Issue Date
1950-06-16
Volume
12
Issue Number
12
Plaintext
Official Organ, Atlantic & Gulf District, Seafarers International Union of NA
VOL. XII NEW YORK, N. Y„ FRIDAY, JUNE 16, 1950 No. 12
NLRB Deserves Bow For Fine Job
We of the SIU believe we have been
among the most vociferous critics of bureau
cratic agencies in our government. We have
blasted numerous agencies over the past
years whenever maladministration, ineffi
ciency or injustice has marked the conduct
of their affairs.
On the other hand, we have been quick
to acknowledge the efforts of any branch
of the government that has performed ably.
True, these plaudits have been few and far
between, because the occasions when they
were justified have been rare.
This week the personnel of the Second
Regional Oflfiee of the National Labor Rela
tions Board has provided us with one of
those rare occasions. Naturally, Seafarers
are overjoyed at the victory scored at the
NLRB hearing in the case of the Cities
Se^ice Oil Company.
We're not losing sight of the fact, however,
that this victory was made possible by the
sweat and toil and intelligent application
of the law by the Board's highly competent
staff.
Under the direction of its Chief Law
Officer," Miss Helen Humphries—who, in
cidentally is widely respected as one of the
most able labor lawyers in the field—the
NLRB staff literally labored day and night
for months amassing the voluminous data
springing from the charges leveled against
the company.
As the government built its case. Field
Examiners Aaron Wiseman, Clem Culls and
Arthur Younger pieced together the threads
of evidence of the law's violation.
And before that, staff members like Field
Examiner Sam Hacker practically worfeed
around the clock, hopping from port to
port under adverse conditions, including
the company's refusal to offer the minimum
cooperation coming to a representative of
the government in carrying out the provi
sions of our nation's laws.
In the preparation and in the presentation
of the government's case Joseph Jenkins
and Chester Migden had wrapped up the
details in an airtight package.
The results of the Board's handling of
the Cities Service case, which, it must be
remembered, was among the most unusual
ones on record, speak for themselves. The
company's capitulation on the fourth day
of hearings, which were expected to run for
weeks and weeks before all the testimony
and evidence could be introduced, is a tri
bute to the effectiveness and thoroughness
with which the Board people tackled the
case. •
It might be said that their efficiency thus
saved the US taxpayers considerable money.
In our opinion, the work of Miss Humphries
and ""her staff on this difficult case was a
masterpiece of expert legal workmanship.
We sincerely wish that our government
was endowed with more people to efficiently
carry out its functiohs like those of the
NLRB's Second Regional Office.
Reeling and battered under the weight of the
overwhelming evidence introduced at its unfair la
bor practices trial before a National Labor Rela
tions Board trial, the Cities Service Oil Company's
Marine Division threw in the towel last week and
agreed to abide fully by terms of a settlement laid
down by the Board.
One of the most damaging blows sustained by
the company was the testimony of a former Coast
Guard intelligence officer, who told how he had
operated a labor spy service for Cities Service
during the organizing campaign in its tanker fleet
conducted by the Seafarers International Union,
Atlantic and Gulf District.
The trial, which began on June 6, came to a:
sudden halt on June 9, when counsel for the com
pany rose and said he had been authorized by com
pany officials to negotiate for*
Operators Sign SIU Welfare Plan
NEW YORK, June 16 — An ( these agencies will give their ap
agreement setting forth the
terms under which the Seafarers
Welfare Plan will operate was
signed yesterday by a commit
tee representing the bulk of
steamship companies under con
tract to the Atlantic & Gulf Dis
trict.
The signing cleared the way
for the Plan to begin function
ing as soon as the Bureau of
Internal Revenue and the. Na
tional Labor Relations Board
give their okays to the Plan.
(Turn lo page 3 for complete
text of the Welfare Contract)
The Bureau of Internal Rev
enue is to be consulted for its
approval of the money^ paid in
by the shipowners as proper de
ductions for tax purposes. The
NLRB will rule on the Plan's
compliance with .the labor law.
It is expected that both of
proval shortly.
Signing of the agreement
brought to a virtual end nego
tiations which the Union Wel
fare Committee has had under
way since December of last year,
when the SlUcontracted com
panies signified their agreement
to pay 25 cents per day for every
New SUP Birilding
Dedicated Teday
SAN FRANCISCO—The new
Headquarters building of the
Sailors Union of the Pacific will
be formally opened this Friday,
June 16, amid, gala ceremonies.
• The new building is located at
450 Harrison Street, and will
also house the San Francisco
Branch of the Atlantic and Gulf
District, jand the International
office of the SIU.
SIU member employed aboard
their ships. The shipowners be
gan payment on January 1.
Under the terms of the Wel
fare Plan, as agreed to by the
shipowners' committee. Seafar
ers will receive $500 in death
benefits and.$7 per week in hos
pital benefits. The Plan provides
for the trustees to set up addi
tional benefits should the fund
grow.
The Plan is to be under the
supervision of a sixman board
of trustees, three men from the
Union and three from the com
panies. Representmg the ship
owners are John Boughman,
Clarence Reed and Frederick C.
Theobald. The SIU is represent
ed by Paul Hall, Robert Matt
hews and Joe Volpian.
The companies which to date
have not agreed to the Plan are
expected to sign up as soon as
meetings can be arranged.
the settlement with the Board.
His action amounted to a con
fession of guilt of all charges
made by attorneys for the NLRB,
among them:
1. That the company warned
its employees that they would
be fired for joining the SIU.
2. That the company engaged
in espionage on Union activities.
3. That the company dismissed
159 men during 1949 because of
their Union affiliation.
The NLRB order to which the
company agreed directs the re
instatement of the discharged
men and payment to them of
$150,000 in wages, and the dis
banding of the Citco Tanker
Men's Association, the company
sponsored and dominated union.
Also specified in the order is a
directive to bargain collectively
with the SIU.
(Excerpts of the settlement
stipulation begins on page 7 of
this issue.)
The company's labor spy ac
tivities were exposed on the
second day of the trial when the
exCoast Guard officer, John Du
gan, took the stand and con
fessed that he used his wartime
experience to carry out espion
age agamst SIU men on company
instructions.
Dugan, an attorney, specializ
ing in maritime affairs, testified
that he had been retained by
William Lage, a partner in the
law firm of Hatch, Wolfe, Nash
and Ten Eyck, counsel for the
OS Marine Division.
Lage instructed him to report
on the activities of SIU mem
bers aboard OS ships, ascertain
the strength of the Union in the
fieet, and to get "other pertinent
information," Dugan admitted.
Dugan then approached "my
former asociates" in the Coast
Guard who gave him the names
of three men, two of whom he
hired—^Anthony Lawrence Hen
nessey and John Bosciano.
The company lawyers, Dugan
told the NLRB examiner, "em
ployed me to get information
and supplied.me with fimds to
pay the individuals."
He said that between June
1948 and September 1949 he paid
Hennessey $2,100 and Bosciano,
one of CTMA's top organizers,
the sum of $4,100. The cancelled
checks received by these men
were offered in evidence at the
hearing.
Instructing the two hired men
"to report on all activities of
the SIU," Dugan said he got
them passes to board all CS ves
sels. They sailed on company
sjiips, and made periodic re
ports, which were transmitted to
Lage.
Before Dugan took the stand,
Joseph Jenkins, counsel for the
NLRB, brought out that a com
(Continued on Page 10)
HARRY HASSELGREN
will hold office imtil the imion's
next convention, which is sched
uled for next year.
Officials of the SIU, who know
Hasselgren through the many
beefs that the SIU aind ILA have
shared together, greeted Hassel
gren's election.
"We know Harry through
working with him," said A&G
SecretaryTreasurer Paul HaU,
"and we know that he is a siC
cere and capable trade unionist';, .
We'll all miss John Owens, but'^''
vre're sure that Hassdgren win
carry on where John left off."
ILA Body Elects
Hasselgren New
SecyTreasurer
Harry T?., Hasselgren, secretary
treasurer of the" Atlantic Coast
District of the International
Longshoremen's Association, has
been elected secretarytreasurer
of the International, to fulfill th«
post left vacant by the recent
death of John R. Owens, who
was also secretarytreasurer of
the AFL Maritime Trades D«
partment.
Brother Hasselgren, who was
elected unanimously by the ILA's '
International board last week.
Page Two T 1 F 4 R JE R s t
SSSeeSaj
SEAJTARERS LOG
Published Every Other "Week, by the
SEAFARERS INTERNATIONAL UNION
OF NORTH AMERICA
Atlantic and Gulf District
Affiliaied with the American Federalioif of Labor
At 51 Beaver Street, New York 4, N. Y.
HAnover 22784
Reentered as second class matter August 2, 1949, at the Post
Office in New York, N.Y., under the Act of August 24, 1912.
267
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It's Not Too Late
Cities Service Oil Company, the organization which
thought itself bigger than anyone, including the govern
ment, threw in the sponge and quit after four days of
devastating testimony in. its trial before the National
Labor Relations Board. Humble in defeat, the company
ggreed to sign a settlement stipulation which, in effect,
was a full confession of all charges brought against it by
f 'the Union. The fouryear battle was virtually over.
It didn't have to be this way, but the company took
the hard way and lost. Two years ago when the SIU was
certified as representative for the company's unlicensed
employees, the campaign could have ended. But, because
the company was stubborn and because its attorneys
tJiought they could make themselves big names in the
field of industrial labor relations, a program of terrorism,
intimidation and labor espionage was planned and carried
out. But the end result was not that which the company
expected.. •
Throughout the company's wave of terror the Union
and the men on the ships fought back.' On the ships the
l^en. relentlessly pressed for Union representation, and
ashore the Union methodically built up its case against
the company.
The trial quickly showed the company that their
plan had backfired. Proof of labor espionage and men
being, discharged for imion activities sent the company's
attorneys reeling. On the nwrning of the fifth day, the
company's attorney called it quits. The SIU case, how
pever, was just" beginning to warm up—there were more
startling revelations of the company's activities to come,
but the company had no stomach for more.
' It's plan had failed. By its surrender it agreed to
s rehire the men it had discharged and pay them for their
time lost. It agreed to stop espionage against the SIU, and
it agreed to sever its connections with GTMA. The men
who had put into operation the machine for stamping
out the desire of Cities Service seamen for union repre
I: mentation were left to contemplate the ruins. •
P There is no reason, however, why the events of the
I past cannot be forgotten and a new page in SlUCities
I Service relations be opened. The Union shortly is to meet
with the company to bargain for a contract of a nature
in effect on the hundreds of other ships under con
tract to the SIU. Here is an opportunity to exercise true
collective bargaining.
The SIU has proved itself to be a responsible Union.
It has proved itself qualified to represent the men liow on
SlUContracted ships throughout the world. The men
aboard Cities Service tankers have proved that they want
the SIU to be their spokesinan. Let the coming* bargaining
talks take place in an atmosphere of good faith and
understanding.
All it requires is the same, kind of good, sound labor
relations which have been practiced by the Cities Service
Company in its other divisions and subsidiaries with
?^nions, AFL an,d CIO, representing their employees.
^After all, there doesn't seem to be any intelligent
son why the Marine Division shouldn't follow the es
te tablished,pattern of the Ckies Service family.
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THE SEAFARERS LOG
Complete Text Of Welfare Agreement
Signed By SlUContracted Operators
This Agreement and Declaration of Welfare
Plan made as of the first day of July, 1950, by
and between JOHN BOUGHMAN, CLARENCE
REED, and FREDERICK C. THEOBALD; PAUL
HALL, ROBERT MATTHEWS and JOSEPH
VOLPIAN,*who, with their alternates and suc
cessors designated in the manner provided, are
hereinafter called "Trustees;" SEAFARERS IN
TERNATIONAL UNION OF NORTH AMERICA,
' Atlantic and Gulf District, hereinafter called
"Union;" and the various Employers who, in
writing, adopt and agree to be bound by the
terms and provisions of this instrument and any
amendments or modifications thereof, hereinafter
called "Employers."
WITNESSETH
WHEREAS, various Employers having collec
tive bargaining agreements with the Union have
agreed in writing with the Union to create a
Welfare Plan for the benefit of the unlicensed
seamen employed by them for whom the Union
is the collective bargaining representative, and
WHEREAS, the said Welfare Plan is to be
known as the Seafarers' Welfare Plan, and
WHEREAS, it has been mutually agreed that
the Plan shall be for a period of not less than
five years and shall be irrevocable during the
period of its creation, and
WHEREAS, it is desired to set forth the terms
and conditions under which the Plan as finally
agreed upon between the Employers and the
Union is to be established and administered, and
WHEREAS, it has been mutually agreed that
the Plan shall be administered by Trustees it is
desired to define the powers and duties of the
said Trustees.
NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the
preniises, it is mutually ̂ understood and agreed
as follows:
. ARTICLE I
Definitions
1; Employers. The term "Employers," as used
herein, shall mean the various Employers of
unlicensed merchant seamen having in effect a
collective bargaining agreement with the Union
and who are, or who may hereadter become, sig
natories hereto.
2. Administrator. The term "Administrator,"
as used herein, shall mean the Administrator
provided for in Article VI hereof.
3. Employees. The term "Employees," as used
herein, shall mean all of each Employer's em
ployees for whom the Union is the collective
bargaining representative.
4. Hospital. The term "hospital," as used here
in, shall inean any hospital in the United States
or any of its territories or possessions, provided
Such hospital is either a United States Marine
hospital, a United States Public "^Health hospi
tal, a hospital located in a port in the continental
United States where the Union or an Employer
maintains offices, or a hospital in a seaport in
the continental United States in which the Em
ployee becomes a patient due to acute illness or
injury which necessitates his being taken off a
ship during the course of a voyage.
5. Union. The term "Union," as used herein,
shall mean the Seafarers International Union of
North America, Atlantic and Gulf District.
6. Trustees, (a) The term "Employer Trus
tees," as used herein, shall mean the trustees
appointed by the Employers.
(b) The term "Union Trustees," as used herein,
shall mean the trustees appointed by the Uniop.
(c) The term "Trustees," as used herein, shall
mean Employer Trustees and Union Trustees
collectively and J shall include their alternates
when acting as Trustees.
7. Seafarers' Welfare Plan. The term "Plan,"
as used herein, shall mean the benefits provided
On these pages is the full text of the Seafarers
Welfare Plan signed this week by a maforit/ of
the steamship companies under contract to the
Atlantic & Gulf District of the SIU. The few
remaining companies not yet signed are expected
to fall in line shortly. .
The agreement spells out in full the terms under
which the Fund will be administered and bene
fits paid to SIU members. The Fund was set up
last January 1, when the operators began paying
25 cents per day per seaman employed.
Effective date for the Plan to b^n operations
hinges on the time necessary for the Bureau of
Internal Revenue to determine if the moneys
can be declared deductible for tax purposes. In
addition, the Plan is to be submitted to the Na
tional Labor Relations Board to check whether
it in any way is contrary to the nation's labor
laws.
for in this instrument, including any amendments
hereto or modifications hereof.
8. Seafarers' Welfare Fimd. The term "Fund,"
as used herein, shall mean the moneys or other
things of value which are xmder the control or
in the custody of the Trustees for the administra
tion and operation of the Plan.
ARTICLE II
1. There is hereby created the Seafarers' Wel
fare Fund to be used for administering and ope
rating the Seafarers' Welfare Plan which is here
by created. Each Employer shall pay to the
Trustees for deposit into the Fund, currently on
a monthly basis, the sum of twentyfive cents
(25c) per day per unlicensed seaman, represented
by the Union for the purposes of collective bar
gaining, employed on vessels manned by such
Employer and actually working thereon. Such
contributions or payments for each month shall
be made not later than the tenth of the second
month succeeding that of the payroll termina
tions; provided, however, that the first payment
• of each Employer shall be calculated retroactive
ly to January 1, 1950. Checks for contributions
or payments shall be made payable to the order
of "Seafarers' Welfare Fund."
2. An Employee is qualified to participate in
and receive the benefits of the Plan when the
Employer is obligated to pay the Trustees the
sum of Twentylive cents (25c) on Ills behalf
or such other sum as may be agreed upon' as
provided for in Paragraph 4 of this Article, and
shall remain qualified for such benefits for a
period of twelve (12) calendar months after the
Employer's obligation to make such payment
ceases; provided, however, that in the event a
qualified Employee becomes a patient in a hos
pital such twelve (12) month period shall be ex
tended for a time equal to the time the Employee
is so hospitalized; provided,' further, that no qual
ified employee shall be eligible to receive the
benefits of this plan while he is so qualified to
receive welfare benefits by virtue of employment
with an employer who makes no contributions to
this fund and who has a collective bargaining
agreement with the Union.
3. The—^former Employees whose hames appear
on a list attached hereto and made a part hereof
who have had long employment with the Em
ployers and who, on July 1, 1950, are imemploy
able because of physical disabilities, are for the
purposes of this Plan considered Employees and
shall be qualified to receive the benefits of the
Plan until the Public Health Service certifies that
such a former Employee has no physical dis
ability which prevents his employment; provided,
however, that the hospital benefits provided for
in Article III, Paragraph 1 (b) hereof, shall be
made only when s ich disabled Employee is con
fined m a hospital as an inpatient.
4. Either the Employer Trustees on behalf of
the Employers or the Union Trustees on behalf
of the Union may, upon application within sixty
(60) days prior to September 30, 1951 request
that negotiations be opened for changes in the
amount of the • Employer payment. No such
change shall be made unless the Union and the
Employers by majority vote agree to such change
and any change so agreed upon shall not affect
any of the other provisions of this plan. The said
vote shall be in accordance with the vote speci
fied in Article IV, Paragraph 2 hereof, at a meet
ing called under the provisions of Article IV,
Paragraph 9 hereof; it being specifically under
stood and agreed between the Employers indi
vidually and the Union that any Employer who
signifies in writing to the Trustees within one
week of the time of Such vote that he does not
wish to be bound by such majority vote shall be
relieved of the obligations under this agreement
arid shall cease to be a party hereto, and no
Employee shall be entitled to receive benefits
under this plan by virtue of employment with
such Employer.
5. The Trustees, in their names as Trustees,
shall have the power to demand, collect, receive
and hold the Employer payments and they are
authorized to take such steps as may be neces
sary or appropriate to effectuate the collection
of such payments, including the institution and
prosecution of, or the intervention in, any pro
ceeding at law, in equity, or in bankruptcy.
6. The Trustees are authorized and permitted
to receive and accept from any source whatso
ever any moneys or other things of value as a
gift, contribution, payment, dividend *or other
wise, for deposit into, or to be made a part of,
the Ftmd.
7. The Trustees shall deposit all moneys re
ceived by them in their capacity as Trustees in
such bank or banks as they may designate for
that purpose; provided, however, that no bank
shall be selected as a depository of the funds of
this Plan which is not a riiember of the Federal
Deposit Insurance Corporation. Things of value,
other than money, shall be kept in an appropriate
depository as may be selected by the Trustees,
or, at their discretion, may be converted into
money and deposited iirto the Fund.
8. The funds shall be used by the Trustee'
(a) to pay or provide for the payment of the
benefits described in Article III, Paragraph 1
hereof, and (b) to pay for the sound and efficient
operation of the Plan, including the expenses of
the Trustees incurred in carrying out their duties
as Trustees.
. 9. Moneys, and other things of value, of the
Fund may be withdrawn from any depository
upon the signature of two Trustees, one of whom
shall be an Employer Trustee and one of whom
shall be a Union Trustee.
IQ. No Employer, nor the Union, nor the in
dividual Employees shall have any vested rights
in or to the Fund or any part thereof except the
right of the qualified Employees, or their depend
ents, or their beneficiaries or next of kin, to
receive the benefits provided for in. the Plan to
which they may be respectively entitled, and
upon termination of the trust hereby created, the
funds shall be put to the uses and purposes spe
cified herein.
11. No Employee or dependent or beneficiary
or next of kin of an Employee shall have the
right to assign any benefits to which he or she
may be entitled hereunder and any such assign
ment is void; nor shall any benefit be subject
to attachment or other legal process for or againstr
an Employee or a dependent or beneficiary or
next of kin. ^
{Cmntinued on Page 4)
Page Foiir TM M S A n E k 8 L O G
(Continued from Page 3) \,
ARTICLE III
Application of l^e Fund by the Trustees
1. The Fund shall be used and applied for the
^rfollowing purposes:
(a) Upon the death of each Employee qualified
to receive the benefits hereunder, other than
death resulting from war risk, to pay or provide
for the payment to the designated beneficiary,
or in the absence of a designated beneficiary, to
the next of kin of the deceased Employee, the
sum of $500.00.
(b) The payment of hospital, benefits in the
amount of $7.00 per week to each Employee
. qualified to receive the benefits hereunder dur
ing such time as he is an inpatient in any
hospital as defined in Article I, Paragraph 4
hereof. Such Employee shall not be entitled to
receive any payment until he has been confined
to such a hospital for seven consecutive days and
thereafter he shall be entitled to a payment of
$7.00 for each and every seven (7) consecutive
days in the hospital from the first day of con
finement. Qualified Employees who are commit
ted to an Institution for the insane by a Court
Order are specifically excluded from hospital
benefits but are eligible for death benefits.
(c) To pay for additional types of welfare
benefits as may be determined by unanimous
agreement of the Trustees; the cost of such addi
tional benefits shall be controlled by the amount
of money actually in the Fund, and, based on
Experience, the benefits it*is estimated the Fund
can provide without undue depletion or excessive
accumulation. In order to accomplish this pur
pose, the Trustees by unanimous agreement are
authorized and empowered to increase or de
crease the amount of any benefit which has been
or may be granted.
2. Payment of the benefit provided for in
Paragraph 1 (a) of this Article shall not be
made unless necessary and appropriate proof
for such benefit is presented, in writing, to the
Administrator within one year from the date of
the Employee's death.
3. Payment of the benefits provided for in
Paiiigraph 1 (b) of this Article will be made to
the Employee personally or to a representative
of the Employee when such representative has
been duly authorized to receive such payment
on behalf of the Employee; provided, however,
that application for the said benei^ts shall be
presented, in writing to the Administrator not
later than 14 days from the date the Employee
I'is physically discharged from the hospital as an
inpatient.
4. The Trustees shall not receive compensa
gg tion for the perforinanc© of their duties as Trus
||; tees, but the Trustees are by majority vote au
thorized to be reimbursed from the Fund, the
cost of all expenses incident to the performance
of their duties as Trustees and there shall be
paid directly from the Fund the cost, and ex
g penses provided for herein and the cost of fidelity
£ bonds and the expenses, including counsel fees,
of any suit or proceeding
(a) brought against the Trustees, arising out
of acts within the course and scope of the
powers and duties of the Trustees; or
, (b) brought by the Trustees as authorized in
Article II, Paragraph 5 hereof.
5. If upon loss of qualification as prescribed
in Article II, Paragraph 2, hereof, a qualified
Employee has, since discharge from the hospital,
been continuously unemployable because of phy
sical disabilities, the Trustees may in their dis
cretion further extend the qualification period
as long as the Public Health Service certifies that
such Employee should not be employed because
of his physical condition.
ARTICLE IV
Appointment of Trustees
^ ; 1. The operation and administration of the
Plan shall be the joint responsibility of the three
; Trustees appointed by the Employers and the
Timtees a by the Union. The
iployers shall appoint <an alternate trustee for
Employer Trustee who shall have, full
authority to act as a Trustee hereunder in the
absence of "the Employer Trustee for whom he
acts as alternate. The Union shall appoint an
alternate trustee for each Union Trustee who
shall have full authority to act as a Trustee here
under in the absence of the Union Trustee for
whom he acts as alternate. Any successor Trus
tee shall, upon the acceptance in writing of the
terms of this trust, be vested with all the rights,
powers and duties of his predecessor.
2. Successor Employer Trustees and successor
alternate Employer Trustees shall be appointed
by majority vote of the various employers who
are subscribers to this instrument at the time
such appointments are made; provid^, however,
that not more than one (1) Employer Trustee
or alternate Employer Trustee may be employed
by or affiliated with the same Employer. Each
Employer shall be entitled to cast one vote for
each unlicensed seaman, represented by the Un
ion, it would employ at the time of subscribing
to this instrument and thereafter on July 1 of
each year, if all vessels manned by it had a
full complement employed thereon and the
nominee receiving the majority of the votes so
cast shall be appointed by aU the Employers.
The Employers who subscribe to this instru
ment reserve to themselves the right to change,
at any time, the provisions of this paragraph hy
a vote of twothirds (2/3) majority of the total
votes so cast as above provided. The Union and
the Trustees hereby consent and agree to the
right herein reserved by the various Employers
who subscribe to this instrument.
3. All Trustees and alternate Trustees shall
obtain fidelity bonds in equal amounts and to be
secured by such surety companies as shall be
determined by the Trustees. The Trustees shall,
from time to time, review the amount of said
bonds as compared with the total of the Fund
and shall reqiure adjustmimts as. appropriate.
4. In all m^ings of the Trustees/four ahaJI
constitute a quorum for the traHS^ftitidn of busl
ness, providing there are at least two Employer
Trustees and two Union Trustees present atthe
meeting; and at all meetings the Employer Trus
tees and the Union Trustees shall have equal
voting strength. The vote of any absent Trustee
shall be cast by the Trustees present designated
by the same party with the same force and af
fect as if such absent Trustees were present. In
the event any matter presented for decision can
not be decided because of a tie vote the matter
shall remain in status quo pending arbitration as
set forth in Article VII hereof.
5. John Boughman, with E. S. Trosdal his al
ternate, Clarence Reed, with Donald W. Smitli
his alternate and Frederick C. Theobald, with
Willard A. Kiggins, Jr., is alternate, have been
selected and are hereby appointed and designated
Employer Trustees, and alternate Employer
Trustees, respectively. Paul Hall, Robert Mat
thews and Joseph Volpian have been selected
and are hereby appointed and designated
Union Trustees, and Lloyd Gardner, Joseph Al
giria and Lindsey Williams have been selected
and are hereby appointed and designated" alter
nate Union Trustees, any one of whom may act
as a Union Trustee in the absence of any Union
Trustee. The Trustees hereby agre6 to accept .the
trusteeship and further agree to accept such Fund
for the purposes herein provided and declare that
they will receive and hold the Employer's con
tributions or payments and any other money or
property or policies of Insurance which may
come into their custody or under their control
pursuant to this Plan as Trustees thereof for
proper uses and purposes and with the powers
and duties herein set forth. The Alternate Trus
tees hereby agree to accept the obligations and
perform the duties of a Trustee when called up
on to act as a Trustee.
6. All Trustees and alternate Trustees shall
be appointed to serve for the duration of this '
trust. After/the expiraiaon pf the initijail terid; !
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New York In A Shipping Sluinp,
Thinks It Might Even Get Worse
Br JOE ALGINA
NEW YORK—Shipping wasn't
what we'd like to call good in
this port during the past two
weeks. We suffered the loss of
a couple of more active Robin
Line ships. That company how
has four lying idle. Overall it
looks like shipping is going to
get worse before it will get bet
ter. This week Xsthmi^ delivers
the last of its chartered ships to
the Maritime Commission, so
that company can't lose any more
ships.
We did have some ships in
port recently, and though they
sound like an impressive num
ber, the number of men sent out
wasn't too great. The ships were:
Claiborne, Fairisle, Chickasaw,
Golden City, Warhawk, Raphael
S«rimes and Hurricane, Water
man; Steel Rover, Steel Appren
tice, Steel Artisan, St. Augustine
Victory, Steel Vendor, Isthmian;
Frances, Marina, Elizabeth, Puer
to Rico, Suzanne, Kathrjm, BuU;
Robin Goodfellow, Robin Trent,
Robin Mowbray, Robin; Seatrain
New York; Algonquin Victory,
St Lawrence Navigation Co.;
Lake George, U. S. Petroleum
Carriers; John Stagg, MarTrade;
Nathaniel Palmer, Palmer Ship
ping Co.
NICE JOB
Recently we received a copy
of the newspaper the crew of
the Del Norte is putting out.
Titled the "Navigator," the pa
per carries a lot of choice ship
board and marine news of in
terest to all Seafarers, not only
the crewmembers of the big Mis
sissippi passenger ship. The crew
deserves a round of applause for
the fine job it is doing in bring
ing to the Seafarers one more
means of knitting the members
into a compact organization. Let's
see more ships follow the Del
Norte's lead.
There is a trial which began
this week here in New York
wherein a motorman on the
Long Island Railroad is charged
with manslaughter in the wreck
last winter that cost the lives of
33 passengers. The accident oc
curred at a spot where the rail
road was building an overpass
and the railroad was using one
temporary track for twoway
traffic. Two trains collided head
on and now the motorman of
One is facing a long , prison sent
ence if convicted.
The railroad itself is bankrupt
and rundown and took almost
no safety precautions to prevent
an accident, yet no one has
pointed the finger at the fail
road for negligence. Instead a
poor working stiff, a man who
has worked for the company for
27 years, is going to be made
to shoulder the entire blame, if
any is to be found. It sounds
like another working stiff is be
ing made the scapegoat for a
company which refuses to face
its responsibility to the public.
. There was another case re
cently here in the city where
the brakes failed on a bus and
a smashup occurred. The bus
company yelled that the driver
was guilty, yet allthe passengers
testified that the driver worked
frantically to stop the bus before
the crash. The ccmipany didn't
take any chances. It took the bus
to its garages and had its own
mechanics "inspect" the bus be
fore the police were allowed to
give it the once over. Yet in
spite of incidents like this there
are still people who say unions
are unnecessary, "the company
will take care of me." Yeah, ten
to twenty years.
Notice To Crews
No SIU Crew is to pay off
any ship until the crew's
quarters and mpiipment are
as clean as any Seafarer likes
to find a ship when he first
goes aboard. Patrolmen have
been instructed thai the
crew's quarters must be id)
solutely clean before a pay
off wUl be aiiowed. Please
cooperate with your officials
«in carrying out this member
ship order.
THE CONTRACT IS THE DIFFERENCE
Well able to appreciate the benefits of a Union contract
govmning wages and working conditions. Kenneth Bryant
sti&es SIU's general agreement. Now an SIU book man,
Bryant had his taste of sailing without a contract aboard
Cities Service's Winter Hill in the preUnion days. In fact, he
was fired for union activity. He since has sailed on the SS
John Hanson. "What a difference a contradt makes," observed
Ken. "No fear of being fired, and you get top wages, condi
tions, and representafion." •
Sttght PkkUp'la Port Mobile
Does Not Affect Men On Beach
By GAL TANNER
ToWeek Report Finds Savepnah
By E. M. BRYANT
SAVANNAH r Shipping has
been on the upgrade in this port
for the past two weeks. As a
matter of fact, job opportunities
were above average for the port.
Men were dispatched to the SS
Jean, Bull; SS Southwind, and
SS Southport, South Atlantic,
and to the SS Julesberg, Term
ini Tankers.
At the moment, the only ships
scheduled for arrival in the com
ing twoweek period are the
Steel Traveler, Isthmian, and
the Fairisle, Waterman,
INTRANSITS
Of course, we will have had
few Waterman ships h i 11 in g
,.fockspnville and Charleston in
jtransit. Incident^y,' it is up to
^e delegates of those ships to
riotify, tliis Hall whien a man gets
off so that replacements can be
sent..
Seafarers in this port were
saddened by the news last week
that Brother C. W. McCraw was
killed in an auto wreck,on the
night of June 5 and was buried
on June 8. The SIU sent a
wreath to the fimeral.
The drive of the AFL Team
sters to imionize the Yellow Cab
Company is making strides. Lat
est reports have it that 68 of the
69 men in the cab fleet are now
carrying union books.
Two of our Brothers are in
the Savannah Marine Hospital.
They are J. (Chubby) Morris and
Candy Creech. Both are reported
as doing fine.
That's all for now. . More in
the next issue. ,
MOBILE—Shipping in the port
of Mobile for the last couple of
weeks was fair with approxi
mately eighty, bookmen and
nine permitmen shipped for the
twoweek period.
We had a total of seven pay
offs and six signons plus two
ships intransit.
Ships paying off," aU in good
shape, were the Fairport, Mon
arch of the Seas, Kyska, Morn
ing Light, Wild Ranger, Water
man;, and the Clipper and. Roam
er of Alcoa.
Ships signing on were the
Clipper and Roamer, Wild Ran
ger, City J?f Alma, Fairport, Mon
arch of theSeas, Morning Light,
of Waterman.
Ships intransit for the pe
riod were the Azalea City of
Waterman and the Steel Scien
tist; Isthmian.
While shipping has picked up
a little bit, there hasn't been
enough Of it to feel the differ
ence—ioid we still have an over
all beach >of two hundred book
men and 134 permit men.
We have two ships that are
expected to take practically full
crews in the next two weeks
R. Abernathy, E. Webb, C. Sey
mour, F. Pollard,' W. Richardson,
J. Burrowes, H. Henderson.
The Brothers in .the Mobile
Marine hospital the last two
weeks include the following, Tim
Burke, J. Bennett, E. L. ZedakOr,
A. Nelson, J. Morton, F. Ed
monds.
