhall to be kept clean. Min­ beach. It sure looks like a convention of some kind. A convention send cable to Secretary-Treasurer Repair list'• made. Minutq of ute of silence for Brothers lost waiting for ships that pass up New York in the night, it seems. silence for brothers lost at sea. at"sea. for action on officers. ATBASe, CUT and RUN , , • n �Cat, Bird, Fire, Typhoon Put Hex On Jackson, But Crew Is Chipper To the Editor: could gure the cat with his super-duper formula. The trusting passenger en­ trusted "Muffy" to his care and treatment. He got a gallon of Pinetex disinfectant and poured it in a bucket. The Sgcond Mate grabbed "Muffy" and dunked him a few times in the strong solution. Yes, fellows, it killed the mange and "Muffy" too. Once more the ship's- delegate was called and after a parley "Muffy" was buried at sea with full honors for a dead cat. Things w<ire peaceful for a few more days. Then, just as we arrived in Manila, someone Who said you can't have a good- time on" SIU ships? That guy should take a trip on the Andrew Jackson, Waterman, and see for himself. All we need to make this trip more historical than the Atomic Bomb is the bomb itself, and it wouldn't even be noticed on board this ship. - The trip started March 4th in New York. Right off Ambrose Light' we cut through a tow of bargeSi That put the Indian Sign on us. Later, coming down the Mississippi, our plant went dead. Oh boy! General Alarm. Drop that hook. One hour under way again, then a fog. Drop the anchor again. This tinie we sat there for three days. The Chief Mate loaded with 3.2-.so the Captain had to secure the hook. "Okay," he said, "Mate, you're fired in I%nama." He's still aboard, how­ ever, making it tough for Union men. One Bosun quit in New Orleans because of him. We spent two days in Cristobal for repairs, then through the Canal. Oh brothers, did he get cocky when we left Balboa. shouted "fire." A real blaze it Nearing Honolulu,. Les Pag- was. In the tonnage hatch aft n.ette, SUP, started up to the bow a couple himdred tons of red to go on lookout. Five minutes phosphorus and sulphur, both later he reported to the bridge, used for making matches, were "Mate, I can't get up on the blazing like mad. bow. There's a big bird up What a time we had. Every thfere with a big beak and he one walking around the decks looks vicious." got sulphur on his feet and every step taken was like striking a SCRATCH ONE BIRD match. -We put the fire out after Pagnette came aft and called a hectic battle, but the Manila Ship's Delegate Joe Wise. Up to fire fighters took all the credit the bow they went and with onfe in the newspapers. They got mighty swing with a deck scrub­ there just in time to save the ber over the side went the bird. cellar. After that Pagnette stood his BOOM BOOMED watch with the scrubber, looking The Bosun went to the hospi­ for lights ahead and anything tal in Hong Kong as a result -of with feathers and a big beak. Everything went along fine his fire biurns. Same time the u^tU. three days out of Manila. jumbo boom got tired of stand­ That .fine day a passenger's cat, ing up straight and came tumbl­ by name, came down ing down on the deck cargo. No­ w4th the mange. Our big shot body hurt, however. On we go to Yokohama. Half Chief IJJate told the passenger he ON THE 'BAUXITE TRAIL' Here are some of the Seafarers who helped keep MV Loop Knot ship-shape on recent run (left to right): R. Rendjergasb Oiler: J. James< Elec.; J. Petkac, DMi S. Felicko. OS: AlUard. Oilen E. Kelly, MM: P. Nash, Wiper, and D. Letoikmeau, NCR (catching forty in the corner). SOUP MUST BE GOOD ON THE SHOUP speed ahead and down goes the anchor. Full speed aateim. "Nice shackles in the water, sir." Wind­ lass pulled up from the deck, steam line brtfiten, so we rigged four booms and lowered a man to take a bite. No luck. Thirtysix hours later we cut loose and a tug took over our place at anchor. So on to Yokohoma went the great Andrew Jackson with one hook. Five days in the shipyard and we were ready to go again. That's all for now except for the uninteresting fact that we are now being chased by a 65mile an hour typhoon. Outside of that everything is very peace­ ful on the Jackson. Cheer up, mates. We still have 9,060 miles to go and so to New York. One good trip and clean payoff—minor beefs, of course. Can't wait for that payoff, but we will probably hear ourselves saying, "When do we leave for the Far East aagin?" The Crew Andrew Jackson Send Those Minutes • Send in the minutes of your ship's meeting to the New York HalL Only in that way can the memhership act on your recommendations, and then Nie minutes can be printed in the LOG for the benefit of all other SIU crews. Just to give LOG readers a graphic view of a wellstocked chow stowage unit, C. H. Dobbins (left) proudly dis­ plays his ample waistline, while Bosun Barrett good-naturedly admits his middle is just a poor second. Donald C. Renfro, a shipmate of Dobbins and Barrett aboard the SS Paul Shoup, took this photo when vessel wut on West Coast recently. He reports that Shoup men are "the best crew I ever sailed with—all Union and a good bunch of guys." 'J-o^ - 'The Norfolk Queen' By JAMES P. CONROY Of all the demented men I've seen. The worst of the lot was he— The man who ran the "Norfolk Queen," From Yofk to ApolL From the helmsman's hand he grasped the wheel/ • ^ Still crying, quite insane: "I'll'Steer to land, to rest my keel, Yoir blasted hurricane." "Captain WijUard" was the name. With thirty years off sfiore: Tame whene'er the sea vres tame. When 'twas angry, he was more. When the rocks are but a mile away. When the surf is heard so strong, 'Tis not a sailor's right to say. His skipper has done a wrong. Look out was upon the bridge. The night we met the gale: I stood upon the open ridge. Midst the rising wind's loud wail. As the laughing seas roar o'er the bow. As the cold winds lash your face# You can but stand and wonder how. Your ship cati stand the pace. The Skipper from the wheelhouse gased. Crying curses at the storm, I could as well have curses phrased. If I had been as warm. Like flowers torn from their stems. Ships are cast on land: * No wonder when, as childish whims. By vrazy men they're manned. a "Damn you wind," the Captain swore. "Damn your weakling sea, "You'll have to stir 'em up some more. "To slop the likes of me." I didn't see it happen, For the wind had" bent my chest, I could hear the timbers snappin' 'As though in vaip protest. The seas were roaring o'er the hatch. Sweeping boards off steady. And feats that seas could never match. The wind had done already. I could hear the Captain's laughter, X could hear the Captain's-scream. Yet whate'er did: come after, I know .but as a dream. The skipper didn't slacken speed, . He had it up full blast. Yea, every time the trough we freed, I thought it was our last. On a barren beach they found me, . They say they saw no more. The rest are surely in the sea. For they searched all breadth of shore. Into the sea h,e drove.'er Shrieking loud up to the wind: "in not give in to you, "I'll fight you to the No mere shall sail the "Norfolk 'Queen," Upon warm Apoli's swell: "Captain Willard" has a warmer scene, 'Midst behorned mates in Helh : ' / -Si-':'-- " '' ' . --5 " 'ii, • r i , \ • I'.' ; �Friday, June 2S. 1948 THE What Happened To Our Red Shouldn't Happen To A Dog SEAFARERS LOG Commie Bid For Waterfront Unity Seen As Plot ^To Save Their Skins' To the Editor: To the Editor: Page Eleven I note the despairing howls being rmsed by the Masters of Hocus Pocus in control of the NMU. Stalin's Comintern agents are now calling for "unity with the AFL maritime unions" to de­ feat reaction, which they have brought on themselves (and re­ action it undoubtedly is). has poisoned the air surrounding the maritime industry for a dec­ ade. These are the voices, which now call for "unity with the AFL maritime unions" to save their rotten necks from the re­ sults of their own blunders made in the service of political ex­ pediency serving