Late Brother
Only Payoffs —
No Ships Sign
In Port Bostoii
By BEN LAWSON
BOSTON—^The activfty Hn this
port during the past days had
been confined to payoffs with
no signons taking place. We
paid off the Ann M^ie, Bull
the Wanda, Epiphany Tankers;
the Winter Hill, Cities Service,
and the Couer d'Alene Victory,
Victory Carriers.
Intransit we handled the Ro
bin Sherwood, Robin Line; the
La Salle and Azalea City, Wa.
terman, and the Meredith Vic
tory, St. Augustine Victory and
Steel Vendor, Isthmian. The;
Vendor had some beefs which
are going to be settled in a few
days at the port of payoff. Other
than that all the vessels were
in smart shape.
I know that Seafarers in all
ports will be saddened to hear
of the death of Delancie W. Hun
ter, who was killed while work
ing aboard the Yarmouth. Hun
ter was Chief Electrician on the
Yarmouth at the time of his
death. Several Brothers and I
went up to Stowe, Mass., to pay "
our last respects. Del was 52 at
the time of his death and will
be' greatly missed by his mmay '
friends in the SIU.
The only Seafarer currently
bedding down in the Marine Hos^
pital here is Frank Alasavich,
and the report I get t.'om the
hospital is that he's coming along
fine and will be out beiore long.
the Roamer and the Kyska,
which is being pulled off the
express coastwise run and is be
ing put on the European run.
Well, the bids on the furni
ture and equipment for the sec
ond deck (recreation deck) are
being sent in to Headquarters
this week, and in the near fu^
ture we should be able to relax
between calls in our aircondi
tioned recreation hall.
These bids were secured from
the major dealers in Onlce equip
ment and furniture stores in Mo
bile and, on approval from Head
quarters,. we will buy the need
ed equipment. • . .
Some of the men on the beach
are: F. Fullbright, R. Dorgan,
A. Smith, W. Palmer, D. Baiia, j
Mrs. Carl Reiss. who sub
milted to Ihe LOG Ihe above
photograph of her late hus
band, wishes to express her
gratitude and heartiest thanks
to the crew, friends and Mas
ter of the SS Kyska for' the
kindness and generosity shown
in the death of her husband.
Brother Reiss, a icmgtime
of the SIU, was Chief
Electrleian aboard tlw Water
man ship Kyska at the time of
his death on March 19. Many
Seafarers will remember Reiss
as a frequent contributor of
timely articles to the SEA
FARERS LOG.
Frisco Branch
Will Move Inb
New SUP Hail
By JEFF MORRISON
SAN FRANCISCO—During the
past two weeks we shipped but
nincr men,, which makes this
probably our worst period since
we opened for business out here.
We did not sign on or pay off
a single ship, but in transit we
handled eight ships, the Lonp
Jack, Cities Service; John Bi
Waterman, Hastings and Fair
land, Waterman; Marymar and
Pennmar, Calmar; the Steel Sea^
farer. Isthmian, and the North
western Victory, Victory Carriers.
This weekend we'll do a differ
ent kind of shipping. We're mov
ing our rig out of these quarters
into the new SUP building. From
tomorrow (June 17) on we'll be
located at 450 Harrison Street,
Room 100.
The boys here on the beach
are going to lend us a hand in
making the switch and setting
up the new headquarters. So, if
you boys see M. Pennington, J.
Otto, H. Chads' or F= Andregg
with callouses on their hands;
you'll know the reason why.
They came from honest unioL
labor.
That's all for now, here'^ hop
ing the change of address will
change our luck in shipping. •
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A).vfy,r. •
S " Pago six T HE S k A E A HER S t 6 G Fxi&^ Atiif 16;
TBE MEMBEBSBIP SPEAKS
I'
Social Life On Coral Sea
Brightens Routine Voyage
SEXTET FROM THE CLAIBORNE
:. To the Editor:
; " Now this could be a tale of
woe and troubles, which, I grant,
are many during various stages
Of this particular trip. But who
in hell cares to read about an
other man's troubles? I know I
don't.
It is old home week on this
tnisty little Liberty (I have other
aames for this gentle little Lady,
but I am afraid they would be
unprintable). We have Joe Baron
as a Wiper. His imitations of a
Certain character provides mirth
_0n a very monotonous voyage.
LUCKY IN CARDS
Abe Ellis is our Ship's Dele
gate; the man of luck with the
cards. Sure wish I had that much
luck in my amorous affairs. But
that is another story. I have
turned over a new leaf in the
book of life since I got married
to the best gal south of the Ma
sonDixon line.
By the time you get this let
ter, I expect to be a very proud
father. Say, maybe it will ' be
twins—or triplets. Who knows
the strange ways oL Nature?
Freeman is an AB on the
twelve to four, so is Red Tallak
sen. Not forgetting Buddy Baker,
who is the DM. Yours truly, as
usual, is getting a few more
gray, hairs as the Bosun, who al
ways worries more than neces
sary about the forthcoming bless
ed event in his family.
And, of course, no gang out
of Tampa would be complete
without Bob Keller.' His crib
bage playing is still up among
the champions. He has several
worthwhile opponents on board
too.
GOODLOOKER
You all know "The Best
Dressed Man About Town"—sure
enough we have Red Palmer
With us, too. When he heard I
was mentioning him, he told me
to say he is the taU, debonair,
hwdsome type.
And last, but not the least,
A1 de Forrest, a regular oldtimer
in the SlU, who is in charge
of the stewpot on this scow.
By the way, we ran into old
Bill Higgs and his gang ashore
in Honolulu.. They were aboard
the Mankato Victo^, heading
for Yokohama, too. Thanks for
the drinks. Bill.
"Big John" Wunderlich. Jr.
SS Coral Sea
Lake George Crew
Aids Orphans
In Florida Home
SUGGESTS RELIEF
JOBS BE VOLUNTARY
TO AID SHIPPING
To the Editor:
. For the past two months, this
compulsory vacation issue has
been kicking around. Now I'd
like to piit in my two cents
worth. Recently' 1 spent four
months on the beach before 1
shipped out. At that 1 had to
take the last rating in the de
partment I sail in.
After such a waiting period,
any seaman with a family is
Weed to be in a hole for a long
time. 1 realize there is a short
age of jobs. But compulsory va
cations will only help 90 percent
of the membership who are' ben
efitting by ..the present policy.
But the 10 percent will suffer
more.
I suggest that the shipping
rules be amended so that reli^
trips will be put on a voluntary
basis until conditions change. I
believe this, will solve slow
shipping.
Claud* nshar
To the Editor:
1 hardly know how to tell you
about the big surprise we re
ceived on Easter Mollday morn
ing. '
Sjx or seven fine yoimg men
crewmembers of the SS Lake
George, brought a generous do
nation of various commodities,
such as cereals and vegetables
to us.
We have approximately 50
little children in our home so
we want you to know that mere
words cannot give full expres
sion to our grateful hearts for
this donation.
G6OD EXAMPLE
We hope that many others will
share in the good example of
the young men, thereby helping
to make the boys and girls of
today the men and women of
character of tomorrow.
May 1 extend our sincere
thanks to the members of the
SS Lake George crew and may
1 mention that while the Sea
farers are away from home and
on the stormy waters, the pray
ers of the Sisters and girls of
St. Mary's Home in Jacksonville,
follow them always.
May their last port be that of
heavenly joy and happiness.
Sister M. Stanislaus,
Superior
St. Mary's Home
Jacksonville, Fla.
On The Texas
Joe Winstead, Watertender
on the Seatrain Texas, U one
of the Seafarers who have
hecn whipping that scow into
shiqie. All hands report ceope
ration is iirstrat*.
Crewmen of the Waterman freighter pause for photo between rotmds of foamy lager at USS
piub in Bremerhaven. Germany, during recent stopoVer. Left to right: K. Puchalski, DM: J. J.
Grellon, DM; A. A. Murphy, AB; R. Ruppert, AB; G. Broxton, Bosun, and John Alstatt, AB.
Ft. Stanton Men Ask Increase In Benefits
To the Editor:
In accordance with the unani
mous vote of the SlU Brothers
hospitalized at Fort Stanton, this
is a request that the weekly
benefits of three dollars be in
creased to five dollars.
We find that three dollars in
sufficient when you figure cig
arettes, stationary; stamps, toilet
articles, etc., as necessities. We
also request that the donations
which are sent every two months
be sent every month and in
creased if possible.
The situation is different here
than in other hospitals. One? you
are placed in the ambulatory
section, or. zn we call it, "on^
the hill," you wear your own
clothes.
THINGS CHANGE
After a long stay in the hos
pital, the clothes you thought
you had are pretty well shot and
even small things such as under
Waterman Co. Praised
For Providing Free
Passage To Snug Harbor
To the Editor:
We, the crewmembers of the
SS Topa Topa, wish to thank
the Waterman Steamship Corpo
ration for their policy of provid
ing free passage, when available,
to old seamen who are traveling
east to enter Snug Harbor.
Some of the retired seamen
are unable to pay for their
transportation to New York, and
Waterman's providing their
transportation is a fine gesture.
On this voyage from the west
coast passage was provided for
an aged member of the Sailors
Union of the Pacific,'' and during
the entire trip he was accorded
the same treatment given the
paying passengers.
Again we wish to .'eii^ress our
thanks to Waterman and its offi.
cial for their most worHiy. policy.
Chart** J. hitt^by
Ship's D*l*gat*
wear and sox become a big
item on the budget.
We do not enjoy the benefits
hospitals in cities give insofar
as visiting organizations are con
cerned because of our isolated
location. We have a welfare com
mittee that represents all the
patients but at present this or
ganization is not functioning too
well.
We realize that the Union is
not an insurance company nor
a charitable institution. However,
we would appreciate it if these
requests would be brought up
for action by the membership at
a general meeting.
Donald McDonald
Delegate
Fort Stanton Marine
Hospital
Roop Says Vacation Rule
Would Violate Basic Rights
To the Editor:
I' would like to discuss the so
called compulsory vacation plan,
the most evil plan that has ever
been considered in the history
of the SlU. All discussions for or
against the plan to date have
overlooked the basic issues of
this question.
The plan is immoral, uncon
stitutional and brings distress to
man's job security and, conse
quently, his livelihood. Let's ex
amine closely the vacation plan
in this light.
1. It is immoraL Man receives
his right to work from his crea
tor, hence, a man's right to his
job is a natural, inalienable, and
inviolable right.
2. It is unconstitutional. 1
herein refer to the Constitution
of the United States.
3. It brings distress to a man's
job security. There is no job se
curity if a man is told he can
work only a certain length of
time and then is told he must
stop work and look for another
job. This brings distress not
only to a man but to his fahiily.
The Union,^ since its inception
has protected its members from
being arbitrarily dismissed by
the operators, but under the in
famous vacation plan, the Union;
in effect, will be doing the very
thing it prevents ship operators
from doing.
The question has been raised:
"Don't the unemployed: seamen
on the beach have a right to
a job? Yes, most assuredly they
do—^but not to another man's
job. No man has any moral or
legal right to give .up his job in
order tha^t an unemployed man
may get it.
Let's look into the matter as
to why these socalled unemploy
ed seamen are ynemployed.
There are thousands of men
who are seamen today who nev
er would have become seamen
had it not been for the war. A
large proportion of the ships
that these men sailed are now
in the graveyards—and under
standably so.
Now if under present economic
conditions,, the maritime industry
can absorb 100,000 seamen, us
ing a hypothetical figure, it is
irrational to expect the industry •
to absorb 150,000 men.
The solution; then is obvious.
Those who find shipping a bit
tight should look elsewhere for
a job. This advice is especially
applicable to that large group
of young men whose reason for
becoming seamen is due to the
war, rather than any choice on
their own part.
The vicious compulsory vaca
tiqn plan, wherein a man loses
his job, should not even be put
up for a vote by. the member
ship, for the sinq>le reason that
the. plan violates the natural,
Godgiven right of . mdividuals
to decide whether or not they
.wish, their jobs. .
Edwin C. Robp
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Friday. Jone 16. 1850 THE SEAEAkERS Li)G
'a
Text Of NLRB's Settlement Stipulation
o R p E II
Cities 3ervi^ Oil Company of Pennsylvania
(Marine: .Oivisi<m), hei«m called the Company, its
officers,' representatives, agents, successors and
ossigns, shall:
1. Cease and Desist from:
(a) Interrogating its employees concerning
their union affiliations;
(b) Warning its employees to refrain from as
sisting, becoming members of or remaining mem
b^s of the Seafarers Ihtematiomd Union of
North America, A.F. of L., or any other labor
organization;
(c) Warning its employees to assist, become
members of or remaining members of the Gitco
Tanker Men's Association, or any other labor or
ganization; .
<d) Making promises of benefit to its employ
es to cause them to join or assist the Citco
Tanker Men's Association, or any other labor
organization;
(e) Threatening its employees with discharge
or other reprisals if they join or assist the Se
farers International Union of |^orth America,
A.F. of L., or any other labor organization, or
refuse to join or assist the Citco Tanker Men's
Association, or any other labor organization;
HANDS OFF SIU LITERATURE
(f) Interfering with the circulation of imion
^terature and engaging in the destruction of
union literature for the purpose of discouraging
membership in Seafarers International Union of
North America, A.F. of L., or any other labor
organization, or encouraging member^ip in the
Citco Tanker Men's Association or any other
labor organization;
(g) Keeping under observation and surveil
lance the meeting places, meetings and activities
of the Seaf^ers International Union of North
America, A.F, of L., or any other labor organiza
tion, or the concerted activities of its employees
for the purpose of selfrprganization or improve
ment of working conditions;
(h) Engaging in espionage over the activities
of the Seafarers International Unipn of North
America, A.F. of L., or any other labor organiza
tion, or the concerted activities of its employees
for the~ purpose of selforganization or improve
ment of working conditions;
(i) Restricting and interfering with the use
of the radio facilities pf its vessels by its em"
ployees for the purpose of discouraging raembm?
ship in the Seafarers International Union of
North America, A.F. of L., or any other labor
organization; * '
(j) Conducting polls of its employe^ to de^
termine whether they desire a rotary Vacation
plan or any other condition of employment with
out the prior agreement of the collective bar
gaining representative of its employees;
END VIOLENCE THREATS"
(k) In any other manner engagir^ in any
threats or acts of violence, intimidation or re
prisal, or making any promise of benefits ifcp, or
in any, manner restraining or coercing its em
ployees in the exercise of their right to selfor
ganization, to formi join, or assist labor organiza
tions, to bargain collectively through representa
tives of their own choosing, and to eng^S ih
other concerted activities for the purpose of col;
lective bargaining, or other mutual aid or pro
tection, and to refrain from any or all such activ
ities as guaranteed in Section 7 of the Act;
(1) Dominating or interfering with the ad
ministration qf Citco Tanker Men's Association,
or with the formation or administration of any
other labor organization of its employees, or
from contributing, support to Citco Tanker Men's
Association, or to any other labor organization; ^
; (m) Encouraging membership in Citco Tank
er Men's Association or any. other labor organim
tion of its ertipioyees by refn^g to hire or by
discharging or refusing to reinstate any of its
Printed on these pages are the pertinent por
tions of the Settlement Stipulation drawn up by
the National Labor Relations Board and agreed
to by Cities Service Oil Company and CTMA.
The Stipulation, in effect, is a complete surrender
and admission of guilt to all charges leveled at
these two organizations during the past four
years by the SIU.
Omitted from publication here in the interest
of saving space are the inlrbductipn, a lengthy
explanation in legal terminology outlining the
case: Appendix A, which lists the charges against
the company; and Appendices B and C, which
State the names of the men who have brought
chargea against the company.
The Stipulation, signed on June 12, now goes
to the NLRB in Washington for approval, fol
lowing which the New York Regional Office oS ;|
the NLRB will take steps toward enforcing the
Order. At that time Cities Service must post
Appendix "D" of the Order in all of its ship and
shore installations, and begin the payment of
damages to the 151 men named in the Order,
and restore to employment those eligible.
Final approval of the Order is expected' in
about two weeks, at which time the New York "
NLRB office will begin interviewing the men
named in the Order. In the next issue of the
SEAFARERS LOG the names of the men wiU
be printed with full instructions as to what steps
to take in settling their cases.
emp.loyees, or in any other mminer discriminat
ing in regard to hire or tenure of employment,
orany other terms or conditions of employment,
because of nonmembership in or refusal to en
gage in activity on behalf of any such labor or
ganization;
(n) Discouraging membership in Seafarers
International Union of North America, A.F. of L.,
or any other labor organization of its employees
by refusing to hire or by discharging or refusing
to reinstate any of its employees or in any man
ner discriminating in regard to hire or tenure of
emplo3rment, because of membership in or activ
ity on t«half of any such labor organization;
<o) Reusing to bargain collectively with the
Seafarers International Union of North America,
A.F. of L., by making the withdrawal of charges
filed with the National Labor Relations Board a
condition precedent to the signing of a collective
bargaining agreement;
(p) Refusing to bargain collectively with the
Seafarers International Union of North America,
AF.. of L., or its representatives as the exclusive
representative of all of its ̂ ployees in the bar
gamlng vmits described below, with respect to
rates of pay, hours of employment, or other con
ditions of employment. The bargaining unit, con
sists oi the following:
ENTIRE FLEET UNIT
The Company's unlicensed personnel aboard
the vessels SS Council Grove, SS French Creek,
BS Logan's Fori, SS Abiqua, SS Cantigny, SS
Cbiwawa, SS PaolL SS Royal Oak, SS Govern
ment CaBip, SS Fori Hbskins, SS Salem Mari
time, SS Bent's Fori, SS Bradford Island, SS
Wluter HUh SS Archer's Hop© and SS Lon© Jack,
including deck and engine employees, machinists
and pumpmen, but excluding stewards, boat
swains, pmrsers, radio operators, and supervisors
as defined in the Act.
2. Take the following affirmative action to ef
fectuate the policies of the National Labor Re
lations Act:
(a) Withhold all recognition from Citco
Tanker Men's Association as the representative
of any of its employees as defined in Section 2
(3) of the Act for the purpose of dealing'with the
Company with respect to grievances, wages,
homrs of employment, or any other terms or
conditions of employment;
(b) Completely disestablish Citco Tanker
Men's Association as the representative of any of
its employees within the meaning of Section 2
(3) of the Act for the purposeof dealing with the
Company with respect to grievances, labor dis
putes, wages, rates of pay, hours of employment,
or other conditions of employment, and not rec
ognize it or any successor thereto for any of the
above purposes; '
(c) Offer to those employees listed in "Ap
pendix B" immediate and full reinstatement to
their foSier or substantially equivalent positions
without prejudice to their seniority and other
rights and privileges; • . .
(BA Ncite:^ Thu f»f©rs ])» 144 men^d^
from Cities Service ships for union activities.)
(d) Offer to those individuals named "in "Ap
pendix C" immediate employment in the posi
tions in which they would have been employed
had the Company not discriminated against
them, or in substantially equivalent positions;
(Ed. Note: The Order here refers to the seven
men refused employment by Cities Service because
of membership in the SIU.)
(e) Make whole the employees named in
"Appendix B" for any loss of pay they may have
suffered by reason of the discrimination against
them by payment to each of them of a sum of
money equal to that which would have been
earned as wages from the dates of their respec
tive di^harges, to the ,dates of the Company's
offer of reinstatement, less their net eamuigs
dxiring such periods;
PAY FOR JOB SNUB
(f) Make whole the employees named in
"Appendix C" for any loss of pay they may have ,
suffered by reason of the discrimination agairist
them by payment to each of them of a sum of
money equal to that which would have been
earned as wages from the date of the respective
refusals to hire to the date of the Company's
offer of employment, less their net earnings dur
ing such periods;
(g) Upon request, .bargain collectively with
the Seafarers International Union of North Am
erica, A.F. of L., as the exclusive representative
of all of its employees in the bargaining unit de
scribed below with respect to rates of pay,
wages, hours of employment, or other conditions
of employment. The bargaining unit consists of
the following:
The Company's unlicensed personnel aboard
the vessels SS Council Grove, SS French Creek,
SS Logan's Fori, SS Abiqua, SS Cantigny, SS
Chiwawa, SS Paoli, SS Royal Oak, SS Govern
ment Camp, SS Fort Hoskins, SS Salem Mari
time, SS Bent's Fort, SS Bradford Island, SS
Winter Hill, SS Archer's Hope and SS Lone Jack,
including deck and engine employees, machinists
and pumpmen, but excluding stewards, boat
swains, pursers, radio operators, and supervisors
as defined in the Act.
(h) Post in conspicuous places in its Sea
men's Rooms at 70 Pine Street, New York, New
York, the offices of all shipping agents of the
Company, and aboard all vessels operated by
the Company, including all places where notices
to employees are customarily posted, copies of
the Notice attached hereto and marked "Appen
dix D."^ Copies of said Notice, to be furnished by
the Regional Director for the Second Region,
shall, after being duly signed by a representative
of the Company, be posted immediately upon
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1 In the event this Order is enforced by a Decree of
the United States Court of Appeals, there shall' be
inserted before the words "A Decision and Order"
the woids "A Decree of the United States Court of
Appeals Enforcing....
(EA Th© which tiie Company mai4 | |
post, reserved to here as Appendix D, is printed in
full at the end of the OMer.)
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receipt thereof and maintainei by them for a
period of sixty (60) consecutivp days thereafter.
Reasonable steps shall be takeri by the Company
to insure that said Notices are not altered, der
faced or covered by any other material:
(i) Notify the Regional Director for the Sec
ond Region, in writing, within ten (10) days from
the date of "this Order what steps the Company
has taken to comply therewith.
19. Upon an application by the Board, the ap
propriate United States Court of Appeals, or any
other appropriate court, may enter its Decree in
appropriate form enforcing the Order of the
Board herein set forth. All parties hereto ex
pressly waive their right to contest the entry of
any such Decree and waive notice of the time
and place of the filing of application for the
entry thereof.
COMPUTE MONEY DUE
20. The Regional Director for the Second Re
gion will cause an investigation to be made to
determine the amoimt due to each, employee
listed in Appendix "B" and "C", pursuant to the
provisions of paragraphs 2(e) and (f) of the
Board's Order, set forth in paragraph 18. The
total amount due to said employees shall in no
event exceed the sum of $150,000. In the event
that the total amount due as determined by the
Regional Director is more than $150,000, the lat
ter amount is to be distributed pro rata among
the employees listed in Appendix "B" and "C".
21. This Stipulation contains the entire agree
ment of the parties, and there is no verbal agree
ment which varies, alters, or modifies this Stipu
lation.
22. 'niis Stipulation is. subject td the r^proval
of the National Labor Relations Board and shall
• bi^ome effective immediately upon such ap
proval
Signed this 12th day of June, 1950,
at 2 Park Avenue, N.Y.C.
CITIES SERVICE OIL COl^PANY OF
PENNSYLVANIA (MARINE DIVISION)
By JAMES P. FARRELL, Coimsel
Signed this 12th day of June, 1950,
at 2 Park Avenue, N.Y.C.
SEAFARERS INTERNATIONAL UNION
OF NORTH AMERICA, A.F.ofL.
By C. PAUL BARKER, Counsel
Signed this 12th day of June, 1950,
at 2 Park Avenue, N.Y.C.
CITCO TANKER MEN'S ASSOCIATION
By ALBERT F. STRASBURGER, Attorney
Signed this 12th day of Jime, 1950,
at 2 Park Avenue, N.Y.C.
Chester L. Migden
Joseph A. Jenkins
Counsel for the General Counsel
National Labor Relations Board ^
2 Park Avenue
• New York 16, New York
"APPENDIX D'
NOTICE TO ALL EMPLOYEES
PURSUANT TO
' A DECISION AND ORDER
of the National Labor Relations Board, and in
order to effectuate the policies of the National
Labor Relations Act, we hereby notify our em
ployees that:
WE WILL NOT interrogate our employees
concerning their union affiliations;
WE WILL NOT warn our employees to refrain
from assisting, becoming members of or remain
ing members of the Seafarers International Un
ion of North America, A.F.ofL., or any other la
bor organization;
WE WILL NOT warn our employees to assist,
become members of or remain members of the
Tanker Men's Association, or any other
labor organization;
^ WE WILL NOT make promises of benefit to
our employees to cause them to join or assist
the Citco Tanker Men's Association, or any other
labor organization;
WE WILL NOT threaten our employees with
discharge or other reprisals if they join or assist
the Seafarers International Union of North Am
erica, A.F.ofL., or any other labor organization,
or refuse to join or assist tke Citco Tanker Men's
Association, or any other labor organization;'^
WE WILL NOT interfere with the circulation
of union literature and engage in the destruction
of union literature for the piurpose of discour
aging membership in Seafarers Internation Union
of North America, A.F.ofL;, or any other labor
organization, or encourage membership in the
Citco Tanker Men's Association, or any other la
bor organization;
WE WILL NOT keep under observation and
surveillance the meeting places, meetings and
activities of the Seafarers International Union of
North America, A.F.ofL., or any other labor or
ganization, or the concerted activities of its em
ployees for the purpose of selforganization or
improvement of working conditions;
WE WILL NOT engage in espionage over the
activities of the Seafarers International Union of
North America^ A.F.ofL., or any other labor or
ganization, or the concerted activities of its em
ployees for the purpose of selforganization o>
improvement of working conditions;
WE WILL NOT restrict or interfere with the
use of the radio facilities of our vessels by our
employees for the purpose of discouraging meni
bership in the Seafarers International Union of
North America, A.F.ofL., or any other labor or
ganization;
WE WILL NOT conduct polls of our em
ployees to determine whether they desire a ro
tary vacation plan or any other condition of em
ployment without the prior agreement of the
collective bargaining representative of our em
ployees;
WE WILL NOT in any other manner engage in
any threats or actS; of violence, intimidation or
reprisal, or make any promise of benefits to, or
in any manner restrain or coerce our employees
in the exercise of their right to selforganization,
to form, join, or assist labor organizations, to
bargain collectively through representatives of
their own choosing, and to engage in other con>
certed activities for the purpose of collective
bargaining, or other mutual aid or protection,
and to refrain from any or all such activities as
guaranteed in Section 7 of the Act;
WE WILL NOT d(»ninate or interfere with the
administration of Citco Tanker Men's Associa
tion, or with the formation or administration of
any other labor organization of our employees,
or contribute support to Citco Tanker Men's As
sociation, or to any other Jabor organization;
WE WILL NOT encourage membership in
Citco Tanker Men's Association or any other la
bor organization of our employees by refusing
to hire or by discharging or refusing to reinstate
any of our employees, or in any other manner
discriminating in regard to hire or tenure of
employment, or any other terms or conditions of
employment, because of nonmembership in or
refusal to engage in activity on behalf of any
such labor organization;
WE WILL NOT discoiuage membership in the
Seafarers International Union of North America,
A.F.ofL., or any other labor organization of our
employees by refusing to hire or by discharging
or refusing to reinstate any of our employees, or
in any manner discriminating in rfegard to hire
or tenure of employment, because of membership
in or activity on behaif of any such labor or
ganization;
WE WILL NOT refuse to bargain collectively
This Is how the LOG ch^acierliod CTMA whan it burst upon iha scene, full
grown, the child of Cities Service genius. Th^ fbe CjS seamen agreed with the Sllff,
that the old hag was a bagi. Is proved by the lack of success she enjoyed.
iyv T a E S EkP A R ER ̂ Ld&
Lloyd Bertrand pictures a company spy hard at work on the SS Royal Oak. Nice work, if
you can stand yourself.
with the Seafarers International Union of North
America, A.F.ofL., by making the withdrawal of
charges filed with the National Labor Relations
Board of condition precedent to the signing of a
collective bargaining agreement. •
WE WILL bargain collectively with the Sea
farers International Union of North America,
A.F.ofL., as the exclusive representative of all
employees in the bargaining unit described be
low, with respect to rates of pay, wages, hours
of employment, or other conditions of employ
ment. The bargaining unit consists.of the fol
lowing:
The Company's unlicensed personnel aboard
the vessels rSS Council Grove, SS French Creek,
SS Logan's Fort, SS Abiqua, SS Cantigny, SS
Chiwawa, SS Paoli, SS Royal Oak, SS Govern
ment Camp, SS Fort Hoskins, SS Salem Mari
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time, SS Bent's Fort, SS Bradford Island, SS
Winter Hill, SS Archer's Hope and SS Lon»
Jack, including deck and engine employees, ma
chinists and pumpmen, but excluding stewards,
boatswains, pursers, radio operators, and super
visors as defined in the Act.
WE HEREBY disestablish Citco Tanker Men's
Association as the representative of any of our
employees within the meaning of Section 2 (3)
of the Act, for the purpose of dealing with the
Company concerning grievances, labor disputes,
wages, rates of pay, hours of employment, or
other conditions of employment, and we will not
, recognize it or any successor thereto for any of
the above purposes.
WE WILL offer to those employees listed in
Schedule "A" immediate and full reinstatement
to their former or substantially equivalent po
sitions without prejudice to their seniority and
other rights and privileges;
WE WILL offer to those individuals named in
Schedule "B" immediate employment in the po
sition, in which they would have been employed"
had we not discriminated against them, or in
substantially equivalent positions;
WE WILL make the whole the employees
named in Schedules "A" and "B" for any loss of
pay they may have suffered by reason of the
discrimination against them.
CITIES SERVICE OIL COMPANY
OF PENNSYLVANIA (Marine Division)
By JAMES P. FARRELL, Counsel
(Representative) (Title)
Dated June 12, 1950.
NOTE: ANY OF THE ABOVENAMED EM
PLOYEES PRESENTLY SERVING IN
THE ARMED FORCES OF THE UNITED
STATES WILL BE OFFERED FULL RE
INSTATEMENT UPON APPLICATION
IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE SELEC
TIVE SERVICE ACT AFTER DIS
CHARGE FROM THE ARMED FORCES.
This notice must remain posted for 60' days
from the date hereof, and must not be alter^,
defaced, or covered by any other material.
I
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The NLRB Record Reaffirms SlU Charges . : .f
Throughout the many, many months that the
Seafarers International Union sought to get offi
cials of the Cities Service Oil Company's Ma
rine Division to negotiate a contract as a con
"sequence of the Union's collective bargaining vic
tories in the CS tanker fleet, the company stalled
and doubletalked and deceived.
Evidence of the company's "good faith" in
"bargaining" with the SIU Ss pointedly shown by
the fact that as they talked their agents were
spying on, and firing SIU members and carrying
on the activities in behalf of the companydom
inated Union, CTMA.
All of this the SIU knew, but its accusations
were brushed off in the negotiationa by CS offi
cials with feigned astoni^ment, outright denials
and even ^Tomises' that SIU accusera would later
have to eat those words."
This week, those accusing words are being
eaten~but not by the SIU. The dirty mess charg
ed by the SIU, denied by the CS Marine Divi
sion, is on the public record. A fuller airing was
^ averted by the company's capitulation after four
days ol harrowing testimony, but enough was
heard to establish the Marine Division's guilt on
all major charges and to wring from it a virtual
conferaidn and cry of "enough."
A few examples of the sweet innocence pro
fessed by company officials during bargaining
sessions and the grim truth as revealed by testi
mony under oath at the National Labor Relations
Board trial June 69 are reproducecLon this page.
The bargaining session excerpts taken from the
record made by the company's stenographer, are
from the meeting of Feb. 27, 1950.
Persons whose names appear in the ex
cerpts are:
PAUL HALL: SecretaryTreasurer of the SIU's
Atlantic and Gulf District,
a PAUL BARKER: Counsel for the SlUi
WILLIAM LAGE: Attorney for the company's
Marine Division until his connection was
severed a few weeks before the NLRB triaL
M. J. ADKINS: Marine Superintendent of the
CS Marine Division.
JAMES T. HANAWAY: Dispatcher for the Ma
rine Division.
ALBERT STRASBURGER: Attorney for CTMA,
the companydominated union.
JOHN I. DUGAN: Attorney and former Coast
Guard intelligence officer, who was hired by
Lage to set up a spy ring to operate against
SIU and its members.
JAMES P. FARRELL: General counsel for the
parent company of the Marine Division, the
Cities Service Oil Company of Pennsylvania,
who took over when Lage dropped out of
the picture.
ARTHUR J. O'LEARY: Attorney associated with
Farrell in representing CS.
JOSEPH A. JENKINS: Counsel for the NLRB.
CHESTER L. MIGDEN: Counsel for the NLRB.
At Negotiations In February
MR. HALL:. . . Cities Service repesentatives,
in one form or the other, went to the extreme
trouble to obtain through one means or the
other copies of a photo out of the police files of
a man who was organizing for the SIU. They
went further to the trouble to put that into a
newspaper, which the officials of the Marine
Division of the Cities Service carried on board
every one of their ships. We say we want you
to do things like that and wash our dirty linen
out in the open. But, we say to you that when
you do, Adkins, let us hope that none of you
gentlemen have too much dirty linen yourselves,
because we certainly are going to wash it out
in public for you same as you tried to wash ours.'
M. LAGE: Those are some statements, Mr.
Hall, if you will permit the expression, with nof
foundation whatsoever in fact.