a foreign mas­ ter. At no time did they serve the cause of the American sea­ men and genuine American un­ ionism— and they don't now. they so guess it, holes of America directed glibly boasted? You brothers—down the ratComintern activities in over CP-inspired and hot-air programs, j Sometime last April the SS Fairport left New York for the Med. In nine days we passed the "Rock." That's the first Water­ man ship I've been on that passed anything. We had a rare set Do you recall the political ac­ of passengers aboard—'opera singers. One of the girls could hit tion committee that was to re- ; a note so high that it could only be heard by a tall dog. form the world in the image We also had a basso-profundo, and believe me, nobody was and likeness of holy Russia? toiore profunda than this basso. And did this guy get seasick! How much did that cost? How He threw so much over the side the sea-gulls made him an many party shuli-duggerers honorary colonel. On the way over he ate so much rice he used were kept on /the payrolls for. to wake up in the middle' of the night singing "Chinatown." It years, dishing out the "line?", But think awhile and look was interesting to note that this Italian in the "36" Olympics And how many were seamen or back on the record of the years. icame in third in grape-treading. I also noticed this trip Water­ This is the scabrous crew of related to the industry? man is going all out for advertising—;the alphabet soup contains Who collaborated with the ship­ parasites riding on the seamen's Yes, Unity—the unity of all: owners and drove all who did backs, who call for unity of nothing but "Ws." American seamen behind the' not approve into the 99-year honest workers to save their EYE-OPENER American concept unions and ^ i Our first port was Genoa. Here the gang dug in at the club? Who boasted through the skins. As treacherous a bunch of leaderships to hold and better" years of the mighty power that political rogues as ever disgraced our conditions and fight fascism "Chokabanana." The joint feaAmerican labor! >!tures oysters on the half-shell of the red type as well as the • is the NMU and of their econ­ (actually they're eye-balls left black or brown. Let the saviours' omic power—not to speak of UNITY UNDER AFL CH0«C6-Aover from the battles of the of Teheran and the Yalta con- ; their political drag - in Washing­ e/w/AMA6pTS/ Unity there will be, unity night before). They also spe­ ference fry their own fish. They ton during the open door class Its oipx&s! cialize in two kinds of meat— collaboration policies under the there must be but unity behind have sounded off long enough, the AFL unions and leadership. too long. dead or alive. If you take a "Stalin is our brother" theory? Bandwich out, it's cut so bad Who insulted the AFL unions NEW BOY they don't wrap it—they band­ continuously and heaped con­ age it. However, in all cases the Now it's Wallace that is their" tumely on the members and customers are given preference darling. He will solve all the officials of these unions? Their l^'tover the roaches. problems of the world. Funny viper words ring in my ears yet. Next Trieste. Tony's Place is how those apes forget the prob­ Who secretly exulted when some a modern five floor sewer. But lems of the industry and must, cracked un-American brain what a dance floor—genuine wood. It's kinda small though. One always follow a godhead under painted hammers and sickles on crowded night a girl fainted and had to finish a tango and waltz orders. Have they no mind of American ships and even raised before she could fall. On the last night I danced cheek to cheek their own? How they love de­ red flags? all night—with the girl behind me. The latest I heard was they're mocracy when they crave t© Do you remember the marches enlarging the floor to accommodate one complete couple. destroy it. And how they shoot On to Piraeus! After four trips here I finally saw the Ac­ through the streets of New York the democrats in the name of ropolis. Was I surprised—it isn't a restaurant after all. Since the and those alien-minded Stalin dictatorship afterwards. It's the last time 1 was here "John Bull" made his place wider—he took stooges yelling themselves hoarse same bunch, boys, the same who down the wallpaper. Here you can always find a crowd of about with shouts of "The Yanks Ain't The members of the NMU have are now shrieking for unity with Coming" and "Let God Save either left that political circus the AFL Unions after 10 years 60 odd people—some are odder than others. The King?" I do, and my stom­ or have paid the price for the of much raking and boasting. LEARNS FAST ach turns. glorified gum-beating, which Now they are caught in a trap Two days later—Turkey. In a short time I picked up a few they called leadership. They of their own making. CHANGED TUNES words of the language, and I quote, "gobble-gobble." One day have paid the price in expul­ I went to Derence. The town is one mile above sea-level—two Yes, we will have unity—^but Do you recall the day Hitler's sions -if they spoke as free men miles too high. The surrounding waters abound in jelly-fish, with whom? Think hard and act, hordes marched across the Rus­ in a free nation, or by cut-rate including apple, plum, peach, and cherry. The local light company wisely. This is no time to. go sian border and these wolves sell-out contracts if silent. consists of five ^-watt bulbs and one dry-cell fprobably left over off half-cocked. were calight with their political Where is the vaunted strength? from the new jail). pants down. "The Yanks Can't Where are the millions of dollars Wandering Seafarer Time staggers on to GuLfport, Miss.—so much better than Get There Fa^t Enough" and Derence. They've got nine 3-watt bulbs here. Rocketing out of "Open the Second Front" result­ here I went to New Orleans for a north bound train. Some train— ed. • if you think the Virginia Creeper is a flower you're mistaken— Yes, the same Ferdy the Fink it's a railroad. This one is so slow the cows wear train-catchers. While passing through Alabama I reached out the window and was leading the parades and picked a bale of cotton. The conductor should've been a cowboy— through his party ghostwriter was doing the bidding of his he had a ten gallon head. .want very much to keep in touch''' Finally New York—I see my picture was in a recent "LOG." masters, while the NMU suffered To the Editor: with you and your work... ^ The 6th floor reports an 80% decrease in donations. I warned 1 by cut-rate contracts. That mis... We've been following ypur Did you ever get a review • them. Any other insults can be sent to me c/o the South St. ] erable Comintern hack grafted reviews of our books with concopy modern translation by the party on the NMU as ., ^ , u v, -^^.7 of — our -v.- ...— Towers where I'm resting after ONE ROUND TRIP. Pilot Editor Lowell Chamberlain ''«™,ol 'The Odyssey? It has been ^ "Red" Campbell most impressed with the job you ve been doing. your membership might particuTHHY PAID OFF IN SOUND, SIU STYLE I think you succeed unusually larly like it. (Ed. note: "Th© ^ well in conveying in a few ^ Odyssey" was reviewed in the words the character and the LQC of June 11. 1948.) I'll .send - " quality of the books steering a you a copy, along with some, true course between the self- of the other recent Signets and consciously literary and the sort, Mentors — including "About the of "writing down" that some re- Kinsey Report: Observations by viewers indulge in. In other n Experts on 'Sexual Behavior words, I think you do an honest in the Human Male'." job for honest men ... WANT SUGGESTIONS That's the kind of job we try to do in selecting the books for We're always open to sugges­ publication under Our imprint, tions for new titles to be added and our belief in the good taste to our list. If you, or if crew*of our fellows has been borne members of any of the ships, out by the popularity of books|I would VVV....V. like to submit lists of formerly considered "^ighbrow. books they'd like to see issued at 25 cents and 35 cents, we'd BOOKS IMPORTANT find them helpful, I know. . The digested notes of the Arabel J. Porter minutes of the SS John Miller Associate Editor particularly pleased me, for tl/ey Penguin Signet certainly give good indication Books and Pelican ... that books are an important Mentor Books part of the lives of the men at sea. (Ed. note: The crew of the (Ed. Note: What do you Miller' suggested that individual want to read? Here's a chance members of crews bring aboard to get it between covers in several pocketsize books apiece handy pocket size for the askCarson sailed again for Italy June 7. No iden­ - Black Gang aboard the SS William Carson, a for the benefit of all.) ing. The LOG will forward tification accompanied photo, which was taken South Atlantic scow, that paid off in Charles­ We shall certainljr-^ntinue to any suggeitions received frons during first part of voyage. Tell us who you ton on June 4. Payoff -was reported as "a real send you review "copies, and do| Seafarers.. are when you send pictures. SIU job." thanks to a capable SIU crew. The Publisher Praises Reviews, Seeks Members' Title Tips <1 �• ifl Page Twelve T H'B^ S BJ'F^R B its ta C Friday. June 25. 1848 At Roots Port Baltimore 'AFL Jowmeyiiiaii' Mates. Grey Hair, Says Sounds Beef, Gets Clarification Of Bosuns' The Duke To the Eklltor: I've been sailing Bosun five years, but I couldn't get this Here are a few lines from the Mate to give me the right over­ SS Thomas Cresap which is hell-ship of the Isthmian line. time. In a whole monib L ha\ce;' We are in Port. Said, now, and gotten only 23 hours, If that we have had three shipboard became the general practice why. rneetings coming across. The first would a man ever sail Bosun?^ two were necessarily shorti but. He might as well be an- OS on at the last; one on May.- 2A we the 4-8 watch. really covered a, lot. of, gpound We'll be back in October. Duke Himler including a lot of discussion of gpod Unionism. The Black Gang,. Delegate, call him "Lefty," is., right on his toes- The Stewards Delegate is doing fine and so. is the Deck Delegate. I happen, to be the Ship's Delegate, and make out the .best I can. ALMIGHTY It- seems that the Master thinks he is God Almighty with Tp, the Editor;, the power- and, authority to Mtembers of the SUP ah Pbrt'- -' scratch- oute overtime at will. As land-, Ore-., were on hand' durmgia result: there's a. Ijit; ofc over­ the- Rose Festival to-- - prcsent-' time in dispute. The Patrolmen Queen Barbara I, of Rosarij^ ; will' have to take it- from there. with- an engraved shipfs bellj ' The Mate waa a little hard' to given- her by the Catholic Mari- • get along with in the beginning time- Club at the occasion of its, but he is coming along fine now­ formal opening- June 12; adays.. In this connection, let me A representative group of sear say that I have read those ar­ men- greeted the diminutive ticles-. in the LOG called "Why queen" and her court of lovely= > Bosuns Get Grey Hair," and that princesses and, Royal Rosarians I know why: it's the Mates a and escorted them through the rooms of the new club, which« Bosun has to cope with. s open to merchant seamen- ok' all creeds and nations The clubi located at 512 West Burnisde—just a few blocks west of the Union Hall^—offers rec­ reational facilities, sucht as pingpong and pool. There are read-. ing and -writing rooms, wellstocked with magazines and" writing materials. There's a juke box that doesn't eat nickels, a piano, radio and room to dance. A snack bar offers coffee, sand- . wiches, soft drinks and soups^ One of the outstanding features. of the club is its shower room and laundry. ' John P. Curry, director of the" new club, was among the spon-. sors present to welcome seamen and encourage them to make use. of the facilities available and to enjoy the homelike atmosphere. of the Catholic Maritime Club of Portland. L Ht Pepper Book No. 3161 . To Ihe Editor: sult that many men will, speed' restricted to that port. Last I am a Baltimore AFL mem­ to that port at great expense, waokt Nowv Yrorki shipping- was headlined as. at a. "standstilL" ber, who has lived and worked and then discover that they Mobile was reported slow. must hang around the beach in the Locust Point section of the Savannah, likewise. Surely, for a long while before being, ^Baltimore waterfront for 35 ''AFL Journeyman" should notable to ship out. Although years. I see the LOG every ooneiden repocti of' slow ship^ Baltimore ships a great number week. It's not right but I can see of men, she also has consider­ Rtngc a rea«»:tiQih on^ his; city. J •At any rate„ the SIU. is. pxpud," Why you birds in New York able manpower on the beach. of the role played by the. Port That shipping should be re­ boost that port but, I'm d d of Baltimore and shares with ported as "slow" in Baltimore if I can see why your Baltimoce the brother his respect for that is no reflection on thai city Agent runs down the city that great pori cijiy» and such a descripticm is n>t gives him a living. It certainly looks as if the SIU and the LOG~ are doing their d dest to be­ IN SOUP AND SUN ON TOE RECQSimC little the city and Port of Balti­ more. But your own scorebox. makes a liar out of you. and; Itentz. '-yf. Every week Baltimore is a close second to New York, with your favorite port of Philly at the bottom. This week New York shipped 189 and Baltimore 207 in the Deck Department, The wonder port of Philly shipped. 59i The totals are: New York—640, Baltimore—469, and Philadelphia —192. I'm AFL but if the SIU doesn't think anymore of my hometown and the port that feeds my family, I'll d d well see to.it that my local goes slow in back­ ing you the next time you have a beef. S, i, i, "AFL Journeyman" Digging its way through the (Ed. Note: The LOG gen­ erally does not publish letters Mississippi fog, . Isthmian'sSteel Rscordex- passea. close te not bearing the name of the sender. In this case, however, two other SlU-manned vessels, we are waiving the rule so that; the SS- Del Albat at the right, we may clear up our AFL, and; an unidmitified SealraiUi brother's misunderstanding.. Si 4" t First, let us state emphatir cally that the SIU regards At- right;—Joe Simmons, SeaBaltimore as one of the na­ faxCT- responsible for the foggy, tion's major ports—certainly foggy picture is flanked- by- fel^ one of the most active on the low- Steel Recordmv crewmen. East Coast. Baltimore's tradi­ At left is Benny D^ina, Wiper tion as a port city ranks it and: on; the righb Chips. Weges? with the great ports of the cheide> Carpenten In. a note ac­ world, and for her admirable companying the pictures. Bro­ record of solidarity among ther Simmons suggested a ' AFL unions she stands second word of thanks to- the- organ­ to none. The LOG has on izers for getting ships like this ri; many occasions emphasized Isthmian C-T; under contract. this fact. % % ^ As for Baltimore's shipping I ;!? • record, it is generally recogr nized as top-ranking. Although; it stands high — even in this period of slow shipping— Mbtbfei; Baltimore is shipping- fewer To the Editor: ta think it- over before we were| The^ hadi» few performers Great Admirer of Union men than- she does lutder quite-out-of-port-and-we-let-th««-j but- they- seen- got- theii«- walkinf- To the Ediior: Here's a few lines from the off with little delay. normal conditions. It. is fox papers. Wa are alf anxious to that- reason that Agent Curly men on; the Monroe making the Some of the boys are nuts get into, port again and see the I would appreciate it very Rentz—who, for the record, is Sugar Run between the continent; about; the- islmi^ aiwfe aonwe fhft hi^htgi muidjv if youj would mail' the of Baltimore's, biggest and Puerto Rico. Some of the natuws; are- nut» tp^ my. moth©; whose adonfe oft ih Wb'lii sign: now witJh a JkQGr t£h boosters—uses care in, repprt- boy sure seem to enjoy this I: hewe hHied ouf on- the iord'. thwjJss to. the- diflfenroh ifhrm: entdpflftd on job activityc in his run. and seem to enjoy