At NLRB Trial ln June
(John Dugan, retained by Cities Service's at
torneys to deal with the SIU organizing, drive, is
questioned by an NLRB Attorney)
Q. (by Joe Jenkins, NLRB Attorney); Directing
your attention specifically to the month of August,
1948, did you ever ask Mr. Hennessey to render
you any service in getting police records of SIU
organizers?
A. Yes, I did. I might add that he was unsuc
cessful in obtaining them. '
Q. You did that on instructions from Mr. Lage,
did you not?
A. I did.
At Negotiations In February
MR. HALL: I do know several SIU men have
been beaten up on Cities Service ships by stool
pigeons of the CTMA, which in turn is a stool
pigeon of Cities Service Marine Division and I
• know we are making official complaints in the
proper board and other sources. You should do
the same thing if you have occasion to beef.
MH. ADKINS: If you are accusing the Com
pany of fostering a Union in this CTMA, you are
just on the wrong track. Mister, and you are
going to eat those words sometime, too.
MR. HALT.: Whenever I eat those words it will
be a cold day in hell. I guarantee you that.
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At NliRB Trial In June
I Mr. Strasburger (Attorney for CTMA);Mr. Jen
Jans and Mr. Migden showed me last evening
the proposed or substantially final copy of the
proposed settlement of this case which provides
;for an order of this Board as well as a court
4ecree. ,
The Citco Tanker Men's Association will par
ticipate in signing such a stipulation.
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Mr. Barker (Attorney for the SIU): I woidd
jy^e to make a statement, also. The Seafarers In
ternational Union, along with a number of its
members who are the charging parties in this
matter, likewise will participate in the settlement
stipulation along these lines.,
Mr. O'Leary (Attorney for Cities Service): I
would like to make a statement for the record,
your Honor.
The respondent in this proceeding. Cities Ser
vice Oil Company, has authorized James P. Far
rell, one of its attorneys, to enter into a stipula
tion settling all of the issues inthis proceeding
and to provide for a Board order and court
decree.
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Mr. Farrell: As General Counsel for Cities Ser
vice Company and its subsidiaries, including the
respondent. Cities Service Oil Company of Fenn Q. Did you have any discussion with Mr. Lage
sylvania in this proceeding, I join in the state (Cities Service's Attorney) relating to the Cities
ment that has been made by Mr. O'Leary and Service Company and the Seafarers International
I have been duly authorized by the president of UniffiB?
Q." Did you go down there and see him?
A. I went over and saw Mr. Hamaway and I
said, "I am Hennessey."
Q. What did he say?
A. Well, he said, "Oh, Yes," and he picked up
—and he had various lists and he picked up one
and looked at some others and made out a board
ing pass and says, "Yes, you are to go on the
Bradford Island."
Q. Did you fill put an application for employ
ment?
A. No. . ;
Q. Did he interview you? .
A. There was no intendew.
At Negotiations In February
MR. HALL: What about some of the waterfront
stool pigeons which agents of the mar ine division
have hired to finger union men?
MR. ATKINS: I object to that statement that
the company has had anything to do with any
stool pigeons on the waterfront or kny front.
At NLRB Trial In June
Q. Will you state your name, your a^ess,
and your occupation for the record.
A. John Irwin Dugan,, 21 North Chatsworth,
Larchmont, N.Y. I am ah attorney with ofiic^
at 120 Broadway.
4he company to enter into the settlement.
At Negotiations In February
A. I did.
. MR. HALL: I think very shortly this whple
rotten corrupt system of hiring will be hitting
you right square in the face and I assure you
regardless of the hard words flung across this
table, I would certainly leam something about
that system, Adkins, because when the corrupt
ness of it comes out I suppose you are the man
who is going to have to answer for it, and it is
plenty corrupt and rotten.
MR. ADKINS: That is your statement, Mr.
Hall, and you have the right to make those state
ments, if you wish. I just hope you remember
them.
MR. HALL: I will remember them.
MR. ADKINS: If you don't, I am going to
give you some of this record to read.
MR. HALL: I will remember every one of
them, because I have been sitting cm top of them
_ a long time.
> At NLRB Trial In June
Migden questioning Hennessey at Trial:
Q. Did you get your seaman's papers as a re
ault of the conversation (Hennessey's interview
vdth Dugan wherein he agreed to spy on SIU
sympathizers aboard Cities Service ships)^
A. As a result of Mr. Dugan's conversation
with the Coast Guard, of which he had beeh a
former commander in charge of Coast Guard
jiearings, he held the conversation with some
person in the Coast Guard and my papers were
issued just that quick.
Q. What was the relationship between you and
Mr. Lage wi^ reference to the Cities Service
Company at that time?
A. In the spring of 1948 I was retained by
Hatch, Wolf and Nash (the law firm in which
Lage is a partner and which represents Cities
Service)... to assist them in Admiralty matters
and particularly with the labor matters with
which they were presently engaged and pre^
cisely with the Seafarers International Union.
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A isn't it true, Mr. Dugan. that m addition
to your being retained as an adviser in Admir
alty maters you were also retained by Mr. Wil
liam Lage to procure for him individuals to go
aboard the vessds of the Cities Service Company
and report back to you and to him matters con
cerning the str^gth, the membership in and so
forth of the Seafarers International Union?...
A. Yes. • ;
Q. And isn't it true, Mr. Dugan, that in con
nection with the obtaining of this information
you were paid moneys which you were authpr
Jzed to pay to these individuals who went aboard
ship for .this information by Mr. Lage?
A. That is right.
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Q. Could you tell us how you obtained them
for employment and whom did you employ?
A. ... Because of my acquaintance with Intel
ligence functions, during the war, it was pr(*
ably presumed—I was apparently selected be
cause I might be able to supply them with per
sonnel from that group. I approached one of the
officers who had been associated with that
branch during the war, and he recommended
men.
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Q. What .three men did he recommend?
A. He recommended a man by the name ot
Campbell, a man by the name of Lawrence Hen
nessey, and a man by the name of John Bosciano.
Q. Did you mploy them?
A. I employed Henness^ and Bosciano.
Q. Both those men had been members, had
they not, of the Naval Waterfront Intelligence
Squad during the war?
A. Tliat was my understanding.
Q. When you employed Mr. Hennessey, what
instructions did you give him?
A. I instructed Mr. Hennessey to report to mp
all activities on the ship relating to labor conr
ditions. Included in that are his estimate of th$
strength of the Seafarers International Union od
the ship and any other matter which would afr
feet the labor relations....
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Q. Lage wanted him. (Hennessey) toidentify
the men?
A. That is correct. And he advised me he
wpuld.
Q. What identificatipns was tp be made.
A. As tp the idehtity pf the men with any
labor activities.
Q. That is whether he was SIU or'CTMA?
A. T?iat is coirect. ^
Cities Service Threws in 1%e Sponge
Q. Mr. Hennessey, did Mr. Dugan indicate to
you how long he wanted you to remain aboard
any particular vessel?
A. Just one trip and one trip alone.
* • •
Q. Was there any arrangement as to finances
during the course of the conversation?
A. During the course of the conversations Mr.
Dugan had stipulated that 1 would receive $450
a month and approximately $10 a day plus ex
penses during the voyages aboard vessels and
that would be subtractible.
Q. Do you recall what happ^ed when you
Teported to the Cities Service office before board
ing ffie Bradford Island?...
A. Yes. As a niater of fact, I walked and I was
instructed—^I will give you this as an^ explana
tory note—I was instructed by Mr. John Irwin
• Dugan to go over to see Mr. Bamaway.
(Continued from 1)
pany official made it impossible for
crewmembers to tend or receive
messages after Feb. 17, 1949, in an
effort to interfere with the MiRB
Action set for .three days later.
The tiein betwe^ the company
and CTMA was further revealed by
Dugan's testimony that CTMA law
yer Albot StrasW'ger had gone to
Lage seeking more funds for his
services. Lage, it was disclosed by
the witness, referred Strasburger
to Dugan, hoping the latter would
quiet him down.
"I told Strasburger he'd have to
get along as best he could," Du
gan said.
Lage did not appear at the trial,
the connection betwee.n him and
the company having been severed
several weeks before the hearing
began.
The day after Dugan appeared mi
the stand, the Board heard oqe of
his men tell of his role in the
company's spy setup. Hennesi^ey
testified that he had been fired
frpm one of the CS ships to which
he had been assigned afb^ an al^
tercation with the skipper who,he
said, had made improper advances
to him.
The trial ended abruptly the day
after Hennessey's testimcmy, when
the company and CTMA .lawyers
agreed to let the Board issue the
order for termk of settliement just
as David Furman, number one or
ganizer for the company imion,
was about to be called to. the stand
for examination on, charges in con
nection with "his role in the anti
SlU campaign.
Furman had been scheduled to
testify earlier but ^sented him
self on a plea of illness.
The ccmipany's swift capitula
tion eut off testimony that was es
timated would have run for weeks,
at least, and which would have
exposed other lurid and irregular
practices in the plot to keep the
CS segmen from obtaining SIU
.Representation, for which they
, overwhelmingly voted in two
NLRB elections.
Bi faet, the nature of ^e testi
niony hrard was so startling that
the Union is exploring the possi
bility of bringing to light other
asi>ects of the antiomion campaign.
At no point during the hearing
was the company able to success
fully refute any of the charges lev
eled at it by the SlU.
SIU A & G SecretaryTreasurer
Paul .'Kail hailed the company's
capitulation as "one of the most
si^ificant. victories in the histpry
of maritime unionism and one of
extreihe value to the labor move
ment as a whole. ^
• ^'The , company was practically
trapped with the . blood; op its
ban#," h^ said. "The entire cam
paign was an amazing experience."
Hall paid tribute to the SIU or
gmuzers for their effective strategy,
which enabled them to see the
fight through to a yicterious finish,
ip spite of the innumerable and
unprecedented obstacles placed in
their way by the company.
"Director of Organization Lind^
«ey Williams and' his staff did a
terrific job. They deserVe to be
commended not only by Seafarersj
but all laboring people for their
part in exposing in detail the depths
to which antiunion people can sink
in their hysterical and irrational
campaign against trade unionism,^
he said..
Among the main provisions of
the order are those requiring the
CS Marine Division to:
1. Completely disestablish the
CTMAas bargaining reprteentative
for any unlicensed personnel out
side pf supervisors.
.2. Offer reemployment to the 15^
men discharged by the company
for having membership in the SIU
gnd to pay their wages for the pei
riodS'they wpre unemployed as p
result of the dismissals.
3. Bargain in good faith with
the SIU for contract covering un
licensed personnel.
4, Cease and desist from int^s?
fering in any way yrith. the Sly^
from spying uppp ti^e SIU, fropi
discharging men for membership
in the Union and from refusing to
bargain collectively.
r /• f^Ad»Y, Juno 16/1^50 TH1E SEAFAW S LOG ' > Page Eleven
Minutes Of A&G Branch Meetings in Brief
SAVANNAH—Chairman, J. C.
Thompson. 24560: Recording Sec
retary, Jeff Gillete, 37060; Read
ing Clerk. E. M. Bryant. 25806.
J. C. Haire, president of Sa
vannah Central Labor Union and
organizer for the AFL Retail
Clerks Union was introduced to
the membership. He made an
appeal for all unions to aid in
the organizing of retail clerics in
Savannah. Brother Haire said
that he knew of no other union
with a better reputation for as
sisting other labor unions than
the SIU and added that all mem
bers should be proud of their
. Union's record. Minutes read and
accepted. Port Agent discussed
shipping in the port, pointing out
that it had been off the upgrade.
He announced that Brother C.
W. McCraw had been killed in
an auto wreck on June 5 and
that the SIU had sent a wreath
to the funeral. No charges to be
read. Meeting adjourned at 8:15
PM, with 40 members present.
t t t
, PHILADELPHIA — dudrman.
B. Higdon. 182; Recording Sec
retary, Don Hall. 43372; Reading
Clerk, Don Hall. 43372.
. Minutes of meetings held in
other ports read and accepted.
Agent's verbal report accepted.
SecretaryTreasurer's financial
report read and accepted. Dis
patcher reported about twice as
many men registered as shipped
during the past two week period.
Meeting adjoiuned at 7:45.
X %
BALTIMORE—Chairman. WU
liam Renlz. 26445; Recording Sec
retary, G. A. Masterson, 20297;
Reading Clerk, A1 Stansbury.
4683.
Other Branch Minutes read
and approved, except for a mo
tion to nonconcur with Galves
ton New Business and recom
mending that the shipping rules
be followed. Communications
were read. Motion carried not to
excuse two Brothers from meet
ing because they had registered
in two ports — Baltimore and
Philadelphia. Motion carried to
refer other excuses to the Dis
patcher. Motion carried to ac
cept Headquarters report as read.
Port Agent said that shipping
A&G Shipping From May 24 To Juno 7
PORT
Boston.
New York
Philadelphia....:;..
Baltimore.
Norfolk.
Savannah.
Tampa.
Mobile.
New Orleans..
Galveston
West Coast
GRAND TOTAL..
REG. REG. REG. TOTAL SHIPPED SHIPPED SHIPPED TOTAL
DECK ENG. STWDS. REG. DECK ENG. STWDS. SHIPPED
29 17 25 71 30 19 25 74
134 113 114 36i 89 70 85 244
31 24 30 85 19 11 15 45
89 54 53 196 46 44 33 123
(No Figures Received) (No Figures Received)
3 4 3 10 5 13 3 21
12 15 16 43 15 11 13 39
29 25 26 • 80 34 33 31 98
62 57 99 .218 55 45 75 175
(No Figures Available) (No Figures Available)
21 20 21 62 18 15 17 50
410 329 387 1,126 311 261 297 869
was about the same as it had
been in the past twoweek pe
riod. The port is running smooth
ly. Agent said he had been in
New York last week and had
sat in on Cities Service negotia
tions. They're tough people to
deal with,, he said. He also an
nounced that the case is coming
up before the National Labor
Relations Board on Monday.
Meeting adjourned at 7:40 PM,
with 301 members present.
* 5 i
SAN FRANCISCO—Chairman,
Jeff Morrison, 34213; Recording
Secretary, Frank S. Mitchell.
5661; Reading Clerk, T. M. Col
lins, 102120.
Minutes of meetings held in
the other ports read and accept
ed. Agent reported shipping as
being dead slow. Morrison also
repoiited the names of members
in Marine Hospital and urged
the members to visit their ship
mates if they get a chance. Meet
ing adjourned with 31 members
present.
& i &
BOSTON — Chairman, C.
Brown, 28800; Recording Secre
tary. B. Lawson, 894; Reading
Clerk. W. Hamilton. 3400.
Minutes of previous Branch
meetings in all ports read and ap
proved, except for Galveston New
Business on shipping rules pro
cedure. Agent discused shipping
which had improved a bit because
of the Yarmouth going into ser
vice for the summer. Agent in
t"
Directory Of SIU HRUS
SIU, A&G District
formed the membership that
Brother D. W. Hunter had been
killed while working on the Yar
mouth at East Boston. Flowers
were sent to the funeral and pro
ceeds of a collection were sent to
his widow. Meeting adjourned at
8:25 PM, with 150 members pres
ent.
X t. t.
MOBILE — Chairman. S. P.
Morris. 44484; Recording Secre
tary. James L. Carroll, 14; Read
ing Clerk. Harold J. Fischer, 59.
Minutes of other branch meet
ings read and accepted. Miscel
laneous reports accepted. Head
quarters building report accept
ed with motion to concur with
committee's recommendations.
Agent Tanner reported shipping
prospects weren't too bright with
only three offshore ships and
eight coastwise and Puerto Rico
vessels due to hit the port dur
ing the next couple of weeks.
Tanner also reported on the stat
us of the bill to legalize the
hiring hall. Members were urged
to read the latest SEAFARERS
LOG for the latest on the vaca
tion proposal. Tanner also report
ed that he had secured bids on
furniture for the recreation deck
from all leading office equip
ment dealers in Mobile and stat
ed that they would be sent to
Headquarters for approval. Un
der New Business, motion by M.
J. Carroll, 14, seconded by sever
al, that bids on furniture also
include bids for renovating and
reupholstering present furniture
and all bids be sent to Head
quarters for approval. Motion
carried unanimously.
^ X t.
NEW ORLEANS — Chairman.
LeRoy Clarke, 23062;^ Recording
Secretary, Bill Fredericks, 94;
Reading Clerk, Buck Stephens.
76.
utes of meetings held in othei
branches read and approved. Ag
ent report given by Buck Ste
phens in absence of Bull Shep
pard, who was ill. Shipping re
ported as being slow, with but
four payoffs, three signons and
21 ships intransit. Status of Bis
so Strike given. Various reports
from Headquarters and Branch
officials given and accepted. Un
der Good and Welfare Paul War
ren discussed the registration re
quirements for Louisiana resi
dents in coming election. Mem
ber aliens were urged to work
toward their citizenship to make
shipping easier. Meeting adjoty^nr
ed with 36Q members present.
XXX
TAMPA—Chairman. R. H. Hall*
26060; Recording Secretary. W,
Hall. 39256; Reading Clerk. C.
Starling. 6920.
Minutes of other Branch meet
ings accepted as read. Motion
carried to nonconcur with that
part of Galveston New Business
dealing with men throwing in for
jobs in other departments. Tampa
membership feels that a man
holding a book registered in one:
department should be allowed to
throw in for any job for which
he has an endorsement, providing
no other Bookman throws in for
the job. Agent said that shipping
is holding up fairly well. Secre
taryTreasurer's financial report
and Headquarters report to the
membership were read and con
curred in. Under Good and Wel
: are discussions were held on the
ruttire prospects of shipping in
this port and the problem of men
missing ships. Fiftyfour members Charges against five Brothers
off the Del Norle read and re j were present when meeting ad
ferred to a triial committee. Min joumed.
Vertauals
BALTIMORE 14 North Gay St
William Rentz, Agent Mulberry 4S40
BOSTON ...... . .276 Sute St.
Ben Lawson, Agent Richmond 20140
Dispatcher Richmond 20141
BALVESTON 308>/4 —23rd St.
Keith Alsop, Agent Phone 28448
BAKE CHARLES, La.... 1419 Ryan St.
X,. S. Johnston, Agent
MOBILE...' 1 South Lawrence St.
Cal Tanner, Agent Pkono 217B4
NEW ORLEANS S23 Bienville St.
E. Sheppard, Agent MagnoKa 61126113
NEW YORK SI Beaver St.
joe Alglna, Agent HAnover 22784
NORFOLK ..127129 Bank St.
Ben Rees, Agent Phone 41083
BHILADELPHIA 337 Market St.
B. Cardullo, Agent Market 71638
BAN FRANCISCO. .... .480 Harrison SL
Jeff Morrison, ASfen* Douglas 28478
BAN JUAN, PR 282 Ponce de Ieon
Bal Colls, Agent
BAVANNAH 2 Abercorn St.
K. Bryant, Agent Phone 31728
BEATTLE 2700 1st Ave.
Wm. McKay, Agent Seneca 4870
TAMPA. 18091811 N. Franklin St.
Bay White, Agent Phone 21323
WILMINGTON, Calif, 227 Avalon Blvd.
E. B. Tilley, Agent Terminal 42874
HEADQUARTERS. .81 Beaver St, N.V.C.
SECRETARYTREASURER
. Paul Hall
• • ̂ DIRECTOR OF ORGANIZATION
Undsey Williams
ASST. SECRETARYTREASURERS
Robert Matthews Lloyd Gardner
Joseph Volpian
SUP
HONOLULU 16 Merchant St.
Phone 88777
PORTLAND Ill W. Burnside St.
. . Beacon 4336
RICHMOND, CaUf ..287 8th St.
Phone 2899
SAN FRANCISCO 480 Harrison St.
Douglas 28363
SEATTLE 86 Seneca St.
Main 0290
WILMINGTON. ......440 Avalon Blvd.
Terminal 43131
Canadian District
MONTREAL 404 Le Moyne St.
UNlverslty 2427
FORT WILLIAM. .118H Syndicate Ave.
Ontario Phone 33221
HALIFAX 12e>/i Hollie St.
Phone 38911
PORT COLBORNE 103 Durham St.
Phone 8891
TORONTO lllA Jarvis St.
Elgin 8719
VICTORU, B.C. .....602 Boughten St.
Empire 4831
VANCOUVER 866 Hamilton St.
Pacific 7824
HEADQUARTERS . .M2 McGllI St.
Montreal Plateau 870
I
>V
ROBERT WM. CASEY
(W. R. Casey)
"This man, recently known to
have work^ on dredge boats
along Atlantic Coast, is asked to
get in touch with W. C. Cox and
Company, 208 South La Salle
Street, Chicago 4, Illinois, re
garding an estate.
XXX
LEROY WILSON
Your cousin, Mrs. Frank Pratt,
asks that you get in touch with
her at Judsonia, Arkansas, Route
1.
X X X
LOU BROWN
Vick D'India asks that you
contact Susan Parham, 124 W.
71 Street, New York City.
X.X X
G. H. HIRAS
"Please get in touch with me
on the SS William H: Carruth,
c/o Transfuel Corporation, 25
Broadway, New York City —
urgent: Jimmy Morris."
XXX
WARDE FLAHERTY
Your billfold, with discharges
and other papers, have been for
warded to San Francisco Branch.
XXX
CREW, WILLIAM T. BARRY
Will those men aboard this
ship on March, 1948, when Jesse
R. Matthews was injured please
get in touch with Benjamin B.
Sterling, 42
York City.
Broadway, New
CREW. SEATRAIN HAVANA
Men aboard this ship on Jan
uary, 1950, who witnessed acci
dent to Charles McCarthy, are
asked to get in touch with
Benjamin B. Sterling, 42 Broad
way, New York 4, New York.
XXX
TOM F. BAILY
"Please send me your insur
ance policy: Mother."
XXX
ANTONIO ARENELLA
Get in" touch with Trans Fuel
Corporation for money due you.
JERRY PALMER
There is a letter for you from
Don Brown at the Mail Room,
51 Beaver Street
XXX
JIM BARON
Please get in touch with Tony
Winnik, Benefit Street, Water
bury, Connecticut.
XXX
JESS MARTIN
It is urgent that you get in
touch with Frances Goodes, 36
Newton Avenue, Baldwin, Long
Island. New York.
to
Various articles, papers, CG
passes, wallets, etc. are being
held for the below named Bro
thers in the New Orleans Hall.
They are asked to write or call
for them as soon as possible:
Adolf Gallafes, George Manuel
Velazquez, Sydney John O'Neil,
Alphonse D. Bailey, Ralph Law
Russel, Harold P. Parr, Joseph
W. Guiffria, Joseph W. Leonard,
Felix John Frank Van Looy,
John E. Logsdon, Oskar Osmund
sen, William John Holscher.
David Edward Foster, Hugh
Cowan, Clayton Field, Edwin O.
Maxwell, James Adams, Charles
C. Hurst, Richard Villafara, Mar
tin Kelly, Oliver Celestine, Ray
mond Daniel Turner, Chauncey
Thomas Pyle, Patrick Fox.
Marion A. Caraway, Edward
F. Leasgang, Edward H. Borsage,
A. McKinstry, Bk. 43280, Henry
F. Hendon, M. H. Otis, P3437,
Clarence Grimes, Ira Van
Bridges, Maure J. Tassin, Mit
chell U Lemoine.
John H. Quarterman, Willis
C. Raines, Daniel B. Thomas,
Frank W. Sloan, Jean B. Leon
ard, . James Richards., Bern
Smyley.
• W'
Page Twelve fkE SE Ar^RER
SKIPS' iONUTES AMD NEWS
II:.
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R.C. Bramble
Of Del Norte
Dies In B.A.
. Richard C. Bramble, Third
. Electrician aboard the SS
Del Norte at the time of his
death in Buenos Aures, was
buried in Norfolk, Va., on
May 6, the LOG was in
formed this week.
The 46yearold Seafarer died
^ of a head injury in the British
Hospital on March 16. He was in
good standing and the Union
paid burial benefits.
A native of Virginia, Brother
Bramble was born on May 4,
1904. He began sailing on ships
under SIU contract on August 2,
1947, when he obtained his per
' mit card in the Port of Norfolk,
t For a long while after that
Brother Bramble sailed out of
the Virginia port. Of late he
had been shipping out of the
Gul,
GOT SIU BOOK
Bramble was issued an SIU
book in the Port of Tampa on
May 11, 1949. He had sailed on
toe SS Madaket and several
Moran tugs. He joined the Del
Norte crew last December and
that ship's publication recently
praised Bramble as "a good ship
mate, wellliked and always will
ing to cooperate with his ship
mates."
Dick Martinez, one of Bram
ble's shipmates on the Mississippi
passenger ship, said that all
h^ds were deeply saddened by
the sudden passing of the ship's
Third Electrician.
Brother Bramble is survived
byhis wife, Margaret, two sons
,and a daughter, all of whom re
side at 553 Fisherman Road, Nor
folk .
I Crewmembers of toe SS Del
Norte sent a fiored wreath to the
funeral.
' THEY HOLD LIVELY SHIPBOARD SESSIONS
Galley men aboard the John Hanson indude, front row (left to righi)s>G. Dendrinos, Utility;
F. Mullen. 2nd Cook; M. Varinaviis, Steward; E. IGng, Ch. Cbofc. Reur row: F. SuUina, MM;
W. VandersaU. NOB; C. Bogdanos. BR. and F. Rombach, MM.
X
Panam Boycott
Gets Okay Of
De Leon Crew
The boycott .action planned
against Panama flag ships by the
International Transportworkers
Federation meets with toe unani
mous approval of the SS Ponce
de ,Leon crew, according to the
minutes of the May 28 shipboard
meeting.
A motion by Ship's Delegate
Abe Rapaport "to cooperate fully
with any moves made that the
SIU might make to expedite toe
fljoycott."
STUDY URGED
All hands were urged to read
the ITF's plan (rf action, which
was published in the May issue
of toe SEAFARERS LOG.
IN THE GALLEY
In the Huwon's Black Gang are. Mated (Id# to right)! Paolo
Pringi, Dlb Eng.; M. Nolan. OilM; W. MoUiday. Wiper. Standing:
X Muridiy. FWT; P. Simmons. FWT, and G. Daniels, Oiler.
Photos submitted by L. E. HamUton.
Hanson Men Keep
Close Watch On
Maritime Affairs
The Seafarers crew cur
rently aboard the SS John
Hanson takes a serious view
of maritime matters, espe
cially those relating to their
own welfare.
As a result, toe regular ship
board meetings—and, very like
ly, the foc'sle chatter—are very
lively and informative, as the
minutes of the May 28 sefision
indicate.
During the Good and Welfare
period of that meeting, Brother
Pete Previs read to his ship
mates an article which appeared
in a recent issue of the Balti
rrfor« Sun and which drew^ a
clear picture of the present con
dition of the maritime industry,
and the need for a program of
action to revitalize the American
merchant marine.
Crewmembers then discussed
various phases of the article ini
which the author deplored the .
decline of the American mer
chant marine fleet since the
war's end and the failure to
provide a plan that would keep
US flag ships on the high seas
to numbers consistent with our
world position.
RIGHT SLANT
Previs correctly appraised thd
article as being beneficial to seai
men ' and his shipmates agreed
to send a letter to toe Sun, ex,
pressing their appreciation for its
publication.
The Hanson crew's letter also
stressed that the current job
situation in maritime was being
aggravated by toe continue^
e;dstence of the Maritime train
ing schools.
Discussion then went to the
subject of Panama flag ships and
:heir effect on conditions gener
ally in world shipping.
The meeting was chaired by
Joseph Busalacki and Richard
Jordan served as recording sec
retary.
'Voice Of The Sea''
By "SALTY DICK"
H. R. HuMioxi, Steward aboard the SS Coeur d'Alene Vic
tory sent this photo of Loo do Parlier (left). Chief Cook, and
BIB Mpontsikariib 2nd Cook aud Baker, u they prepared chow
for their shjypnaatos. Hnston says the ship has several photog.
rsph«7 end more of their worx is on the way.
Pat Frango was all aniks wheix Ha ship atfived in port' because his wife lia^
come from their home in Norfolk to^eer h^. . . . Erich Pfommer li« been receiv
ing letters from Arkansas to come home ifor a vacation. He declined the invites bur
I thinkhe's weakening now, • '——: —— :—;—^——4
Bill Adams is having more
trouble with his hands. May
need hospitalization. This really
happened recently: A friend of
ours was 'walking along SoUto
Ferry in New York and was ap
proached by a guy, who asked
him for a dime. Our friend ret
plied that he was broke, where>i
upon the solicitor took him into
a nearby joint and bought hnd
coffee and doughnuts.
. Ray Flynn's hobby is to gp
to different restaurants to try
• out different foods. Sea: food is
his favorite. He generally sail;)
m a Chief Pantrjinah (salad
maker); . . . Did you know thai
butter in Bumios Aims contains
no .salt? . . > Just heard that Joe
Powers is Lounge Steward %n
to^ ^coa Cavalier.
While Louis Peed was show
ing me his new home, I grabbed
a bottle of beer and he appar
ently still "doesrl't know anything
about it. His home, by the way,
is modern and comfortable.
In order for Jimmie Darouse
to go home from New Orleans
he has to wade through the
swamps and beat the alligators
from the path to his door. He
lives in Ponchatoula, La., . . Al
bert Tocho quit the sea for a
brief period. He'll help out toe
Mrs. in the grocery store they
both own.
"The Casanova of Bourbon
Street" made a trip to South
Ametica and quit. On the ship
he was referred, to as "Mule
Tram," , . . Walter Jarrett had
to leave his ship because of ill
ness at home. He tells me his
father is over 100 years old.
John Pbntan has decided to
go back to sea for awhile. His
brother, Harold, is building a
home and doing a good job of
it. . . , A1 Yarbrough landed a
job on toe Irenestar and was
heading ..for Europe the last time
I saw him. . . . With proper
credentials, a seaman may rent
a_ car. rm mentioning this be
cause many men are under the
impression that, they can't.
"Little Joe" Kotalik and his
bride are now residing in New
Chleans, where Joe is a jobber
and travdttng salesman.. I under
stand that a book case is neede^
in the New Orleans Hail. Per
haps a crew can take cars of
this roitftec, .
TBE MB AF A HERS LOG l^ig* Tldxteni
Gomplete Text Of Welfare Agreement
Signed By SIU Contracted Operators
(Continued from Page 4)
all Trustees and alternate Trustees shall serve
for terms lasting for the duration of any new
trust or extension hereof. Employer Trustees or
their alternates may be removed at will by the
Employers and Union Trustees or their alter
nates may be removed at will by the Union.
7. Except as provided in Paragraph 6 of this
Article, a Trustee can be r&moved only for mal
feasance in the execution of his trust. Any Em
ployer or the Union may initiate charges of
malfeasance against a Trustee by filing such
charges with the other parties to this agreement
and with the Trustees. Such charges shall be re
ferred by the Trustes to a Board of Inquiry
which shall consist of an equal number of mem
bers appointed by the Employers and by the
Union. The members so appointed shall attempt
to agree upon an additional member to act as
impartial chairman an^d if within a period of five
days an impartial chairman is not agreed upon
then application by the Trustees shall be made
to a Judge of the United States District Court^r
the Southern District of New York, who at the
time is sitting in ch^bers, for appointment of
an impartial chairman. All records and other
information available to the Trustes shaU be
made available to the Board of Inquiry. If a ma
jority of said Board of Inquiry finds that a Trus
te has been guilty of malfeasance he shall be
removed and may not thereafter be eligible to
serve as a Trustee or alternate Trustee. All ex
penses incident to a Board of Inquiry shall be a
proper charge against the Fimd and the Trustees
are authorized and directed to pay such expenses,
including the fees, if any, of the members of the
Board.
8. If for any reason a Trustee cannot serve or
resigns or is removed before the expiration of
the term for which he is appointed, his alternate
shall succed him until a successor is appointed
in the same manner as the Trustee to whose
office he is succeeding and, subject to Paragraphs
1*6 and 7 of this Article, shall complete the unex
pired term.
9. Any Employer Trustee or alternative Em
ployer Trustee is authorized and empowered to
caU a meeting in the City of New York, N.Y. of
the various employers who are subscribers to
this instrument upon five (5) days written notice
and such a meeting shall be called whenever a
vacancy occurs in the office of Employer Trustee
or alternative Employer Trustee. An individual
may, at any such meeting, represent more than
one Employer and any Employer shall forfeit
the right to vote at any such meeting at which
he fails tp appoint and have present a duly auth
orized representative but such forfeiture shall
in no way relieve such Employer of his obliga
tion to be bound by any action taken or decision
made at such meeting.
ARTICLE V
Authority and Liabilitios of Trustees
1. The Trustees shall have the power to require
each Employer to ftirnisn appropriate informa:
tion to establish that he is making full payment
to the Trustees of the amounts required as set
forth in Article II, Paragraph 1 hereof.
2. The receipt given by the Trustees, or any
person acting with their specific authority, for
aiiy moneys or other things of value shall ef
fectively discharge the person or persons paying
or transferring the same and such person or
persons shall not be bound to see to the applica
tion of such moneys or other things of value or
be answerable for the loss or misapplication
thereof.