every •joimem im the: pontfr who; ^ I port.' He does not want- to product of the sugar cane also. is an very great jwaya mana^ to, ^ the- ifttesh kdflwsenmothanThi& ship is a nice seagoing encourage over-optimism . by of? the and; the> work |L0€fe- to us as- aeoife as wo hih if ifti^inB; Qhtalmng: saying; jobs axe- very pleatiful vessel. She sits like a duck in the presfiORh when they're not, wlthi the re­ the water and just floats ^along. enfe-day condfUems fbr- seamen-. |S-r Another of A. H. Bull's old gals. Bm: Jordan Qxow of: Utft) We have a nice bunch aboard iWARN^ SEAFARERS and all' try to pull together like GYP ARTIST' good; Union brothor-s. We are QJS. WEST COAST all paying our- new assessments with pleasure for we know that To the Editor: it is an insurance for our future ^•^East December in Longbeach> and- our Union's future as well. SISAiAlKjPS HCICb imr tie wiQklif,, a, salesman came aboard Here is. a- word of prai-se for iiopft Jli% IW jpst the vesaeb I was on and. offered; our Stewards Department which 'a three-year subscription to Life is doing a fine job in keeping magazine for $11. As a gift, sub­ the boys contended and the belts scribers- were promised a foun­ strdining at the seams. Our .: tain pen and a Webster diction­ Chief- Steward' Jim Grant, is a ary; real Union man and is all out to miMhi iim mmc QM bound This was a fraud: I never got please everyone. His tables are s«r mm tm aix ^ t ^ the, pen nor the dictionary and aiwiys' laden "witr" go^^^^ vm van oH 9m my family never received; the ^im and the cooperamagazixie. gives out- with a blB smilV tion cff-" his department-. So. remember., whern in Long AH Seafarers who wisbt to sat up? a. ^isnaoent; file® ^ whaa hisr poih they're. CHANGi© THEJR. MIIJP, Beaoh, San Pedro, or Wilmingr iishingf, AH, nwdB In-. 'wieb sfc minimiirn* ofi efibuh sfieukl act proa^oty:. TM ^ ton,, Calif., don't lefc that guy On. our Jaat two departuxes Igge vdth the WBl»r„ lus» BaRRY take you over. , from. Ponce:; we had. some stow­ says he's a sure hAt> tp. a. Abound volmnes may be purchasedVat tbe Headquarters Henry de Ruyier aways aboard but they seemed Seafarer In a few years. baggage room, 4th floor, J1 Beaver Street, New York City, y Doc Pepp^ TeHs Of Kcw: Coast Club i- Sugar Runners A Gang Cki Mimroe laPlf MHH U|g|S mm WBBKm �Page Thixieen .Friday, June 2b, 1S4» FROM A FLORIDA CREWMAN*S mETCmBOOK rfT': • Crew Of Edm<»it 'Credit To SIU:' Mate AB; M. Ekman, AB; L. Atkins, OS; A. Lutaves, OS, and W. It gives me a lot of pleasure Vogel, OS. to write this letter to tell you what a fine crdw I have had this trip. Led by A. A. Smith, as good, or better than any Bosun I've seen either before, during ' or To the Editor: since the war, the whole Deck I want to thank you for the Gang has done an exceedingly nice spread you gave my ar­ ticle, "The Old Days and the good job. New," in the LOG of June 4, The ship doesn't quite look and for the excellent work and like a yacht yet, as this trip editing of another article of mine has been too short. Another trip you published last January. or two like this one, however, I have been a seaman and tmand she will. ion man for 25 years and catai The men I now have are a truthfully say that the LOG is great credit to the SIU. The the finest trade journal I have more crews like this one the ever read. It is free and clean SIU sends aboard ships, the of politics and biases and is more prestige both the Union strictly for the membership and and the whole U.S. merchant their welfare. It could well put marine will gain. some of the large daily sheets Let's have more like them on to shame ... „ all our ships! It also brings the SIU mem­ bers together. The LOG keeps Richard Emerson. the membership posted on all Chief Mate current events and if they read SS Cape Edmont, it diligently there is no reason Alcoa SS Co. why they shouldn't be posted at, P.S.: The crewmembers are: all times on Union activities. A. A. Smith, Bosun; E. KounAugustus Cottrell darakis, DM; L. Kirkland, AB; (Ed. Note: CottrelTs articles R. Tyssey, AB; J. Ha wee, AB; will appear in the LOG from J. P. Mastin, AB; F. Harshorn, time to time.) To the Editor: Calls Log 'Finest Trade Journar Some aspects of -life aboard the Florida, as seen by Seaf&rer Emigdio Reyes. Shipboard life Is Rugged As SS Florida Resumes Havana Run, Crewman Declares fFo the Editor: The SS Florida is back from drydock and is making its over­ night milk run to Havana iregularly. The portside screw •was replaced, and the 100-passenger deck was air conditioned —BUT the crewmembers still jroast in their quarters. • The -room waftSTs, after a twoWeek rest, are raring to go on the grind again. Calling it a "fgrind" is no exaggeration. • It's baggage Une from 4:30 p.m. until sailing time. Tables must lae set before the dining room is thrown open to a rushing crowd of tourists who actually fight their way to the best tables. 'After that there's no rest for the 'waiters until nine and sometimes To o'clock. WORST TO COME . - In the morning, out of the hot sack you go at 6:00 a.m. to have the dining room ready at 6:30, You serve breakfast until 8:00 or later. Usually there are still passengers in the dining room long after the ship has docked. You're only beginning the day's work. The worst is yet to come. Rushing out of the dining room you take the baggage of 20 : or 30 passengers ta the dock. ; When all your passenger's bag­ gage has been examined by an unorganized bunch of Havana customs inspectors, you trudge back to your quarters in a bad mood. To make things worse, the chances are the tips have not been what you expected. After cleaning, sweeping, mop­ ping, polishing brass and making 30 berths in 10 staterooms, you can call yourself a free ^oul until 4:30 p.m.. When the same routine starts all-over again. The need of a Hall in Miami is becoming more apparent each trip. On this first trip after drydock, six room waiters were laid off in the most unofthodox man­ ner. They had signed off when the ship left for drydock. When they went to sign on with the rest of the crew, the Purser just didn't allow them to—by order of P & O's Port Steward. The Ship's Delegate was un­ able to do anything, his hands were tied. Now the Tampa Hall has plenty of troubles of its own, so it is bound to be a whole week before the Patrolman will get here. Meanwhile, we are sailing short. In other words, the company took a sock at the crew and nothing can be done about it but sit around and wait because there is no Hall in Miami. OTHER INSTANCE There is another instance that shows the need of a Hall in Miami. This was when a crew Messman was transferred to the rating of Bellman. A few weeks ago, 2,822 voted to stop such promotions, with only 278 favoring them. The winning referendum was plainly printed in the LOG: "No man may be promoted or allowed to transfer from one job to another on board ship except in case of extreme emergency." In this case there was no emer ;/ency. The Messman had bis shipping ticket given to him by the Ship's Delegate two weeks before transferring—at the same time that the relief Bellman signed off. There were bookmen on the beach here and more in the Hall in Tampa. Besides, that same day those six men had been laid off as waiters, any one of whom could have used the job as Bell­ man. Upon a mild protest, the Ship's Delegate .stated that the Tampa Agent had .authorized -him to make the change because it "was not considered a promotion." SO STATED Perhaps it is not a promotion— oh the base pay. But it is a change of job, and some of us believe it is a violation Of the new shipping rules. Some of us voted against the whole idea of promotion and transfer of jobs aboard ship. That was'the way it was printed on the ballot we used for voting. It was so stated in the LOG when the amendments to the shipping rules were published. Neither a'delegate nor any SIU Hail is authorized to modify the result of a referendum until so authorized by a new vote. It was to abolish just such changes that-the new amendment