3. The Trustees by majority vote may obtain
adTOinistrative, consultative, legal, technical, and
other services and ,assista.nce which in their opin
ion are necessary or advisable in the sound and
efficient operation of the Plan and to affectuate
its purposes and objectives and all expenses in
cident thereto shall be a proper charge against
the Fund.
4. At the first meeting of the Trustees, they
shall elect a Chairman and a Secretary whose
terms shall commence on the date of their elec
tion and shall continue for one year, or until his
or their successors have been elected. At no time
shall both such offices be held by Trustees des
ignated by the same party.
5. Meetings of the Trustees shall be held at
such place or places as may be agreed upon by
the Chairman and the Secretary and may be
called by the Chairman or the Secretary upon
five days' written notice ,and may be held at
any time without notice if all of the Trustees
consent thereto. Individual members of the Board
of Trustees may not take any action for or on
behalf of the Trustees between meetings, except
as may be specifically authorized in writing.
6. The Trustees shall keep full minutes of all
their meetings, resolutions and actions. In the
absence of the Chairman, the Secretary shall act
as. chairman and shall appoint another Trustee
from the group of Trustees to which the absent
Chairman belongs to act as secretary for the
meeting. In the absence of the Secretary, the
Chairman shall appoint another Trustee from the
group of Trustees to which the absent Secretary
belongs to act as secretary for the meeting. In
the absence of both the Chairman and the Sec
retary, there shall be made pro lem appoint
ments by the Trustees present.
7. The Trustees shall cause to be kept true and
accurate books of account and records of all their
transactions as Trustees which shall be audited
annually by certified pubUc accountants, or more
often as may be determined by the concurrent
action gf the Employers and the Union. The cost
of all audits shall be a proper charge against the
Fund and the Trustees are authorized and di
rected to pay such charges. Copies of all audits
shall be furnished to each of the Trustees, to the
Administrator, to each of the Employers and to
the Union. A statement of the results of such
"audits shall be available for inspection by inter
ested persons , at the office of the Administrator
and at such other places as may be designated
by the Trustees.
8. Each Trustee shall be protected and held
harmless in regard to any action which may be
taken upon any paper or document believed by
him to be genuine and to have been made, ex
ecuted, or delivered by the proper parties pur
ported to have made, executed, or delivered the
same; and no Trustee shall be held liable for any
action taken or omitted by him in good faith, nor
for the acts of the Administrator or any agent
or employee selected by the Trustees, nor for
any act or omission of any other Trustee.
9. The Trustees are authorized to formulate
and promulgate any and all necessary rules and
regulations to facilitate, the proper functioning
of this Plan, provided the same are not incon
sistent with the terms hereof.
10. The Trustees shall appoint an Administra
tor as provided in Article VI, Paragraph 1 here
of, and may delegate any of their ministerial
powers or duties hereunder to him or to any of
their agents or employees; provided, however,
that the Administrator and any such agent or
employee" authorized to have access to money or
things of value belonging to the Fund, shall ob
tain a fidelity bond in such amovmt and secured
by such security company as the Trustees shall
determine.
41. Any Trustee or alternate Trustee may re
sign by instrument in writing executed for that
purpose and delivered to the remaining Trustees;^^
provided, however, no vacancy or vacancies in
the office of Trustees shall impair the powers of
the remaining Trustees acting in the manner
hereinabove provided to administrator the af
fairs of this Plan; and further provided that for
the purpose of determining the voting strength
of the Trustees any unfilled vacancy shall be
considered an absence and the provisions of Ar
ticle IV, Paragraph 4 hereof shall apply.
ARTICLE VI
Administrator and Records
1. The Administrator specified in Article V,
Paragraph 10 hereof, shall be appointed as fol
lows:
^ In a meeting of the Trustees held for the pur
pose of appointing an Administrator, the Employ
er Trustees shall submit a list of twelve (12)
persons as nominees for the position of Admin
. istrator and the Union Trustees shall select from
the list one (1) individual who shall be the Ad
ministrator.
2. The Employer Trustees or the Union Trus^
tees may initiate charges of maKeasance or mis
feasance against the Administrator and such
charges shall be referred to a Board of Inquiry
under the procedure set forth under Article IV,
Paragraph 7, hereof. In the event the Adminis
trator resigns or is removed or for any reason is
unable to perform his duties, a meeting of the
Trustees shall thereafter be held as soon as
practical for the purpose of appointing a new
Administrator as provided in Paragraph 1 of
this Article.
3. The Administrator shall perform the duties
delegated by him by the Trustees and his salary
and the salaries of his assistants, clerical or
otherwise, shall be fixed by the Trustees and
shall constitute a proper charge against the Fund.
4. Each of the Employers shall furnish to the
Trustees, through the Administrator, necessary
and appropriate records pertaining to their re
spective Employees, including records of the
names and . classifications of such Employees; the
number of days worked by such Employees with
place of employment; Social Security numbers,
if any; identification numbers of the U.S. Coast,
Guard, and any other information that the Trus
tees may require in connection with the soxind
and efficient operation of the Plan. The Union
shall furnish to the Triostees, through the Ad
ministrator, necessary and appropriate records
or other information available to the Union per
taining to the Employees as defined in Article I,
Paragraph 3 hereof, which the Trustees may re«
quire in connection with the sound and efficient
operation of the Plan.
5. All claims for benefits shall be presented
to the Administrator who shall, with reasonable
promptness, certify to the Trustees that the reo
ords available to him indicate that each benefit
claimed is or is not properly payable. The Trus
tees, by majority vote, shall have full authority
to determine all questions of coverage and quali
fication to participate in and receive the benefits
of the Plan ~ and shall have the power to con
strue the provisions of this Agreement and the
terms used herein and any such questions so
determined or any construction so adopted by
the majority of the Trustees in good faith shall
be binding upon all parties and persons con
cerned.
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ARTICLE VII
Arbitration
1. In the event the Trustees cannot decide any
matter or resolve any dispute because of a tie •
vote, then and in such event the Trustees
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attempt to select an impartial arbitrator. If the
said Trustees cannot agree on an impartial ar
bitrator, application shall be made to the Judge
of the District Court of the United States for the
Southern District of New York who, at the time,
is sitting in chambers, for the appointment of an
impartial arbitrator.
2. The decision or award, which shall be in
writing, shall be final and binding on all parties
and persons concerned, it being the intention that
such written decision shall be made within five
regular working days after the Impartial Arbi
trator receives all the evidence.
3. In the event of an arbitration, the expenses
thereof, including the fee, if any, of the Impartial
Arbitrator, §hall be a proper charge against the
§ Fund and the Trustees are authorized and di
• rected to pay such charges.
ARTICLE VIII
Miscellaneous
1. The Employer contributions paid, or to be
paid, into the Fund shall not constitute or be
deemed wages paid or due to Employees, nor
shall the Fund in any manner be liable for or
be subject to debts, contracts, obligations, or
liabilities of any of the Employers or the Union
or any of the Employees.
2. None of the Employers or the Union shall
in any way be liable in any respect for any of
the obligations of the Trustees because such
Trustees are officers of or in any way associated
with any Employer, or the Union; it being the
intention that each of the Trustees designated
as a representative of the Employers, or of the
Union, acts as a representative in a statutory
sense only and not as agent of any person, firm,
corporation, or organization.
3. Whenever this instrument specifies that the
Employers are to perform any obligation or duty
or may perform any function or take any action,
as provided for in Article IV, Paragraphs 1, 6
and 7, Article V, Paragraph 7, and Article VIII,
Paragraphs 7 and 8, hereof, such coll^tive obli
gation, duty, function or action shall be determ
ined in accordance with and under the provisions
of Article IV, Paragraph 2 hereof.
4. This Plan is accepted by the Trust^s in the
State of New York, and, regardless of the domic
iles of the parties hereto, shall be interpreted
and governed in accordance with the laws of
that State.
5. The place of business of the Fund shall be
New York, New York. Any written communica
tion to an Employer Trustee, individually, shall
be deemed properly addressed if addressed to
, the office of such individual Trustee and any
written communication to the Employer Trustees,
• collectively, shall be deemed properly addressed
if addressed to the office of the Administrator.
Any written communication to the Union Trus
tees, either individually or collectively, shall be
deemed properly addressed if addressed to the
headquarters of the Union in New York.
6. The Plan shall not become effective until
the contributions or payments thereto by the
Employers shall have been approved by the Bu
reau of Internal Revenue as proper current de
ductions for tax purposes.
7. This Agreement and Declaration of Welfare
Plan and the trust created hereby shall continue
until midnight, June JO, 1955, and the provisions
hereof may be amended at any time by an in
strument in writing executed by all of the Em
ployers and by the Union and subscribed to by
the Trustees; provided, however, that no amend
ment shall alter the purpose of the Plan or di
vert the Fund to any use other than for*the
exclusive benefit of Employees qualified to re
ceive the benefits, or their dependents, or benefi
ciaries or next of kin.
8. If the trust herein created is not extended
for a specified period from its termination date,
the Trustees shall, upon termination or liquida
tion of the trust and the fulfillment of the pur
poses specified in Article III hereof, transfer any
stu^lus moneys in the Fund to any new or other
trust fund or welfare fund that may be created
by and, between the Employers and the Un
ion. If the trust herein created is not extended
and no new or other trust fund or welfare fund
is created by and between the Employers and
the Union, then and in such event, the Trustees
shall continue after the termination date' hereof
to perform and carry out the provisions of this
Plan on the basis that all Employees then quali
fied to receive the benefits of the Plan shall
continue to remain qualified until the disburse
ments of the moneys in the Fund reduce the
Fund where the moneys left are too small, in
the judgment of the Trustees, to be used to
effectuate the purposes of the Fimd when such
residual moneys shall be given to such seamen's
charity or charities as the Trustees in their dis
cretion shall determine.,,
9. Income on the Fund, if earned, is incidental
only and the Fund is not intended to produce
income other than as may be collateral or in
cidental to its operation and the providing of
benefits and'to avoid waste. Should any income
be earned, it shall be credited to the Fund and
shall with reasonable dispatch be applied and
expended for the purposes of the plan. In the
event the Trustees decide to invest or reinvest
any of the moneys received by them, such in
vestments or reinvestments may be in such
Stocks, bonds or other securities or property as
the Trustees in their sole discretion may deter
mine; provided, however, that no investment or
reinvestment shall be made other than invest
ments in which funds of life insurance compan
ies, organized under the laws of the State of
New York, may be legally invested.
10. This Agreement and Declaration of Welfare
Plan may be executed in a number of counter
parts, each of which shall have the force of ah
original. Subscribing Employers are not required
to execute more than one counterpart.
Report Of Negotiating Committee
We, the undersigned members of the SIU Ne
gotiating Committee, hereby make the following
report and recommendations on the matter of
the Welfare Plan.
We have negotiated on this matter of welfare
with SlUcontracted operators for a period of
over 6 months. We have come to a final agree
ment with the operators and attached hereto is
a complete copy of the contract we have negoti>
ated, subject to the approval of our membership,
as per our constitution. (The complete text of
the Welfare Contract begins on Page 3.)
This contract, among others, makes the follow
ing provisions: >
1. The SIU Welfare Plan will not be adminis
tered by any insurance company as is the case
in other union welfare plans, but instead, will
be handled by representatives from both the
Union and the company as prescribed by law.
Not using an insurance company will save con
siderable money. The actual business functions
of the Plan will be handled by an Administra
tor, who will work according to the contract and
under supervision of the Union and Company
trustees.
2. The Union has the right to negotiate new
types of benefits other than those of hospital and
death. Such new benefits will be negotiated on
the basis of the amount of money on hand in the
fund and the ability of the Fund's income to
pay same.
3. The Plan at this time calls for weekly hos
pital benefits of $7.00 and death benefits of $500.
These payments will be paid in the same fnan
neras are the regular Union Hospital and Death
Benefits paid now. In any event, there shall be
no wait for any of our members for receipt of
their benefits.
Your Committee feels that this Welfare Con
tract, as it is negotiated, represents a great
achievement for our Union. It is to be pointed out
to the membership that the benefits 'we have
agreed to pay under this Plan are at this time
few in munber, and small in amount of money.
The reason for this is that your Union Negotiat
ing Committee feels that, before such a Welfare
Plan as ours is called on to spend too much
money, we should first ascertain as to just what
the entire cost will run into and the jnanner in
which it will operate. By starting in a small
manner, we can iron out any kind of kinks in
the process before we increase the size of our
benefits.
In addition, by starting out by paying benefits
in the amoimts shown in this report, it will al
low the Welfare Plan to build up a cash reserve
of funds in such a manner" so as to continue the
successful financial operation of the Plan itself.
The membership is to be made aware of the
fact once again that, once the Plan is function
ing, and we see that we have the necessary cash
reserves on hand and the income comes in prop
erly, we can^ at that time, if we see fit, renego
tiate any type of new benefit our membership
may feel is necessary for the welfare of our
people.
In view of this, we therefore recommend the
following:
1. That this entire report and contract be pub
lished in the current issue of the SEAFARERS
LOG, so that all of our members will have full
opportunity to read this contract in its entirety.
2. That this contract and report be read at
our next regular meeting to be held on June 21,
1950, and action be taken simultaneously in all
Branches.
3. That copies of this issue of the SEAFARERS
LOG wherein this report and contract are carried
be mailed into every SIU ship, so that they will
have an opportunity to vote on this matter also.
We recommend to our membership, whether
ashore or on ship, that this contract and report
be accepted in their entirety.
PAUL HALL LINDSEY WILLIAMS
ROBERT MATTHEWS LLOYD GARDNER
JOSEPH VOLPIAN JOSEPH ALGINA
Welfare Phn Milestene la History Of Seahrers
In light of the sudden and dramatic developments in Cities Service, the signing of the
Welfare Plan in its final form is forced to share the spotlight of events in the SIU.
In the long run, however, it must be conceded that the securing of the Welfare Plan
promises the greatest of rewards to the men of the SIU. Cities Service is a brilliant victory for
the Union in the field of organizing.
In winning the Welfare Plan the Union can again take bows. Here the Union has dem
onstrated labor statesmanship. The SIU and SUP were the first imion to win a welfare plan and
thus open the door to greater security for the men who make their living sailing the seas.
The benefits to be paid under the plan at its inception do not ap^ar to be tremendous,
nor does the Union claim that they will eliminate all of the problems facing the men of the in
dustry. But, and for this the Negotiating Committee deserves praise, the program has been set
up in such a way that the initial benefits are modest so as to put no strain whatsoever on the
Fund. As time passes and the Fund swells the payments will, undoubtedly, increase and other
provisions be incorporated into the plan. The knowledge of other welfare plans which started
off big and ended bankrupt in short order were too familiar to the committee to allow any such
errors. Time will undoubtedly prove the welfare plan to be one of the greatest steps ever taken
by the SIU. The events of the past few days will mark this as another hour of greatness for the
SIU.
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Digested Minutes Of SIU Ship illeeti||^
BULL RUN, April 4 —Daniel
Butts, Chairman; Norman ,Kra
ie«. Secretary. Ship's Delegate
reported on beef on lodging
While ship was in drydock. Mo
tion carried to have Patrolman
see Captain alJbut turning more
men to on various jobs. Patrol
man also to check on safety
equipment aboard ship. Suggest
ed that attempt be made to have
library placed aboard ship in the
next port.
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ALCOA CORSAIR, AprU 10—
W. Higgs, Chairman; J. Roberts,
Recording Secretary. Ship's Del
egate read interim agreement be
t^O'een SIU and Cities Service.
Motion carried to allow Ship's
Delegate to use his own judg
ment in renting motion pictures.
Under Good and Welfare, a num
ber of Brothers took the floor
and several pointed out that the
victory in the Cities Service
fleet was just further evidence of
the correctness of SIU policy.
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BLLY. April 5—Arthur Kavel,
Chairman; Waller Husson, Sec
retary. Delegates reported aU
okay. John Fedesovich Was elec
ts Ship's Delegate. Motion (by
Boucher) carried to have all
engine heads, showers and decks
ki Black Gang quarters painted.
Suggested that all cots be washed
and returned to Steward.
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MOSTANK. April 8—H. Ste
yens. Chairman; W. A. Hender
shot. Secretary. No beefs, ex
cept for 2nd Pumpman's disputed
overtime. W. A. Hendershot el
«eted Ship's Delegate. Steward
suggested that gangway watch
^ kept in all ports for security
of ship's gear and stores. Patrol
man to check medical supplies
for penicillin. Steward to see
Giaptain aboirt new percolator for
crew's mess.
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• JOHN HANSON. April 2^U
HoUoway. Chairman; Fred Eng
land, Secretary. Delegates re
ported not a single beef in any
department. Motion carried to
allow delegates to transact ship's
business with Patrolmen before
business of individuals. Discus
sion on compulsory vacation is
sue, with several men airing
yiews—pro and con. Ship's Dele
gate said it was long time since
he had experienced cooperation
such as he got aboard this ship.
have the LOG in the pres
ent Overseas fiction. McLemoro
elected EngineDelegate No one
to handle bread with dirty
hands.
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CHRYSSTAR. AprU 13—L. E.
Jarvis, Chairman; J. F. Ross,
Secretary. Ship's Delegate re
ported that Patrolman will be
aboard for payoff, that needed
supplies will be obtained and
that certain repairs have to be
made. All stores are to be check
ed before vessel's departure.
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ROBIN NEtrt^lNO, April 2
^Elbert Hogge, Ghairmaiu Rob
ert MeCttUoeh^ Secretary. Deck
Delegate Larry Laronde said no
beefs pending in his department,
Engine Delegate Barney SpeO^e
read charges against three men.
Stewards Delegate Sfiflley Coop
er reported all's well except for
two hours disputed overtime.
Ship's Delegate John Tilley dis
cussed charges. Brother Covale
ski agreed to donate $10 to LOG
for Brother standing his Watch.
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TADDEI. April 2 — Frank
Borst, Chairman; James ICaup,
Secretary. Committee to be form
ed to write members of Congress
urging that bilf legalizing mari
time hiring halls be passed. Dis
puted overtime in Deck and En
gine departments; no other beefs.
Situation regarding^ firing Of
Steward referred to Patrolman.
Suggested that draws be made
earlier upon arrival in port. Vote
of thanks given to Stewards de
partment for excellent meals and
service.
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SEAtRAlii HAVANA, April
1ft—R. Wisham, Chairman; F,
Gorenflo, Secreiazy. Kristensen
elected Ship's Delegate. Motion
carried to study present issue
of the LOG and if agreeable to
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STEEL ADVOCATE, AprR 17
—C. Rice, Chairman; C. C. See
lig. Secretary. BCefs were tabled
to be discussed under Good Snd
Welfare. Agreed that Chief Cook
and Second Cook are to work
with Steward in preparing
menus, and that Steward get
• Third Cook on the ball in clean
ing the galley. Discussion on how
to make the delegates jobs eas
ier. Washing machine hot to be
overloaded.
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STEEL NAVIGATOR, AprU
16—R. Mason, Chairman; D.
MaxwelL Secretary. Department
Delegates reported. Engine: Short
one Fireman, who missed ship
in Penang; Deck: some disputed
overtime. Workway picked up in
Singapore, an SIU man out of
the hospital. He is not doing
any work, as per Union agree
ment; Thomas Heaton injured
while cleaning holds. Ship's fund
contains $20.
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ALCOA ROAMER, April 20—
Doug Craddock, Chairman; M. A.
Machel, Secretary. All okay in
departments, except for 18 hours
disputed in Deck. Motion carried
in favor of netv overseas edition
of LOG in preference to the
Bulletin. Motion carried that all
mep be assessed for LCK^
.stead of maintaining it by dona
tions. Patrolman to See Mate
about equalizing overtime. Dis
cussion by Steward on yray ship
was stored last fr^p and his rec
ommendations on how to im
prove it this trip.
STEEL MAKER, Apx^jiO—E.
F. Lessor, Chairman; T.^bneep
doa. Seeref8fy» All okay'^ three
departments^ ekcepf for some
disputed overtime in Black
Gang. A. H. Sd^ihers elected
Ship's Delegate; Under Educa
tion it was brought out that as
citizens and Union members we
have job to do with Congression
al elections just around the cor
ner. It is cmr duty to write to
Congressmen to remedy injustice
of TaftHartley baft cm Union
Hiring Halls.
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HARRY T, April S — Waller
Hallett, Chairman; F. R. . Vorl
kamp. Secretary. All okay hi all
departments. New librai^ to be
put aboard in Tampa. Laundry
and rec room to be cleaned al
ternately by each department.
General discussion by crew, dele
gates and chairman regarding
shipboard conditions. Men re
minded that this is first voyage
under SIU contract and that
they should act accordingly.
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GADSDEN. Apru J.
PedOrsen, Churinan; S. T. Bfti
ler. Secreiary. Six hours disputed
overtime in Deck Department;
ovmrthne and breskfast beOf m
Elaine, and no beefs ki Stew
ards .^department. Crew was ask
ed not to leave clothes in wash
ing room. Suggested that we ask
for wind chutes for all portholes
for ndXt trip,
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CLAIBORNE, April 23—John
Alslall, Chairman; G.. Thobe,
Secreiary. Ship's Delegate re
ported that there is now $2^.92
in ship's fund. No beefs. Repair
lists to be given to the dele
gates. Washing machine to be
kept as clean as possible by all
using it.
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YAKA, Apra 30 —Tex Soil.
Chairman; Edward Robinson,
Secretary. No beefs. Joseph el
ected Ship's Delegate by accla
mation. Discussion oft proposed
oneyear shipping rule. Comrie,
DM, suggested that washing ma
chine be purchased at payoff. It
was agreed that he be designated
to collect $2 from those wishing
to contribute to" purchase of the
machine.
F YOU WANT TO CONTINUE TO
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TO THE LOG AT ONCE
THOSE NOT REPLYING
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THE MAILING LIST.
Says Frisco Agent
Rates Among Best
I'd like to give a plug to one
of the best agents ever to hit
San Francisco. I anr referring to
Jeff Morrison, of course, a busy
man in this Sunny California
port. Jeff is well liked by the
local populace and is very popu
lar with the membership. Some
times a little praise helps a guy
when he thinks no one appre,
elates his good work. I think
every Seafarer hitting this port
appreciates the attention and
representation they get from Jeff
Morrison.
. Hury (rite Horse) PiU
AnENTIOII!
If you don'i find linen
when you go aboard your
ship, notify the Hall at once.
A telegram from Le Havre or
Sitigc^ore won't , do yoil any
good. It's your bed and gou
have to lie in it.
The latest news from Eddie Eriksen aboard the Waterman
Scow, SS Southland, is interesting. He went home to Copenhagen,
Denmark, and enjoyed all the smorgasbord he wanted. Scheduled
to hit the states around June 23, the scow left Rotterdam and
Bremerhaven and is going to the good ports of Bremen, Ant
werp, Liverpool and Dublin. Crewmembers of the Southland pre
fer the Overseas Edition of the LOG, by the way. Eddie mentions
that all Waterman crews never have enough time to hit any place
but the Habourg House in Rotterdam—^which he recommends
sending some LOGS to. "Two more items about this scow! Brother
Gapac is Steward and there's a cocacola machine aboard, too. . . .
Charlie Evans, who had been on the beach for three weeks,
grabbed an AB's job on the SS Steel Apprentice. That's good
shipping, indeed. . . . Ru^ell Lund is now homeward bound to
sunny California after voyaging aboard the 29year old SS Annis
ton City, an Isthmian wagon. Russ says there were only 22 days
of shore leave in the five month trip they had. . . . Brother
"Happy" Harper says he met Brother "Tex" Morton recently.
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A vote of thEuiks to the crewmembers of the now Iridup
scow, SS Thomas Sim Lee. According to Brother Willis Thomp
son when he was here in New York recently, they all did
a bangup job of protecting the SIU from vicious antilabor
legislation. . . . "Blackie" Mandno is in town right now. ...
Buddy Benson was or still is in town. loo. . . . Other Brothers
In Town—^Tom Hale, Charlie "Carioca Red" Benway, who has
been anchored here since Februcury after doing some Seatrain
sailihg; Kenneth Maxston, who says he went home to Norway
for some lime. Waterfront employmehf is in gOod shape, he .
^iays. . . . T. E. Maynes . . . George Frank, who is waiting fot
a Europeeut ruiu . . . Cwl Lawson and "Red" Shea who finished
one of the best trips they ever had, we're informed. . . . Bosun
Roderick Smith is in and his shipmate Frank Moran is out.
Frank is out catching the sunshine of Coney Island aboard
the SS Sandpaper—oOpS, We mean. SS Sandcraft. Frank, no
doubt, still believes a mml's best friend is a hoTsch Sometimes,
Frank, sometimes.
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According to Brother Howard Lewis, the St. Charles Tavern
in New Orleans is a good, quick place for seamen. . . . We're
informed that Brother Virgil Harding is aboard the SS Morning
Light. Happy sailing, Brother Harding. . . . Brother Glick recently
had a discussion about how many scows Bull Line took ov»
last year^—^from another company. Only two, the good ships Puerto
Rico and And Marie. . . . Not mentioning red peppers we'll just
say that Pete De Pietro sailed into New York recently. . . . "Red"
Beers, the West Coast bartender, is doing some landlubbing bar
tending rf^ut Chicago way. . . . We wonder if Pete Gvozdich eVeht'
ually sold that heavyweight piece of gear he lugged into town^
that accordion? . . . We're wondering how Norman "Rpd" Kirk
from Baltimore and Danny Merrill from Mobile are doing right
now?
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If you hear somebody laughing all the time and talking
a bit of several foreign latiguages you'll understand. It's only <
Ed Larkin becoming AmericairisOd agun. . . . We don't know
how true it i« but, according to the BioihM reading the neiw'^ i .
nevOL "The CardhiaL" Brother Duke Livingston, the wrestler '
and a steady New Yorker, is in the New Yorkmade movie v
about a wrestler called "Mr. Universe" with Jack Carson of F F?!
Hollywood.
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By JOHN BUNKER
CHAPTER 10
THEY MADE THE BEACHHEADS
PART I
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Oran, Casablanca, Avola, Gela, Salemd, Anzio,
Guadalcanal, Normandy, Leyte, Okinawa . . .
Memorable places these, stepping stones on
the long road to victory—the invasion points
where the tide of battle finally turned and then,
surging forward on the flood, engulfed the Axis
in a deluge of men and materiel as the Allies
inarched inexorably toward Rome, Berlin and
Tokio.
; SIU ships made these and other beachheads
along with the assault troops and the landing
craft, and the names of farflung battle shores
became as familiar to Seafarers as the names of
towns back in New York, Indiana, Nebraska or
Texas.
One of many SIU freighters at the beachheads
was the SS Jonathan Grout, a Liberty operated
by the Mississippi Shipping Company, which
helped carry British troops from Alexandria for
the invasion of Sicily in the morning of May
10, 1943.
PEACEFUL SICILY
It was an idyllic day as th€ Jonathan Grout
approached the hillfringed Sicilian shore, and
were it not for the firing of monitors and des
troyers, for bits of wrecked gliders and dead
paratroops, bobbing grotesquely about in the
placid tide, the war would have seemed a thou
sand miles away.
But the summer calm was broken that after
noon, when Stuka divebombers came roaring
down onto the invasion fleet with sirens scream
ing in their noses as they dived, a wailing cry
that was intended to strike terror in the hearts of
the gunners below.
. Gunners on the Jonathan Grout and the other
ships weren't impressed, however. The three
inch bow guns on the Liberties, the oerlikons
and the bofors threw so much steel into the sky
that the divebombers didn't make a single hit.
The enemy didn't give up—not by a long shot,
they didn't. They launched 50 raids against the
anchorage at Avola during the next five days.
Armed guard and merchant crewmen slept at
the guns, while the British stevedores unloaded
bombs^ canned gasoline, trucks, tanks, food, and
the myriad other implements of war, knock
ing off only when the sirens moaned the ap
proach of more raiders and the lights of the
anchored ships blinked off.
On the afternoon of July 11, three flights of
highlevel bombers—15 in all—swept over the
convoy so high that it was futile to fire the 20
millimeters. The bombs left the belly of the
droning raiders like tiny, shimmery pinpoints
of light,
'NICK OF TIME' ESCAPE
The first salvo shook the Jonathan Grout as
though she had been rammed, but all were near
misses, partly because the bridge signaled the
fengiheroom for "full ahead" and, moving from a
dead stop, the ammunitionladen vessel scurried
away from the falling bombs in the nick of time.
Not so lucky was, a Dutch ship, hit by bombs
and sunk nearby.
When hot shell fragments started a fire amid
gasoline tins in a forward hold of the Jonathan
Grout, two ABs instantly climbed into the hold
and put it out.
Just before noon on July 13, without any air'
raid warning, a pair of Stukas dropped oyer the
mountains that lined the bay, and plummeted
onto the anchorage with their engines cut out.
Lookouts saw them too late. So sudden and so
silent was the attack that not a shell was fired
at them till they had blown their target to pieces
and were skipping safely back to their bases.
The first plane dropped two bombs into an
open hold full of ammunition on the Liberty
Official Coast Guard photo shows Invaidoii and supply ships crowding waters off Normandy
Beach. Floating above them are barrage balloons, protection against lowflying enery planes.
ship Timothy Pickerin (SUP), which had ar
rived at the anchorage only a few hours before
and was still crowded with troops.*
There was a blinding explosion. Tongues of
flame roared out of the stricken ship a thousand
feet into the air, followed by whirling clouds of
smoke. *
It may have been red hot hull plates from the
exploding Liberty, or bombs dropped by the
second Stuka, but a tanker nearby was set afire
and exploded in a flaming holocaust soon after.
In a few minutes both ships were nothing but
twisted, shattered masses of steel, resting on the
bottom with only their masts protruding above
the surface. Of the 192 crewmen and British
troops on the Timothy Pickering, only about a
dozen survived. ^
TWOTIME LOSER
The attack had lasted only a minute at the
most.
Another Liberty that saw exciting action in
Italian waters was the James W. Marshall (SUP).
Arriving at Salerno just two days after the in
vasion, she was hit and set afire by a 250pound
bomb that smashed through the bridge and
wounded several men at the guns.
The fire was quickly extinguished by quick
action on the part of the crew, and she continued
discharging her ammunition, guns, trucks and
gasoline.
Two days later she was hit again, this time by
a heavy bomb that went through the top deck
of the ship into the m4in deck before exploding
among Gls who had taken refuge in' the mess
room.
And thrilling tales aplenty can be told by the
men who took supplies, to 5th Army troops hold
ing the beach at bloody Anzio.
For months the British and Americans had
held a costly strip of beach and marshland 30
miles south of Rome, and all the while they were
supplied by merchant ships for whom "destina
tion Anzio" also meant "destination front line."
The SlUmanned Liberty ship Lawton B.
Evans had 4,000 tons of gasoline and ammunition
in her holds when she arrived at "Peter Beach,"
Anzio, from Naples on January 22, 1944.
No sooner had she dropped the hook than the
Germans opened up on her with longrange ar
tillery. Shells hit within 50 feet of the ship and
shrapnel peppered the decks like BB shot.
Captain Harty Ryan "up anchored" as sdbri
as steam could be turned on the windlass, and
they sought a safer .spot. But the Germans got
their range again and shells splashed too close
for comfort. It was "up anchor" again ... a
game of hide and seek which went on for most
of the day. '
During the next four days, gunners and crew
men ran to battle stations time after time, for
one air attack was quickly followed by another^
and between raids the Germans plopped big
shells onto the anchorage.
The grind of the anchor chain through tha
hawse pipes lent a mournful accompaniment to
the drone of airplanes and the whistle of shells
—they called them "Whistling Williams."
It was on the 29th of January that the Ger
mans tried out the radiocontrolled glider bomb
on the ships at Anzio. The USS Philadelphia and
two freighters were victims during the first at
tack of this kind.
THREE B0MBER5 DQWN
Through it all the Lawton B. Evans proved
herself a fighting ship, fit to battle with the best
of them
When Stukas and Junkers attacker the an
chotage, her gunners knocked one of the Junk
ers down with 20millimeter fire, then blew a
divebomber to pieces with the threeinch fifty on
the bow. (
Two days later they bagged another divebomb
er tha't got too near their guns. On the same day,
the Lawton's gunners blasted a glider bomb out
of the sky before it could do any damage, and
followed that up by obliterating still another,^
divebomber. A carburetor from the plane landed
on the Lawton's deck and was kept as a souvenir.
It was fortunate that the Lawton's gunners
did shoot well for, soon after blowing up the
glider bomb, another of these strange missiles
hit the Liberty ship Samuel Huntington, setting
it afire and causing an explosion that rent the
ship apart.
Long will SIU crews remember the shuttle
run to "bloody Anzio."
VOL. XII NEW YORK, N. Y„ FRIDAY, JUNE 16, 1950 No. 12
NLRB Deserves Bow For Fine Job
We of the SIU believe we have been
among the most vociferous critics of bureau
cratic agencies in our government. We have
blasted numerous agencies over the past
years whenever maladministration, ineffi
ciency or injustice has marked the conduct
of their affairs.
On the other hand, we have been quick
to acknowledge the efforts of any branch
of the government that has performed ably.
True, these plaudits have been few and far
between, because the occasions when they
were justified have been rare.
This week the personnel of the Second
Regional Oflfiee of the National Labor Rela
tions Board has provided us with one of
those rare occasions. Naturally, Seafarers
are overjoyed at the victory scored at the
NLRB hearing in the case of the Cities
Se^ice Oil Company.
We're not losing sight of the fact, however,
that this victory was made possible by the
sweat and toil and intelligent application
of the law by the Board's highly competent
staff.
Under the direction of its Chief Law
Officer," Miss Helen Humphries—who, in
cidentally is widely respected as one of the
most able labor lawyers in the field—the
NLRB staff literally labored day and night
for months amassing the voluminous data
springing from the charges leveled against
the company.
As the government built its case. Field
Examiners Aaron Wiseman, Clem Culls and
Arthur Younger pieced together the threads
of evidence of the law's violation.
And before that, staff members like Field
Examiner Sam Hacker practically worfeed
around the clock, hopping from port to
port under adverse conditions, including
the company's refusal to offer the minimum
cooperation coming to a representative of
the government in carrying out the provi
sions of our nation's laws.
In the preparation and in the presentation
of the government's case Joseph Jenkins
and Chester Migden had wrapped up the
details in an airtight package.
The results of the Board's handling of
the Cities Service case, which, it must be
remembered, was among the most unusual
ones on record, speak for themselves. The
company's capitulation on the fourth day
of hearings, which were expected to run for
weeks and weeks before all the testimony
and evidence could be introduced, is a tri
bute to the effectiveness and thoroughness
with which the Board people tackled the
case. •
It might be said that their efficiency thus
saved the US taxpayers considerable money.
In our opinion, the work of Miss Humphries
and ""her staff on this difficult case was a
masterpiece of expert legal workmanship.
We sincerely wish that our government
was endowed with more people to efficiently
carry out its functiohs like those of the
NLRB's Second Regional Office.
Reeling and battered under the weight of the
overwhelming evidence introduced at its unfair la
bor practices trial before a National Labor Rela
tions Board trial, the Cities Service Oil Company's
Marine Division threw in the towel last week and
agreed to abide fully by terms of a settlement laid
down by the Board.
One of the most damaging blows sustained by
the company was the testimony of a former Coast
Guard intelligence officer, who told how he had
operated a labor spy service for Cities Service
during the organizing campaign in its tanker fleet
conducted by the Seafarers International Union,
Atlantic and Gulf District.
The trial, which began on June 6, came to a:
sudden halt on June 9, when counsel for the com
pany rose and said he had been authorized by com
pany officials to negotiate for*
Operators Sign SIU Welfare Plan
NEW YORK, June 16 — An ( these agencies will give their ap
agreement setting forth the
terms under which the Seafarers
Welfare Plan will operate was
signed yesterday by a commit
tee representing the bulk of
steamship companies under con
tract to the Atlantic & Gulf Dis
trict.
The signing cleared the way
for the Plan to begin function
ing as soon as the Bureau of
Internal Revenue and the. Na
tional Labor Relations Board
give their okays to the Plan.
(Turn lo page 3 for complete
text of the Welfare Contract)
The Bureau of Internal Rev
enue is to be consulted for its
approval of the money^ paid in
by the shipowners as proper de
ductions for tax purposes. The
NLRB will rule on the Plan's
compliance with .the labor law.
It is expected that both of
proval shortly.
Signing of the agreement
brought to a virtual end nego
tiations which the Union Wel
fare Committee has had under
way since December of last year,
when the SlUcontracted com
panies signified their agreement
to pay 25 cents per day for every
New SUP Birilding
Dedicated Teday
SAN FRANCISCO—The new
Headquarters building of the
Sailors Union of the Pacific will
be formally opened this Friday,
June 16, amid, gala ceremonies.
• The new building is located at
450 Harrison Street, and will
also house the San Francisco
Branch of the Atlantic and Gulf
District, jand the International
office of the SIU.
SIU member employed aboard
their ships. The shipowners be
gan payment on January 1.
Under the terms of the Wel
fare Plan, as agreed to by the
shipowners' committee. Seafar
ers will receive $500 in death
benefits and.$7 per week in hos
pital benefits. The Plan provides
for the trustees to set up addi
tional benefits should the fund
grow.
The Plan is to be under the
supervision of a sixman board
of trustees, three men from the
Union and three from the com
panies. Representmg the ship
owners are John Boughman,
Clarence Reed and Frederick C.
Theobald. The SIU is represent
ed by Paul Hall, Robert Matt
hews and Joe Volpian.
The companies which to date
have not agreed to the Plan are
expected to sign up as soon as
meetings can be arranged.
the settlement with the Board.
His action amounted to a con
fession of guilt of all charges
made by attorneys for the NLRB,
among them:
1. That the company warned
its employees that they would
be fired for joining the SIU.
2. That the company engaged
in espionage on Union activities.
3. That the company dismissed
159 men during 1949 because of
their Union affiliation.
The NLRB order to which the
company agreed directs the re
instatement of the discharged
men and payment to them of
$150,000 in wages, and the dis
banding of the Citco Tanker
Men's Association, the company
sponsored and dominated union.
Also specified in the order is a
directive to bargain collectively
with the SIU.
(Excerpts of the settlement
stipulation begins on page 7 of
this issue.)
The company's labor spy ac
tivities were exposed on the
second day of the trial when the
exCoast Guard officer, John Du
gan, took the stand and con
fessed that he used his wartime
experience to carry out espion
age agamst SIU men on company
instructions.
Dugan, an attorney, specializ
ing in maritime affairs, testified
that he had been retained by
William Lage, a partner in the
law firm of Hatch, Wolfe, Nash
and Ten Eyck, counsel for the
OS Marine Division.
Lage instructed him to report
on the activities of SIU mem
bers aboard OS ships, ascertain
the strength of the Union in the
fieet, and to get "other pertinent
information," Dugan admitted.
Dugan then approached "my
former asociates" in the Coast
Guard who gave him the names
of three men, two of whom he
hired—^Anthony Lawrence Hen
nessey and John Bosciano.
The company lawyers, Dugan
told the NLRB examiner, "em
ployed me to get information
and supplied.me with fimds to
pay the individuals."
He said that between June
1948 and September 1949 he paid
Hennessey $2,100 and Bosciano,
one of CTMA's top organizers,
the sum of $4,100. The cancelled
checks received by these men
were offered in evidence at the
hearing.
Instructing the two hired men
"to report on all activities of
the SIU," Dugan said he got
them passes to board all CS ves
sels. They sailed on company
sjiips, and made periodic re
ports, which were transmitted to
Lage.
Before Dugan took the stand,
Joseph Jenkins, counsel for the
NLRB, brought out that a com
(Continued on Page 10)
HARRY HASSELGREN
will hold office imtil the imion's
next convention, which is sched
uled for next year.
Officials of the SIU, who know
Hasselgren through the many
beefs that the SIU aind ILA have
shared together, greeted Hassel
gren's election.
"We know Harry through
working with him," said A&G
SecretaryTreasurer Paul HaU,
"and we know that he is a siC
cere and capable trade unionist';, .
We'll all miss John Owens, but'^''
vre're sure that Hassdgren win
carry on where John left off."
ILA Body Elects
Hasselgren New
SecyTreasurer
Harry T?., Hasselgren, secretary
treasurer of the" Atlantic Coast
District of the International
Longshoremen's Association, has
been elected secretarytreasurer
of the International, to fulfill th«
post left vacant by the recent
death of John R. Owens, who
was also secretarytreasurer of
the AFL Maritime Trades D«
partment.
Brother Hasselgren, who was
elected unanimously by the ILA's '
International board last week.
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SSSeeSaj
SEAJTARERS LOG
Published Every Other "Week, by the
SEAFARERS INTERNATIONAL UNION
OF NORTH AMERICA
Atlantic and Gulf District
Affiliaied with the American Federalioif of Labor
At 51 Beaver Street, New York 4, N. Y.
HAnover 22784
Reentered as second class matter August 2, 1949, at the Post
Office in New York, N.Y., under the Act of August 24, 1912.
267
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It's Not Too Late
Cities Service Oil Company, the organization which
thought itself bigger than anyone, including the govern
ment, threw in the sponge and quit after four days of
devastating testimony in. its trial before the National
Labor Relations Board. Humble in defeat, the company
ggreed to sign a settlement stipulation which, in effect,
was a full confession of all charges brought against it by
f 'the Union. The fouryear battle was virtually over.
It didn't have to be this way, but the company took
the hard way and lost. Two years ago when the SIU was
certified as representative for the company's unlicensed
employees, the campaign could have ended. But, because
the company was stubborn and because its attorneys
tJiought they could make themselves big names in the
field of industrial labor relations, a program of terrorism,
intimidation and labor espionage was planned and carried
out. But the end result was not that which the company
expected.. •
Throughout the company's wave of terror the Union
and the men on the ships fought back.' On the ships the
l^en. relentlessly pressed for Union representation, and
ashore the Union methodically built up its case against
the company.
The trial quickly showed the company that their
plan had backfired. Proof of labor espionage and men
being, discharged for imion activities sent the company's
attorneys reeling. On the nwrning of the fifth day, the
company's attorney called it quits. The SIU case, how
pever, was just" beginning to warm up—there were more
startling revelations of the company's activities to come,
but the company had no stomach for more.
' It's plan had failed. By its surrender it agreed to
s rehire the men it had discharged and pay them for their
time lost. It agreed to stop espionage against the SIU, and
it agreed to sever its connections with GTMA. The men
who had put into operation the machine for stamping
out the desire of Cities Service seamen for union repre
I: mentation were left to contemplate the ruins. •
P There is no reason, however, why the events of the
I past cannot be forgotten and a new page in SlUCities
I Service relations be opened. The Union shortly is to meet
with the company to bargain for a contract of a nature
in effect on the hundreds of other ships under con
tract to the SIU. Here is an opportunity to exercise true
collective bargaining.
The SIU has proved itself to be a responsible Union.
It has proved itself qualified to represent the men liow on
SlUContracted ships throughout the world. The men
aboard Cities Service tankers have proved that they want
the SIU to be their spokesinan. Let the coming* bargaining
talks take place in an atmosphere of good faith and
understanding.
All it requires is the same, kind of good, sound labor
relations which have been practiced by the Cities Service
Company in its other divisions and subsidiaries with
?^nions, AFL an,d CIO, representing their employees.
^After all, there doesn't seem to be any intelligent
son why the Marine Division shouldn't follow the es
te tablished,pattern of the Ckies Service family.
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W. HANSTUSCH
L. WILLIS
D.D.KELLY
L. A. HOLMES
L. LANG
E. LANDRY
H. LAGAN
W. MOORE
W. H. NUNN
J.PISA
M. E. LINDSEY
T. A. CARROLL
E. WALDEN
R. L. LAMBERT
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V. ARJONA
H. GORDON
L. LEWIS
L. TICKLE
E. E. GROSS
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W. I. MELLON
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J. B. PURVIS
C. P. THOMPSON
T. B. MAYNES
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MATTHEW BRUNO
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THE SEAFARERS LOG
Complete Text Of Welfare Agreement
Signed By SlUContracted Operators
This Agreement and Declaration of Welfare
Plan made as of the first day of July, 1950, by
and between JOHN BOUGHMAN, CLARENCE
REED, and FREDERICK C. THEOBALD; PAUL
HALL, ROBERT MATTHEWS and JOSEPH
VOLPIAN,*who, with their alternates and suc
cessors designated in the manner provided, are
hereinafter called "Trustees;" SEAFARERS IN
TERNATIONAL UNION OF NORTH AMERICA,
' Atlantic and Gulf District, hereinafter called
"Union;" and the various Employers who, in
writing, adopt and agree to be bound by the
terms and provisions of this instrument and any
amendments or modifications thereof, hereinafter
called "Employers."
WITNESSETH
WHEREAS, various Employers having collec
tive bargaining agreements with the Union have
agreed in writing with the Union to create a
Welfare Plan for the benefit of the unlicensed
seamen employed by them for whom the Union
is the collective bargaining representative, and
WHEREAS, the said Welfare Plan is to be
known as the Seafarers' Welfare Plan, and
WHEREAS, it has been mutually agreed that
the Plan shall be for a period of not less than
five years and shall be irrevocable during the
period of its creation, and
WHEREAS, it is desired to set forth the terms
and conditions under which the Plan as finally
agreed upon between the Employers and the
Union is to be established and administered, and
WHEREAS, it has been mutually agreed that
the Plan shall be administered by Trustees it is
desired to define the powers and duties of the
said Trustees.
NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the
preniises, it is mutually ̂ understood and agreed
as follows:
. ARTICLE I
Definitions
1; Employers. The term "Employers," as used
herein, shall mean the various Employers of
unlicensed merchant seamen having in effect a
collective bargaining agreement with the Union
and who are, or who may hereadter become, sig
natories hereto.
2. Administrator. The term "Administrator,"
as used herein, shall mean the Administrator
provided for in Article VI hereof.
3. Employees. The term "Employees," as used
herein, shall mean all of each Employer's em
ployees for whom the Union is the collective
bargaining representative.
4. Hospital. The term "hospital," as used here
in, shall inean any hospital in the United States
or any of its territories or possessions, provided
Such hospital is either a United States Marine
hospital, a United States Public "^Health hospi
tal, a hospital located in a port in the continental
United States where the Union or an Employer
maintains offices, or a hospital in a seaport in
the continental United States in which the Em
ployee becomes a patient due to acute illness or
injury which necessitates his being taken off a
ship during the course of a voyage.
5. Union. The term "Union," as used herein,
shall mean the Seafarers International Union of
North America, Atlantic and Gulf District.
6. Trustees, (a) The term "Employer Trus
tees," as used herein, shall mean the trustees
appointed by the Employers.
(b) The term "Union Trustees," as used herein,
shall mean the trustees appointed by the Uniop.
(c) The term "Trustees," as used herein, shall
mean Employer Trustees and Union Trustees
collectively and J shall include their alternates
when acting as Trustees.
7. Seafarers' Welfare Plan. The term "Plan,"
as used herein, shall mean the benefits provided
On these pages is the full text of the Seafarers
Welfare Plan signed this week by a maforit/ of
the steamship companies under contract to the
Atlantic & Gulf District of the SIU. The few
remaining companies not yet signed are expected
to fall in line shortly. .
The agreement spells out in full the terms under
which the Fund will be administered and bene
fits paid to SIU members. The Fund was set up
last January 1, when the operators began paying
25 cents per day per seaman employed.
Effective date for the Plan to b^n operations
hinges on the time necessary for the Bureau of
Internal Revenue to determine if the moneys
can be declared deductible for tax purposes. In
addition, the Plan is to be submitted to the Na
tional Labor Relations Board to check whether
it in any way is contrary to the nation's labor
laws.
for in this instrument, including any amendments
hereto or modifications hereof.
8. Seafarers' Welfare Fimd. The term "Fund,"
as used herein, shall mean the moneys or other
things of value which are xmder the control or
in the custody of the Trustees for the administra
tion and operation of the Plan.
ARTICLE II
1. There is hereby created the Seafarers' Wel
fare Fund to be used for administering and ope
rating the Seafarers' Welfare Plan which is here
by created. Each Employer shall pay to the
Trustees for deposit into the Fund, currently on
a monthly basis, the sum of twentyfive cents
(25c) per day per unlicensed seaman, represented
by the Union for the purposes of collective bar
gaining, employed on vessels manned by such
Employer and actually working thereon. Such
contributions or payments for each month shall
be made not later than the tenth of the second
month succeeding that of the payroll termina
tions; provided, however, that the first payment
• of each Employer shall be calculated retroactive
ly to January 1, 1950. Checks for contributions
or payments shall be made payable to the order
of "Seafarers' Welfare Fund."
2. An Employee is qualified to participate in
and receive the benefits of the Plan when the
Employer is obligated to pay the Trustees the
sum of Twentylive cents (25c) on Ills behalf
or such other sum as may be agreed upon' as
provided for in Paragraph 4 of this Article, and
shall remain qualified for such benefits for a
period of twelve (12) calendar months after the
Employer's obligation to make such payment
ceases; provided, however, that in the event a
qualified Employee becomes a patient in a hos
pital such twelve (12) month period shall be ex
tended for a time equal to the time the Employee
is so hospitalized; provided,' further, that no qual
ified employee shall be eligible to receive the
benefits of this plan while he is so qualified to
receive welfare benefits by virtue of employment
with an employer who makes no contributions to
this fund and who has a collective bargaining
agreement with the Union.
3. The—^former Employees whose hames appear
on a list attached hereto and made a part hereof
who have had long employment with the Em
ployers and who, on July 1, 1950, are imemploy
able because of physical disabilities, are for the
purposes of this Plan considered Employees and
shall be qualified to receive the benefits of the
Plan until the Public Health Service certifies that
such a former Employee has no physical dis
ability which prevents his employment; provided,
however, that the hospital benefits provided for
in Article III, Paragraph 1 (b) hereof, shall be
made only when s ich disabled Employee is con
fined m a hospital as an inpatient.
4. Either the Employer Trustees on behalf of
the Employers or the Union Trustees on behalf
of the Union may, upon application within sixty
(60) days prior to September 30, 1951 request
that negotiations be opened for changes in the
amount of the • Employer payment. No such
change shall be made unless the Union and the
Employers by majority vote agree to such change
and any change so agreed upon shall not affect
any of the other provisions of this plan. The said
vote shall be in accordance with the vote speci
fied in Article IV, Paragraph 2 hereof, at a meet
ing called under the provisions of Article IV,
Paragraph 9 hereof; it being specifically under
stood and agreed between the Employers indi
vidually and the Union that any Employer who
signifies in writing to the Trustees within one
week of the time of Such vote that he does not
wish to be bound by such majority vote shall be
relieved of the obligations under this agreement
arid shall cease to be a party hereto, and no
Employee shall be entitled to receive benefits
under this plan by virtue of employment with
such Employer.
5. The Trustees, in their names as Trustees,
shall have the power to demand, collect, receive
and hold the Employer payments and they are
authorized to take such steps as may be neces
sary or appropriate to effectuate the collection
of such payments, including the institution and
prosecution of, or the intervention in, any pro
ceeding at law, in equity, or in bankruptcy.
6. The Trustees are authorized and permitted
to receive and accept from any source whatso
ever any moneys or other things of value as a
gift, contribution, payment, dividend *or other
wise, for deposit into, or to be made a part of,
the Ftmd.
7. The Trustees shall deposit all moneys re
ceived by them in their capacity as Trustees in
such bank or banks as they may designate for
that purpose; provided, however, that no bank
shall be selected as a depository of the funds of
this Plan which is not a riiember of the Federal
Deposit Insurance Corporation. Things of value,
other than money, shall be kept in an appropriate
depository as may be selected by the Trustees,
or, at their discretion, may be converted into
money and deposited iirto the Fund.
8. The funds shall be used by the Trustee'
(a) to pay or provide for the payment of the
benefits described in Article III, Paragraph 1
hereof, and (b) to pay for the sound and efficient
operation of the Plan, including the expenses of
the Trustees incurred in carrying out their duties
as Trustees.
. 9. Moneys, and other things of value, of the
Fund may be withdrawn from any depository
upon the signature of two Trustees, one of whom
shall be an Employer Trustee and one of whom
shall be a Union Trustee.
IQ. No Employer, nor the Union, nor the in
dividual Employees shall have any vested rights
in or to the Fund or any part thereof except the
right of the qualified Employees, or their depend
ents, or their beneficiaries or next of kin, to
receive the benefits provided for in. the Plan to
which they may be respectively entitled, and
upon termination of the trust hereby created, the
funds shall be put to the uses and purposes spe
cified herein.
11. No Employee or dependent or beneficiary
or next of kin of an Employee shall have the
right to assign any benefits to which he or she
may be entitled hereunder and any such assign
ment is void; nor shall any benefit be subject
to attachment or other legal process for or againstr
an Employee or a dependent or beneficiary or
next of kin. ^
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(Continued from Page 3) \,
ARTICLE III
Application of l^e Fund by the Trustees
1. The Fund shall be used and applied for the
^rfollowing purposes:
(a) Upon the death of each Employee qualified
to receive the benefits hereunder, other than
death resulting from war risk, to pay or provide
for the payment to the designated beneficiary,
or in the absence of a designated beneficiary, to
the next of kin of the deceased Employee, the
sum of $500.00.
(b) The payment of hospital, benefits in the
amount of $7.00 per week to each Employee
. qualified to receive the benefits hereunder dur
ing such time as he is an inpatient in any
hospital as defined in Article I, Paragraph 4
hereof. Such Employee shall not be entitled to
receive any payment until he has been confined
to such a hospital for seven consecutive days and
thereafter he shall be entitled to a payment of
$7.00 for each and every seven (7) consecutive
days in the hospital from the first day of con
finement. Qualified Employees who are commit
ted to an Institution for the insane by a Court
Order are specifically excluded from hospital
benefits but are eligible for death benefits.
(c) To pay for additional types of welfare
benefits as may be determined by unanimous
agreement of the Trustees; the cost of such addi
tional benefits shall be controlled by the amount
of money actually in the Fund, and, based on
Experience, the benefits it*is estimated the Fund
can provide without undue depletion or excessive
accumulation. In order to accomplish this pur
pose, the Trustees by unanimous agreement are
authorized and empowered to increase or de
crease the amount of any benefit which has been
or may be granted.
2. Payment of the benefit provided for in
Paragraph 1 (a) of this Article shall not be
made unless necessary and appropriate proof
for such benefit is presented, in writing, to the
Administrator within one year from the date of
the Employee's death.
3. Payment of the benefits provided for in
Paiiigraph 1 (b) of this Article will be made to
the Employee personally or to a representative
of the Employee when such representative has
been duly authorized to receive such payment
on behalf of the Employee; provided, however,
that application for the said benei^ts shall be
presented, in writing to the Administrator not
later than 14 days from the date the Employee
I'is physically discharged from the hospital as an
inpatient.
4. The Trustees shall not receive compensa
gg tion for the perforinanc© of their duties as Trus
||; tees, but the Trustees are by majority vote au
thorized to be reimbursed from the Fund, the
cost of all expenses incident to the performance
of their duties as Trustees and there shall be
paid directly from the Fund the cost, and ex
g penses provided for herein and the cost of fidelity
£ bonds and the expenses, including counsel fees,
of any suit or proceeding
(a) brought against the Trustees, arising out
of acts within the course and scope of the
powers and duties of the Trustees; or
, (b) brought by the Trustees as authorized in
Article II, Paragraph 5 hereof.
5. If upon loss of qualification as prescribed
in Article II, Paragraph 2, hereof, a qualified
Employee has, since discharge from the hospital,
been continuously unemployable because of phy
sical disabilities, the Trustees may in their dis
cretion further extend the qualification period
as long as the Public Health Service certifies that
such Employee should not be employed because
of his physical condition.
ARTICLE IV
Appointment of Trustees
^ ; 1. The operation and administration of the
Plan shall be the joint responsibility of the three
; Trustees appointed by the Employers and the
Timtees a by the Union. The
iployers shall appoint <an alternate trustee for
Employer Trustee who shall have, full
authority to act as a Trustee hereunder in the
absence of "the Employer Trustee for whom he
acts as alternate. The Union shall appoint an
alternate trustee for each Union Trustee who
shall have full authority to act as a Trustee here
under in the absence of the Union Trustee for
whom he acts as alternate. Any successor Trus
tee shall, upon the acceptance in writing of the
terms of this trust, be vested with all the rights,
powers and duties of his predecessor.
2. Successor Employer Trustees and successor
alternate Employer Trustees shall be appointed
by majority vote of the various employers who
are subscribers to this instrument at the time
such appointments are made; provid^, however,
that not more than one (1) Employer Trustee
or alternate Employer Trustee may be employed
by or affiliated with the same Employer. Each
Employer shall be entitled to cast one vote for
each unlicensed seaman, represented by the Un
ion, it would employ at the time of subscribing
to this instrument and thereafter on July 1 of
each year, if all vessels manned by it had a
full complement employed thereon and the
nominee receiving the majority of the votes so
cast shall be appointed by aU the Employers.
The Employers who subscribe to this instru
ment reserve to themselves the right to change,
at any time, the provisions of this paragraph hy
a vote of twothirds (2/3) majority of the total
votes so cast as above provided. The Union and
the Trustees hereby consent and agree to the
right herein reserved by the various Employers
who subscribe to this instrument.
3. All Trustees and alternate Trustees shall
obtain fidelity bonds in equal amounts and to be
secured by such surety companies as shall be
determined by the Trustees. The Trustees shall,
from time to time, review the amount of said
bonds as compared with the total of the Fund
and shall reqiure adjustmimts as. appropriate.
4. In all m^ings of the Trustees/four ahaJI
constitute a quorum for the traHS^ftitidn of busl
ness, providing there are at least two Employer
Trustees and two Union Trustees present atthe
meeting; and at all meetings the Employer Trus
tees and the Union Trustees shall have equal
voting strength. The vote of any absent Trustee
shall be cast by the Trustees present designated
by the same party with the same force and af
fect as if such absent Trustees were present. In
the event any matter presented for decision can
not be decided because of a tie vote the matter
shall remain in status quo pending arbitration as
set forth in Article VII hereof.
5. John Boughman, with E. S. Trosdal his al
ternate, Clarence Reed, with Donald W. Smitli
his alternate and Frederick C. Theobald, with
Willard A. Kiggins, Jr., is alternate, have been
selected and are hereby appointed and designated
Employer Trustees, and alternate Employer
Trustees, respectively. Paul Hall, Robert Mat
thews and Joseph Volpian have been selected
and are hereby appointed and designated
Union Trustees, and Lloyd Gardner, Joseph Al
giria and Lindsey Williams have been selected
and are hereby appointed and designated" alter
nate Union Trustees, any one of whom may act
as a Union Trustee in the absence of any Union
Trustee. The Trustees hereby agre6 to accept .the
trusteeship and further agree to accept such Fund
for the purposes herein provided and declare that
they will receive and hold the Employer's con
tributions or payments and any other money or
property or policies of Insurance which may
come into their custody or under their control
pursuant to this Plan as Trustees thereof for
proper uses and purposes and with the powers
and duties herein set forth. The Alternate Trus
tees hereby agree to accept the obligations and
perform the duties of a Trustee when called up
on to act as a Trustee.
6. All Trustees and alternate Trustees shall
be appointed to serve for the duration of this '
trust. After/the expiraiaon pf the initijail terid; !
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New York In A Shipping Sluinp,
Thinks It Might Even Get Worse
Br JOE ALGINA
NEW YORK—Shipping wasn't
what we'd like to call good in
this port during the past two
weeks. We suffered the loss of
a couple of more active Robin
Line ships. That company how
has four lying idle. Overall it
looks like shipping is going to
get worse before it will get bet
ter. This week Xsthmi^ delivers
the last of its chartered ships to
the Maritime Commission, so
that company can't lose any more
ships.
We did have some ships in
port recently, and though they
sound like an impressive num
ber, the number of men sent out
wasn't too great. The ships were:
Claiborne, Fairisle, Chickasaw,
Golden City, Warhawk, Raphael
S«rimes and Hurricane, Water
man; Steel Rover, Steel Appren
tice, Steel Artisan, St. Augustine
Victory, Steel Vendor, Isthmian;
Frances, Marina, Elizabeth, Puer
to Rico, Suzanne, Kathrjm, BuU;
Robin Goodfellow, Robin Trent,
Robin Mowbray, Robin; Seatrain
New York; Algonquin Victory,
St Lawrence Navigation Co.;
Lake George, U. S. Petroleum
Carriers; John Stagg, MarTrade;
Nathaniel Palmer, Palmer Ship
ping Co.
NICE JOB
Recently we received a copy
of the newspaper the crew of
the Del Norte is putting out.
Titled the "Navigator," the pa
per carries a lot of choice ship
board and marine news of in
terest to all Seafarers, not only
the crewmembers of the big Mis
sissippi passenger ship. The crew
deserves a round of applause for
the fine job it is doing in bring
ing to the Seafarers one more
means of knitting the members
into a compact organization. Let's
see more ships follow the Del
Norte's lead.
There is a trial which began
this week here in New York
wherein a motorman on the
Long Island Railroad is charged
with manslaughter in the wreck
last winter that cost the lives of
33 passengers. The accident oc
curred at a spot where the rail
road was building an overpass
and the railroad was using one
temporary track for twoway
traffic. Two trains collided head
on and now the motorman of
One is facing a long , prison sent
ence if convicted.
The railroad itself is bankrupt
and rundown and took almost
no safety precautions to prevent
an accident, yet no one has
pointed the finger at the fail
road for negligence. Instead a
poor working stiff, a man who
has worked for the company for
27 years, is going to be made
to shoulder the entire blame, if
any is to be found. It sounds
like another working stiff is be
ing made the scapegoat for a
company which refuses to face
its responsibility to the public.
. There was another case re
cently here in the city where
the brakes failed on a bus and
a smashup occurred. The bus
company yelled that the driver
was guilty, yet allthe passengers
testified that the driver worked
frantically to stop the bus before
the crash. The ccmipany didn't
take any chances. It took the bus
to its garages and had its own
mechanics "inspect" the bus be
fore the police were allowed to
give it the once over. Yet in
spite of incidents like this there
are still people who say unions
are unnecessary, "the company
will take care of me." Yeah, ten
to twenty years.
Notice To Crews
No SIU Crew is to pay off
any ship until the crew's
quarters and mpiipment are
as clean as any Seafarer likes
to find a ship when he first
goes aboard. Patrolmen have
been instructed thai the
crew's quarters must be id)
solutely clean before a pay
off wUl be aiiowed. Please
cooperate with your officials
«in carrying out this member
ship order.
THE CONTRACT IS THE DIFFERENCE
Well able to appreciate the benefits of a Union contract
govmning wages and working conditions. Kenneth Bryant
sti&es SIU's general agreement. Now an SIU book man,
Bryant had his taste of sailing without a contract aboard
Cities Service's Winter Hill in the preUnion days. In fact, he
was fired for union activity. He since has sailed on the SS
John Hanson. "What a difference a contradt makes," observed
Ken. "No fear of being fired, and you get top wages, condi
tions, and representafion." •
Sttght PkkUp'la Port Mobile
Does Not Affect Men On Beach
By GAL TANNER
ToWeek Report Finds Savepnah
By E. M. BRYANT
SAVANNAH r Shipping has
been on the upgrade in this port
for the past two weeks. As a
matter of fact, job opportunities
were above average for the port.
Men were dispatched to the SS
Jean, Bull; SS Southwind, and
SS Southport, South Atlantic,
and to the SS Julesberg, Term
ini Tankers.
At the moment, the only ships
scheduled for arrival in the com
ing twoweek period are the
Steel Traveler, Isthmian, and
the Fairisle, Waterman,
INTRANSITS
Of course, we will have had
few Waterman ships h i 11 in g
,.fockspnville and Charleston in
jtransit. Incident^y,' it is up to
^e delegates of those ships to
riotify, tliis Hall whien a man gets
off so that replacements can be
sent..
Seafarers in this port were
saddened by the news last week
that Brother C. W. McCraw was
killed in an auto wreck,on the
night of June 5 and was buried
on June 8. The SIU sent a
wreath to the fimeral.
The drive of the AFL Team
sters to imionize the Yellow Cab
Company is making strides. Lat
est reports have it that 68 of the
69 men in the cab fleet are now
carrying union books.
Two of our Brothers are in
the Savannah Marine Hospital.
They are J. (Chubby) Morris and
Candy Creech. Both are reported
as doing fine.
That's all for now. . More in
the next issue. ,
MOBILE—Shipping in the port
of Mobile for the last couple of
weeks was fair with approxi
mately eighty, bookmen and
nine permitmen shipped for the
twoweek period.
We had a total of seven pay
offs and six signons plus two
ships intransit.
Ships paying off," aU in good
shape, were the Fairport, Mon
arch of the Seas, Kyska, Morn
ing Light, Wild Ranger, Water
man;, and the Clipper and. Roam
er of Alcoa.
Ships signing on were the
Clipper and Roamer, Wild Ran
ger, City J?f Alma, Fairport, Mon
arch of theSeas, Morning Light,
of Waterman.
Ships intransit for the pe
riod were the Azalea City of
Waterman and the Steel Scien
tist; Isthmian.
While shipping has picked up
a little bit, there hasn't been
enough Of it to feel the differ
ence—ioid we still have an over
all beach >of two hundred book
men and 134 permit men.
We have two ships that are
expected to take practically full
crews in the next two weeks
R. Abernathy, E. Webb, C. Sey
mour, F. Pollard,' W. Richardson,
J. Burrowes, H. Henderson.
The Brothers in .the Mobile
Marine hospital the last two
weeks include the following, Tim
Burke, J. Bennett, E. L. ZedakOr,
A. Nelson, J. Morton, F. Ed
monds.