was adopted. So far as we on the Florida are concerned, a lot of misunder­ standing and consequent delay could be avoided. If we had a Hall in Miami instead of being under the jurisdiction of a dis­ tant Hall having problem of its own. Emigdio Royis:;^:- Hospital Locations Requests occasionally come from members for a complete li^ of Marine Hospitals throughout the U. S. The LOG will publish these listings from time to time and suggests that the Brothers clip and keep them for future reference. The complete list of Class A U.S. Marine Hospital is printed below. In addition to these the United States Public Health Service also provides second and third class relief stations in smaller American cities and foreign ports. Baltimore, Maryland—Wyman Park Drive and 31st Street. Out-patient office—Custom House. Boston (Brighton). Massachusetts—77 Warren Street. Bos- ton. Out-patient office—Custom House, Boston. Buffalo, New York—2183 Main Street. Out-patient office —328 Federal Building. Carville. Louisiana—(P.H.S. Leprosarium.) Freight and •vxpress addre^: St. Gabriel. Louisiana. Chicago, Illinois—4141 Clarendon Avenue. Out-^patient of­ fice—^New Port Office Building. Cleveland. Ohio—Fairhill Road and East 124th Street. Out-patient office—^New Post Office Building. Detroit, Michigan—^Windmill Pointe. Out-patient officePost Office Building. Ellis Island, New York. Fort Stanton, New Mexico—(Tuberculosis.. Sanatorium.) Freight and express address: Capitan, New Mexico. Galveston. Texas—45th Street and Avenue N. Out-patient ; office—302 Custom House. 'Kirkwood, Missouri—525 Couch Avenue. Memphis, Tennessee—Delaware and California Streets. Mobile. Alabama—St. Anthony and Bayou Streets. New Orleans, Louisiana—210 State Street. Out-pedient office—Custom House. New York, New York—(Dispensary) 87 Hudson Street. Out-patient office—Barge Office. Norfolk, Virginia—^Hampton Boulevard, Larchmont. Out­ patient office—Custom House. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania—40th Street and Penn Avenue. Out-patient office—^Federal Building. . Portland. Maine—331 Veranda Street. Out-patient office— Custom House. San Juan, Puerto RicOw. San Francisco, California—14th venue and Park Blvd. Out-patient office—Appraiser's Building. Savannah, Georgia—York and Abercom Streets. Seattle, Washington—Judkins Street and 14th Avenue South. Out-patient office—^Federal Building. Slapleton, Staten Island, New York—Bay Street. Yineyard Haven, Massachusetts. k i'i m �Iltiffc. Page Fourteen i-- THE SE AF AREHS LOG Friday. June 25. 1848 The Sea Makes All Men Equal 'iJi The S.S. Allinga was not a big rying a nice group of passengers, "This the Allinga, I guess?" he his guns about, prgised his spe­ drag him below, out of sight. cial saddle, jingled his silver I returned and, when about to boat; but, badly built and top mostly girls, called at Gladstone asked with a twang. his golden connect the hose, 1 saw in a heavy, she was a good boat for in Shark's Bay on our usual A bevy of pretty girls met the spurs, and flashed Cowboy with their smiles. smile. There was excitement, joy corner of the saloon deck the small fish and big sharks. She run. ' rolled in bad weather and on There walked up our gang­ •'Are you from Texas?" asked and laughter. y cross seas with sickening jars— way two new passengers, who a sweet girl in pink. I turned and looked to the enough to make a lubber green immediately attracted attention. The Cowboy stretched himself Westward, at the rising clouds ^ around his gills. She gave no The first one was an independ­ the full length of his six feet on the horizon. I shook my head rest to her crew at sea, or in ent Businessman with a serious and two inches in his boots, and frowned. mien, dressed in white flannel gave her a golden smile, took At sunset, the wind began to i port. ' We were running coastwise in suit, neatly pressed, immaculate off his big hat with a flourish blow and the cross sea ran, at the Allinga and carrying passen- —as though he had come from and answered: "Yep, mah young the mouth of Shark's Bay. The ' gers, up and down, from Free- a bandbox and was going to his lady; I'm Joe Clayton, the best S.S. Allinga started to roll again. rider and toughest man west of One by one the passengers left - mantle to Derby, during the hot bank. ^^ell. She was a busy, noisy The second one was a tall Fort Worth!" He patted-his guh. the saloon deck and went below. J steamer, with a strong smell, cowboy in full regalia — boots The eyes of pretty girls shined Darkness descended. The wind and sea increased. The Allinga ' but she was making lots of with silver spurs, and a pair of upon the tall Texan. ran and rolled as usual. A few dough for the company. TWO HEROES rain squaUs came, swept aslant, Cowboy, face down, as though Some 500 sweaty buUs, bound With the two worthies aboard, and lashjed across the ship. But he had "bitten the dust." for the slaughter house, bellowed there was no time to lose. We it was not a bad night. in the forward holds and sent I shook him hard. He was aKve hoisted the gangway and let go HEROES NO MORE up a lot of hot air. Some 5,000 and came to his senses with a the lines with a .splash. The isheared sheep blah-blahed like ship turned round short and At dawn, came my turn to groan. He struggled to his feet niutton heads in the stuffy pens steamed straight to sea, down clean up and wash down the 'and steadied himself with diffi-* on the'^after deck. saloon deck before, the early culty. He was led, tottering, the Shark's Bay. It was Sunday afternoon. I birds would start their promen­ below and helped into his bunk. Between toese two, some 50 had done my turn at the wheel ade. I had just rolled out the Five minutes later, ^ when first class passengers, ladies and and, going aft to^ look at the water hose when I received an washing down the. saloon deck, gentlemen, dressed in white, there came to my mind a poem log, saw the pair of passengers unpleasant .surprise. lounged in the deck-chairs amidThere lay, slumped in a deck by Byron: again. ship, sipping whiskey and soda The Businessman kept pacing chair, the Businessman. He was "Roll on, thou deep and dark ' - and enjoying themselves. In the fall of 1915, when the pistols stuck in the holsters of the saloon deck, aloof, and helpless, and wet as a wick. He blue ocean. season's trade was done, the Al­ his belt—carrying on his back a swinging ' his cane made of looked as if he had been out Roll! shark's backbone. He seemed to all night, slumming, and had linga left light, from Freemantle special saddle. Teh thousand ships sWeep to Bunbtury, to make the short The Businessman stepped be a man of wealth, conscious gotten sick-drunk on cheap stuff, , over thee in vain. run without the ballast — and aboard as if he owned the boat, of power, an aristocrat whom a and had finished the night lying Man marks the earth with taking the chance of turning and could fire the Captain and poor seaman could not reach in a gutter . ruin. the crew. with a boat-hook. He was a sad saclt. I had to His control turtle. Stops on the watery plain!" No sooner had we gotten out­ The Cowboy boarded the ship, The Cowboy, a hero to the make him look decent and R. J. Peterson side, then the ground swell cocky and flashing his gold teeth. pretty girls around him, tossed I tighten his belt before I could caught us and the night fell. It began to blow. Seas rose sharp and ran fast—right abeam! The Allinga started to roll, restless, as if she had pain in her belly. She lost a lot of her In his recent appearance be­ to certain types of unfair labor employer was required to main- • ion security disclosed the in­ tain strict impartiality during terruption to peaceful collective steam. Loud cracks were heard fore the Congressional "Watch­ practices against unions. dog" Committee, charged with As a result, unions are finding union campaigns. However, the bargaining that the prohibition below. Bulkheads groaned. There was no sleep for any overseeing the operation of the it more and more