Late Brother
Only Payoffs —
No Ships Sign
In Port Bostoii
By BEN LAWSON
BOSTON—^The activfty Hn this
port during the past days had
been confined to payoffs with
no signons taking place. We
paid off the Ann M^ie, Bull
the Wanda, Epiphany Tankers;
the Winter Hill, Cities Service,
and the Couer d'Alene Victory,
Victory Carriers.
Intransit we handled the Ro
bin Sherwood, Robin Line; the
La Salle and Azalea City, Wa.
terman, and the Meredith Vic
tory, St. Augustine Victory and
Steel Vendor, Isthmian. The;
Vendor had some beefs which
are going to be settled in a few
days at the port of payoff. Other
than that all the vessels were
in smart shape.
I know that Seafarers in all
ports will be saddened to hear
of the death of Delancie W. Hun
ter, who was killed while work
ing aboard the Yarmouth. Hun
ter was Chief Electrician on the
Yarmouth at the time of his
death. Several Brothers and I
went up to Stowe, Mass., to pay "
our last respects. Del was 52 at
the time of his death and will
be' greatly missed by his mmay '
friends in the SIU.
The only Seafarer currently
bedding down in the Marine Hos^
pital here is Frank Alasavich,
and the report I get t.'om the
hospital is that he's coming along
fine and will be out beiore long.
the Roamer and the Kyska,
which is being pulled off the
express coastwise run and is be
ing put on the European run.
Well, the bids on the furni
ture and equipment for the sec
ond deck (recreation deck) are
being sent in to Headquarters
this week, and in the near fu^
ture we should be able to relax
between calls in our aircondi
tioned recreation hall.
These bids were secured from
the major dealers in Onlce equip
ment and furniture stores in Mo
bile and, on approval from Head
quarters,. we will buy the need
ed equipment. • . .
Some of the men on the beach
are: F. Fullbright, R. Dorgan,
A. Smith, W. Palmer, D. Baiia, j
Mrs. Carl Reiss. who sub
milted to Ihe LOG Ihe above
photograph of her late hus
band, wishes to express her
gratitude and heartiest thanks
to the crew, friends and Mas
ter of the SS Kyska for' the
kindness and generosity shown
in the death of her husband.
Brother Reiss, a icmgtime
of the SIU, was Chief
Electrleian aboard tlw Water
man ship Kyska at the time of
his death on March 19. Many
Seafarers will remember Reiss
as a frequent contributor of
timely articles to the SEA
FARERS LOG.
Frisco Branch
Will Move Inb
New SUP Hail
By JEFF MORRISON
SAN FRANCISCO—During the
past two weeks we shipped but
nincr men,, which makes this
probably our worst period since
we opened for business out here.
We did not sign on or pay off
a single ship, but in transit we
handled eight ships, the Lonp
Jack, Cities Service; John Bi
Waterman, Hastings and Fair
land, Waterman; Marymar and
Pennmar, Calmar; the Steel Sea^
farer. Isthmian, and the North
western Victory, Victory Carriers.
This weekend we'll do a differ
ent kind of shipping. We're mov
ing our rig out of these quarters
into the new SUP building. From
tomorrow (June 17) on we'll be
located at 450 Harrison Street,
Room 100.
The boys here on the beach
are going to lend us a hand in
making the switch and setting
up the new headquarters. So, if
you boys see M. Pennington, J.
Otto, H. Chads' or F= Andregg
with callouses on their hands;
you'll know the reason why.
They came from honest unioL
labor.
That's all for now, here'^ hop
ing the change of address will
change our luck in shipping. •
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A).vfy,r. •
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TBE MEMBEBSBIP SPEAKS
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Social Life On Coral Sea
Brightens Routine Voyage
SEXTET FROM THE CLAIBORNE
:. To the Editor:
; " Now this could be a tale of
woe and troubles, which, I grant,
are many during various stages
Of this particular trip. But who
in hell cares to read about an
other man's troubles? I know I
don't.
It is old home week on this
tnisty little Liberty (I have other
aames for this gentle little Lady,
but I am afraid they would be
unprintable). We have Joe Baron
as a Wiper. His imitations of a
Certain character provides mirth
_0n a very monotonous voyage.
LUCKY IN CARDS
Abe Ellis is our Ship's Dele
gate; the man of luck with the
cards. Sure wish I had that much
luck in my amorous affairs. But
that is another story. I have
turned over a new leaf in the
book of life since I got married
to the best gal south of the Ma
sonDixon line.
By the time you get this let
ter, I expect to be a very proud
father. Say, maybe it will ' be
twins—or triplets. Who knows
the strange ways oL Nature?
Freeman is an AB on the
twelve to four, so is Red Tallak
sen. Not forgetting Buddy Baker,
who is the DM. Yours truly, as
usual, is getting a few more
gray, hairs as the Bosun, who al
ways worries more than neces
sary about the forthcoming bless
ed event in his family.
And, of course, no gang out
of Tampa would be complete
without Bob Keller.' His crib
bage playing is still up among
the champions. He has several
worthwhile opponents on board
too.
GOODLOOKER
You all know "The Best
Dressed Man About Town"—sure
enough we have Red Palmer
With us, too. When he heard I
was mentioning him, he told me
to say he is the taU, debonair,
hwdsome type.
And last, but not the least,
A1 de Forrest, a regular oldtimer
in the SlU, who is in charge
of the stewpot on this scow.
By the way, we ran into old
Bill Higgs and his gang ashore
in Honolulu.. They were aboard
the Mankato Victo^, heading
for Yokohama, too. Thanks for
the drinks. Bill.
"Big John" Wunderlich. Jr.
SS Coral Sea
Lake George Crew
Aids Orphans
In Florida Home
SUGGESTS RELIEF
JOBS BE VOLUNTARY
TO AID SHIPPING
To the Editor:
. For the past two months, this
compulsory vacation issue has
been kicking around. Now I'd
like to piit in my two cents
worth. Recently' 1 spent four
months on the beach before 1
shipped out. At that 1 had to
take the last rating in the de
partment I sail in.
After such a waiting period,
any seaman with a family is
Weed to be in a hole for a long
time. 1 realize there is a short
age of jobs. But compulsory va
cations will only help 90 percent
of the membership who are' ben
efitting by ..the present policy.
But the 10 percent will suffer
more.
I suggest that the shipping
rules be amended so that reli^
trips will be put on a voluntary
basis until conditions change. I
believe this, will solve slow
shipping.
Claud* nshar
To the Editor:
1 hardly know how to tell you
about the big surprise we re
ceived on Easter Mollday morn
ing. '
Sjx or seven fine yoimg men
crewmembers of the SS Lake
George, brought a generous do
nation of various commodities,
such as cereals and vegetables
to us.
We have approximately 50
little children in our home so
we want you to know that mere
words cannot give full expres
sion to our grateful hearts for
this donation.
G6OD EXAMPLE
We hope that many others will
share in the good example of
the young men, thereby helping
to make the boys and girls of
today the men and women of
character of tomorrow.
May 1 extend our sincere
thanks to the members of the
SS Lake George crew and may
1 mention that while the Sea
farers are away from home and
on the stormy waters, the pray
ers of the Sisters and girls of
St. Mary's Home in Jacksonville,
follow them always.
May their last port be that of
heavenly joy and happiness.
Sister M. Stanislaus,
Superior
St. Mary's Home
Jacksonville, Fla.
On The Texas
Joe Winstead, Watertender
on the Seatrain Texas, U one
of the Seafarers who have
hecn whipping that scow into
shiqie. All hands report ceope
ration is iirstrat*.
Crewmen of the Waterman freighter pause for photo between rotmds of foamy lager at USS
piub in Bremerhaven. Germany, during recent stopoVer. Left to right: K. Puchalski, DM: J. J.
Grellon, DM; A. A. Murphy, AB; R. Ruppert, AB; G. Broxton, Bosun, and John Alstatt, AB.
Ft. Stanton Men Ask Increase In Benefits
To the Editor:
In accordance with the unani
mous vote of the SlU Brothers
hospitalized at Fort Stanton, this
is a request that the weekly
benefits of three dollars be in
creased to five dollars.
We find that three dollars in
sufficient when you figure cig
arettes, stationary; stamps, toilet
articles, etc., as necessities. We
also request that the donations
which are sent every two months
be sent every month and in
creased if possible.
The situation is different here
than in other hospitals. One? you
are placed in the ambulatory
section, or. zn we call it, "on^
the hill," you wear your own
clothes.
THINGS CHANGE
After a long stay in the hos
pital, the clothes you thought
you had are pretty well shot and
even small things such as under
Waterman Co. Praised
For Providing Free
Passage To Snug Harbor
To the Editor:
We, the crewmembers of the
SS Topa Topa, wish to thank
the Waterman Steamship Corpo
ration for their policy of provid
ing free passage, when available,
to old seamen who are traveling
east to enter Snug Harbor.
Some of the retired seamen
are unable to pay for their
transportation to New York, and
Waterman's providing their
transportation is a fine gesture.
On this voyage from the west
coast passage was provided for
an aged member of the Sailors
Union of the Pacific,'' and during
the entire trip he was accorded
the same treatment given the
paying passengers.
Again we wish to .'eii^ress our
thanks to Waterman and its offi.
cial for their most worHiy. policy.
Chart** J. hitt^by
Ship's D*l*gat*
wear and sox become a big
item on the budget.
We do not enjoy the benefits
hospitals in cities give insofar
as visiting organizations are con
cerned because of our isolated
location. We have a welfare com
mittee that represents all the
patients but at present this or
ganization is not functioning too
well.
We realize that the Union is
not an insurance company nor
a charitable institution. However,
we would appreciate it if these
requests would be brought up
for action by the membership at
a general meeting.
Donald McDonald
Delegate
Fort Stanton Marine
Hospital
Roop Says Vacation Rule
Would Violate Basic Rights
To the Editor:
I' would like to discuss the so
called compulsory vacation plan,
the most evil plan that has ever
been considered in the history
of the SlU. All discussions for or
against the plan to date have
overlooked the basic issues of
this question.
The plan is immoral, uncon
stitutional and brings distress to
man's job security and, conse
quently, his livelihood. Let's ex
amine closely the vacation plan
in this light.
1. It is immoraL Man receives
his right to work from his crea
tor, hence, a man's right to his
job is a natural, inalienable, and
inviolable right.
2. It is unconstitutional. 1
herein refer to the Constitution
of the United States.
3. It brings distress to a man's
job security. There is no job se
curity if a man is told he can
work only a certain length of
time and then is told he must
stop work and look for another
job. This brings distress not
only to a man but to his fahiily.
The Union,^ since its inception
has protected its members from
being arbitrarily dismissed by
the operators, but under the in
famous vacation plan, the Union;
in effect, will be doing the very
thing it prevents ship operators
from doing.
The question has been raised:
"Don't the unemployed: seamen
on the beach have a right to
a job? Yes, most assuredly they
do—^but not to another man's
job. No man has any moral or
legal right to give .up his job in
order tha^t an unemployed man
may get it.
Let's look into the matter as
to why these socalled unemploy
ed seamen are ynemployed.
There are thousands of men
who are seamen today who nev
er would have become seamen
had it not been for the war. A
large proportion of the ships
that these men sailed are now
in the graveyards—and under
standably so.
Now if under present economic
conditions,, the maritime industry
can absorb 100,000 seamen, us
ing a hypothetical figure, it is
irrational to expect the industry •
to absorb 150,000 men.
The solution; then is obvious.
Those who find shipping a bit
tight should look elsewhere for
a job. This advice is especially
applicable to that large group
of young men whose reason for
becoming seamen is due to the
war, rather than any choice on
their own part.
The vicious compulsory vaca
tiqn plan, wherein a man loses
his job, should not even be put
up for a vote by. the member
ship, for the sinq>le reason that
the. plan violates the natural,
Godgiven right of . mdividuals
to decide whether or not they
.wish, their jobs. .
Edwin C. Robp
I " I
Friday. Jone 16. 1850 THE SEAEAkERS Li)G
'a
Text Of NLRB's Settlement Stipulation
o R p E II
Cities 3ervi^ Oil Company of Pennsylvania
(Marine: .Oivisi<m), hei«m called the Company, its
officers,' representatives, agents, successors and
ossigns, shall:
1. Cease and Desist from:
(a) Interrogating its employees concerning
their union affiliations;
(b) Warning its employees to refrain from as
sisting, becoming members of or remaining mem
b^s of the Seafarers Ihtematiomd Union of
North America, A.F. of L., or any other labor
organization;
(c) Warning its employees to assist, become
members of or remaining members of the Gitco
Tanker Men's Association, or any other labor or
ganization; .
<d) Making promises of benefit to its employ
es to cause them to join or assist the Citco
Tanker Men's Association, or any other labor
organization;
(e) Threatening its employees with discharge
or other reprisals if they join or assist the Se
farers International Union of |^orth America,
A.F. of L., or any other labor organization, or
refuse to join or assist the Citco Tanker Men's
Association, or any other labor organization;
HANDS OFF SIU LITERATURE
(f) Interfering with the circulation of imion
^terature and engaging in the destruction of
union literature for the purpose of discouraging
membership in Seafarers International Union of
North America, A.F. of L., or any other labor
organization, or encouraging member^ip in the
Citco Tanker Men's Association or any other
labor organization;
(g) Keeping under observation and surveil
lance the meeting places, meetings and activities
of the Seaf^ers International Union of North
America, A.F, of L., or any other labor organiza
tion, or the concerted activities of its employees
for the purpose of selfrprganization or improve
ment of working conditions;
(h) Engaging in espionage over the activities
of the Seafarers International Unipn of North
America, A.F. of L., or any other labor organiza
tion, or the concerted activities of its employees
for the~ purpose of selforganization or improve
ment of working conditions;
(i) Restricting and interfering with the use
of the radio facilities pf its vessels by its em"
ployees for the purpose of discouraging raembm?
ship in the Seafarers International Union of
North America, A.F. of L., or any other labor
organization; * '
(j) Conducting polls of its employe^ to de^
termine whether they desire a rotary Vacation
plan or any other condition of employment with
out the prior agreement of the collective bar
gaining representative of its employees;
END VIOLENCE THREATS"
(k) In any other manner engagir^ in any
threats or acts of violence, intimidation or re
prisal, or making any promise of benefits ifcp, or
in any, manner restraining or coercing its em
ployees in the exercise of their right to selfor
ganization, to formi join, or assist labor organiza
tions, to bargain collectively through representa
tives of their own choosing, and to eng^S ih
other concerted activities for the purpose of col;
lective bargaining, or other mutual aid or pro
tection, and to refrain from any or all such activ
ities as guaranteed in Section 7 of the Act;
(1) Dominating or interfering with the ad
ministration qf Citco Tanker Men's Association,
or with the formation or administration of any
other labor organization of its employees, or
from contributing, support to Citco Tanker Men's
Association, or to any other labor organization; ^
; (m) Encouraging membership in Citco Tank
er Men's Association or any. other labor organim
tion of its ertipioyees by refn^g to hire or by
discharging or refusing to reinstate any of its
Printed on these pages are the pertinent por
tions of the Settlement Stipulation drawn up by
the National Labor Relations Board and agreed
to by Cities Service Oil Company and CTMA.
The Stipulation, in effect, is a complete surrender
and admission of guilt to all charges leveled at
these two organizations during the past four
years by the SIU.
Omitted from publication here in the interest
of saving space are the inlrbductipn, a lengthy
explanation in legal terminology outlining the
case: Appendix A, which lists the charges against
the company; and Appendices B and C, which
State the names of the men who have brought
chargea against the company.
The Stipulation, signed on June 12, now goes
to the NLRB in Washington for approval, fol
lowing which the New York Regional Office oS ;|
the NLRB will take steps toward enforcing the
Order. At that time Cities Service must post
Appendix "D" of the Order in all of its ship and
shore installations, and begin the payment of
damages to the 151 men named in the Order,
and restore to employment those eligible.
Final approval of the Order is expected' in
about two weeks, at which time the New York "
NLRB office will begin interviewing the men
named in the Order. In the next issue of the
SEAFARERS LOG the names of the men wiU
be printed with full instructions as to what steps
to take in settling their cases.
emp.loyees, or in any other mminer discriminat
ing in regard to hire or tenure of employment,
orany other terms or conditions of employment,
because of nonmembership in or refusal to en
gage in activity on behalf of any such labor or
ganization;
(n) Discouraging membership in Seafarers
International Union of North America, A.F. of L.,
or any other labor organization of its employees
by refusing to hire or by discharging or refusing
to reinstate any of its employees or in any man
ner discriminating in regard to hire or tenure of
emplo3rment, because of membership in or activ
ity on t«half of any such labor organization;
<o) Reusing to bargain collectively with the
Seafarers International Union of North America,
A.F. of L., by making the withdrawal of charges
filed with the National Labor Relations Board a
condition precedent to the signing of a collective
bargaining agreement;
(p) Refusing to bargain collectively with the
Seafarers International Union of North America,
AF.. of L., or its representatives as the exclusive
representative of all of its ̂ ployees in the bar
gamlng vmits described below, with respect to
rates of pay, hours of employment, or other con
ditions of employment. The bargaining unit, con
sists oi the following:
ENTIRE FLEET UNIT
The Company's unlicensed personnel aboard
the vessels SS Council Grove, SS French Creek,
BS Logan's Fori, SS Abiqua, SS Cantigny, SS
Cbiwawa, SS PaolL SS Royal Oak, SS Govern
ment CaBip, SS Fori Hbskins, SS Salem Mari
time, SS Bent's Fori, SS Bradford Island, SS
Wluter HUh SS Archer's Hop© and SS Lon© Jack,
including deck and engine employees, machinists
and pumpmen, but excluding stewards, boat
swains, pmrsers, radio operators, and supervisors
as defined in the Act.
2. Take the following affirmative action to ef
fectuate the policies of the National Labor Re
lations Act:
(a) Withhold all recognition from Citco
Tanker Men's Association as the representative
of any of its employees as defined in Section 2
(3) of the Act for the purpose of dealing'with the
Company with respect to grievances, wages,
homrs of employment, or any other terms or
conditions of employment;
(b) Completely disestablish Citco Tanker
Men's Association as the representative of any of
its employees within the meaning of Section 2
(3) of the Act for the purposeof dealing with the
Company with respect to grievances, labor dis
putes, wages, rates of pay, hours of employment,
or other conditions of employment, and not rec
ognize it or any successor thereto for any of the
above purposes; '
(c) Offer to those employees listed in "Ap
pendix B" immediate and full reinstatement to
their foSier or substantially equivalent positions
without prejudice to their seniority and other
rights and privileges; • . .
(BA Ncite:^ Thu f»f©rs ])» 144 men^d^
from Cities Service ships for union activities.)
(d) Offer to those individuals named "in "Ap
pendix C" immediate employment in the posi
tions in which they would have been employed
had the Company not discriminated against
them, or in substantially equivalent positions;
(Ed. Note: The Order here refers to the seven
men refused employment by Cities Service because
of membership in the SIU.)
(e) Make whole the employees named in
"Appendix B" for any loss of pay they may have
suffered by reason of the discrimination against
them by payment to each of them of a sum of
money equal to that which would have been
earned as wages from the dates of their respec
tive di^harges, to the ,dates of the Company's
offer of reinstatement, less their net eamuigs
dxiring such periods;
PAY FOR JOB SNUB
(f) Make whole the employees named in
"Appendix C" for any loss of pay they may have ,
suffered by reason of the discrimination agairist
them by payment to each of them of a sum of
money equal to that which would have been
earned as wages from the date of the respective
refusals to hire to the date of the Company's
offer of employment, less their net earnings dur
ing such periods;
(g) Upon request, .bargain collectively with
the Seafarers International Union of North Am
erica, A.F. of L., as the exclusive representative
of all of its employees in the bargaining unit de
scribed below with respect to rates of pay,
wages, hours of employment, or other conditions
of employment. The bargaining unit consists of
the following:
The Company's unlicensed personnel aboard
the vessels SS Council Grove, SS French Creek,
SS Logan's Fori, SS Abiqua, SS Cantigny, SS
Chiwawa, SS Paoli, SS Royal Oak, SS Govern
ment Camp, SS Fort Hoskins, SS Salem Mari
time, SS Bent's Fort, SS Bradford Island, SS
Winter Hill, SS Archer's Hope and SS Lone Jack,
including deck and engine employees, machinists
and pumpmen, but excluding stewards, boat
swains, pursers, radio operators, and supervisors
as defined in the Act.
(h) Post in conspicuous places in its Sea
men's Rooms at 70 Pine Street, New York, New
York, the offices of all shipping agents of the
Company, and aboard all vessels operated by
the Company, including all places where notices
to employees are customarily posted, copies of
the Notice attached hereto and marked "Appen
dix D."^ Copies of said Notice, to be furnished by
the Regional Director for the Second Region,
shall, after being duly signed by a representative
of the Company, be posted immediately upon
(Continued on Page 8)
1 In the event this Order is enforced by a Decree of
the United States Court of Appeals, there shall' be
inserted before the words "A Decision and Order"
the woids "A Decree of the United States Court of
Appeals Enforcing....
(EA Th© which tiie Company mai4 | |
post, reserved to here as Appendix D, is printed in
full at the end of the OMer.)
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(Continued from Paie 7)
receipt thereof and maintainei by them for a
period of sixty (60) consecutivp days thereafter.
Reasonable steps shall be takeri by the Company
to insure that said Notices are not altered, der
faced or covered by any other material:
(i) Notify the Regional Director for the Sec
ond Region, in writing, within ten (10) days from
the date of "this Order what steps the Company
has taken to comply therewith.
19. Upon an application by the Board, the ap
propriate United States Court of Appeals, or any
other appropriate court, may enter its Decree in
appropriate form enforcing the Order of the
Board herein set forth. All parties hereto ex
pressly waive their right to contest the entry of
any such Decree and waive notice of the time
and place of the filing of application for the
entry thereof.
COMPUTE MONEY DUE
20. The Regional Director for the Second Re
gion will cause an investigation to be made to
determine the amoimt due to each, employee
listed in Appendix "B" and "C", pursuant to the
provisions of paragraphs 2(e) and (f) of the
Board's Order, set forth in paragraph 18. The
total amount due to said employees shall in no
event exceed the sum of $150,000. In the event
that the total amount due as determined by the
Regional Director is more than $150,000, the lat
ter amount is to be distributed pro rata among
the employees listed in Appendix "B" and "C".
21. This Stipulation contains the entire agree
ment of the parties, and there is no verbal agree
ment which varies, alters, or modifies this Stipu
lation.
22. 'niis Stipulation is. subject td the r^proval
of the National Labor Relations Board and shall
• bi^ome effective immediately upon such ap
proval
Signed this 12th day of June, 1950,
at 2 Park Avenue, N.Y.C.
CITIES SERVICE OIL COl^PANY OF
PENNSYLVANIA (MARINE DIVISION)
By JAMES P. FARRELL, Coimsel
Signed this 12th day of June, 1950,
at 2 Park Avenue, N.Y.C.
SEAFARERS INTERNATIONAL UNION
OF NORTH AMERICA, A.F.ofL.
By C. PAUL BARKER, Counsel
Signed this 12th day of June, 1950,
at 2 Park Avenue, N.Y.C.
CITCO TANKER MEN'S ASSOCIATION
By ALBERT F. STRASBURGER, Attorney
Signed this 12th day of Jime, 1950,
at 2 Park Avenue, N.Y.C.
Chester L. Migden
Joseph A. Jenkins
Counsel for the General Counsel
National Labor Relations Board ^
2 Park Avenue
• New York 16, New York
"APPENDIX D'
NOTICE TO ALL EMPLOYEES
PURSUANT TO
' A DECISION AND ORDER
of the National Labor Relations Board, and in
order to effectuate the policies of the National
Labor Relations Act, we hereby notify our em
ployees that:
WE WILL NOT interrogate our employees
concerning their union affiliations;
WE WILL NOT warn our employees to refrain
from assisting, becoming members of or remain
ing members of the Seafarers International Un
ion of North America, A.F.ofL., or any other la
bor organization;
WE WILL NOT warn our employees to assist,
become members of or remain members of the
Tanker Men's Association, or any other
labor organization;
^ WE WILL NOT make promises of benefit to
our employees to cause them to join or assist
the Citco Tanker Men's Association, or any other
labor organization;
WE WILL NOT threaten our employees with
discharge or other reprisals if they join or assist
the Seafarers International Union of North Am
erica, A.F.ofL., or any other labor organization,
or refuse to join or assist tke Citco Tanker Men's
Association, or any other labor organization;'^
WE WILL NOT interfere with the circulation
of union literature and engage in the destruction
of union literature for the piurpose of discour
aging membership in Seafarers Internation Union
of North America, A.F.ofL;, or any other labor
organization, or encourage membership in the
Citco Tanker Men's Association, or any other la
bor organization;
WE WILL NOT keep under observation and
surveillance the meeting places, meetings and
activities of the Seafarers International Union of
North America, A.F.ofL., or any other labor or
ganization, or the concerted activities of its em
ployees for the purpose of selforganization or
improvement of working conditions;
WE WILL NOT engage in espionage over the
activities of the Seafarers International Union of
North America^ A.F.ofL., or any other labor or
ganization, or the concerted activities of its em
ployees for the purpose of selforganization o>
improvement of working conditions;
WE WILL NOT restrict or interfere with the
use of the radio facilities of our vessels by our
employees for the purpose of discouraging meni
bership in the Seafarers International Union of
North America, A.F.ofL., or any other labor or
ganization;
WE WILL NOT conduct polls of our em
ployees to determine whether they desire a ro
tary vacation plan or any other condition of em
ployment without the prior agreement of the
collective bargaining representative of our em
ployees;
WE WILL NOT in any other manner engage in
any threats or actS; of violence, intimidation or
reprisal, or make any promise of benefits to, or
in any manner restrain or coerce our employees
in the exercise of their right to selforganization,
to form, join, or assist labor organizations, to
bargain collectively through representatives of
their own choosing, and to engage in other con>
certed activities for the purpose of collective
bargaining, or other mutual aid or protection,
and to refrain from any or all such activities as
guaranteed in Section 7 of the Act;
WE WILL NOT d(»ninate or interfere with the
administration of Citco Tanker Men's Associa
tion, or with the formation or administration of
any other labor organization of our employees,
or contribute support to Citco Tanker Men's As
sociation, or to any other Jabor organization;
WE WILL NOT encourage membership in
Citco Tanker Men's Association or any other la
bor organization of our employees by refusing
to hire or by discharging or refusing to reinstate
any of our employees, or in any other manner
discriminating in regard to hire or tenure of
employment, or any other terms or conditions of
employment, because of nonmembership in or
refusal to engage in activity on behalf of any
such labor organization;
WE WILL NOT discoiuage membership in the
Seafarers International Union of North America,
A.F.ofL., or any other labor organization of our
employees by refusing to hire or by discharging
or refusing to reinstate any of our employees, or
in any manner discriminating in rfegard to hire
or tenure of employment, because of membership
in or activity on behaif of any such labor or
ganization;
WE WILL NOT refuse to bargain collectively
This Is how the LOG ch^acierliod CTMA whan it burst upon iha scene, full
grown, the child of Cities Service genius. Th^ fbe CjS seamen agreed with the Sllff,
that the old hag was a bagi. Is proved by the lack of success she enjoyed.
iyv T a E S EkP A R ER ̂ Ld&
Lloyd Bertrand pictures a company spy hard at work on the SS Royal Oak. Nice work, if
you can stand yourself.
with the Seafarers International Union of North
America, A.F.ofL., by making the withdrawal of
charges filed with the National Labor Relations
Board of condition precedent to the signing of a
collective bargaining agreement. •
WE WILL bargain collectively with the Sea
farers International Union of North America,
A.F.ofL., as the exclusive representative of all
employees in the bargaining unit described be
low, with respect to rates of pay, wages, hours
of employment, or other conditions of employ
ment. The bargaining unit consists.of the fol
lowing:
The Company's unlicensed personnel aboard
the vessels rSS Council Grove, SS French Creek,
SS Logan's Fort, SS Abiqua, SS Cantigny, SS
Chiwawa, SS Paoli, SS Royal Oak, SS Govern
ment Camp, SS Fort Hoskins, SS Salem Mari
Page Warn : :
time, SS Bent's Fort, SS Bradford Island, SS
Winter Hill, SS Archer's Hope and SS Lon»
Jack, including deck and engine employees, ma
chinists and pumpmen, but excluding stewards,
boatswains, pursers, radio operators, and super
visors as defined in the Act.
WE HEREBY disestablish Citco Tanker Men's
Association as the representative of any of our
employees within the meaning of Section 2 (3)
of the Act, for the purpose of dealing with the
Company concerning grievances, labor disputes,
wages, rates of pay, hours of employment, or
other conditions of employment, and we will not
, recognize it or any successor thereto for any of
the above purposes.
WE WILL offer to those employees listed in
Schedule "A" immediate and full reinstatement
to their former or substantially equivalent po
sitions without prejudice to their seniority and
other rights and privileges;
WE WILL offer to those individuals named in
Schedule "B" immediate employment in the po
sition, in which they would have been employed"
had we not discriminated against them, or in
substantially equivalent positions;
WE WILL make the whole the employees
named in Schedules "A" and "B" for any loss of
pay they may have suffered by reason of the
discrimination against them.
CITIES SERVICE OIL COMPANY
OF PENNSYLVANIA (Marine Division)
By JAMES P. FARRELL, Counsel
(Representative) (Title)
Dated June 12, 1950.
NOTE: ANY OF THE ABOVENAMED EM
PLOYEES PRESENTLY SERVING IN
THE ARMED FORCES OF THE UNITED
STATES WILL BE OFFERED FULL RE
INSTATEMENT UPON APPLICATION
IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE SELEC
TIVE SERVICE ACT AFTER DIS
CHARGE FROM THE ARMED FORCES.
This notice must remain posted for 60' days
from the date hereof, and must not be alter^,
defaced, or covered by any other material.
I
.dl
The NLRB Record Reaffirms SlU Charges . : .f
Throughout the many, many months that the
Seafarers International Union sought to get offi
cials of the Cities Service Oil Company's Ma
rine Division to negotiate a contract as a con
"sequence of the Union's collective bargaining vic
tories in the CS tanker fleet, the company stalled
and doubletalked and deceived.
Evidence of the company's "good faith" in
"bargaining" with the SIU Ss pointedly shown by
the fact that as they talked their agents were
spying on, and firing SIU members and carrying
on the activities in behalf of the companydom
inated Union, CTMA.
All of this the SIU knew, but its accusations
were brushed off in the negotiationa by CS offi
cials with feigned astoni^ment, outright denials
and even ^Tomises' that SIU accusera would later
have to eat those words."
This week, those accusing words are being
eaten~but not by the SIU. The dirty mess charg
ed by the SIU, denied by the CS Marine Divi
sion, is on the public record. A fuller airing was
^ averted by the company's capitulation after four
days ol harrowing testimony, but enough was
heard to establish the Marine Division's guilt on
all major charges and to wring from it a virtual
conferaidn and cry of "enough."
A few examples of the sweet innocence pro
fessed by company officials during bargaining
sessions and the grim truth as revealed by testi
mony under oath at the National Labor Relations
Board trial June 69 are reproducecLon this page.
The bargaining session excerpts taken from the
record made by the company's stenographer, are
from the meeting of Feb. 27, 1950.
Persons whose names appear in the ex
cerpts are:
PAUL HALL: SecretaryTreasurer of the SIU's
Atlantic and Gulf District,
a PAUL BARKER: Counsel for the SlUi
WILLIAM LAGE: Attorney for the company's
Marine Division until his connection was
severed a few weeks before the NLRB triaL
M. J. ADKINS: Marine Superintendent of the
CS Marine Division.
JAMES T. HANAWAY: Dispatcher for the Ma
rine Division.
ALBERT STRASBURGER: Attorney for CTMA,
the companydominated union.
JOHN I. DUGAN: Attorney and former Coast
Guard intelligence officer, who was hired by
Lage to set up a spy ring to operate against
SIU and its members.
JAMES P. FARRELL: General counsel for the
parent company of the Marine Division, the
Cities Service Oil Company of Pennsylvania,
who took over when Lage dropped out of
the picture.
ARTHUR J. O'LEARY: Attorney associated with
Farrell in representing CS.
JOSEPH A. JENKINS: Counsel for the NLRB.
CHESTER L. MIGDEN: Counsel for the NLRB.
At Negotiations In February
MR. HALL:. . . Cities Service repesentatives,
in one form or the other, went to the extreme
trouble to obtain through one means or the
other copies of a photo out of the police files of
a man who was organizing for the SIU. They
went further to the trouble to put that into a
newspaper, which the officials of the Marine
Division of the Cities Service carried on board
every one of their ships. We say we want you
to do things like that and wash our dirty linen
out in the open. But, we say to you that when
you do, Adkins, let us hope that none of you
gentlemen have too much dirty linen yourselves,
because we certainly are going to wash it out
in public for you same as you tried to wash ours.'
M. LAGE: Those are some statements, Mr.
Hall, if you will permit the expression, with nof
foundation whatsoever in fact.
At NLRB Trial ln June
(John Dugan, retained by Cities Service's at
torneys to deal with the SIU organizing, drive, is
questioned by an NLRB Attorney)
Q. (by Joe Jenkins, NLRB Attorney); Directing
your attention specifically to the month of August,
1948, did you ever ask Mr. Hennessey to render
you any service in getting police records of SIU
organizers?
A. Yes, I did. I might add that he was unsuc
cessful in obtaining them. '
Q. You did that on instructions from Mr. Lage,
did you not?
A. I did.
At Negotiations In February
MR. HALL: I do know several SIU men have
been beaten up on Cities Service ships by stool
pigeons of the CTMA, which in turn is a stool
pigeon of Cities Service Marine Division and I
• know we are making official complaints in the
proper board and other sources. You should do
the same thing if you have occasion to beef.
MH. ADKINS: If you are accusing the Com
pany of fostering a Union in this CTMA, you are
just on the wrong track. Mister, and you are
going to eat those words sometime, too.
MR. HALT.: Whenever I eat those words it will
be a cold day in hell. I guarantee you that.
(Continued on Page 10)
Page Tea Fridayt JTuaie 16. 1980
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(Conthuied from Tsge 9)
At NliRB Trial In June
I Mr. Strasburger (Attorney for CTMA);Mr. Jen
Jans and Mr. Migden showed me last evening
the proposed or substantially final copy of the
proposed settlement of this case which provides
;for an order of this Board as well as a court
4ecree. ,
The Citco Tanker Men's Association will par
ticipate in signing such a stipulation.
* * »
Mr. Barker (Attorney for the SIU): I woidd
jy^e to make a statement, also. The Seafarers In
ternational Union, along with a number of its
members who are the charging parties in this
matter, likewise will participate in the settlement
stipulation along these lines.,
Mr. O'Leary (Attorney for Cities Service): I
would like to make a statement for the record,
your Honor.
The respondent in this proceeding. Cities Ser
vice Oil Company, has authorized James P. Far
rell, one of its attorneys, to enter into a stipula
tion settling all of the issues inthis proceeding
and to provide for a Board order and court
decree.
* * *
Mr. Farrell: As General Counsel for Cities Ser
vice Company and its subsidiaries, including the
respondent. Cities Service Oil Company of Fenn Q. Did you have any discussion with Mr. Lage
sylvania in this proceeding, I join in the state (Cities Service's Attorney) relating to the Cities
ment that has been made by Mr. O'Leary and Service Company and the Seafarers International
I have been duly authorized by the president of UniffiB?
Q." Did you go down there and see him?
A. I went over and saw Mr. Hamaway and I
said, "I am Hennessey."
Q. What did he say?
A. Well, he said, "Oh, Yes," and he picked up
—and he had various lists and he picked up one
and looked at some others and made out a board
ing pass and says, "Yes, you are to go on the
Bradford Island."
Q. Did you fill put an application for employ
ment?
A. No. . ;
Q. Did he interview you? .
A. There was no intendew.
At Negotiations In February
MR. HALL: What about some of the waterfront
stool pigeons which agents of the mar ine division
have hired to finger union men?
MR. ATKINS: I object to that statement that
the company has had anything to do with any
stool pigeons on the waterfront or kny front.
At NLRB Trial In June
Q. Will you state your name, your a^ess,
and your occupation for the record.
A. John Irwin Dugan,, 21 North Chatsworth,
Larchmont, N.Y. I am ah attorney with ofiic^
at 120 Broadway.
4he company to enter into the settlement.
At Negotiations In February
A. I did.
. MR. HALL: I think very shortly this whple
rotten corrupt system of hiring will be hitting
you right square in the face and I assure you
regardless of the hard words flung across this
table, I would certainly leam something about
that system, Adkins, because when the corrupt
ness of it comes out I suppose you are the man
who is going to have to answer for it, and it is
plenty corrupt and rotten.
MR. ADKINS: That is your statement, Mr.
Hall, and you have the right to make those state
ments, if you wish. I just hope you remember
them.
MR. HALL: I will remember them.
MR. ADKINS: If you don't, I am going to
give you some of this record to read.
MR. HALL: I will remember every one of
them, because I have been sitting cm top of them
_ a long time.
> At NLRB Trial In June
Migden questioning Hennessey at Trial:
Q. Did you get your seaman's papers as a re
ault of the conversation (Hennessey's interview
vdth Dugan wherein he agreed to spy on SIU
sympathizers aboard Cities Service ships)^
A. As a result of Mr. Dugan's conversation
with the Coast Guard, of which he had beeh a
former commander in charge of Coast Guard
jiearings, he held the conversation with some
person in the Coast Guard and my papers were
issued just that quick.
Q. What was the relationship between you and
Mr. Lage wi^ reference to the Cities Service
Company at that time?
A. In the spring of 1948 I was retained by
Hatch, Wolf and Nash (the law firm in which
Lage is a partner and which represents Cities
Service)... to assist them in Admiralty matters
and particularly with the labor matters with
which they were presently engaged and pre^
cisely with the Seafarers International Union.
* * 0
A isn't it true, Mr. Dugan. that m addition
to your being retained as an adviser in Admir
alty maters you were also retained by Mr. Wil
liam Lage to procure for him individuals to go
aboard the vessds of the Cities Service Company
and report back to you and to him matters con
cerning the str^gth, the membership in and so
forth of the Seafarers International Union?...
A. Yes. • ;
Q. And isn't it true, Mr. Dugan, that in con
nection with the obtaining of this information
you were paid moneys which you were authpr
Jzed to pay to these individuals who went aboard
ship for .this information by Mr. Lage?
A. That is right.
• • •
Q. Could you tell us how you obtained them
for employment and whom did you employ?
A. ... Because of my acquaintance with Intel
ligence functions, during the war, it was pr(*
ably presumed—I was apparently selected be
cause I might be able to supply them with per
sonnel from that group. I approached one of the
officers who had been associated with that
branch during the war, and he recommended
men.
0 0 0
Q. What .three men did he recommend?
A. He recommended a man by the name ot
Campbell, a man by the name of Lawrence Hen
nessey, and a man by the name of John Bosciano.
Q. Did you mploy them?
A. I employed Henness^ and Bosciano.
Q. Both those men had been members, had
they not, of the Naval Waterfront Intelligence
Squad during the war?
A. Tliat was my understanding.
Q. When you employed Mr. Hennessey, what
instructions did you give him?
A. I instructed Mr. Hennessey to report to mp
all activities on the ship relating to labor conr
ditions. Included in that are his estimate of th$
strength of the Seafarers International Union od
the ship and any other matter which would afr
feet the labor relations....
. . 0 0 0. ^
Q. Lage wanted him. (Hennessey) toidentify
the men?
A. That is correct. And he advised me he
wpuld.
Q. What identificatipns was tp be made.
A. As tp the idehtity pf the men with any
labor activities.
Q. That is whether he was SIU or'CTMA?
A. T?iat is coirect. ^
Cities Service Threws in 1%e Sponge
Q. Mr. Hennessey, did Mr. Dugan indicate to
you how long he wanted you to remain aboard
any particular vessel?
A. Just one trip and one trip alone.
* • •
Q. Was there any arrangement as to finances
during the course of the conversation?
A. During the course of the conversations Mr.
Dugan had stipulated that 1 would receive $450
a month and approximately $10 a day plus ex
penses during the voyages aboard vessels and
that would be subtractible.
Q. Do you recall what happ^ed when you
Teported to the Cities Service office before board
ing ffie Bradford Island?...
A. Yes. As a niater of fact, I walked and I was
instructed—^I will give you this as an^ explana
tory note—I was instructed by Mr. John Irwin
• Dugan to go over to see Mr. Bamaway.
(Continued from 1)
pany official made it impossible for
crewmembers to tend or receive
messages after Feb. 17, 1949, in an
effort to interfere with the MiRB
Action set for .three days later.
The tiein betwe^ the company
and CTMA was further revealed by
Dugan's testimony that CTMA law
yer Albot StrasW'ger had gone to
Lage seeking more funds for his
services. Lage, it was disclosed by
the witness, referred Strasburger
to Dugan, hoping the latter would
quiet him down.
"I told Strasburger he'd have to
get along as best he could," Du
gan said.
Lage did not appear at the trial,
the connection betwee.n him and
the company having been severed
several weeks before the hearing
began.
The day after Dugan appeared mi
the stand, the Board heard oqe of
his men tell of his role in the
company's spy setup. Hennesi^ey
testified that he had been fired
frpm one of the CS ships to which
he had been assigned afb^ an al^
tercation with the skipper who,he
said, had made improper advances
to him.
The trial ended abruptly the day
after Hennessey's testimcmy, when
the company and CTMA .lawyers
agreed to let the Board issue the
order for termk of settliement just
as David Furman, number one or
ganizer for the company imion,
was about to be called to. the stand
for examination on, charges in con
nection with "his role in the anti
SlU campaign.
Furman had been scheduled to
testify earlier but ^sented him
self on a plea of illness.
The ccmipany's swift capitula
tion eut off testimony that was es
timated would have run for weeks,
at least, and which would have
exposed other lurid and irregular
practices in the plot to keep the
CS segmen from obtaining SIU
.Representation, for which they
, overwhelmingly voted in two
NLRB elections.
Bi faet, the nature of ^e testi
niony hrard was so startling that
the Union is exploring the possi
bility of bringing to light other
asi>ects of the antiomion campaign.
At no point during the hearing
was the company able to success
fully refute any of the charges lev
eled at it by the SlU.
SIU A & G SecretaryTreasurer
Paul .'Kail hailed the company's
capitulation as "one of the most
si^ificant. victories in the histpry
of maritime unionism and one of
extreihe value to the labor move
ment as a whole. ^
• ^'The , company was practically
trapped with the . blood; op its
ban#," h^ said. "The entire cam
paign was an amazing experience."
Hall paid tribute to the SIU or
gmuzers for their effective strategy,
which enabled them to see the
fight through to a yicterious finish,
ip spite of the innumerable and
unprecedented obstacles placed in
their way by the company.
"Director of Organization Lind^
«ey Williams and' his staff did a
terrific job. They deserVe to be
commended not only by Seafarersj
but all laboring people for their
part in exposing in detail the depths
to which antiunion people can sink
in their hysterical and irrational
campaign against trade unionism,^
he said..
Among the main provisions of
the order are those requiring the
CS Marine Division to:
1. Completely disestablish the
CTMAas bargaining reprteentative
for any unlicensed personnel out
side pf supervisors.
.2. Offer reemployment to the 15^
men discharged by the company
for having membership in the SIU
gnd to pay their wages for the pei
riodS'they wpre unemployed as p
result of the dismissals.
3. Bargain in good faith with
the SIU for contract covering un
licensed personnel.
4, Cease and desist from int^s?
fering in any way yrith. the Sly^
from spying uppp ti^e SIU, fropi
discharging men for membership
in the Union and from refusing to
bargain collectively.
r /• f^Ad»Y, Juno 16/1^50 TH1E SEAFAW S LOG ' > Page Eleven
Minutes Of A&G Branch Meetings in Brief
SAVANNAH—Chairman, J. C.
Thompson. 24560: Recording Sec
retary, Jeff Gillete, 37060; Read
ing Clerk. E. M. Bryant. 25806.
J. C. Haire, president of Sa
vannah Central Labor Union and
organizer for the AFL Retail
Clerks Union was introduced to
the membership. He made an
appeal for all unions to aid in
the organizing of retail clerics in
Savannah. Brother Haire said
that he knew of no other union
with a better reputation for as
sisting other labor unions than
the SIU and added that all mem
bers should be proud of their
. Union's record. Minutes read and
accepted. Port Agent discussed
shipping in the port, pointing out
that it had been off the upgrade.
He announced that Brother C.
W. McCraw had been killed in
an auto wreck on June 5 and
that the SIU had sent a wreath
to the funeral. No charges to be
read. Meeting adjourned at 8:15
PM, with 40 members present.
t t t
, PHILADELPHIA — dudrman.
B. Higdon. 182; Recording Sec
retary, Don Hall. 43372; Reading
Clerk, Don Hall. 43372.
. Minutes of meetings held in
other ports read and accepted.
Agent's verbal report accepted.
SecretaryTreasurer's financial
report read and accepted. Dis
patcher reported about twice as
many men registered as shipped
during the past two week period.
Meeting adjoiuned at 7:45.
X %
BALTIMORE—Chairman. WU
liam Renlz. 26445; Recording Sec
retary, G. A. Masterson, 20297;
Reading Clerk, A1 Stansbury.
4683.
Other Branch Minutes read
and approved, except for a mo
tion to nonconcur with Galves
ton New Business and recom
mending that the shipping rules
be followed. Communications
were read. Motion carried not to
excuse two Brothers from meet
ing because they had registered
in two ports — Baltimore and
Philadelphia. Motion carried to
refer other excuses to the Dis
patcher. Motion carried to ac
cept Headquarters report as read.
Port Agent said that shipping
A&G Shipping From May 24 To Juno 7
PORT
Boston.
New York
Philadelphia....:;..
Baltimore.
Norfolk.
Savannah.
Tampa.
Mobile.
New Orleans..
Galveston
West Coast
GRAND TOTAL..
REG. REG. REG. TOTAL SHIPPED SHIPPED SHIPPED TOTAL
DECK ENG. STWDS. REG. DECK ENG. STWDS. SHIPPED
29 17 25 71 30 19 25 74
134 113 114 36i 89 70 85 244
31 24 30 85 19 11 15 45
89 54 53 196 46 44 33 123
(No Figures Received) (No Figures Received)
3 4 3 10 5 13 3 21
12 15 16 43 15 11 13 39
29 25 26 • 80 34 33 31 98
62 57 99 .218 55 45 75 175
(No Figures Available) (No Figures Available)
21 20 21 62 18 15 17 50
410 329 387 1,126 311 261 297 869
was about the same as it had
been in the past twoweek pe
riod. The port is running smooth
ly. Agent said he had been in
New York last week and had
sat in on Cities Service negotia
tions. They're tough people to
deal with,, he said. He also an
nounced that the case is coming
up before the National Labor
Relations Board on Monday.
Meeting adjourned at 7:40 PM,
with 301 members present.
* 5 i
SAN FRANCISCO—Chairman,
Jeff Morrison, 34213; Recording
Secretary, Frank S. Mitchell.
5661; Reading Clerk, T. M. Col
lins, 102120.
Minutes of meetings held in
the other ports read and accept
ed. Agent reported shipping as
being dead slow. Morrison also
repoiited the names of members
in Marine Hospital and urged
the members to visit their ship
mates if they get a chance. Meet
ing adjourned with 31 members
present.
& i &
BOSTON — Chairman, C.
Brown, 28800; Recording Secre
tary. B. Lawson, 894; Reading
Clerk. W. Hamilton. 3400.
Minutes of previous Branch
meetings in all ports read and ap
proved, except for Galveston New
Business on shipping rules pro
cedure. Agent discused shipping
which had improved a bit because
of the Yarmouth going into ser
vice for the summer. Agent in
t"
Directory Of SIU HRUS
SIU, A&G District
formed the membership that
Brother D. W. Hunter had been
killed while working on the Yar
mouth at East Boston. Flowers
were sent to the funeral and pro
ceeds of a collection were sent to
his widow. Meeting adjourned at
8:25 PM, with 150 members pres
ent.
X t. t.
MOBILE — Chairman. S. P.
Morris. 44484; Recording Secre
tary. James L. Carroll, 14; Read
ing Clerk. Harold J. Fischer, 59.
Minutes of other branch meet
ings read and accepted. Miscel
laneous reports accepted. Head
quarters building report accept
ed with motion to concur with
committee's recommendations.
Agent Tanner reported shipping
prospects weren't too bright with
only three offshore ships and
eight coastwise and Puerto Rico
vessels due to hit the port dur
ing the next couple of weeks.
Tanner also reported on the stat
us of the bill to legalize the
hiring hall. Members were urged
to read the latest SEAFARERS
LOG for the latest on the vaca
tion proposal. Tanner also report
ed that he had secured bids on
furniture for the recreation deck
from all leading office equip
ment dealers in Mobile and stat
ed that they would be sent to
Headquarters for approval. Un
der New Business, motion by M.
J. Carroll, 14, seconded by sever
al, that bids on furniture also
include bids for renovating and
reupholstering present furniture
and all bids be sent to Head
quarters for approval. Motion
carried unanimously.
^ X t.
NEW ORLEANS — Chairman.
LeRoy Clarke, 23062;^ Recording
Secretary, Bill Fredericks, 94;
Reading Clerk, Buck Stephens.
76.
utes of meetings held in othei
branches read and approved. Ag
ent report given by Buck Ste
phens in absence of Bull Shep
pard, who was ill. Shipping re
ported as being slow, with but
four payoffs, three signons and
21 ships intransit. Status of Bis
so Strike given. Various reports
from Headquarters and Branch
officials given and accepted. Un
der Good and Welfare Paul War
ren discussed the registration re
quirements for Louisiana resi
dents in coming election. Mem
ber aliens were urged to work
toward their citizenship to make
shipping easier. Meeting adjoty^nr
ed with 36Q members present.
XXX
TAMPA—Chairman. R. H. Hall*
26060; Recording Secretary. W,
Hall. 39256; Reading Clerk. C.
Starling. 6920.
Minutes of other Branch meet
ings accepted as read. Motion
carried to nonconcur with that
part of Galveston New Business
dealing with men throwing in for
jobs in other departments. Tampa
membership feels that a man
holding a book registered in one:
department should be allowed to
throw in for any job for which
he has an endorsement, providing
no other Bookman throws in for
the job. Agent said that shipping
is holding up fairly well. Secre
taryTreasurer's financial report
and Headquarters report to the
membership were read and con
curred in. Under Good and Wel
: are discussions were held on the
ruttire prospects of shipping in
this port and the problem of men
missing ships. Fiftyfour members Charges against five Brothers
off the Del Norle read and re j were present when meeting ad
ferred to a triial committee. Min joumed.
Vertauals
BALTIMORE 14 North Gay St
William Rentz, Agent Mulberry 4S40
BOSTON ...... . .276 Sute St.
Ben Lawson, Agent Richmond 20140
Dispatcher Richmond 20141
BALVESTON 308>/4 —23rd St.
Keith Alsop, Agent Phone 28448
BAKE CHARLES, La.... 1419 Ryan St.
X,. S. Johnston, Agent
MOBILE...' 1 South Lawrence St.
Cal Tanner, Agent Pkono 217B4
NEW ORLEANS S23 Bienville St.
E. Sheppard, Agent MagnoKa 61126113
NEW YORK SI Beaver St.
joe Alglna, Agent HAnover 22784
NORFOLK ..127129 Bank St.
Ben Rees, Agent Phone 41083
BHILADELPHIA 337 Market St.
B. Cardullo, Agent Market 71638
BAN FRANCISCO. .... .480 Harrison SL
Jeff Morrison, ASfen* Douglas 28478
BAN JUAN, PR 282 Ponce de Ieon
Bal Colls, Agent
BAVANNAH 2 Abercorn St.
K. Bryant, Agent Phone 31728
BEATTLE 2700 1st Ave.
Wm. McKay, Agent Seneca 4870
TAMPA. 18091811 N. Franklin St.
Bay White, Agent Phone 21323
WILMINGTON, Calif, 227 Avalon Blvd.
E. B. Tilley, Agent Terminal 42874
HEADQUARTERS. .81 Beaver St, N.V.C.
SECRETARYTREASURER
. Paul Hall
• • ̂ DIRECTOR OF ORGANIZATION
Undsey Williams
ASST. SECRETARYTREASURERS
Robert Matthews Lloyd Gardner
Joseph Volpian
SUP
HONOLULU 16 Merchant St.
Phone 88777
PORTLAND Ill W. Burnside St.
. . Beacon 4336
RICHMOND, CaUf ..287 8th St.
Phone 2899
SAN FRANCISCO 480 Harrison St.
Douglas 28363
SEATTLE 86 Seneca St.
Main 0290
WILMINGTON. ......440 Avalon Blvd.
Terminal 43131
Canadian District
MONTREAL 404 Le Moyne St.
UNlverslty 2427
FORT WILLIAM. .118H Syndicate Ave.
Ontario Phone 33221
HALIFAX 12e>/i Hollie St.
Phone 38911
PORT COLBORNE 103 Durham St.
Phone 8891
TORONTO lllA Jarvis St.
Elgin 8719
VICTORU, B.C. .....602 Boughten St.
Empire 4831
VANCOUVER 866 Hamilton St.
Pacific 7824
HEADQUARTERS . .M2 McGllI St.
Montreal Plateau 870
I
>V
ROBERT WM. CASEY
(W. R. Casey)
"This man, recently known to
have work^ on dredge boats
along Atlantic Coast, is asked to
get in touch with W. C. Cox and
Company, 208 South La Salle
Street, Chicago 4, Illinois, re
garding an estate.
XXX
LEROY WILSON
Your cousin, Mrs. Frank Pratt,
asks that you get in touch with
her at Judsonia, Arkansas, Route
1.
X X X
LOU BROWN
Vick D'India asks that you
contact Susan Parham, 124 W.
71 Street, New York City.
X.X X
G. H. HIRAS
"Please get in touch with me
on the SS William H: Carruth,
c/o Transfuel Corporation, 25
Broadway, New York City —
urgent: Jimmy Morris."
XXX
WARDE FLAHERTY
Your billfold, with discharges
and other papers, have been for
warded to San Francisco Branch.
XXX
CREW, WILLIAM T. BARRY
Will those men aboard this
ship on March, 1948, when Jesse
R. Matthews was injured please
get in touch with Benjamin B.
Sterling, 42
York City.
Broadway, New
CREW. SEATRAIN HAVANA
Men aboard this ship on Jan
uary, 1950, who witnessed acci
dent to Charles McCarthy, are
asked to get in touch with
Benjamin B. Sterling, 42 Broad
way, New York 4, New York.
XXX
TOM F. BAILY
"Please send me your insur
ance policy: Mother."
XXX
ANTONIO ARENELLA
Get in" touch with Trans Fuel
Corporation for money due you.
JERRY PALMER
There is a letter for you from
Don Brown at the Mail Room,
51 Beaver Street
XXX
JIM BARON
Please get in touch with Tony
Winnik, Benefit Street, Water
bury, Connecticut.
XXX
JESS MARTIN
It is urgent that you get in
touch with Frances Goodes, 36
Newton Avenue, Baldwin, Long
Island. New York.
to
Various articles, papers, CG
passes, wallets, etc. are being
held for the below named Bro
thers in the New Orleans Hall.
They are asked to write or call
for them as soon as possible:
Adolf Gallafes, George Manuel
Velazquez, Sydney John O'Neil,
Alphonse D. Bailey, Ralph Law
Russel, Harold P. Parr, Joseph
W. Guiffria, Joseph W. Leonard,
Felix John Frank Van Looy,
John E. Logsdon, Oskar Osmund
sen, William John Holscher.
David Edward Foster, Hugh
Cowan, Clayton Field, Edwin O.
Maxwell, James Adams, Charles
C. Hurst, Richard Villafara, Mar
tin Kelly, Oliver Celestine, Ray
mond Daniel Turner, Chauncey
Thomas Pyle, Patrick Fox.
Marion A. Caraway, Edward
F. Leasgang, Edward H. Borsage,
A. McKinstry, Bk. 43280, Henry
F. Hendon, M. H. Otis, P3437,
Clarence Grimes, Ira Van
Bridges, Maure J. Tassin, Mit
chell U Lemoine.
John H. Quarterman, Willis
C. Raines, Daniel B. Thomas,
Frank W. Sloan, Jean B. Leon
ard, . James Richards., Bern
Smyley.
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SKIPS' iONUTES AMD NEWS
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R.C. Bramble
Of Del Norte
Dies In B.A.
. Richard C. Bramble, Third
. Electrician aboard the SS
Del Norte at the time of his
death in Buenos Aures, was
buried in Norfolk, Va., on
May 6, the LOG was in
formed this week.
The 46yearold Seafarer died
^ of a head injury in the British
Hospital on March 16. He was in
good standing and the Union
paid burial benefits.
A native of Virginia, Brother
Bramble was born on May 4,
1904. He began sailing on ships
under SIU contract on August 2,
1947, when he obtained his per
' mit card in the Port of Norfolk,
t For a long while after that
Brother Bramble sailed out of
the Virginia port. Of late he
had been shipping out of the
Gul,
GOT SIU BOOK
Bramble was issued an SIU
book in the Port of Tampa on
May 11, 1949. He had sailed on
toe SS Madaket and several
Moran tugs. He joined the Del
Norte crew last December and
that ship's publication recently
praised Bramble as "a good ship
mate, wellliked and always will
ing to cooperate with his ship
mates."
Dick Martinez, one of Bram
ble's shipmates on the Mississippi
passenger ship, said that all
h^ds were deeply saddened by
the sudden passing of the ship's
Third Electrician.
Brother Bramble is survived
byhis wife, Margaret, two sons
,and a daughter, all of whom re
side at 553 Fisherman Road, Nor
folk .
I Crewmembers of toe SS Del
Norte sent a fiored wreath to the
funeral.
' THEY HOLD LIVELY SHIPBOARD SESSIONS
Galley men aboard the John Hanson indude, front row (left to righi)s>G. Dendrinos, Utility;
F. Mullen. 2nd Cook; M. Varinaviis, Steward; E. IGng, Ch. Cbofc. Reur row: F. SuUina, MM;
W. VandersaU. NOB; C. Bogdanos. BR. and F. Rombach, MM.
X
Panam Boycott
Gets Okay Of
De Leon Crew
The boycott .action planned
against Panama flag ships by the
International Transportworkers
Federation meets with toe unani
mous approval of the SS Ponce
de ,Leon crew, according to the
minutes of the May 28 shipboard
meeting.
A motion by Ship's Delegate
Abe Rapaport "to cooperate fully
with any moves made that the
SIU might make to expedite toe
fljoycott."
STUDY URGED
All hands were urged to read
the ITF's plan (rf action, which
was published in the May issue
of toe SEAFARERS LOG.
IN THE GALLEY
In the Huwon's Black Gang are. Mated (Id# to right)! Paolo
Pringi, Dlb Eng.; M. Nolan. OilM; W. MoUiday. Wiper. Standing:
X Muridiy. FWT; P. Simmons. FWT, and G. Daniels, Oiler.
Photos submitted by L. E. HamUton.
Hanson Men Keep
Close Watch On
Maritime Affairs
The Seafarers crew cur
rently aboard the SS John
Hanson takes a serious view
of maritime matters, espe
cially those relating to their
own welfare.
As a result, toe regular ship
board meetings—and, very like
ly, the foc'sle chatter—are very
lively and informative, as the
minutes of the May 28 sefision
indicate.
During the Good and Welfare
period of that meeting, Brother
Pete Previs read to his ship
mates an article which appeared
in a recent issue of the Balti
rrfor« Sun and which drew^ a
clear picture of the present con
dition of the maritime industry,
and the need for a program of
action to revitalize the American
merchant marine.
Crewmembers then discussed
various phases of the article ini
which the author deplored the .
decline of the American mer
chant marine fleet since the
war's end and the failure to
provide a plan that would keep
US flag ships on the high seas
to numbers consistent with our
world position.
RIGHT SLANT
Previs correctly appraised thd
article as being beneficial to seai
men ' and his shipmates agreed
to send a letter to toe Sun, ex,
pressing their appreciation for its
publication.
The Hanson crew's letter also
stressed that the current job
situation in maritime was being
aggravated by toe continue^
e;dstence of the Maritime train
ing schools.
Discussion then went to the
subject of Panama flag ships and
:heir effect on conditions gener
ally in world shipping.
The meeting was chaired by
Joseph Busalacki and Richard
Jordan served as recording sec
retary.
'Voice Of The Sea''
By "SALTY DICK"
H. R. HuMioxi, Steward aboard the SS Coeur d'Alene Vic
tory sent this photo of Loo do Parlier (left). Chief Cook, and
BIB Mpontsikariib 2nd Cook aud Baker, u they prepared chow
for their shjypnaatos. Hnston says the ship has several photog.
rsph«7 end more of their worx is on the way.
Pat Frango was all aniks wheix Ha ship atfived in port' because his wife lia^
come from their home in Norfolk to^eer h^. . . . Erich Pfommer li« been receiv
ing letters from Arkansas to come home ifor a vacation. He declined the invites bur
I thinkhe's weakening now, • '——: —— :—;—^——4
Bill Adams is having more
trouble with his hands. May
need hospitalization. This really
happened recently: A friend of
ours was 'walking along SoUto
Ferry in New York and was ap
proached by a guy, who asked
him for a dime. Our friend ret
plied that he was broke, where>i
upon the solicitor took him into
a nearby joint and bought hnd
coffee and doughnuts.
. Ray Flynn's hobby is to gp
to different restaurants to try
• out different foods. Sea: food is
his favorite. He generally sail;)
m a Chief Pantrjinah (salad
maker); . . . Did you know thai
butter in Bumios Aims contains
no .salt? . . > Just heard that Joe
Powers is Lounge Steward %n
to^ ^coa Cavalier.
While Louis Peed was show
ing me his new home, I grabbed
a bottle of beer and he appar
ently still "doesrl't know anything
about it. His home, by the way,
is modern and comfortable.
In order for Jimmie Darouse
to go home from New Orleans
he has to wade through the
swamps and beat the alligators
from the path to his door. He
lives in Ponchatoula, La., . . Al
bert Tocho quit the sea for a
brief period. He'll help out toe
Mrs. in the grocery store they
both own.
"The Casanova of Bourbon
Street" made a trip to South
Ametica and quit. On the ship
he was referred, to as "Mule
Tram," , . . Walter Jarrett had
to leave his ship because of ill
ness at home. He tells me his
father is over 100 years old.
John Pbntan has decided to
go back to sea for awhile. His
brother, Harold, is building a
home and doing a good job of
it. . . , A1 Yarbrough landed a
job on toe Irenestar and was
heading ..for Europe the last time
I saw him. . . . With proper
credentials, a seaman may rent
a_ car. rm mentioning this be
cause many men are under the
impression that, they can't.
"Little Joe" Kotalik and his
bride are now residing in New
Chleans, where Joe is a jobber
and travdttng salesman.. I under
stand that a book case is neede^
in the New Orleans Hail. Per
haps a crew can take cars of
this roitftec, .
TBE MB AF A HERS LOG l^ig* Tldxteni
Gomplete Text Of Welfare Agreement
Signed By SIU Contracted Operators
(Continued from Page 4)
all Trustees and alternate Trustees shall serve
for terms lasting for the duration of any new
trust or extension hereof. Employer Trustees or
their alternates may be removed at will by the
Employers and Union Trustees or their alter
nates may be removed at will by the Union.
7. Except as provided in Paragraph 6 of this
Article, a Trustee can be r&moved only for mal
feasance in the execution of his trust. Any Em
ployer or the Union may initiate charges of
malfeasance against a Trustee by filing such
charges with the other parties to this agreement
and with the Trustees. Such charges shall be re
ferred by the Trustes to a Board of Inquiry
which shall consist of an equal number of mem
bers appointed by the Employers and by the
Union. The members so appointed shall attempt
to agree upon an additional member to act as
impartial chairman an^d if within a period of five
days an impartial chairman is not agreed upon
then application by the Trustees shall be made
to a Judge of the United States District Court^r
the Southern District of New York, who at the
time is sitting in ch^bers, for appointment of
an impartial chairman. All records and other
information available to the Trustes shaU be
made available to the Board of Inquiry. If a ma
jority of said Board of Inquiry finds that a Trus
te has been guilty of malfeasance he shall be
removed and may not thereafter be eligible to
serve as a Trustee or alternate Trustee. All ex
penses incident to a Board of Inquiry shall be a
proper charge against the Fimd and the Trustees
are authorized and directed to pay such expenses,
including the fees, if any, of the members of the
Board.
8. If for any reason a Trustee cannot serve or
resigns or is removed before the expiration of
the term for which he is appointed, his alternate
shall succed him until a successor is appointed
in the same manner as the Trustee to whose
office he is succeeding and, subject to Paragraphs
1*6 and 7 of this Article, shall complete the unex
pired term.
9. Any Employer Trustee or alternative Em
ployer Trustee is authorized and empowered to
caU a meeting in the City of New York, N.Y. of
the various employers who are subscribers to
this instrument upon five (5) days written notice
and such a meeting shall be called whenever a
vacancy occurs in the office of Employer Trustee
or alternative Employer Trustee. An individual
may, at any such meeting, represent more than
one Employer and any Employer shall forfeit
the right to vote at any such meeting at which
he fails tp appoint and have present a duly auth
orized representative but such forfeiture shall
in no way relieve such Employer of his obliga
tion to be bound by any action taken or decision
made at such meeting.
ARTICLE V
Authority and Liabilitios of Trustees
1. The Trustees shall have the power to require
each Employer to ftirnisn appropriate informa:
tion to establish that he is making full payment
to the Trustees of the amounts required as set
forth in Article II, Paragraph 1 hereof.
2. The receipt given by the Trustees, or any
person acting with their specific authority, for
aiiy moneys or other things of value shall ef
fectively discharge the person or persons paying
or transferring the same and such person or
persons shall not be bound to see to the applica
tion of such moneys or other things of value or
be answerable for the loss or misapplication
thereof.