difficult to,very loosely worded and inter- of the closed shop has brought. man aboard that night. Men Taft-Hartley law, AFL Ph-esident obtain action on unfair labor preted free speech proviso of This has proved particularly ser­ hung on where they stood, their Green presented a report which practices that they have field tiie Taft-Hartley law makes it ious in such industries as the possible for the employer to building trades where the closed heads swimming. Those who lost summarized the results obtained against employers. from a questioimaire directed to state clearly and unequivocally shop has been an institution /for ELECTION PROCEDURE 171 AFL field representatives to his position with regard to un- several decades. determine the effect of the T-H There have been several new ion organization, The requirement for the un­ law on union organization. changes in NLRB procedure) K is true he cannot coerce or ion shop election has proved Brother Green ended his re­ which have handicapped union intimidate his employees into extremely burdensome. Union marks with the statement that organizational efforts. Several voting against union represen- leaders have naturally been gra­ tified at the results of these el­ the law is so thoroughly malig­ representatives specifically men­ ections, but this does not ob­ nant that it is beyond remedy or tion the prohibition which the scure the fact that this require­ cure, and that the only solution new law places upon the holding of pre-hearing elections. ment of an undemocratic elec­ would be complete repeal. tion has interfered with the or­ 'The following brief excerpts The use of this device had derly process of collective bar­ enabled the board under the are from the report: gaining. All but a very few represen­ old law to expedite many peti­ One of the most vicious as­ their grip were flung helplessly tatives indicated that they were tions for certification. However, under the new law this proced­ pects of. the union security issue from side to side until they experiencing delays under the under the Taft-Hartley law is brought up against a stanchion new law. Most of this delay has ure is no longer open to the that the federal law is made to and managed to hold on ex- been the direct result of the re­ board. . Representatives also report enforce the state statutes pro­ haustedly. quirement that employee elec­ that employers are using their hibiting all types of union se­ tions be held before any type of BAD NIGHT curity. new freedom in filing petitions to union security clause can be ne­ j,e can do, how- The effect of this law has been Now and then, the Allinga fell gotiated between unions and forestall and delay union organization. ever, is to state very clearly. to weaken union organization in on her side, and remained lying management. The flood of union employees to listen those areas and among those oyer, with a shiver of suspense. security elections has held up One provision of the new actj^^^ opposition to union or- groups which are most in need Between the running seas, the all other types of board, activity. whose effect is still open to board interpretation is section' • i, of it. It has given encourage­ dark hollows yawned menacing The effect of these board de­ 9 (c) (5) which knocks out the ment to anti-union employers. at the lee; and the white crests lays on union organization is ATTITUDE OF EMPLOYEpS board's "extent of organization" In.connection with the second­ showed, flashing a sinister smile. very clear. If a union has been Hours passed; endless, they organized among the employees doctrine. Prior to. the new law. The overwhelm-ing majority of ary boycott issue, organizers re­ seemed. Shadows of the night of a new plant, those employees the board frequently permitted AFL representatives declared the port that while the instances in rose and fell before the men's are anxious to have the formal departmental or section bargain-' attitude of some employers has which unions have been accused ing units, 'stiffened considerably since en- of violating the law in this re­ eyes. process of certification completed However, this practice is no'actment of the Taft-Hartley law. gard have not been numerous, At eight a.m. the darkness as quickly as possible. longer permitted under the new In effect, the act has provided they have reflected a type of turned a ghastly grey, The sun If .this procedure—which could act, and as a result unionized anti-union employers with new union-busting which has gone had risen, and the weather be­ through the-process of consent employees in such establishments, weapons which they have not far beyond the intent of Con­ gan to moderate—and we could election take as sHort a period as large banks and insurance been reluctant to utilize. The gress. see! of time as one or two months companies are almost certain to act furnishes employers with The night hawk (the Steward) GENERAL COMMENTS drags out to 9 or 10 months be deprived of any union's rep- convenient excuses to delay col­ stood on the boat deck, wiping The information concerning lective bargaining negotiations through employer stalling and resentation. hts sweaty • brow with a soiled damage suits was very similar and to object to proposals to the slow process of board. pro­ napkin. FREE SPEECH which they would otherwise to the data dealing with second­ "God's truth! I thought she cedure, th^ employees are bound ary boycotts. Although relatively to lose interest in the upion. agree. free It is evident that the would turn over..." He gasped few damage suits have b^en By turning the balance of barTaftspeech provision in the out, looking around wild eyed. .Insofar as unfair labor prac­ filed e gainst unions, those that Hartley law has been turned ingaining strength in favor of emtices are concerned, unions are 'T thought, the Allinga was go­ have been filed have proved ing to turn over like h^ sister facing an additional obstacle in to one of the most vicious and ployers, t^e act has stiffened very effective devices for tying ship did, and spill us into the attempting to expedite board diabolical instruments ever plac- employer resistance to the gi-ant- up union fifiance^ and combat­ sea—tor the hungry sharks.,. procedure because the Taft- ed at the disposal of antiunion ing of third-round wage in- ing union activities. creases. Hartley Act; requires that the employers. So help me God!" he cried. Inquiry into the issue of unUnder the Wagner Act the (Continued on Ba^e board give prior consideration On one trip the Allinga, car- ^ ; T-H Act Malignant, Beyond Remedy, Says Green If �Page Fifteen THE SEAT AR E R S . LOG Friday. June 25. 1948 Pres. Green Reports On Taft-Hartley MesSf The total effect of -the Taft{Continued From Page 14) A number of individuals com­ Hartley law on union-manage­ mented on the problem of the ment relations, which becomes jurisdiction of the NLRB. In apparent from an analysis^!; of several cases the new board has these questionnaires, can be asserted its authority over par­ summarized as one of iruslraticular industries and trades tion." The law has given a new which previously had not been weapon to the enemies of labor, a Weapon with which they are"' subject to its jurisdiction. able to frustrate the desire of This has caused a good deal employees for representation of confusion in many predomin­ through union organizations. antly local establishments which While many fair-minded em­ are not certain whether they do ployers have continued to deal or do not come under the board's frankly and honestly with the jurisdiction. unions of their employees, the A number of organizers com­ law has discriminated against mented that the Taft-Hartley law them by helping their antiunion has meant that more than ever competitors. before lawyers are being re­ The feeling of frustration is ; tained by employers to repre­ evident, too, at the bargaining sent them in collective bargain­ table. Full and open discussipn • ing negotiations. of the facts in dispute has tend­ The