3. The Trustees by majority vote may obtain
adTOinistrative, consultative, legal, technical, and
other services and ,assista.nce which in their opin
ion are necessary or advisable in the sound and
efficient operation of the Plan and to affectuate
its purposes and objectives and all expenses in
cident thereto shall be a proper charge against
the Fund.
4. At the first meeting of the Trustees, they
shall elect a Chairman and a Secretary whose
terms shall commence on the date of their elec
tion and shall continue for one year, or until his
or their successors have been elected. At no time
shall both such offices be held by Trustees des
ignated by the same party.
5. Meetings of the Trustees shall be held at
such place or places as may be agreed upon by
the Chairman and the Secretary and may be
called by the Chairman or the Secretary upon
five days' written notice ,and may be held at
any time without notice if all of the Trustees
consent thereto. Individual members of the Board
of Trustees may not take any action for or on
behalf of the Trustees between meetings, except
as may be specifically authorized in writing.
6. The Trustees shall keep full minutes of all
their meetings, resolutions and actions. In the
absence of the Chairman, the Secretary shall act
as. chairman and shall appoint another Trustee
from the group of Trustees to which the absent
Chairman belongs to act as secretary for the
meeting. In the absence of the Secretary, the
Chairman shall appoint another Trustee from the
group of Trustees to which the absent Secretary
belongs to act as secretary for the meeting. In
the absence of both the Chairman and the Sec
retary, there shall be made pro lem appoint
ments by the Trustees present.
7. The Trustees shall cause to be kept true and
accurate books of account and records of all their
transactions as Trustees which shall be audited
annually by certified pubUc accountants, or more
often as may be determined by the concurrent
action gf the Employers and the Union. The cost
of all audits shall be a proper charge against the
Fund and the Trustees are authorized and di
rected to pay such charges. Copies of all audits
shall be furnished to each of the Trustees, to the
Administrator, to each of the Employers and to
the Union. A statement of the results of such
"audits shall be available for inspection by inter
ested persons , at the office of the Administrator
and at such other places as may be designated
by the Trustees.
8. Each Trustee shall be protected and held
harmless in regard to any action which may be
taken upon any paper or document believed by
him to be genuine and to have been made, ex
ecuted, or delivered by the proper parties pur
ported to have made, executed, or delivered the
same; and no Trustee shall be held liable for any
action taken or omitted by him in good faith, nor
for the acts of the Administrator or any agent
or employee selected by the Trustees, nor for
any act or omission of any other Trustee.
9. The Trustees are authorized to formulate
and promulgate any and all necessary rules and
regulations to facilitate, the proper functioning
of this Plan, provided the same are not incon
sistent with the terms hereof.
10. The Trustees shall appoint an Administra
tor as provided in Article VI, Paragraph 1 here
of, and may delegate any of their ministerial
powers or duties hereunder to him or to any of
their agents or employees; provided, however,
that the Administrator and any such agent or
employee" authorized to have access to money or
things of value belonging to the Fund, shall ob
tain a fidelity bond in such amovmt and secured
by such security company as the Trustees shall
determine.
41. Any Trustee or alternate Trustee may re
sign by instrument in writing executed for that
purpose and delivered to the remaining Trustees;^^
provided, however, no vacancy or vacancies in
the office of Trustees shall impair the powers of
the remaining Trustees acting in the manner
hereinabove provided to administrator the af
fairs of this Plan; and further provided that for
the purpose of determining the voting strength
of the Trustees any unfilled vacancy shall be
considered an absence and the provisions of Ar
ticle IV, Paragraph 4 hereof shall apply.
ARTICLE VI
Administrator and Records
1. The Administrator specified in Article V,
Paragraph 10 hereof, shall be appointed as fol
lows:
^ In a meeting of the Trustees held for the pur
pose of appointing an Administrator, the Employ
er Trustees shall submit a list of twelve (12)
persons as nominees for the position of Admin
. istrator and the Union Trustees shall select from
the list one (1) individual who shall be the Ad
ministrator.
2. The Employer Trustees or the Union Trus^
tees may initiate charges of maKeasance or mis
feasance against the Administrator and such
charges shall be referred to a Board of Inquiry
under the procedure set forth under Article IV,
Paragraph 7, hereof. In the event the Adminis
trator resigns or is removed or for any reason is
unable to perform his duties, a meeting of the
Trustees shall thereafter be held as soon as
practical for the purpose of appointing a new
Administrator as provided in Paragraph 1 of
this Article.
3. The Administrator shall perform the duties
delegated by him by the Trustees and his salary
and the salaries of his assistants, clerical or
otherwise, shall be fixed by the Trustees and
shall constitute a proper charge against the Fund.
4. Each of the Employers shall furnish to the
Trustees, through the Administrator, necessary
and appropriate records pertaining to their re
spective Employees, including records of the
names and . classifications of such Employees; the
number of days worked by such Employees with
place of employment; Social Security numbers,
if any; identification numbers of the U.S. Coast,
Guard, and any other information that the Trus
tees may require in connection with the soxind
and efficient operation of the Plan. The Union
shall furnish to the Triostees, through the Ad
ministrator, necessary and appropriate records
or other information available to the Union per
taining to the Employees as defined in Article I,
Paragraph 3 hereof, which the Trustees may re«
quire in connection with the sound and efficient
operation of the Plan.
5. All claims for benefits shall be presented
to the Administrator who shall, with reasonable
promptness, certify to the Trustees that the reo
ords available to him indicate that each benefit
claimed is or is not properly payable. The Trus
tees, by majority vote, shall have full authority
to determine all questions of coverage and quali
fication to participate in and receive the benefits
of the Plan ~ and shall have the power to con
strue the provisions of this Agreement and the
terms used herein and any such questions so
determined or any construction so adopted by
the majority of the Trustees in good faith shall
be binding upon all parties and persons con
cerned.
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• m
ARTICLE VII
Arbitration
1. In the event the Trustees cannot decide any
matter or resolve any dispute because of a tie •
vote, then and in such event the Trustees
,, (Continued wt P*g/e 14)
J'
Page Fourteen T SE imdaf . ̂ tiine 16^ l l
If
(Continued from Page 13)
attempt to select an impartial arbitrator. If the
said Trustees cannot agree on an impartial ar
bitrator, application shall be made to the Judge
of the District Court of the United States for the
Southern District of New York who, at the time,
is sitting in chambers, for the appointment of an
impartial arbitrator.
2. The decision or award, which shall be in
writing, shall be final and binding on all parties
and persons concerned, it being the intention that
such written decision shall be made within five
regular working days after the Impartial Arbi
trator receives all the evidence.
3. In the event of an arbitration, the expenses
thereof, including the fee, if any, of the Impartial
Arbitrator, §hall be a proper charge against the
§ Fund and the Trustees are authorized and di
• rected to pay such charges.
ARTICLE VIII
Miscellaneous
1. The Employer contributions paid, or to be
paid, into the Fund shall not constitute or be
deemed wages paid or due to Employees, nor
shall the Fund in any manner be liable for or
be subject to debts, contracts, obligations, or
liabilities of any of the Employers or the Union
or any of the Employees.
2. None of the Employers or the Union shall
in any way be liable in any respect for any of
the obligations of the Trustees because such
Trustees are officers of or in any way associated
with any Employer, or the Union; it being the
intention that each of the Trustees designated
as a representative of the Employers, or of the
Union, acts as a representative in a statutory
sense only and not as agent of any person, firm,
corporation, or organization.
3. Whenever this instrument specifies that the
Employers are to perform any obligation or duty
or may perform any function or take any action,
as provided for in Article IV, Paragraphs 1, 6
and 7, Article V, Paragraph 7, and Article VIII,
Paragraphs 7 and 8, hereof, such coll^tive obli
gation, duty, function or action shall be determ
ined in accordance with and under the provisions
of Article IV, Paragraph 2 hereof.
4. This Plan is accepted by the Trust^s in the
State of New York, and, regardless of the domic
iles of the parties hereto, shall be interpreted
and governed in accordance with the laws of
that State.
5. The place of business of the Fund shall be
New York, New York. Any written communica
tion to an Employer Trustee, individually, shall
be deemed properly addressed if addressed to
, the office of such individual Trustee and any
written communication to the Employer Trustees,
• collectively, shall be deemed properly addressed
if addressed to the office of the Administrator.
Any written communication to the Union Trus
tees, either individually or collectively, shall be
deemed properly addressed if addressed to the
headquarters of the Union in New York.
6. The Plan shall not become effective until
the contributions or payments thereto by the
Employers shall have been approved by the Bu
reau of Internal Revenue as proper current de
ductions for tax purposes.
7. This Agreement and Declaration of Welfare
Plan and the trust created hereby shall continue
until midnight, June JO, 1955, and the provisions
hereof may be amended at any time by an in
strument in writing executed by all of the Em
ployers and by the Union and subscribed to by
the Trustees; provided, however, that no amend
ment shall alter the purpose of the Plan or di
vert the Fund to any use other than for*the
exclusive benefit of Employees qualified to re
ceive the benefits, or their dependents, or benefi
ciaries or next of kin.
8. If the trust herein created is not extended
for a specified period from its termination date,
the Trustees shall, upon termination or liquida
tion of the trust and the fulfillment of the pur
poses specified in Article III hereof, transfer any
stu^lus moneys in the Fund to any new or other
trust fund or welfare fund that may be created
by and, between the Employers and the Un
ion. If the trust herein created is not extended
and no new or other trust fund or welfare fund
is created by and between the Employers and
the Union, then and in such event, the Trustees
shall continue after the termination date' hereof
to perform and carry out the provisions of this
Plan on the basis that all Employees then quali
fied to receive the benefits of the Plan shall
continue to remain qualified until the disburse
ments of the moneys in the Fund reduce the
Fund where the moneys left are too small, in
the judgment of the Trustees, to be used to
effectuate the purposes of the Fimd when such
residual moneys shall be given to such seamen's
charity or charities as the Trustees in their dis
cretion shall determine.,,
9. Income on the Fund, if earned, is incidental
only and the Fund is not intended to produce
income other than as may be collateral or in
cidental to its operation and the providing of
benefits and'to avoid waste. Should any income
be earned, it shall be credited to the Fund and
shall with reasonable dispatch be applied and
expended for the purposes of the plan. In the
event the Trustees decide to invest or reinvest
any of the moneys received by them, such in
vestments or reinvestments may be in such
Stocks, bonds or other securities or property as
the Trustees in their sole discretion may deter
mine; provided, however, that no investment or
reinvestment shall be made other than invest
ments in which funds of life insurance compan
ies, organized under the laws of the State of
New York, may be legally invested.
10. This Agreement and Declaration of Welfare
Plan may be executed in a number of counter
parts, each of which shall have the force of ah
original. Subscribing Employers are not required
to execute more than one counterpart.
Report Of Negotiating Committee
We, the undersigned members of the SIU Ne
gotiating Committee, hereby make the following
report and recommendations on the matter of
the Welfare Plan.
We have negotiated on this matter of welfare
with SlUcontracted operators for a period of
over 6 months. We have come to a final agree
ment with the operators and attached hereto is
a complete copy of the contract we have negoti>
ated, subject to the approval of our membership,
as per our constitution. (The complete text of
the Welfare Contract begins on Page 3.)
This contract, among others, makes the follow
ing provisions: >
1. The SIU Welfare Plan will not be adminis
tered by any insurance company as is the case
in other union welfare plans, but instead, will
be handled by representatives from both the
Union and the company as prescribed by law.
Not using an insurance company will save con
siderable money. The actual business functions
of the Plan will be handled by an Administra
tor, who will work according to the contract and
under supervision of the Union and Company
trustees.
2. The Union has the right to negotiate new
types of benefits other than those of hospital and
death. Such new benefits will be negotiated on
the basis of the amount of money on hand in the
fund and the ability of the Fund's income to
pay same.
3. The Plan at this time calls for weekly hos
pital benefits of $7.00 and death benefits of $500.
These payments will be paid in the same fnan
neras are the regular Union Hospital and Death
Benefits paid now. In any event, there shall be
no wait for any of our members for receipt of
their benefits.
Your Committee feels that this Welfare Con
tract, as it is negotiated, represents a great
achievement for our Union. It is to be pointed out
to the membership that the benefits 'we have
agreed to pay under this Plan are at this time
few in munber, and small in amount of money.
The reason for this is that your Union Negotiat
ing Committee feels that, before such a Welfare
Plan as ours is called on to spend too much
money, we should first ascertain as to just what
the entire cost will run into and the jnanner in
which it will operate. By starting in a small
manner, we can iron out any kind of kinks in
the process before we increase the size of our
benefits.
In addition, by starting out by paying benefits
in the amoimts shown in this report, it will al
low the Welfare Plan to build up a cash reserve
of funds in such a manner" so as to continue the
successful financial operation of the Plan itself.
The membership is to be made aware of the
fact once again that, once the Plan is function
ing, and we see that we have the necessary cash
reserves on hand and the income comes in prop
erly, we can^ at that time, if we see fit, renego
tiate any type of new benefit our membership
may feel is necessary for the welfare of our
people.
In view of this, we therefore recommend the
following:
1. That this entire report and contract be pub
lished in the current issue of the SEAFARERS
LOG, so that all of our members will have full
opportunity to read this contract in its entirety.
2. That this contract and report be read at
our next regular meeting to be held on June 21,
1950, and action be taken simultaneously in all
Branches.
3. That copies of this issue of the SEAFARERS
LOG wherein this report and contract are carried
be mailed into every SIU ship, so that they will
have an opportunity to vote on this matter also.
We recommend to our membership, whether
ashore or on ship, that this contract and report
be accepted in their entirety.
PAUL HALL LINDSEY WILLIAMS
ROBERT MATTHEWS LLOYD GARDNER
JOSEPH VOLPIAN JOSEPH ALGINA
Welfare Phn Milestene la History Of Seahrers
In light of the sudden and dramatic developments in Cities Service, the signing of the
Welfare Plan in its final form is forced to share the spotlight of events in the SIU.
In the long run, however, it must be conceded that the securing of the Welfare Plan
promises the greatest of rewards to the men of the SIU. Cities Service is a brilliant victory for
the Union in the field of organizing.
In winning the Welfare Plan the Union can again take bows. Here the Union has dem
onstrated labor statesmanship. The SIU and SUP were the first imion to win a welfare plan and
thus open the door to greater security for the men who make their living sailing the seas.
The benefits to be paid under the plan at its inception do not ap^ar to be tremendous,
nor does the Union claim that they will eliminate all of the problems facing the men of the in
dustry. But, and for this the Negotiating Committee deserves praise, the program has been set
up in such a way that the initial benefits are modest so as to put no strain whatsoever on the
Fund. As time passes and the Fund swells the payments will, undoubtedly, increase and other
provisions be incorporated into the plan. The knowledge of other welfare plans which started
off big and ended bankrupt in short order were too familiar to the committee to allow any such
errors. Time will undoubtedly prove the welfare plan to be one of the greatest steps ever taken
by the SIU. The events of the past few days will mark this as another hour of greatness for the
SIU.
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Digested Minutes Of SIU Ship illeeti||^
BULL RUN, April 4 —Daniel
Butts, Chairman; Norman ,Kra
ie«. Secretary. Ship's Delegate
reported on beef on lodging
While ship was in drydock. Mo
tion carried to have Patrolman
see Captain alJbut turning more
men to on various jobs. Patrol
man also to check on safety
equipment aboard ship. Suggest
ed that attempt be made to have
library placed aboard ship in the
next port.
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ALCOA CORSAIR, AprU 10—
W. Higgs, Chairman; J. Roberts,
Recording Secretary. Ship's Del
egate read interim agreement be
t^O'een SIU and Cities Service.
Motion carried to allow Ship's
Delegate to use his own judg
ment in renting motion pictures.
Under Good and Welfare, a num
ber of Brothers took the floor
and several pointed out that the
victory in the Cities Service
fleet was just further evidence of
the correctness of SIU policy.
i » »
BLLY. April 5—Arthur Kavel,
Chairman; Waller Husson, Sec
retary. Delegates reported aU
okay. John Fedesovich Was elec
ts Ship's Delegate. Motion (by
Boucher) carried to have all
engine heads, showers and decks
ki Black Gang quarters painted.
Suggested that all cots be washed
and returned to Steward.
^
MOSTANK. April 8—H. Ste
yens. Chairman; W. A. Hender
shot. Secretary. No beefs, ex
cept for 2nd Pumpman's disputed
overtime. W. A. Hendershot el
«eted Ship's Delegate. Steward
suggested that gangway watch
^ kept in all ports for security
of ship's gear and stores. Patrol
man to check medical supplies
for penicillin. Steward to see
Giaptain aboirt new percolator for
crew's mess.
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• JOHN HANSON. April 2^U
HoUoway. Chairman; Fred Eng
land, Secretary. Delegates re
ported not a single beef in any
department. Motion carried to
allow delegates to transact ship's
business with Patrolmen before
business of individuals. Discus
sion on compulsory vacation is
sue, with several men airing
yiews—pro and con. Ship's Dele
gate said it was long time since
he had experienced cooperation
such as he got aboard this ship.
have the LOG in the pres
ent Overseas fiction. McLemoro
elected EngineDelegate No one
to handle bread with dirty
hands.
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CHRYSSTAR. AprU 13—L. E.
Jarvis, Chairman; J. F. Ross,
Secretary. Ship's Delegate re
ported that Patrolman will be
aboard for payoff, that needed
supplies will be obtained and
that certain repairs have to be
made. All stores are to be check
ed before vessel's departure.
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ROBIN NEtrt^lNO, April 2
^Elbert Hogge, Ghairmaiu Rob
ert MeCttUoeh^ Secretary. Deck
Delegate Larry Laronde said no
beefs pending in his department,
Engine Delegate Barney SpeO^e
read charges against three men.
Stewards Delegate Sfiflley Coop
er reported all's well except for
two hours disputed overtime.
Ship's Delegate John Tilley dis
cussed charges. Brother Covale
ski agreed to donate $10 to LOG
for Brother standing his Watch.
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TADDEI. April 2 — Frank
Borst, Chairman; James ICaup,
Secretary. Committee to be form
ed to write members of Congress
urging that bilf legalizing mari
time hiring halls be passed. Dis
puted overtime in Deck and En
gine departments; no other beefs.
Situation regarding^ firing Of
Steward referred to Patrolman.
Suggested that draws be made
earlier upon arrival in port. Vote
of thanks given to Stewards de
partment for excellent meals and
service.
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SEAtRAlii HAVANA, April
1ft—R. Wisham, Chairman; F,
Gorenflo, Secreiazy. Kristensen
elected Ship's Delegate. Motion
carried to study present issue
of the LOG and if agreeable to
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STEEL ADVOCATE, AprR 17
—C. Rice, Chairman; C. C. See
lig. Secretary. BCefs were tabled
to be discussed under Good Snd
Welfare. Agreed that Chief Cook
and Second Cook are to work
with Steward in preparing
menus, and that Steward get
• Third Cook on the ball in clean
ing the galley. Discussion on how
to make the delegates jobs eas
ier. Washing machine hot to be
overloaded.
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STEEL NAVIGATOR, AprU
16—R. Mason, Chairman; D.
MaxwelL Secretary. Department
Delegates reported. Engine: Short
one Fireman, who missed ship
in Penang; Deck: some disputed
overtime. Workway picked up in
Singapore, an SIU man out of
the hospital. He is not doing
any work, as per Union agree
ment; Thomas Heaton injured
while cleaning holds. Ship's fund
contains $20.
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ALCOA ROAMER, April 20—
Doug Craddock, Chairman; M. A.
Machel, Secretary. All okay in
departments, except for 18 hours
disputed in Deck. Motion carried
in favor of netv overseas edition
of LOG in preference to the
Bulletin. Motion carried that all
mep be assessed for LCK^
.stead of maintaining it by dona
tions. Patrolman to See Mate
about equalizing overtime. Dis
cussion by Steward on yray ship
was stored last fr^p and his rec
ommendations on how to im
prove it this trip.
STEEL MAKER, Apx^jiO—E.
F. Lessor, Chairman; T.^bneep
doa. Seeref8fy» All okay'^ three
departments^ ekcepf for some
disputed overtime in Black
Gang. A. H. Sd^ihers elected
Ship's Delegate; Under Educa
tion it was brought out that as
citizens and Union members we
have job to do with Congression
al elections just around the cor
ner. It is cmr duty to write to
Congressmen to remedy injustice
of TaftHartley baft cm Union
Hiring Halls.
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HARRY T, April S — Waller
Hallett, Chairman; F. R. . Vorl
kamp. Secretary. All okay hi all
departments. New librai^ to be
put aboard in Tampa. Laundry
and rec room to be cleaned al
ternately by each department.
General discussion by crew, dele
gates and chairman regarding
shipboard conditions. Men re
minded that this is first voyage
under SIU contract and that
they should act accordingly.
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GADSDEN. Apru J.
PedOrsen, Churinan; S. T. Bfti
ler. Secreiary. Six hours disputed
overtime in Deck Department;
ovmrthne and breskfast beOf m
Elaine, and no beefs ki Stew
ards .^department. Crew was ask
ed not to leave clothes in wash
ing room. Suggested that we ask
for wind chutes for all portholes
for ndXt trip,
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CLAIBORNE, April 23—John
Alslall, Chairman; G.. Thobe,
Secreiary. Ship's Delegate re
ported that there is now $2^.92
in ship's fund. No beefs. Repair
lists to be given to the dele
gates. Washing machine to be
kept as clean as possible by all
using it.
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YAKA, Apra 30 —Tex Soil.
Chairman; Edward Robinson,
Secretary. No beefs. Joseph el
ected Ship's Delegate by accla
mation. Discussion oft proposed
oneyear shipping rule. Comrie,
DM, suggested that washing ma
chine be purchased at payoff. It
was agreed that he be designated
to collect $2 from those wishing
to contribute to" purchase of the
machine.
F YOU WANT TO CONTINUE TO
CECElVfe THE LOG AT YOUR HOME,
BE SURE TO FILL OUT THE PREPAID
POSTCARD SENT TO ALL SUB
SCRIBERS ANO MAIL
TO THE LOG AT ONCE
THOSE NOT REPLYING
WILL BE DROPPHDFBDH
THE MAILING LIST.
Says Frisco Agent
Rates Among Best
I'd like to give a plug to one
of the best agents ever to hit
San Francisco. I anr referring to
Jeff Morrison, of course, a busy
man in this Sunny California
port. Jeff is well liked by the
local populace and is very popu
lar with the membership. Some
times a little praise helps a guy
when he thinks no one appre,
elates his good work. I think
every Seafarer hitting this port
appreciates the attention and
representation they get from Jeff
Morrison.
. Hury (rite Horse) PiU
AnENTIOII!
If you don'i find linen
when you go aboard your
ship, notify the Hall at once.
A telegram from Le Havre or
Sitigc^ore won't , do yoil any
good. It's your bed and gou
have to lie in it.
The latest news from Eddie Eriksen aboard the Waterman
Scow, SS Southland, is interesting. He went home to Copenhagen,
Denmark, and enjoyed all the smorgasbord he wanted. Scheduled
to hit the states around June 23, the scow left Rotterdam and
Bremerhaven and is going to the good ports of Bremen, Ant
werp, Liverpool and Dublin. Crewmembers of the Southland pre
fer the Overseas Edition of the LOG, by the way. Eddie mentions
that all Waterman crews never have enough time to hit any place
but the Habourg House in Rotterdam—^which he recommends
sending some LOGS to. "Two more items about this scow! Brother
Gapac is Steward and there's a cocacola machine aboard, too. . . .
Charlie Evans, who had been on the beach for three weeks,
grabbed an AB's job on the SS Steel Apprentice. That's good
shipping, indeed. . . . Ru^ell Lund is now homeward bound to
sunny California after voyaging aboard the 29year old SS Annis
ton City, an Isthmian wagon. Russ says there were only 22 days
of shore leave in the five month trip they had. . . . Brother
"Happy" Harper says he met Brother "Tex" Morton recently.
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A vote of thEuiks to the crewmembers of the now Iridup
scow, SS Thomas Sim Lee. According to Brother Willis Thomp
son when he was here in New York recently, they all did
a bangup job of protecting the SIU from vicious antilabor
legislation. . . . "Blackie" Mandno is in town right now. ...
Buddy Benson was or still is in town. loo. . . . Other Brothers
In Town—^Tom Hale, Charlie "Carioca Red" Benway, who has
been anchored here since Februcury after doing some Seatrain
sailihg; Kenneth Maxston, who says he went home to Norway
for some lime. Waterfront employmehf is in gOod shape, he .
^iays. . . . T. E. Maynes . . . George Frank, who is waiting fot
a Europeeut ruiu . . . Cwl Lawson and "Red" Shea who finished
one of the best trips they ever had, we're informed. . . . Bosun
Roderick Smith is in and his shipmate Frank Moran is out.
Frank is out catching the sunshine of Coney Island aboard
the SS Sandpaper—oOpS, We mean. SS Sandcraft. Frank, no
doubt, still believes a mml's best friend is a hoTsch Sometimes,
Frank, sometimes.
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According to Brother Howard Lewis, the St. Charles Tavern
in New Orleans is a good, quick place for seamen. . . . We're
informed that Brother Virgil Harding is aboard the SS Morning
Light. Happy sailing, Brother Harding. . . . Brother Glick recently
had a discussion about how many scows Bull Line took ov»
last year^—^from another company. Only two, the good ships Puerto
Rico and And Marie. . . . Not mentioning red peppers we'll just
say that Pete De Pietro sailed into New York recently. . . . "Red"
Beers, the West Coast bartender, is doing some landlubbing bar
tending rf^ut Chicago way. . . . We wonder if Pete Gvozdich eVeht'
ually sold that heavyweight piece of gear he lugged into town^
that accordion? . . . We're wondering how Norman "Rpd" Kirk
from Baltimore and Danny Merrill from Mobile are doing right
now?
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If you hear somebody laughing all the time and talking
a bit of several foreign latiguages you'll understand. It's only <
Ed Larkin becoming AmericairisOd agun. . . . We don't know
how true it i« but, according to the BioihM reading the neiw'^ i .
nevOL "The CardhiaL" Brother Duke Livingston, the wrestler '
and a steady New Yorker, is in the New Yorkmade movie v
about a wrestler called "Mr. Universe" with Jack Carson of F F?!
Hollywood.
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By JOHN BUNKER
CHAPTER 10
THEY MADE THE BEACHHEADS
PART I
ml'
BV
Oran, Casablanca, Avola, Gela, Salemd, Anzio,
Guadalcanal, Normandy, Leyte, Okinawa . . .
Memorable places these, stepping stones on
the long road to victory—the invasion points
where the tide of battle finally turned and then,
surging forward on the flood, engulfed the Axis
in a deluge of men and materiel as the Allies
inarched inexorably toward Rome, Berlin and
Tokio.
; SIU ships made these and other beachheads
along with the assault troops and the landing
craft, and the names of farflung battle shores
became as familiar to Seafarers as the names of
towns back in New York, Indiana, Nebraska or
Texas.
One of many SIU freighters at the beachheads
was the SS Jonathan Grout, a Liberty operated
by the Mississippi Shipping Company, which
helped carry British troops from Alexandria for
the invasion of Sicily in the morning of May
10, 1943.
PEACEFUL SICILY
It was an idyllic day as th€ Jonathan Grout
approached the hillfringed Sicilian shore, and
were it not for the firing of monitors and des
troyers, for bits of wrecked gliders and dead
paratroops, bobbing grotesquely about in the
placid tide, the war would have seemed a thou
sand miles away.
But the summer calm was broken that after
noon, when Stuka divebombers came roaring
down onto the invasion fleet with sirens scream
ing in their noses as they dived, a wailing cry
that was intended to strike terror in the hearts of
the gunners below.
. Gunners on the Jonathan Grout and the other
ships weren't impressed, however. The three
inch bow guns on the Liberties, the oerlikons
and the bofors threw so much steel into the sky
that the divebombers didn't make a single hit.
The enemy didn't give up—not by a long shot,
they didn't. They launched 50 raids against the
anchorage at Avola during the next five days.
Armed guard and merchant crewmen slept at
the guns, while the British stevedores unloaded
bombs^ canned gasoline, trucks, tanks, food, and
the myriad other implements of war, knock
ing off only when the sirens moaned the ap
proach of more raiders and the lights of the
anchored ships blinked off.
On the afternoon of July 11, three flights of
highlevel bombers—15 in all—swept over the
convoy so high that it was futile to fire the 20
millimeters. The bombs left the belly of the
droning raiders like tiny, shimmery pinpoints
of light,
'NICK OF TIME' ESCAPE
The first salvo shook the Jonathan Grout as
though she had been rammed, but all were near
misses, partly because the bridge signaled the
fengiheroom for "full ahead" and, moving from a
dead stop, the ammunitionladen vessel scurried
away from the falling bombs in the nick of time.
Not so lucky was, a Dutch ship, hit by bombs
and sunk nearby.
When hot shell fragments started a fire amid
gasoline tins in a forward hold of the Jonathan
Grout, two ABs instantly climbed into the hold
and put it out.
Just before noon on July 13, without any air'
raid warning, a pair of Stukas dropped oyer the
mountains that lined the bay, and plummeted
onto the anchorage with their engines cut out.
Lookouts saw them too late. So sudden and so
silent was the attack that not a shell was fired
at them till they had blown their target to pieces
and were skipping safely back to their bases.
The first plane dropped two bombs into an
open hold full of ammunition on the Liberty
Official Coast Guard photo shows Invaidoii and supply ships crowding waters off Normandy
Beach. Floating above them are barrage balloons, protection against lowflying enery planes.
ship Timothy Pickerin (SUP), which had ar
rived at the anchorage only a few hours before
and was still crowded with troops.*
There was a blinding explosion. Tongues of
flame roared out of the stricken ship a thousand
feet into the air, followed by whirling clouds of
smoke. *
It may have been red hot hull plates from the
exploding Liberty, or bombs dropped by the
second Stuka, but a tanker nearby was set afire
and exploded in a flaming holocaust soon after.
In a few minutes both ships were nothing but
twisted, shattered masses of steel, resting on the
bottom with only their masts protruding above
the surface. Of the 192 crewmen and British
troops on the Timothy Pickering, only about a
dozen survived. ^
TWOTIME LOSER
The attack had lasted only a minute at the
most.
Another Liberty that saw exciting action in
Italian waters was the James W. Marshall (SUP).
Arriving at Salerno just two days after the in
vasion, she was hit and set afire by a 250pound
bomb that smashed through the bridge and
wounded several men at the guns.
The fire was quickly extinguished by quick
action on the part of the crew, and she continued
discharging her ammunition, guns, trucks and
gasoline.
Two days later she was hit again, this time by
a heavy bomb that went through the top deck
of the ship into the m4in deck before exploding
among Gls who had taken refuge in' the mess
room.
And thrilling tales aplenty can be told by the
men who took supplies, to 5th Army troops hold
ing the beach at bloody Anzio.
For months the British and Americans had
held a costly strip of beach and marshland 30
miles south of Rome, and all the while they were
supplied by merchant ships for whom "destina
tion Anzio" also meant "destination front line."
The SlUmanned Liberty ship Lawton B.
Evans had 4,000 tons of gasoline and ammunition
in her holds when she arrived at "Peter Beach,"
Anzio, from Naples on January 22, 1944.
No sooner had she dropped the hook than the
Germans opened up on her with longrange ar
tillery. Shells hit within 50 feet of the ship and
shrapnel peppered the decks like BB shot.
Captain Harty Ryan "up anchored" as sdbri
as steam could be turned on the windlass, and
they sought a safer .spot. But the Germans got
their range again and shells splashed too close
for comfort. It was "up anchor" again ... a
game of hide and seek which went on for most
of the day. '
During the next four days, gunners and crew
men ran to battle stations time after time, for
one air attack was quickly followed by another^
and between raids the Germans plopped big
shells onto the anchorage.
The grind of the anchor chain through tha
hawse pipes lent a mournful accompaniment to
the drone of airplanes and the whistle of shells
—they called them "Whistling Williams."
It was on the 29th of January that the Ger
mans tried out the radiocontrolled glider bomb
on the ships at Anzio. The USS Philadelphia and
two freighters were victims during the first at
tack of this kind.
THREE B0MBER5 DQWN
Through it all the Lawton B. Evans proved
herself a fighting ship, fit to battle with the best
of them
When Stukas and Junkers attacker the an
chotage, her gunners knocked one of the Junk
ers down with 20millimeter fire, then blew a
divebomber to pieces with the threeinch fifty on
the bow. (
Two days later they bagged another divebomb
er tha't got too near their guns. On the same day,
the Lawton's gunners blasted a glider bomb out
of the sky before it could do any damage, and
followed that up by obliterating still another,^
divebomber. A carburetor from the plane landed
on the Lawton's deck and was kept as a souvenir.
It was fortunate that the Lawton's gunners
did shoot well for, soon after blowing up the
glider bomb, another of these strange missiles
hit the Liberty ship Samuel Huntington, setting
it afire and causing an explosion that rent the
ship apart.
Long will SIU crews remember the shuttle
run to "bloody Anzio."