result of this injection of ed to give way to sharp bargain- • legal talent has' been to intro­ ing on technical points,' with duce even greater delays and each side suspecting the iqotives more technical phraseology in­ and intentions of the other. to collective bargaining at a As one organizer puts it, "We ; time when open and frank dis­ find much more restraint ahd • cussion between unions and fencing for position at the bar- ] management is so desperately gaining table, and less fuU and • needed. open collective bargaining^" SS CHAMBERLON N. Vrdoljak. $4.00; C. F. Hoong $4.00; W. W. McLean, $3.00; C. SS ROBIN DONCABTER W. E. Kittrell. $2.00; M. M. Mifes. Ripley. $5.00; D. Ward. $5.00; J. Bates. $1.00; D. J. Aokson. $1.00; $2.00; A. Wargo. $1.00; J. Mielson. $1.00; H. T. Wilkerson, $2.00; H. L. Fisher. $2.00; D .C. Rant. $2.00; Criffen, $1.00; P. Prokopuk. $1.00; M. Hatfield. $2.00; E. E. Niles. $2.00; N. Evans. $1.00; J. Novak. $2.00; M. Klein. $2.00; J. E. Dunn. $2.00; Gulp. $1.00; R. R. Brown. $1.00; D. Sokolic. $2.00; H. DeRuvter, $10.00; O'Rourke. $1.00; J. W. Higgens. $2.00; Klockmau, $2.00; A. Gullcn. $5.00; H. Gjerd. $2.00; P. B. McDanicl. $1.00; A. Smith. $2.00; E. Santaromana, $5.00 C. Wayne. $2.00; F, B. Neely. $2.00; J. L. McClillon. $2.00; S. E. Broadshaw. G. A. O'Neil, $2.00; H. Lamolugh. $2.00; $2.00; C. Music. $2.00; M. Kelly. $5.00 COUNTER L. Zampetti, $1.00; J. A. Mitchell. J. B. LaNunez. $1.00; J. B. Mc R. H. Harvey. $2.00." $2.00; R. Ayers. $2.00; P. Paglia, Giunia. $t.OO; E. C. Biedrzycki. $1.00; . SS EDITH $1.00; D. Stone. $1.00; C. C. Jordon, R. L. Stanton. $2.00; J. J. Franejr. .P. R. Vorke. $1.00; S. Rizzp. $1.00; T $2.00; O. M. Raynor, $2.00, .$1.00; E. Greco. $1.00; B. Tones. $2.00; Kioussis. $1.00; R. S. Kanouse. $1.00 H. Robertson. $1.00; Asa W. Hursey. F. H. Sturcis. $2.00; W. Floyd. $5.00 SS ROBIN GOODFELLOW B. R. Santiago. $1.00; R. W. Burkitt. $5.00; M. V. Ricko. $5.00; G. S. E. L. Pierce. $1.00; J.' J. Danton. $1.00 $l.bO; F: Rakar. $2.00; J. Dodge. $1.00; Lynch.. $5.00; Peter J. Thompson. E. V. Havden. $1.00. C. Buleca^$2.O0; C. G. Inman. $2.00; $5.00; J. Daponte, $1.00; N. A. MaSS STEEL FLYER J. D. Walker. $2.00; W. G. MacDonald douros. $5.00; Reider-Gade. $1.00; E. E. J. Yanisses. $5.00; F. R. Maldonado $2,00; R. Montez. $1.00; G. V. Gladhill. Milanesi. $5.00; J. A. De Jessa. $5.00; $3.00; 1. R. Cordova. $3.00; T. Con $2.00; M. • Longfellow, $2.00; C. W. E. Tresnick. $?.00; C. J. Clark. ,$5.00; cepcion. $5.00; T. Lacaon. $5.00; C. 1 G. Kasprzyk. $3.00; A. T. Diamond. Navarra. $5.00; P. A. Serano. $4.00; V Dubois. $2.00; C. Mancino. $2.00.^ $5.00; 0. W. O'Neill. $2.00; Du'hcan Vecchio. $4.00; M. L. Copeland. $2.00; SS G, KILBY G. E. Zimmeaman, $2.00; S. Bojko. Shaw Jr.. $4.00; W. C. Biskos. $5.00; D. R. J. Raphoon. $5.00; T. J. Viken. $2.00; E. P. Larsen, $2 00; R. Marrant E. Bragg. $5.00; J. Figuerera. $5,00; $5.00; T. N. Sauve. $4.00; T. Ed E. E. Kusgen. $2.00; D. E. Smith. Morris. $5.00; J. McCarthy. $5.00; J. Marrama. $3.00; S. L. Zub zycki. $4.00; M. A. Downev, $2.00;' R. C. Baner. $5.00; A. J. Lomas. $1.00; P. F. Erck. DeSalvo. $4.00; N. DeSantis. $3.00; C. $2.00; R. J. Jopski. $2.00; A. B. $5.00; A. Kozina. $5.00; A. R. Uesconti. Gooding. $2.00; L. Sycarlos. $2.00; G. , Abates. $5.00; J. A. Seward, $4.00; $1.00; P. L. Goodman. $5.00; W. L. Hannan. $10.00. Holland. $1.00; J. N. Crews. $5.00; R. SS CAVALIER C. H. Seeberger, $2.00. A.,Hobson. $6.00; F. G. Asher. $5.00; L Durham, $3.00. F. Douglas. $2.00;^E. C. Hood. $5.00; SS STEEL DESIGNER J. F. Holdcn, $5.00; C. E. Hawks, C, O. Polca $.2.00; A. L. Bagley. $5.00; E. ~H. Jensen. $1.00; 0. L. RONALD CHEVY RICHARD RAIA Hayes. Jr., $1.00; G. W. Champlui. $2.00; E. F. Gerald. $2.00; F. ChrizesContact your father. A letter from your sister is $9.00; R. E. Cornett. $5.00; R. J. cian. $2.00; E. Raisseo. $4.00; S. waiting for you at the Baggage Marsh, $1.00; H. L. Alexander, $5.00; Gotoweski. $3.00; J. Nagels. $1.00; P. R. Davis. -$4.00; C. D. Friedemann. t i 3^ Room, 51 Beaver Street. BALTIMORE 14 North Gay St. O. O. Ames. $5.00; R. J. Grand. $2.00; $1.00; N. E. Cruz. $2.00; J. J. Keyyey. T. McCann. $3.00; G. R. Espensaden. William Rentz, Agent Calvert 4S30 HARRY DOURTH $5.00; H. R. Gaubert. $5.00; V. B. Bur­ $2.00; R. Massarseg. $4.00; C. M. BOSTON ", 276 State St. Write Sophie Zelauka, 2559 ger. $5.00; L. E. Florian. $2.00; A. R. Rodriguez. $2.00; R. Pecheco. $10.00; Walter Siekmann, Agent Bowdoin 445S Prime. $500; V. L. R. Beverley. $2.00; C, Reyes. .$2,00; J, M, Rosado. $2.00; Casper Street, Detroit, Michigan. E. Cipeano. $2.00; M. N. Tigmo. $5.00; GALVESTON 308 Vi—23rd St. J. Purcell. $1.09. J. R. Agaria. $10.00; P. Warhola. $2.00; Keith AIsop, Agent Phone 2-8448 Crew of SS Alexandra, SS KYSKA $. 3^ S. MOBILE 1 South Lawrence St. J. ,F. Ruszel. $4.00; C. H.. Lewis. M. M. Ithrrino. $2.00; L. Opana $2.00.; Voyage No. 6 LEWIS McEWAN Cal Tanner, Agent Phone 2-17S4 $2.00; W. C. Traser. $1.00; R. C. Asche- Kong Chin. $2.00; R. J. Zumkley. Unclaimed wages for the fol­ $'2.00; A. Andrianan, $2.00; V. SzynianNEW ORLEANS 523 Bienville St. man. $1.00; S. E. Walsh. $1.00; M. L. L. H. Blizzard has your gear; ski, $2.00; D. Boumblinis, $4.00; E. E. lowing named men of the ^exE. Sheppard, Agent Magnolia 6112-6113 Taylor, $200; P. C. Duval, $2.00. Goslow, $5.00: H. C.-Hill, $3.00; T. M. Route 2, Dover, North Carolina. SS SEA TRADER NEW YORK »1 Beaver St. andria are being held at the M. N. Katsimbris. $5.00; F. Sar- Thon, $2.00; H. C. Sanabria. $2.00: C. • Joe Algina, Agent HAnover 2-2784 A. Armstrong. $1.00; A. G. Acedo. 4 3^ Si offices of Carras Ltd., 24 State mento. $3.00. NORFOLK 127-129 Bank St. $2.00; C. Underwood. $10.00. SS SEATRAIN HAVANA GEORGE FARNKOFF Street, New York 4, N. Y. Money Ben Rees, Agent '•Phone 4-1083 SS R. H. DAVIS H. F. Ulrich, $1.00. Your wife, Louise Famkoff, 44 is for retroactive wages' ana PHILADELPHIA...614-16 No. 13th St. M. Mello. $3.00. SS SIMMONS VICTORY ' Lloyd Gardner, Agent Poplar 6-1217 Lewis Street, Everett 49, Mass., overtime plus vacation pay. C. MacQueen. $1.00; R. J. Lavernian. SS HOOD RIVER SAN FRANCISCO 105 Market St. $1.00. L. Refalo. $1.00; F .T. Flynn. $1.00; would like to get in touch with J. L. Hodges, $131.05; G. D. SS SHAWNE TRAIL Steve Cardullo, Agent Douglas 2-5475 K. Trelmann. $1.00; E. M. Metts. $3.00. you. J. J. Burke. $3.00. | Hay, $21.79; J. P. Hall, $17.76; SAN JUAN, P.R 252 Ponce de Leon SS SEATRAIN TEXAS , Sal Colls, Agent San Juan 2-6996 V. W. Masi, $21.11; J. W. Broad, i 3^ i H. W. Girard, $1.00; H. Winborn. . SAVANNAH 220 East Bay St. $20.77; W. T. Lux, $17.71; E. J. CHARLES LEE Charles Starling, Agent Phone 3-1728 $2.00. . . Soileau, $107.03; L. Schroederj SS MALDEN VICTORY The following men have re­ A letter from your mother is $20.91; "E. Ervin, $74.55; M. J. YJttaPA 1809-1811 N. Franklin St. R. W. Gaylot. $2.00; . C. Kennedy, Claude Simmons, Agent Phone M-1323 troactive pay due them, and can waiting for you at the Baggage Moran, $17.88; F. W. CiruUd, $2.00; E.* M. Christian, $2.00-; A. KarIKADQUARTERS.. 51 Beaver St., N.Y.C. luims. $1.00; T. M. Purcell, $1.00: W. collect at the American-Hawaiian Room, 51 Beaver Street. $17.47; E. Berwald, $75.34; G. HAnover 2-2784 Richardson. $1.00; R. S. Walker. $2.00; Steamship Go's office at 90 Broad s •• ' S. Magnuson, $21.63; J. McV^, : SECRETARY-TREASURER t 3> 3> F. Panette. $1.00; G. Kropick. $1.00; F. St., sedond floor. $23.48; R. Sirois, $19.89; D. -R.' Paul Hall Dangel. $2.00; H. K. Shellenbrgr. $1.00; GENE SINCLAIR Herman J. Meitz, Robert J. Smith, $20.78; C. Randazzd, ' DIRECTOR OF ORGANIZATION G. Meshover. $1.00; E. E. Ott. $2.00; Get in touch with your sister, $23.69; R. Prideaux, $32.12; J. Lindsey Williams J. Veit. Jr.. $1.00; C. Czapla. $1.00; Prideaux, Clarence A. Varrin, Wm. Bilger, '$2.00; E. H. Huizenga. Barney Husjord, Stanley J. Shirley, about the wedding. ASSIST. SECRETARY-TREASURERS De Jacimo, $114.44. $2.00; Robert T. Beadls, $2.00; W. Nathan, Kenneth H. Krestensen, Robert Matthews J. P. Shuler Walsh. $1.00. Joseph Volpiah NEW YORK SS ALLEGHENY VICTORY K. P. Rodrigutz,-$2.00; N. J. Wuchlna. $1.00; M. H. Lorenzo. $5.00; J. J Devine. $2.00; J. O. Bick. $1.00; C. Dichiara, $2.00; E. Lessor, $2.00; F. F. Smith. $1.00; J. Gural. $3.00; B. Scheesnol. $1.00; G. M. Velazquez. $2.00; G. Liakos." $2.00; H. A. Jacks, $2.0Q; H. C. Henry. $5.00; G. Reyes. $1.00; T. P. Reilly. $3.00; A. H. Seep hen.' $2.00; G. E. Sinkes. $2.00; 3. M. Smith. $2.00; J. E. Harris. $2.00. PERSONALS SlU HfllLS SIU, A&G District MONEY DUE Retroactive Pay Charles C. Burns, Henning Bjork, Nelson J. Hawks, Franklin T. SUP Andrews, Virgil L. Stevens, The SEAFARERS LOG as the official publication of the Sea­ HONOLULU ..16 Merchant St. Francesco J. Nafale, Earl Walfarers International Union is available to all members who wish Phone 5-8777 den, Edward E. Kuncheck, Wil­ PORTLAND Ill W. Bumside St. to have it sent to their home free of charge for the enjoyment of Crew of SS Brazil Victory liam F. Douglas, Robert W. Beacon 4336 their families and themselves when ashore. If you desire to have Voyage No. USMC 15—MSS 6 Spence, Harry B. Cook, Jr., RICHMOND, Calif 257 Bth St. the LOG sent to you each week address cards are on hand at every^ • Phone 2599 Money for traveling wages Charles F. Carroll, Joe C. Arnold. SIU branch for this purpose. BAN FRANCISCO 59 Clay St. and subsistence from Seattle to Juan L. Rodriquez, Julius J. Douglas 25475 However, for those who are at sea or at a distance from a SIU SEATTLE 86 Seneca St. New York is ready to be paid. Swykert, Murray M. Beck, John hall, the LOG reproduces below the form used to request the LOG, Main 0290 Crew can coUect by contacting J. Carrig Jr., Amilcar Ortiz, which you can fill out, detach and send to: SEAFARERS LOG, 51 WILMINGTON.. 440 Avalon Blvd. Mississippi's New York . Agent, Golden D. Allen, Albert J. LaBeaver Street, New York 4 ,N. Y. Terminal 4-3131 Mr, C. P. Vaighan, Assistantvoie,' Louis F. Paredes, Thomas Treasurer, Lykes Brothers SS J. Clark, Robert L. Morgan, John PLEASE PRINT INFORMATION Gt. Lakes District Company, 17 Battery Place, R. Ramiszewski, Kqnstant M. To the Editor: KHTALO..., 10 Exchange St. New York 4, N. Y. Kain, James Dand, Benjamin W. Cleveland 7391 i. S> S" Kosow, Adolph A. Zimpfer,-Rich­ lagCAGO, ni. , ,, ,. -3261 East 92nd St. I would like the SEAFARERS L(3G mailed to tW ROBERT E. HANSON Phone: Essex 2410 ard Di Same, Olau Hagbo, Peter address below: CLEVELAND 2602 Carroll St. Get in touch with your mother. L. Williams, Armando Vidal. Main 0147 Walter W. McClure, Arthur C. Name — DETROIT .1038 Third St. Cadillac 6857 Members of crew of SS Abreu, Joseph J. Martus Jr., Al­ DULUTH.... 531 W. Michigan St. bert J. Bagley, Frank Bloom, Street Address Noonday having any knowl­ Melrose 4110 Mario Franciese, William S. edge of circumstances under TOLEDO. ..615 Summit St. GarSeld 2112 which Samuel Shupler was Rackley, James P. Lilly, Nathan — State killed ashore in Germany, Pearce, Herbert P. Walters,. Do­ City ' Canadian Distaict please write to his wife. mingo Ortiz, Harry J. Pancer, Sl^ed Mrs. Rebecca Shupler, 430 William J, Doherty, Louis Caloca, MioNtREAL.......1227 Philips Square 'VICTORIA, B.C... ...602 Boughton St. Cleveland Street, Brooklyn, Edward W. Easterling, Mario Empire 4531 Book No. Maroccia, Alfredo Rosado, August N.Y. I VANCOUVER........S6S Hamilton St. Horvath, Paul Magro. , Pacific 782^ NOTICE Notice To Ail SIU Members %.• �;iv; t 'tc Page Sixieen THE SEAFARERS LOG Friday, June 25, 1948 Lafayette Crewmen Had Fine Trip The pictures were sent in by J. Smythe, Ships Delegate, and he wants the boys down in New Orleans to Jcnow that the members of the crew really missed their gumbo while on the high seas. The Lafayette made, it into San Pedro on May 22, and paid off in traditional SIU style. ii--- Some members of Ihe healthy Deck Gang of the SS Laf­ ayette take time oft from work to watch the hirdie for the cameraman. Except for the fact that there was no gumbo, the men claim that the food was excellent and well prepued. Maybe that's why they refer to themselves as the "healthy Deck Gang?" Seated, in front of ihe life ring is J. Smythe. Deck Maintenance. Kneeling, left to right, A. L. McLean, AB: and J. Rylick, OS. Standing, in the usual order, are P. Vasilion. AB; L, W. Miller, OS; Brother Cassanueva, AB: and E. C. Simms, AB. On this page we print Bro­ ther Smythe's pictures, and the information which accom­ panied each shot. The editors of the LOG hope that other SIU members will follow Bro­ ther Smythe's lead and send in pictures and stories. Remember. all snapshots will be returned after use.^ SrS/i' Above, J. Smythe helps to secure the steel plates that were brought back from Japan. Brothers Rylick and Cassanueva look on and offer good advice. The plates stayed put all the way across the wide Pacific. When the main deck cracked and had to be repaired in Kobe, wires on the port and star­ board sides were placed so the bow wouldn't be lost. The; method worked oui; okay, and the Lafayette made it home without further mishap. Of course, as we all know, it takes a good crew to overcome such difficulties, and that's what the Lafayette had aboard. m: I:©" You're now looking at the picture of a cook who eats his own food—and Hkes it. Yes, the undershirt^ Brother in the foreground is none other than ^hief Cook D. D. Dambrino, the prize chef of the SS Lafayette^ Surrounding him, in tribute to his cooking, and eating abilities, are L. W. Miller, OS; A. L. McLean, AB; J. Rylick, OS; S. C. M. Martinez; and J. Smythe, DM. Brother; Dambrino really put out the good chow, and was always striving to please everyone on the ship. That he succeeded is a tribute to his skill and training. The Brothers werei enticed up on the No. 3 hatch for the above picture but the cameraman w^ ^fort of afraid to snap the picture for fear , of wh might happen to his-camera. Well, nothing happened. In the background a Galleyman and J. liylick, OS. Standing, 1. to r., Ray, Second Electricii A. L. McLeui; D. Damlkrino; S. M. Oppsol, Second Cook and Baker; Sander Chief Electrician; and W. Miller, OS. Kneeling, left to right. Grew, P man; Flood, Oiler, the Second Cook and then the Chief Mate, and Smythe, E, C. Simms, (End Brother Cassanueva. � 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. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text. 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 June 25, 1948 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 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Vol. X, No. 26 Description An account of the resource HEADLINES SIU MAYHAVE TO VOTE REMAINING CS VESSELSFOR FULL RECOGNITION BRANCH COMMITTEES STUDY PROPOSALS FOR UNIFORM JOB REGISTRATION RULES CONGRESS VOTES 6 BILLION DOLLARS FOR ERP ROU SCORES WEST COAST CHARTER PRESSURE WORKS AGAIN:ARAMCO OPENS BUILDINGS FOR MEN AT RAS TANURA BROTHER WRITES OF OLD DAYS IN RAS TANURA CONGRESS KILLS SHIP TO QUIT NEGLIGENCE AND INDIFFERNCE TAKE ANOTHER SEAMEN'S LIFE WATERMAN BUYS FLOATING DOCK BUREAUCRATS CLAIM US HAS SHIP SHORTAGE NOT MANY PAYOFFS, BUT MOBILE GETS ITSSELF TWO FOULED UP SHIPS CROWED BEACH IS NO HELP TO BALITIMORE PORT GALVESTON KEEPS HOPONG ERP WILL BOOM GULF SHIPPING PHILLY CONVENTION FESTIVIES LEAVE LOCAL SEAFARERS COLD ISTHMIAN TIES UP TWO ON COAST SS PONCE ENDS SHIPPING DEARTH FOR SAN JUAN 150 PASSENGERS DROWN AS DANISH SHIP STRIKE FLOATING MINE HIGH COURT THROWS OUT T-H GAG TEST CASE,BUT DODGES FULL ISSUE AFOUNDRIA MEN BLAST USE OF 'SLAVE LABOR' ON U.S. SHIPS IN HAMBURG ARIZPA MEN CLAIM TO BE TO BE FIRST AMERICANS TO SPOT NEW SPECIES OF SHARK OFF CANAL EDGINGTON TAKES SHORE JOB,BUT UNION WON'T LOSE HIM THE SEA MAKES ALL MEN EQUAL T-H ACT MALIGNANT,BEYOND REMEDY,SAYS GREEN PRES.GREEN REPORTS ON TAFT-HARLEY MESS LAFAYETTE CREWMEN HAD FIND TRIP AND SEND THESE PICTURE AS PROOF Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 06/25/1948 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Seafarers International Union of North America 1948 Periodicals Seafarers Log